Individual Therapy

Individual therapy services are one on one sessions specifically tailored to meet your unique needs. You get to decide what you want to work on. Your individual therapist offers a safe and confidential environment for you to explore issues surrounding mental health, relationships, life transitions, parenting, self-esteem, addiction, or any issues that are creating difficulties in your life. An individual therapist may use a variety of strategies to assist you in working through and resolving problems. Some of these may include but are not limited to:

  • motivational interviewing
  • cognitive behavioral approaches
  • dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)
  • eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR)
  • hypnosis
  • biofeedback, and
  • expressive therapies.

Geri Scherer, MA, LP

Counseling is recommended to assist with a large variety of problems; including:

  • At home, work or school

  • In marital or family relationships

  • With depression and anxiety symptoms

  • With friends and peers

  • With children and teens

  • With mental or physical health

Top 10 Reasons to Work with a Counselor:

  1. To help your child/teen regain control of emotions and behavior
  2. To reduce conflict and arguments with spouse or significant other
  3. To feel happy, energized and motivated
  4. If you want to reduce stress and excessive worry
  5. To ease the pain of loss of a family member, spouse or friend
  1. To help your child have a better experience in school
  2. To promote healing from various forms of trauma
    (e.g. physical/sexual abuse or injury)
  3. For help with problems at work
  4. To learn how to find friends and improve your social life
  5. To learn more about yourself

We offer office-based mental health services in the following locations:

Golden Valley:
8401 Wayzata Blvd., Suite 150,
Golden Valley, MN 55426
763-544-1006

Chaska:
1107 Hazeltine Blvd, Suite 121,
Chaska, MN 55318
952-361-3360

Counseling Techniques Include:

  • Cognitive Behavioral/Talk Therapy
  • Relaxation Techniques
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for Trauma
  • Brain spotting (for Trauma)
  • Behavioral Programs for Children
  • Social Skills Training
  • Parenting Skills Training
  • Conflict Resolution Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Family Systems Therapy
  • Hypnosis
  • Art Therapy
  • Play Therapy
  • Animal Assisted Therapy

Licensed Therapists Specialty Areas Include:

  • Depression and Anxiety Symptoms and Treatment
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Adjustment Disorders
  • Asperger’s, Autism, and other Related Disabilities
  • Marital and Family Conflict
  • Grief and Loss

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