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“Do As I Say, Not As I Do” Is Not For Me
763-412-0722 Call for a confidential consultation Author: Laura Anderson, MA, LPCCMany things have changed since 2010 but one thing I love about being a DBT therapist remains the same: as DBT therapists, we are expected to be learning, applying, and practicing DBT...
Recovering From Invalidation and Non-judgmentalness: Queer Identities In Today’s Social Environment
763-412-0722 Call for a confidential consultation Author:Katie Schober-Ordonez, MS NCC LPCShe/Her/They Licensed Professional CounselorMicroaggressions, a term coined by Derald Wing Sue, are everyday slights, both conscious and unconscious, experienced by members of...
What The NBA Can Teach Us About Mental Health
763-412-0722 Call for a confidential consultation Patrick Ewing going to New York via the draft “lottery”.Michael Jordan’s “retirement”.The “good faith” purchase of the Seattle Supersonics by Oklahoman Clay Bennett.There are many reasons why fans of the National...
Ending The Stigma: Selena Gomez
763-412-0722 Call for a confidential consultation A quick search of “DBT” in Google News does not return many results. If you have heard of DBT before there’s a chance it coincides with a guilty pleasure such as following celebrity news and gossip on sites like...
Firefighters Tackle PTSD
763-412-0722 Call for a confidential consultation We recently covered the Austin Police Department, which has made the decision to train counselors in EMDR in an effort to help the survivors of trauma cope with what they have seen and experienced. In that post, we...
Exploring The Trauma-Addiction Connection
763-412-0722 Call for a confidential consultation Everyone copes with trauma differently. That’s one of the challenges for therapists and doctors who devote their careers to helping the survivors of trauma overcome their experiences and memories in order to build a...
Austin Police Using EMDR To Help Trauma Victims
763-412-0722 Call for a confidential consultation Whether it’s fair or not remains open to interpretation but it’s safe to say that law enforcement is thought of like a tough, old-school profession. Given that background, it is a surprise to many that law enforcement...
Are you someone who lives with chronic pain?
763-412-0722 Call for a confidential consultation Recent estimates suggest that up to 20% of adults in the United States live with chronic pain. Or, put another way, 50 million Americans. Of that percentage, roughly 20 million live with pain that is severe enough...
EMDR: When The Best Drug Isn’t A Drug At All
763-412-0722 Call for a confidential consultation It’s no secret that antidepressants and, in some cases antipsychotic medications, play a predominant role in the treatment of mental illness in our country and around the world. Despite alarmists who claim that all...
Is “The Daily Grind” Actually Depression?
At DBT & EMDR Specialists we hope to be a resource for the mental health community, our patients, our colleagues, and friends in the Twin Cities metro area…
What’s In A Name? (Part 1)
What’s in a name? Well, when it comes to the name of our practice a more important question is “what is DBT?” For a wide variety of people – children, teens, adults, veterans, and…
What’s In A Name? (Part 2)
EMDR, which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing , is not a name widely known outside of the mental health community. However, its relative obscurity…

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Elk River, MN
17205 Yale Street NW
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