About Life Essentials Psychology

Life Essentials Psychology is a multidisciplinary outpatient mental health clinic providing individual, couples, and family counseling across physical locations in Andover, Golden Valley, and St. Cloud, Minnesota, as well as telehealth services across Minnesota. Our provider team specializes in body-based somatic regulation, trauma-informed modalities, neurodivergence, OCD, and dual-diagnosis addiction recovery for clients ages 6 to 100+.

Our Therapeutic Philosophy

Discover the power of a balanced mind and a peaceful heart. We are dedicated to helping people change the way life transitions and traumatic experiences impact their lives.

We do this through improving the body's automatic response to various life stressors and pairing it with a holistic perspective and approach. By regulating autonomic nervous system responses with evidence-based behavioral interventions, we empower our clients to achieve lasting, meaningful healing.

Our Clinical Specialties & Evidence-Based Care

Our clinicians are highly trained in specialized, evidence-based treatment modalities designed to address complex mental health challenges, including:

• Complex Trauma & PTSD: Utilizing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Anchored Relational Therapy (formerly Adaptive Internal Relational [AIR] Network), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP), Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART), Trauma Focused - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
• Neurodivergence: Affirming therapy and evaluation for adult and adolescent ADHD and Autism.
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Utilizing Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Inference-Based CBT (I-CBT).
• Dual-Diagnosis Addiction Recovery: Integrated substance use concerns and mental health counseling.
• Relational & Family Systems: Couples counseling, infidelity recovery, co-parenting navigation, and pediatric behavioral adjustments.
• Disability & Chronic Illness: Rehabilitation counseling and somatic regulation for chronic pain.

Who We Serve & Cultrual Support

We provide diagnostic assessments and outpatient psychotherapy for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors (ages 6 to 100+) in individual, couples, and family therapy.

Cultural Specific Care: To ensure inclusive, culturally responsive care for our community, our clinical team therapy services in English, Spanish (proficient), and Vietnamese (proficient). We have providers that are BIPOC and brings that lens of culturally aware into the therapy sessions.