Your Minneapolis Psychologist

Trauma-Informed Somatic Therapy with a Minneapolis Psychologist

You are always helping everyone else. I’m here to help you.

I know searching for a therapist can be kind of a slog. You’re ready to get started and have scoured all the websites to find the right person — but it feels impossible to get a true sense of what the therapist behind the website is actually like and if they will actually get you.

I hope to provide a sense of who I am, how I work, and what you can expect so it will feel like less of a guessing game - and I’d love to connect before the first session to see if it feels like a fit.

Hi! I’m Ellie (she/they)

Queer Psychologist and Meditation Teacher for Overachievers, Perfectionists, and People Pleasers

I love helping people who struggle with people pleasing, perfectionism, and constantly striving to start prioritizing what they need and stop being so damn hard on themselves. So many people I work with say that life looks good on paper - they followed all the rules, did everything “right,” and tried to make everyone else happy. But now they wake up feeling anxious, empty, and like there could be more to life than this!

Who Am I?

Growing up queer in a time before social media and more expansive representations of gender and sexuality, I know what it feels like to try to follow the “rules” while feeling like things are off. Through my own therapy, meditation practice, and other healing modalities, I’ve developed a truer sense of myself and try to embrace the messiness of what it is to be human.

As your therapist, what this means is that I will never expect you to be perfect — and I won’t ask you to do anything I haven’t done myself. While I have years of professional, clinical, and mindfulness training, I am also perpetually learning and growing - just like you!

Who Do I Work Well With?

I work with queer and open-minded adults who simultaneously feel like they are too much and not enough. I work best with people who want to deepen their relationship with themselves so that they can show up better in the world, trust themselves more fully, and let go of guilt and toxic shame. They want to learn to stay with their emotions so that they can be more grounded and present. I am passionate about helping people let go of who they think they “should” be to truly be who they are.

What’s It Like To Work With Me?

My therapy style is relational and somatic. Right from our initial email and consultation call I am focused on building a relationship with you. I want to learn who you are, what makes you tick, and what’s bringing you to therapy at this particularly time. And I’m interested in guiding you to tune in more to what your body is telling you about your current experience and what is needed for deeper healing.

I know it’s really vulnerable to start working with a therapist, so I encourage you to take your time as we get to know each other — just because I’m a doctor doesn’t mean you have to tell me everything on day one!

Clients say that our work together:

• Helps quiet their inner critic

• Provides a space where they don’t have to hold it all together

• Improves their awareness of what they feel — emotionally and in their bodies

• Increases their sense of trust in themselves

• Gives them courage to identify and say what they need

As a human and therapist, people say I am an engaged listener who is intuitive, culturally sensitive, quick witted, and courageous.

If it sounds like we might be a fit, I look forward to connecting with you soon!