ALL OF MY SERVICES ARE CURRENTLY OFFERED ONLINE | TELEHEALTH

Welcome.  

Take a deep breath. It is your time for you. Your time to unpack, understand and let go of whatever is getting in your way. It is your time to gain skills and get relief from worry, anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. It is your time to be genuinely listened to, guided, supported, understood, and encouraged. It is your time to become even more of the person who you want to be; who you know you can be. 

And I want to help you do just that. 

How I can help

I help humans identify their concerns or blocks; define what they would like to change; establish boundaries based in integrity, respect, and self-care; increase personal understanding and self-empowerment; learn new skills and strategies; and then, make the changes necessary to be more of the person who they want to be. I incorporate an oppression and trauma-informed lens with healing-centered engagement.

I have 30+ years of experience as a cutting-edge, skilled, socially conscious counselor, consultant, relationship coach, and educator.

Who I am

I firmly believe that the personal is the professional is the political. I adhere to a fundamental consciousness for how the layers of cultural and systematic oppression and trauma influence personal, interpersonal, and community health. And, conversely, how healing, empowerment, wellness, and wellbeing are nurtured by human-connection that is grounded in humanity, justice, and equity. I hold this framework as the backdrop to the work that I do and the life that I live. 

I am a European-American (of Irish, German, and Roma Gypsy ethnicity) cisgender woman, a lesbian from way back, a survivor, feminist, a parent by creative means, a social justice community organizer, and I hail from a small conservative farming community in Minnesota. These identities, with all of their colliding lessons, inform my motivation and dedication to the services I provide and the communities that I choose to serve. 

Services I offer

Whether I am providing relationship coaching, counseling, consultation, or presenting workshops, I offer a nonjudgmental, professional, and down-to-earth style that is layered with warmth, respect, and compassion. I approach my work from a holistic backdrop that takes into account the impacts of cultural and systematic oppression, injustice, and trauma – and the healing and unifying nature of connection with community and self. I am informed by decades of diverse training and direct service experiences.

Being self-employed provides me the opportunity to actively intertwine four of my passions:

• The privilege to work directly with people who want to make personal, relational, or professional changes using coaching or counseling.
• To create and facilitate support groups. Groups
• To engage with many different people by offering workshops and trainings and professional consultation:
  • burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue
  • professional and personal self-care for mental health, social service, medical and education professionals
  • radical self-care, healing justice and oppression fatigue for social justice activists and community organizers
    
• To actively volunteer in my communities. For example, I am the chair of the MN LGBTQ+ Therapists Network, past chair of the MN Coalition of Sexual Assault Services, past chair of the Seward Child Care Center, and a past Board Member of MN Women in Psychology.

Resources

As you look through my website, note the resource sections that include recommended readings (PDF), Minnesota and national organizations (PDF), and information related to coaching, self-growth and self-care, trauma, white-body privilege and racial equity, relationships, sexuality, LGBTQ+, burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. These are topics that I routinely address in the direct service and educational services I offer. 

Telehealth COVID-19 Services:

• Extensive COVID-19 Resources: mental health and wellness tips and strategies and state-wide and community services.
  • Resiliency and Wellness During COVID-19 consultation, support, and training to social service and mental health organizations and agencies – for their leadership teams and staff Organizational Support – COVID-19 (PDF)
  • Health and Wellness and Related helping Professionals’ Wellness Groups: Self-Care, Resiliency, and Wellness Support Groups During COVID-19 (Archived)
  • Mental Health, Social Service, and Medical Professionals’ group schedule: (Each group runs for 5 weeks. More dates will be added.) Archived Description
  • I am offering FREE individual and group COVID-19 wellness coaching for helping professionals Free Telehealth for Helping Professionals COVID (PDF) (If needed, I am offering these services free or at an adjusted rate.)
  • Extensive COVID-19 Resources of mental health and wellness tips and strategies and state-wide and community services.

Feel free to print my free self-care resource list: 14 No Cost Self-Care Tips.

If any of my services are of interest to you, please contact me to arrange a complimentary 30-minute phone consultation.

Take good care, lovely human.
Irene (she/her)