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I am privileged to have a vocation where I can equip and accompany people on their journey toward healing, allowing them to live a life they were created to live. The path of adoption is an area where I have experience personally and professionally. I have seen how wonderful forming a family can be as well as how difficult. I am experienced in providing therapy to children and adults for over 12 years. My training in EMDR impacts much of what I do and how I supervise other mental health professionals. I understand people thru the lens of attachment, object relations and narrative therapy. I provide therapy that is informed by an awareness of trauma, a respect for globally diverse worldviews, a reverence for the communal needs of people, and the sacredness of each persons life. Being a co-owner of Journeys of Healing, LLC allows me a wonderful platform to offer this type of space. My health and wholeness are directly impacted by my relationship with my wife and kids, canoeing, camping, hiking, woodworking, running, car-wrenching, and reading. When I retire, I'll smoke a pipe and listen to lp's while drinking dark roast coffee with neighbors. -
Brandon is committed to the restoration and improvement of familial relationships and committed to generational change in families. Brandon feels very strongly about working with individuals and families whatever their current situation may be and working with them to establish positive changes that will positively affect generations to come in their families. Brandon has experience working with issues such as Pre-Marital counseling, Couples Counseling, parenting skills training, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Depression, Anxiety, Anger Management, ADHD, PTSD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Pre and Post Adoption, Mood Disorder(s), and Grief and Loss. Brandon is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the board approved supervisor, permanency and adoption competency certified, and an adjunct professor at St. Cloud State University -
Agency: Children's Home Society and Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota Agency Address: 1605 Eustis Street City/Town: Saint Paul State: MN ZIP: 55108 Email Address: bkruse@chsfs.org Phone Number: 651-255-2246 -
Brenda L. Anderson, LSW, has worked in child welfare for 17 years, primarily in the areas of child protection and permanency services. She currently serves as an intensive permanence specialist with Anu Family Services. This position allows Brenda to assist youth whom have experienced extensive grief, loss and trauma through failed adoptions, multiple foster care placements and significant exposure to physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse. Brenda’s work helps facilitate safe and healthy permanent lifelong connections for these youth. Previously she provided child protective and permanency services on a county basis in southern Minnesota, contributing to her exposure to a myriad of psychosocial behaviors, as a well as a sound understanding of the public child welfare system and its interface with the private sector. Brenda specializes in Intensive Permanency Services using Family Search and Engagement and working with Grief/loss and Trauma using the 3-5-7 model by Darla HenryAgency: Anu Family Services Agency Address: 2233 University Ave. W Suite 325 City/Town: St. Paul State: MN ZIP: 55114 Country: USA Email Address: banderson@anufs.org Phone Number: 651-964-4750 ext. 404 -
Hello and happy to meet you! My name is Bridget Stevens-Murphy and I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. I earned my Master of Social Work degree, specializing in clinical social work, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. I have worked both domestically and internationally in a variety of settings focused on working with families and children. I am a warm and grounded listener whose main concern is for you to feel comfortable and empowered in therapeutic work. In our work together, it is my hope to provide a safe space for you to reflect and gain an understanding of yourself in order to live a more full and authentic life. My practice foundation is an integrative approach focused on strength-based, relational, holistic, person-centered models and rooted in cultural competence and social justice. It is my core belief that therapeutically supporting people includes treating the body as a whole and giving attention to the connection between the emotional and physical self. My areas of focus include: adoption related issues, relationship difficulties, intimacy issues, infertility, anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, mindful living, and women’s issues. I am a Trust-Based Relational Intervention practitioner, am trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and have also completed a post-graduate certificate from the University of Minnesota in specialized adoption and permanency competency. It is my passion to provide a culturally supportive practice that provides safety to all individuals and families that are courageously working through life's challenges. Outside of my professional world, I am a mom, wife, and sister and enjoy spending my free time reading, visiting new places, practicing yoga, and just taking time to find the beauty in the outdoors.
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Brittani is a child focused adoption recruiter, working to connect youth in foster care with permanent caring connections and families. Her bachelor’s degree in social work is from St. Olaf College and she is working on her MSW at Augsburg University with a focus on macro practice. She has spent much of her career working with teens and young people. One of Brittani’s passions is connecting youth with caring adults, both in and out of foster care systems. As an adoption and permanency competent child welfare worker, Brittani strives to validate and support the complex loss and trauma and resiliency of the youth with whom she works. The PACC network has been helpful in connecting children on her caseload with other service providers who have the same understanding. Prior to becoming a social worker, Brittani did years of service in South Africa and Minneapolis. She enjoys connecting with people through her interests of cats, ice cream, and running. -
My name is Bryanna Schnaible. I have my Masters Degree in School Counseling and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I am currently a licensure candidate working toward licensure as an LPC. I am working with Greater Minnesota Family Services in the Redwood, MN area with early childhood and families. -
I am currently the Director of Post Adoption & Education Services for Children's Home Society & Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota. I have over 15 years of experience working with children, teens and families who have experienced complex trauma, broken attachments, and multiple placements. Agency: Children's Home Society and Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota Agency Address: 1605 Eustis Street City/Town: St. Paul State: MN ZIP: 55108 Country: USA Email Address: brynn.smith@lssmn.org Phone Number: 651-255-2261
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I have 10 yrs working as a Lead Social Wkr in the field of Indian Child Welfare w/the Fond du Lac Band of MN Chippewa Social Service's Department. Our social workers co-case managed CPS cases w/respective Counties. Primary objective was to reunify American Indian parents w/their children & make sure the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), MIFPA & MN Tribal State Agreement was followed. Am now providing in-home therapeutic services to American Indian foster children & their perspective caregivers based on the needs of the child. I use the Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol of EMDR for use w/Abused & Neglected Children. Agency: FDL Behavioral Health Department Agency Address: 927 Trettle Lane City/Town: Cloquet State: MN ZIP: 55720 Country: USA Email Address: caroldeverney@fdlrez.com Phone Number: (218)878-3750 -
Charlesetta Rolack, MSW, LICSW, is currently employed as the Children’s Services Intake Manager for Ramsey County Community Human Services Department. Ms. Rolack is a Child Welfare Scholar, who has worked with Children, adolescents and young adults experiencing emotional and behavioral issues for over 15 years. She specializes in crisis intervention and stabilization services, mental health assessments, family therapy, narrative therapy and solution focused-therapy. Ms. Rolack is a certified Family Group Decision Making Facilitator and a certified facilitator of the parenting curriculum “Strengthening Multi-Ethnic Families and Communities. Ms. Rolack has trained parents throughout Minnesota on special education interventions and services (Individual Education Plans and Other Health Related Plans/504 Plans). She is knowledgeable about community-based resources, culturally specific services and governmental services that can provide additional supports to parents, guardians and kin challenged with parenting children and adolescents with challenging behaviors
Agency: Ramsey Couny Community Human Services Department Agency Address: 160 East Kellogg Blvd. City/Town: Saint Paul State: MN ZIP: 55101 Country: USA Email Address: - Charlesetta.Rolack@Co.Ramsey.MN.US Phone Number: - (651) 266-4825 -
Char earned her Masters in Social Work from the University of St. Thomas/St. Catherine University in 2011. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker by the MN Board of Social Work and has certificates in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Permanency and Adoption. Char has 14 years experience working within the child welfare system, and is well-versed in safety and support planning with families, infant and early childhood mental health, child development, foster care and adoption issues, and attachment. The majority of Char's career has been spent working with children and adolescents in foster care, and their birth, foster, and adoptive parents with an array of presenting issues. Char uses a variety of therapeutic modalities in her practice while focusing on client and family strengths, including components of cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, psychodynamic theory, and mindfulness and relaxation.
