ABOUT: SHORT VERSION
HEALTHY MINDS build healthy lives. When we live better we lead better. When we live and lead better, we all do better. Let's get healthy.
We are therapists in St Paul, Minnesota who guide individuals and groups out of the fog of uncertainty and into clarity in building their mental health. We hope that some day mental health activity will be as much a daily part of our lives as physical exercise and personal hygene. We envision a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world.
ABOUT: LONG VERSION
WE BEGIN, WITH YOU.
Therapy services offered at Health Minds focus on listening, asking a lot of good questions, then coming up with a collaborative treatment plan pinpointing your specific pain points with a map to where you want your life to go.
- We listen to you.
- We ask you a lot of good questions.
- We collaborate with you on a treatment plan.
- We create a roadmap to get you where you want to go in your life.
EMOTIONS ARE HARD to navigate. Did you know that your emotions tell us things?
When we feel anxious or fearful those emotions tell us that "we can't ______".
When we feel angry, it tells us that "we need to _________".
THESE MESSAGES ARE NOT TRUE.
Emotions and the thoughts they produce are hard to navigate, and you can learn how.
You can learn how.
We teach that.
DIY-er?
You've been trying to deal with that anxiety, anger, hopelessness, or shame by yourself . . . through self-help books or podcasts? Maybe you've taken a stab at talk therapy and had the unfortunate experience of a less-than helpful therapist?
Healthy Minds exists to serve as guides of the highest quality due to our education, training, personal approaches to our profession and experience. We help you build the life you want and learn how to become who you were meant to be. We are not therapists unattached to your outcomes. You will not feel like you're just going in to have a cup of coffee with us and talk about your stuff. We are therapists attached to doing the most effective work in the most efficient way possible. We have a timeline with each client—it is our job to work ourselves out of our job. We certainly understand that it takes time to build life and we have a sense of urgency in helping you get where you want to go. We know that suffering is a thing. We don't want you to suffer any longer than you must. We accept you where you are, validate the reasons for this, then challenge you to do different so your life's landscape can look differently—both inside and out.
Yes, doing your inner work may be messy, but taking a messy journey to a place you want to go is a lot better than staying in a place where you are not satisfied. Life is too short for that.
CONTACT NOW
Hi. I'm Carin (she/her; CARE-IN), founder and clinician at Healthy Minds.
When I began this career, I began with a question: "How do people live good lives? Lives they enjoy and find meaningful, while others scrape and struggle to navigate life's scrapes, breaks, and bruises?" That question is still central to all the work I do.
A BIT ABOUT ME
I hail from a town in Eastern S.Dakota. First love was basketball. After knees wrecked, discovered art, music, and theater. Earned a BA in graphic design and worked in the advertising/marketing world for 10 years. Knew my world was small and wanted to expand; moved to San Diego, CA then Houston, TX and Ft. Lauderdale, FL throughout my 20's. During the last year+ of my design career, I struggled with performance anxiety around work. Pivoted careers and moved my artistic sensibilities from the visual world to the inner world. Creativity is the binding thread I use to weave my client's inner world—psychological spaces—together bringing all the disparate pieces into an integrated tapestry. It is important work and I love what I do.
I hold a MA in Counseling Psychology from Bethel University (St. Paul, MN) where I sought to integrate spiritual understanding with human psychology. Growing up in a conservative evangelical (Baptist) family as a gay woman was foundational to my current mission to help healing for all. If you have found yourself on the outside—maybe even disconnected from your self—I can help you heal and develop your home inside yourself. I can be your expert guide because I know the path both professionally and personally.
Before founding Healthy Minds I worked as a lead DBT clinician offering mental health services to marginalized people. I am a business woman, artist, educator, activist, licensed and practicing practical clinical counselor (LPCC) in the state of Minnesota.
What Does Healthy Minds Do?
Work with two populations: Individuals and Businesses/Organizations
WE SERVE THE INDIVIDUAL
State-certified DBT Program
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General Individual Therapy
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Online Courses
STATE-CERTIFIED DBT PROGRAM
Imagine: Mastering the life skills it takes to build the life you actually enjoy, aligned with your values, and moving continually, onward and upward. DBT teaches skills to build that life. DBT is a 2-Part program: 1hr individual therapy/week and 2.5hr Class/Group ea. week. Healthy Minds provide adherent DBT programming that follows the Marsha Linnehan model. We are nationally accredited with and certified by the Minnesota Mental Health Division—Department of Human Services (DHS).
CLIENTS LEARN
- What to do to practice Mindfulness (and how to do it), the skillset that combats distractibility.
- When you are aware of struggle, how to effectively tolerate the distress so you don't make a very difficult situation worse, the skillset that combats a loss of meaning/purpose—because how do we build the long-game life we want when satisfying our short-game wants sabotage the build? Gotta learn how to tolerate distress.
- How to regulate emotions. So you tolerated the distress of the moment/hour/day/week . . . and still feeling super crummy. This skillset combats the negative self-talk and enables insight into yourself.
- How to have more effective and civil conversations around topics with high emotion. These interpersonal effectiveness skills come in handy when you have people in your life you deeply care about and intensely disagree with. This skillset combats loneliness/disconnection by increasing connection.
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Business Culture
The conversation around mental health at every level of severity, is changing. Increasingly, personal emotional health and understanding other's emotional health is essential to successful leadership. Understanding a struggle you haven't personally experienced is difficult. We fill that gap by offering tactical and actionable skill sets based on scientific research that translate both the language of mental health and the experience of the struggle so you are equipped to support yourself and connect with your team.
When working with us you learn how to:
- connect with struggling people on your team to enable alignment.
- build trust by through the use of candor and courage.
- know you're doing it right by personal access to licensed professionals who walk you through it step-by-step.
This hits all the right notes for you? Let's connect. Begin with the button below and tell us your pain points. Then color where you'd like to go and how you would like it to look. We can help you lead your people there.
Contact
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as who you become by achieving your goals."
We Come From?
Our office is currently set up in Central Minnesota—land of 10,000 lakes. But the good news is we will meet you right in the comfort of your own home . . . or wherever your computer is set up because now all that we offer is available online!
*Note: we are currently licensed only in the state of MN, so if you're wanting to use your health insurance as payment for services, need to be in MN.
What We Do?
When people engage skillfully in the areas of life that directly contribute to well-being, they build a life they enjoy, a life full of purpose and meaning—even at work.
Fulfilled humans seem to spread a lot of light, love, and joy. These are three things we are very fond of and would like a bit more of in the world. Wouldn't you?
“I remember like it was yesterday. Change is hard. It was honestly so hard at first. And if I hadn't . . . [shiver] who would I even be today? A suckier version of myself, that's who.”
With Healthy Minds, J.M. has stabilized and found fulfillment through her work. She has started designing art that she wears. Go J.M! #crushingit
WANT TO KNOW HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER?
The Best Part
We do this through both our in-person and our online trainings so you get to work at your own pace, from your own couch—or ours. Buyer's choice.
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The Top 6 Things Successful Therapy Clients Have In Common
When you first start therapy, everyone wants a guarantee it's actually going to work. You understandably want to know that you aren't going to be wasting your time, energy, and money on something ineffective. Here is what you can do as a client to maximize your chances of success and minimize failure. These six characteristics are quite common—the vast majority of clients do them and consequently, feel better.
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