Common Problems Treated

Depression

A constant state of negative feelings and perspective, physical exhaustion, inability to concentrate as well as loss of interest in daily living and pleasures can be a hopeless and terrifying way to experience yourself and the world. You can gain insight into your feelings and thoughts, process them in a conscious intentional present manner to reduce your suffering and begin healing.

Trauma

Unhealed trauma can look like:  low sense of worth, codependency, always fearing what might come next, fear of abandonment, an innate feeling of shame, not being able to tolerate conflict, tolerating abusive behaviors from others, being overly agreeable, extreme independence and more.  Using a trauma informed approach paired with talk therapy and body awareness you can begin to heal from past trauma while rewiring your body’s response to fear in a safe, therapeutic environment.
Divorce & Separation
When your family relationships break, you feel lost, confused, angry and lonely. There are questions about the past, present, and future. There are conflicting priorities and desires and you need a place to grieve, explore, heal, and a way to move forward in everyone’s best interest.
Emotions & Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
An accurate and science-based understanding of emotions and feelings is absolutely essential for healthy identity, relationships, and careers. Our emotions and feelings are often misunderstood and thus mishandled. Learn the science of emotions to empower you to more effectively manage yourself, and your personal and professional relationships. Use verified and reliable tools to assess and grow your emotional intelligence!
Family & Marriage
Every family comes with its own unique set of unspoken rules and expectations based upon each partner’s childhood family experiences. The experience of parenting and marriage can be far more satisfying when partners proactively create the family culture they want by working through their hidden assumptions and issues, and applying positive parenting approaches.
Gender Issues
Society places an immense burden on people based on their observed, assumed, or proclaimed gender identity. Exploring and understanding the impact to you and your roles in life as a man, woman, transgender, or questioning is a vitally important aspect of healthy development and effective living.
Grief & Loss
Whether tragedy strikes unexpectedly or comes after a prolonged period of suffering, processing your beliefs and feelings about your loss is one of the key aspects to moving forward in a manner that honors the loss as well as yourself. Grieving is unique to each person and cannot be rushed or judged, but is essential to creating the necessary peace to keep living in a healthy positive way.
Identity Issues
Who have I been? Who am I now? Who do I want do be? Who do others assume I am? Who do I project myself to be? Who am I afraid of becoming? These are all aspects of exploring your identity and determining the most authentic, integrated, and powerful way to live your life.
Intimacy & Trust
To long for safety in connection is fundamentally human and an experience everyone longs for. Understand and change your own barriers to trusting yourself and others through the science of human connection  You will dynamically transform your ability to connect and maintain healthy satisfying relationships.
Multicultural Challenges
Increase your ability to live effectively in a multicultural society by exploring and understanding yourself and the Other. Conscientious investigation of both the positive easy aspects of differences, as well as the challenging gut-wrenching parts that disappoint and hurt is crucial to working through division and creating collaboration and community.
Panic Attacks
The impact of losing control over your body and mind is one that strikes terror in anyone who has experienced a panic attack. Trying to change your mind or overthinking doesn’t work or help. Learn the science behind panic, as well as tools and skills to help you calm your body and brain to positively change your outcome.
Self Esteem Challenges
It’s impossible to believe in or love yourself when you fail to meet your expectations of who you “should” be. To set yourself free and embrace your most authentic beloved self you will need to examine your beliefs, understand the origin of these ideas, and challenge your perspective, attitude, and choices with a loving compassionate mindset while practicing shame resiliency.

Services

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Current Outpatient Services Offered: 

Individual Therapy

Individual Therapy can help people overcome obstacles to their well-being. It can increase positive feelings, such as compassion and self-esteem.

People in therapy can learn skills for handling difficult situations, making healthy decisions, and reaching goals. Many find they enjoy the therapeutic journey of becoming more self-aware. Some people even go to ongoing therapy for self-growth. Individual therapy can happen in an in office setting or via telehealth services.

 

Family Therapy

Family Therapy is a type of treatment designed to help with issues that specifically affect families' mental health and functioning.

It can help individual family members build stronger relationships, improve communication, and manage conflicts within the family system. Some of the primary goals of family therapy are to create a better home environment, solve family issues, and understand the unique issues that a family might face. Family therapy is most often provided in office, everyone in the family is encouraged to attend and participate.

 

Children’s Therapy

Children’s Play Therapy is to children what counseling is to adults.

Play therapy utilizes play, children's natural medium of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys, art, sand tray, and game instead of words.

Diagnostic Assessments

Diagnostic Assessment’s allow for accurate diagnosis of......

mental health disorders and individualized treatment goals and objectives to help give client’s the best personalized care and possible referral of additional services. At Vieau Counseling we offer: Individual Adult Diagnostic Assessments, Diagnostic Assessments for Children ages 5-17, and Extended Diagnostic Assessments for Children ages 0-5.

Couple/Marriage Therapy

Couples or Marriage Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that can help you and your partner improve your relationship.

If you are having relationship difficulties, you can seek couples therapy to help rebuild your relationship.

Therapeutic Parenting

Therapeutic parenting is parenting in a highly structured, highly nurturing way. It provides firm boundaries tempered with empathy and compassion;

Therapeutic Parenting

it means not taking your child's behavior personally, but understanding the behaviors root causes by following a trauma informed care approach. Therapeutic parenting often involves working with the parents one one one, and can also involve working with the parents and children together.

 

We are in network and accept most major insurances including: MN Medicaid, BCBS, UCare, Medica- UBH, United Health Care, IMCare.