Our Services

Our counseling services are designed to provide you with expert guidance and support tailored to your individual needs. We offer a confidential and safe space to explore your challenges, increase self-awareness, and foster personal growth.

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy provides a confidential, collaborative space for adults, adolescents, and children to address emotional, behavioral, and life challenges with a licensed psychologist. Sessions focus on identifying patterns, building insight, and developing practical skills to reduce distress and improve functioning. Therapists tailor evidence-based approaches—such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing (MI), and trauma-informed interventions—to each person’s unique needs, cultural and social identities, and goals. We provide LGBTQIA+ affirming care.

    • Anxiety and panic

    • Depression and low mood

    • Stress, burnout, and life transitions (school, career, relationships, parenthood, retirement)

    • Trauma, grief, and loss

    • Relationship and communication difficulties

    • Anger management and impulse control

    • Self-esteem, gender and sexual identity, and body image concerns

    • Behavioral or emotional concerns in children and adolescents

    • Family issues

    • Suicidal thoughts and self-harm

    • Substance use concerns

    • Bipolar Disorder, mania, hypomania

    • ADHD, ASD, Neurodivergence

    • Coping with chronic illness or medical issues

    • OCD, phobias, and other specific symptom patterns

    • Initial phone consultation: a free 15-minute phone conversation to determine if we will be a good fit to address your current needs.

    • Initial intake: a comprehensive assessment of history, current concerns, strengths, and goals to form a personalized treatment plan. Typically 55-60 minutes. Rate - $225, sliding scale optional; accepting insurance soon.

    • Regular sessions: typically 45–55 minutes weekly or biweekly, adjusted based on need and progress. Rate - $200, sliding scale optional; accepting insurance soon.

    • Collaborative goal setting: We will work together to develop your goals for therapy and will check in during periodic symptom reviews to track changes and improvement.

    • Skill-building: Practical tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, problem-solving, communication, and focus and time management, and substance use goals.

    • Flexibility: Integration of various therapeutic techniques based on unique needs and adjustments as goals evolve. Both short-term and long-term therapy offered.

    • Confidentiality: Private, HIPAA-compliant care, with exceptions only as required by law (e.g., imminent risk of harm to self or others, child abuse, elder abuse).

    • Improved emotional regulation and reduced symptom severity

    • Greater self-awareness and healthier relationship patterns

    • Enhanced coping strategies for stress and life transitions

    • Increased resilience and problem-solving ability

    • Improved self-esteem

    • Support in making meaningful, sustained changes

    • Complete the "Contact Us" form at the bottom of the webpage and we will be in touch shortly to schedule an initial consultation phone call, or email us at katie@northstarpsyd.com. Sessions are offered through secure telehealth.

Couples Therapy

At North Star Counseling and Psychological Services, we provide emotionally-focused, trauma-informed couples therapy via secure telehealth for partners seeking to strengthen connection, resolve conflict, and heal relational wounds. Our approach is compassionate, professional, and confidential, tailored to each couple’s unique goals and history. We provide LGBTQIA+ affirming care.

    • Couples at any stage: dating, engaged, newly cohabiting, married, partners in long-term relationships, and those contemplating separation, or actively navigating separation and/or divorce.

    • Couples experiencing communication breakdown, repeated conflict cycles, trust breaches (including infidelity), sexual/sexual-intimacy concerns, blended-family stress, or parenting disagreements.

    • Couples where one or both partners have histories of trauma, attachment injuries, or mental health challenges that affect the relationship.

    • Initial phone consultation: a free 15-minute phone conversation to determine if we will be a good fit for you and your partner's current needs.

    • Initial assessment: a thorough intake to understand relationship patterns, individual histories, strengths, values, goals, and safety concerns. Typically 90 minutes. Rate - $250, sliding scale optional; accepting insurance soon.

    • Regular sessions: typically 50–90 minutes, frequency tailored to needs (weekly, biweekly, or as clinically indicated). Rate - $225, sliding scale optional; accepting insurance soon.

    • Collaborative treatment plan: Goals and interventions are co-created with both partners and adjusted over time.

    • Evidence-based interventions: We draw from modalities such as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for couples, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and trauma-informed frameworks to address attachment, emotion regulation, relational patterns, and behavior change.

    • Trauma-informed care: We prioritize safety, consent, and pacing. If past trauma impacts the relationship, we integrate strategies to manage triggers, build regulation and communication skills, and foster mutual understanding.

    • Skills-focused sessions: Communication tools, conflict resolution techniques, reflective listening, boundary-setting, and problem-solving practice.

    • Repair and trust-building: Structured work to acknowledge harm, facilitate accountability, and develop reliable repair sequences.

    • Sexual and intimacy work: Sensitively address mismatched desire, performance anxiety, trauma-related sexual concerns, and ways to rebuild physical and emotional intimacy.

    • Flexibility: Short-term couples coaching for targeted issues or longer-term therapy for complex patterns.

    • Telehealth sessions allow partners to participate from separate locations when needed and offer accessibility for busy schedules.

    • Typical session length is 50–90 minutes, frequency tailored to needs (weekly, biweekly, or as clinically indicated).

    • Confidentiality and limits: Sessions are confidential; therapist will review limits of confidentiality (e.g., imminent risk of harm to self or others, child abuse, elder abuse) during initial consultation.

    • Individual sessions: Occasionally recommended for one partner to address personal trauma or mental health issues alongside couples work.

    • Improved communication and reduced reactivity

    • Increased emotional safety and secure attachment

    • Effective conflict management and fewer destructive cycles

    • Restored trust and repaired relational injuries

    • Greater intimacy, shared goals, and mutual support

  • Complete the "Contact Us" form to schedule an initial consultation, or email us at katie@northstarpsyd.com. During the consultation we will assess fit, clarify goals, discuss confidentiality and telehealth logistics, and begin building a plan that honors both partners’ perspectives.

    North Star Counseling and Psychological Services is committed to guiding couples toward more connected, resilient relationships through compassionate, trauma-informed care.

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*Accepting clients August 10th, 2026*