Minnesota Mental Health Services is a small private practice located in downtown Mankato, Minnesota providing psychotherapy services. We offer the opportunity for you to meet your therapist before you begin therapy. A free 30-minute in-person consultation for all prospective patients is how you begin. This gives us an opportunity to hear the reasons you are pursuing services and what you are looking for in terms of therapy. We will explain what we provide, e.g., individual, family, or couples therapy, describe the assessment process and the methods we use. Finally, we will cover our philosophy and expectations for therapy as well as go over any questions you have.

We have two main approaches (across two therapists) at Minnesota Mental Health Services: Movement and Zen therapy.

MOVEMENT: If you do not like sitting around, we offer various types of movement therapies. You have choices such as yoga, stretching, walking, or running with your therapist during the therapy session. Movement therapy implies that at times, you and your therapist will leave the office to move. For example, young children who are patients love walks to the river or the playground, so we take psychotherapy into the world. Adults go for walks or runs on the paths near our office, so they can observe the variability of the river (a metaphor for time and impermanence).

ZEN: Psychological analysis and meditation practice are the routes to “getting well.” First, you will learn a better way to understand yourself by analyzing your personality structure (Parent, Adult, Child). You are not a singular self, but rather, multiple (three different people inside your head). As a student, you will learn how to practice meditation to still the body and focus the mind. As you learn to concentrate and listen, you will learn relational models to apply as tools for harmonizing relationships. Game and Script analysis promote thinking and acting autonomously. Finally, there are Transactional Analysis Groups to accelerate your understanding of how you interact with other people based on your scripting. Zen is mind control and Transactional Analysis is social control.

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