Krista M Nelson, MA, LICSW, LMFT
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Krista Nelson, LICSW, LMFT has thirty years of post-masters experience working with children and parents who are coping with attachment loss, trauma and family changes, especially with youth who entered a family through adoption. She is co-founder of Family Circle Counseling in St. Paul, MN and led the Wilder Foundation’s Attachment and Trauma Training program from 2001 to 2017. She co-created and continues to co-facilitate the popular workshop “Surviving and Thriving Beyond the RAD Diagnosis.”
Krista is an attachment-focused family therapist who has advanced training in EMDR, Theraplay, and Emotion Focused Couples Counseling, who loves the balance of doing therapy with playful children, teens, adult adoptees, parents and couples in their quest for healing. She also is an EFT couples therapist who often works with adoptive parents with their own trauma histories now raising children with trauma.
Saint Paul, MN 55114
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Website: http://www.fcircle.org
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Office-Based
Telehealth
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Adlerian Play Therapy
Adult Attachment Inventory
ARC Model
Circle of Security
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Crisis Intervention Training
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
Experiential Play Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization-Reprocessing (EMDR)
Filial Play Therapy
Hypnosis
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
LifeBook/Life Story Work
Parent-Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT)
Sand Tray or Sand Play
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
TheraPlay
Trauma Focused – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF CBT)
Trauma-informed Child Parent Psychotherapy (TI-CPP)
YogaCalm
Adoption Identity (i.e., self-worth, self-esteem)
Attachment
Childhood Depression
Dissociation
Divorce / Co Parenting
Domestic Violence
Early Traumatic Experiences
Foster Care
Grief and Loss Related to Adoption
High Conflict Families
Mood Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Personality Disorders
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
Self-Harming
Sexual Abuse (Victim)
Suicidal Concerns
Transracial/Transcultural Families
Adult (Adoptee)
Couples Work
Family Work
Teen (13-18)
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