Richelle Amundson, MSW, LICSW

 
 

Richelle is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who received her degree from the Clinical Social Work program at the University of St. Thomas/St. Catherine University. Richelle has over 10 years of experience as an outpatient therapist in a variety of settings. She provided therapeutic services at an Intensive Residential Treatment Services center with focus on chemical dependency, mental health, and trauma. She provided group DBT services to adolescent females healing from suicidal thoughts, self-harm behaviors, relational difficulties, and isolating behaviors. She has also provided therapeutic services for people with complex trauma symptoms related to interpersonal and developmental traumas, sexual assault, torture, and cultural transitions.

Location: Andover & New Brighton

Specialties: Transitions of Aging, Chronic Illness, Complex trauma, and Spirituality

Client Focus: Adults and Adolescents

Treatment Approach: To help understand your situation more clearly and build your coping strategies, Richelle will draw from her training in the following:

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • Brené Brown™ Informed

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction - (MBSR)

  • Psychodynamic Therapy

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy - AEDP

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

  • Anchored Relational Therapy (formerly known as AIR Network)

In therapy, Richelle will ask you to work on, at minimum, the following:

  • Identifying your most important values to understand what lights you up, what nourishes you, and where it is worth investing hard work.

  • Learning to be curious and notice what is happening inside and outside of your body.

  • Learning to be honest with yourself and others about what you need to be well.

  • Deciding where you want to stand in relation to your environment.

  • Building a wide and versatile toolkit for coping with a broad variety of situations.

Availability: Tuesday 9am-2pm (Andover), Friday 9am-5pm (New Brighton), Saturday 9am-2pm (New Brighton)

Appointments: Email Richelle@conscioushealingcounseling.com for an appointment today.


These are some of the values that light up and nourish Richelle and inform the work she will do with you if you choose to work with her: Curiosity, Dignity, Balance, Beauty, Story, and Nature.

Richelle’s personal mission statement:

I will support with curiosity, understanding, growing perspective, and acceptance those in my social circles from most intimate to least, honoring the boundaries both me and the other need in order to love each other.

I will intentionally stay connected with sources of wisdom including my Higher Power, nature, research/learning, and personal stories of others, so that I can be a quiet, calm, playful, and peaceful vessel to model and share that wisdom with others.

Organizational Memberships

Association for Contextual Behavioral Science - https://contextualscience.org/

AEDP Institute - https://aedpinstitute.org/about-aedp-psychotherapy/

Catholic Psychotherapy Association - https://catholicpsychotherapy.org/

Publications

Spiritual Coping and Posttraumatic Growth after a Sexual Assault - https://sophia.stkate.edu/msw_papers/284/

Allowing Spirituality Into the Room - https://news.stthomas.edu/allowing-spirituality-room/

 
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If you’d like, feel free to take a peek into one of Richelle’s toolboxes. Below are some videos she often shares with clients:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbGnddQDIuCRRZMxD97Lx2F5-Xkyxp8QD