2125 South First Street
1-320-444-7241
In-Person in Willmar, MN and Telehealth accessibility to therapy throughout the entire State of Minnesota
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About
Marnie believes in the power of recognizing client's experiences. She believes that a large part of therapy is having a confidential place for the client to feel seen and heard without judgement. She acknowledges the difficulty of navigating change and often says that we choose our hard. Life in our current circumstances is often hard and change is hard. We choose our hard and in so doing shift from feeling powerless to empowered.
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She believes in the autonomy of each person and seeks not to tell clients how they should think, feel or act. Instead, she is dedicated to supporting the client in determining their own path. Marnie believes in a non-judgmental approach. The impacts of traumatic experiences and the recognition of coping are all central to her client-centered approach to therapy. Behaviors that were adaptive in one situation may become maladaptive in others.
Separating behaviors from people allows the client and clinician to place the life situations out on the table and evaluate them. In so doing, the client can determine if the behavior is serving them well or if they would like to embark on change.
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Marnie earned her Masters Degree from Adler Graduate School in Minnetonka, MN and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of Minnesota.
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She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Certified in C-DBT and CSTIP.
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Clarity Counseling, PC
2125 South First Street
PO Box 107
Willmar, MN 56201
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Phone - 1-320-444-7241
E-Mail - marnie@claritycounselingpc.com
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Our Services
Individual Therapy
Couples Counseling
Family Therapy
Feeling seen. Feeling Heard. Feeling understood. Feeling validated and acknowledged for unique life experiences and associated emotions. These sessions are where clients may choose to explore their thoughts and feelings in a confidential and supportive environment. Throughout this process, client's often find they are developing a greater understanding of their own personal strengths and struggles leading to a clearer understanding of themselves. With this information and increased confidence, tackling life from a place of increased trust in self and confidence in abilities can potentially result.
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What it is not - Therapist telling client what to do, how to feel, or advice on how to live life.
Why? - The therapist will never know you as well as you know you. Also, the right answers are different for each and ever person. People have unique experiences, value systems, strengths and difficulties. For this reason, each person must have the autonomy and agency to make their own decisions for their own life. The therapist is there to support the client as they navigate life, not to tell them how to live it.
Couples counseling sessions are designed to help couples build stronger and more fulfilling relationships. This often involves understanding each of the unique perspectives involved as they navigate the relationship.
Identifying areas of resentment and discontent allows each member of the couple to understand themselves and their partner better.
Then, developing strategies to improve communication, relational dynamics and conflict resolution can improve experiences for each person individually and relationally.
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What it is not - Side taking, blaming, shaming, judging.
Why? - Therapy is most useful when client's feel safe and respected in the process. What is most helpful, is for the therapist to remain open and ask curious questions to increase their understanding of the loops they are in. With that awareness, the couple can determine their shared goals and begin work on building the muscles of communication and conflict resolution.
Family therapy sessions are designed to help families strengthen their relationships and improve communication. This often involves identifying areas of struggle and developing strategies to address conflict, improve relational skills, and promote improved family dynamics.
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The process is supportive in achieving a better understanding of each unique member of the family, their assigned roles, and their perceptions.
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What it is not - Ganging up, blaming, shaming.
Why? - It does not serve the family system or the health of the individuals and relationships between them.
Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety treatments are designed to help clients develop coping skills and strategies to manage their anxiety. Understanding states of dysregulation and increasing window of tolerance can empower clients to better understand what is happening within their mind and body when they become overwhelmed. Anxiety work with clients helps identify triggers and develop techniques to promote a sense of calm and reduce stress.
Depression Treatment
Depression treatments are designed to support clients as they navigate their symptoms of depression. Support in trying to identify triggers and develop techniques to promote balanced thinking, reduce stress, and improve overall well-being.
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What it is not - Toxic Positivity.
Why? - Some things are validly sad, hard, depressing, and difficult to feel. They are valid. Respectfully acknowledging and honoring the weight of those feelings is a part of therapy if that is what the client is wanting. If the client wants to sort out ways to hold the hard stuff and carve out some room for lighter feelings, that can be worked on as well.
Trauma Therapy
Trauma therapy is designed to help clients overcome the effects of traumatic experiences. Relief from symptoms is sought through the development of coping skills and strategies to manage impacts of trauma.
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Through awareness regarding how the nervous system stores and reacts after experiencing trauma, clients can better understand how their body and mind act and react. This often empowers and validates trauma survivors that their body is reacting in perfectly normal ways after surviving abnormal experiences. Feeling more aware and able to impact nervous system activation can often result in feeling calmer and more hopeful.
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What it is not - Having to re-live the trauma or having to talk about all kinds of hard things that happened in the past.
Why?- It is not necessary to re-live traumas in order to feel more in the driver's seat of your nervous system. In fact, sometimes talking about the trauma only increases symptoms without positive result. For this reason, each client is offered the ability to decide if, when, and how much they wish to talk about their traumas. Efforts to heal symptoms do not necessitate going backwards, and healing can happen with or without re-visiting the events.