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Blue Couch

Counseling for Children, Adolescents, Adults, and Families

You can expect to feel safe, supported and accepted at The Blue Couch, while you create the necessary confidence in your authentic self. We offer Individual Counseling, Couples Counseling, Family Counseling in Mankato. As modern therapists, we consider ourselves LGBTQIA friendly and culturally sensitive to individual’s diversity.

Individual Counseling. We are here to help you explore your truth. Whether it's sadness, worry, feeling stuck, lonely, or insecure -- individual counseling at The Blue Couch can help you deepen your connection with yourself.  We offer, play therapy for our younger clients and individual counseling for those ages 13 and older and can help with:

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  • Dissatisfaction in Quality of Life

  • Dissatisfaction in Quality of Relationships

  • Self-Awareness

  • Dating Related Issues

  • Relationship Related Issues

  • Un-fulfillment in Relationship and/or Seeking Clarity in Relationship

  • Depressed Mood / Feeling “Stuck”

  • Self-Esteem Issues / Lack of Confidence

  • Past Trauma

  • Life Transitions

  • Mindfulness Practices

  • Self Acceptance

  • Emotional Processing

  • Self-Help / Personal Growth

  • Career Issues / Establishing Goals

  • Anxiety

  • Attachment 

  • Isolation

  • New Mom Support

  • Infertility

  • Grief & Loss

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Family Counseling. Although every family goes through ups and downs, sometimes families need help to address their challenges while strengthening bonds of love and trust. Families today face tremendous challenges: lack of time together, conflict, parenting difficulties, divorce, illness, and outside pressures. Family counseling can help families come together to overcome their difficulties with dignity and compassion.

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Family counseling offers a safe environment where family members can address their difficulties in a way that helps draw them closer together while honoring individual needs and feelings. Here are some of the family counseling specialties we offer:
 

  • Parent-Child Relationship, including Child-Parent Relationship Therapy and FirstPlay

  • Co-parenting

  • Family preparations for Divorce/Relationship endings

  • Parenting Issues

  • Sibling Conflict

  • Family Conflict

  • COVID Related Issues / Stressors

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