ReWilding (verb): The life-long process of learning, unlearning, healing, and growing into your most authentic life.

Kara earned her Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from Tulane University and graduated with a certificate in Mental Health, Addiction and Family. She is licensed in both North Dakota and Minnesota.

Kara is a neurodivergent therapist who historically worked primarily with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and people living with HIV/AID. She developed and launched a mental health services program for people living with HIV, including the first peer support program for folks living with HIV in North Dakota. Kara works with adults, children, families, and groups who are met with a wide variety of mental health barriers, including anxiety, depression, trauma, stigma, shame, etc. Kara has worked in both outpatient and residential settings.

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Kara believes the individual holds the key to their own healing and approaches the therapeutic relationship as one of partnership and collaboration. Kara recognizes each person is unique. As such, she uses a client-centered approach to customize treatment, using each person’s individual strengths, to help them navigate their way to a fully integrated wholehearted life. Kara is trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), certified in Parent Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT), and is working to become WPATH certified.

In addition to Kara’s therapeutic training, she has extensive community building, advocacy, and project management experience.

Prior to social work, Kara served as a foster parent to three beautiful children, who are the motivation behind her MSW. She holds a B.A. in Strategic Communications with an emphasis in Public Relations from the University of Minnesota. Kara enjoys spending time with family & friends, community organizing, and dreams of becoming the type of person who can sustain plant life.

ReWilding is an affirming and anti-oppression therapy practice that offers support to clients to live authentically. We acknowledge the land we live on was stolen from Indigenous Peoples who are one with it and built by stolen people with stolen labor. We further recognize the existence of systemic oppression which causes different degrees of harm and/or awards different degrees of privilege to people based on the intersection of their identities.