Therapy in Fargo-Moorhead

Licensed in both North Dakota and Minnesota — so the river doesn’t decide who you can work with.

Fargo-Moorhead is one metro with a state line running through the middle of it. For a therapist licensed on one side of it, that line is a wall.

Licensed only in North Dakota? You can’t see the person who lives in Moorhead. Licensed only in Minnesota? The person in West Fargo is out of reach.

I hold active clinical licenses in both states. If you live on one side and work on the other, if your family is split across the river, if you’re moving from Fargo to Dilworth in the spring — none of that has to interrupt your therapy.

Who I work with

The people I work with are usually the ones holding everything together. The reliable one at the office. The one the family calls first. Capable, competent, and quietly worn down by being the person everyone else leans on.

If you have spent years being fine, this is the work of finding out what is underneath that.

What the state line actually means

Clinical licenses are tied to where you are physically located during a session — not where the therapist is, and not where you signed up.

That has real consequences in a metro like this one:

• You live in Moorhead and work in Fargo. A therapist licensed only in ND can see you from your desk at lunch and not from your kitchen table at night. That isn’t a workable arrangement.
• You’re a student. MSUM and Concordia are in Minnesota. NDSU is in North Dakota. Change schools, or move between campus and home, and single-state licensure becomes a problem.
• Your family is split across the river. Parents in Fargo, adult kids in Moorhead, or the reverse.
• You’re moving within the metro. Fargo to Moorhead is a fifteen-minute drive and a jurisdictional change. It shouldn’t cost you your therapist.

Because I’m licensed in both North Dakota and Minnesota, none of these are interruptions. You keep the same therapist and the same work.

What I work with

Most of what I do is trauma work, using EMDR and Cognitive Processing Therapy. That includes PTSD and complex trauma, anxiety, and the patterns that tend to travel with them — people-pleasing and porous boundaries, perfectionism, burnout, and substance use.

How sessions work

The practice is fully virtual. There’s no office to drive to, no parking ramp, no sitting in a waiting room where you might see someone you know — which, in a metro this size, is not a small thing.

Sessions run over a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform. EMDR works over video using a digital bilateral stimulation tool; you don’t need any equipment on your end.

For coverage details, see Rates & Insurance.

Serving the Fargo-Moorhead metro

I work with adults across the metro — Fargo, West Fargo, and Horace on the North Dakota side; Moorhead and Dilworth on the Minnesota side. Because sessions are virtual, I also see clients elsewhere in North Dakota and Minnesota, along with Ohio and Utah.

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