create the change you desire

individual, relationship, and sex therapy

Compassionate and accountable client care serving the western suburbs and Minneapolis.

Tending to your most important relationships

With compassion, accountability, and a little bit of humor, we at Birch Lake Relational Therapy focus on client care. We stand with our clients through hard moments as you tend to your most important relationships, make sustainable change, and building the life you want to live.

Our Therapists

The struggle of finding a therapist is real. We create a safe and welcoming space for you to explore the hard stuff. We’ll walk alongside you as you create transformative change and progress. We offer free 15 minute phone consultations to help you find the right fit.

In-person and remote session options

We offer sessions in person and via telehealth for those in Minnesota. Our office is conveniently located in Golden Valley, Minnesota, near the intersection of Highway 100 and Highway 55.

Get In Touch

Change can be scary, but therapy doesn’t have to be. Ready to invest in you and your most important relationships? Contact us for a complimentary 15 minute phone consultation.

meet our therapists

  • Anne Bauers

    BMFT and BBHT | AAMFT Approved Supervisor

    Openings available

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  • Joanna Diem

    BMFT and BBHT | AAMFT Approved Supervisor

    Openings available

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  • Cara Mielke

    Minnesota BMFT Approved supervisor and AAMFT Supervisor in training

    Openings available

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  • Olivia Schwendinger

    Prepare/Enrich facilitator | specialties: grief

    Openings available

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All of our therapists are fully licensed and ready to create a safe environment to make the progress you’re looking for.

our specialties

  • sex therapy

    Sex therapy is a specialized type of talk-based psychotherapy that focuses on talking about sexual issues. The focus is on exploring issues of sexual health, intimacy, and pleasure.

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  • couples and relationship therapy

    Couples can struggle with communication issues, resolving past hurts, recovering from past trauma, parenting struggles, loss of romantic love, financial struggles, and many other issues. Our therapists use a relational perspective in couples therapy, which means that we explore both the individual and interpersonal impacts of the issue you’re experiencing.

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  • trauma processing

    Trauma can feel like a big, scary word to many people. We think of trauma as any event or situation that is so overwhelming you are unable to fully process it. Trauma processing unlocks what has been “stuck” within you so that you can feel relief from the ongoing impacts of past events.

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  • alternative relationship structures

    Individuals and couples may want to explore ways they can do relationships differently. This may include exploring sexual orientation or gender identity, opening up a relationship that has been monogamous in the past, navigating separation or divorce, or figuring out how to live in a culture that prizes one type of relationship when you’ve made a different relationship choice.

    We support couples who want to explore - or who are already on - an alternative path.

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We create a safe and welcoming space for you to explore the hard stuff. We’ll walk alongside you as you create transformative change.

Get in touch with us