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Welcome! I’m Augustin (he/him pronouns). I provide individual therapy in Minneapolis for adults of all ages and life experiences. If you’re at a point of needing to explore your identity, build self-worth, heal from trauma, find ways to change, accept difficult circumstances, or get support in living in oppressive systems, let’s connect and see if we might do good work together.
I offer the ability to help you move more deeply into who you are and who you want to be. I believe the answers you seek can be found through the relational work we do together and the discoveries you make about yourself along the way. I have found that therapy is often about seeking change, but it is also about acceptance of what you experience and the circumstances of your life. The way out is through. |
What I bring to our sessions
Discerning questions to help you get to know yourself better.
Curiosity about all aspects of who you are and how you understand the world.
Gentle challenges within a relationship of support and care.
Collaborative facilitation based on the belief that you have the internal resources to heal.
Acceptance of the complexity of human experience, especially painful, traumatic,
distressing, or damaging events (no matter what your role was).
Witnessing and holding space for all of your qualities, feelings, and experiences (every single one!).
An integrative approach including emotional, intellectual, creative, and body-based practices,
based on my intuition and on what feels right to you.
An anti-oppressive orientation. Power structures create suffering and affect how we
approach healing and empowerment. Cultural humility, not cultural competency.
Curiosity about all aspects of who you are and how you understand the world.
Gentle challenges within a relationship of support and care.
Collaborative facilitation based on the belief that you have the internal resources to heal.
Acceptance of the complexity of human experience, especially painful, traumatic,
distressing, or damaging events (no matter what your role was).
Witnessing and holding space for all of your qualities, feelings, and experiences (every single one!).
An integrative approach including emotional, intellectual, creative, and body-based practices,
based on my intuition and on what feels right to you.
An anti-oppressive orientation. Power structures create suffering and affect how we
approach healing and empowerment. Cultural humility, not cultural competency.
Affirming therapy
I have worked with people experiencing:
I have worked with people experiencing:
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This is not an exhaustive list of the life experiences my clients have. I love to hear from anyone who feels they would benefit from my specific approach to therapy. Therapy, in my opinion, is less about working on a particular issue or diagnosis than with a whole person.
A bit about me
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I enjoy working with clients with all kinds of sexualities-queer, kinky, polyamorous/ENM, ace, aro, you name it. And I know that sometimes what you want to work on has nothing to do with your sexuality, and sometimes it does.
I’m a white (Irish, English, and German descent), queer, invisibly disabled trans man. My values include dismantling white supremacy, a commitment to disability justice, supporting intersectional feminism and fat liberation, embracing neurodiversity, supporting sex workers, and affirming all genders, sexualities, and relationship structures. I am committed to liberation for everyone. Black, Indigenous, and brown people; queer and trans people; fat people; disabled people; neurodivergent people-everyone. |
This commitment means that I give time and energy to learning about these life experiences from the people in the communities, and to examining and challenging my own biases. I consider how what I was taught in my formal training is or isn’t supportive of marginalized folks. I learn about ways in which my field has historically been harmful to marginalized folks and what I can do to minimize that harm. I understand that some kinds of distress are the product of oppressive systems, not something you can or need to “fix.”
And I always hold your lived experience as the core truth in our work together.
And I always hold your lived experience as the core truth in our work together.
Want to get started? Find answers to common questions on my get started page or send me an email at augustin@augustinkendalltherapy.com.