Nicky Bredeson, M.S.W., LICSW, LMFT
Locations
Licensures/Certifications/Titles
- L.I.C.S.W. - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
- N.A.S.W. - National Assoociation of Social Workers,
- A.C.S.W. - Academy of Certified Social Workers
- L.M.F.T. - Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
- A.P.T. - Association for Psychological Type
- M.B.T.I. - Myers Briggs Type Indicator Certification
- "Alive & Aware" Couples Communication Certified Instructor
- R.L.I. - Relational Life Institute - Couples therapy, training program, Level I completed
Services Offered
- Individual (ages 15-95 years old), couples, families and group psychotherapy
- Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of various client popluations, including straight and gay men and women, adolescents & adults experiencing life stage crisis
- Grief, loss, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, violence, prostitution, incest, chemical dependency and recovery, and a wide variety of other challenges including job loss, relationship problems, employment crises,
- parent/child problems and family of origin issues
I'm interactionally active & relationship centered. My training has been extensive and varied and includes psychoanalytic, jungian, cognitive, behavioral, narrative & family systems approaches. I especially enjoy working with couples to discover the beneficial and non-beneficial patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors pertinent to them and to work toward changing unhealthy to healthy patterns.
Education
- At least 30 continuing education credits yearly for past 34 years.
M.S.W. - Masters Degree in Social Work, Univeristy of Minnesota
B.A. - Bachelor Sociology/Social Work and Psychology, Gustavus Adolphus