MinnesotaBrooklyn CenterTherapy Clinic

Royce Vang, MA, LAMFT

Royce is a Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, with a background in the Criminal Justice Field. This means she is passionate about relationships and has expertise in healing trauma and stress from a body-oriented perspective. She is thrilled to join her passion for mental health with providing innovative services to meet the needs of the first responder community. Therapy with Royce will be honest and real.

Outside of work Royce enjoys going to concerts, coaching basketball, and traveling.

Certificates:
Law Enforcement Certificate
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Accelerated Resolution Therapy

Amber Pearson, MA, LICSW

Amber is a creative and quirky therapist who works hard to create a welcoming and affirmative space for children and families. She uses a conscious discipline and trauma-informed lens when completing assessments and developing/implementing interventions. She believes that change starts with relationships and self-awareness, so she takes time to foster these with curiosity, client-led play, psychoeducation, and intentional use and exploration of sensory systems. In addition, she works to understand and respect if and how stigma, bias, prejudice, and generational trauma have affected the client and family system, creating survival strategies that are often negatively critiqued by society. She is especially passionate about working with autistic children and their families, using a neurodiversity affirmative lens to help children develop positive self-identity while also helping the child and family to identify antecedents/triggers, modify the environment, increase co-regulation and self-regulation, and find ways to communicate and engage joyfully together.

Outside of work, Amber loves to explore new places and learn new things. Her happy place is wandering in the woods (even the tiny patches of trees tucked in the city) or walking beside lakes and rivers. She loves anything that makes her laugh and often has music playing wherever she goes!

Angela Wong, MS

Angela enjoys working with people between the ages of 15-50 with diverse backgrounds who are willing to have an open-mind and make changes. Angela has worked with people experiencing depression, anxiety, life transitions/adjustments, anger management, and trauma.

Angela is authentic, genuine, and open-minded and brings that into the session. Angela's goal is to create a supportive, encouraging, and safe environment where clients can express themselves freely and process their life experiences, free of judgement. Angela hopes to offer different perspectives and to challenge clients thinking and behavior patterns.

Angela's approach to therapy is based on the client’s needs and will work with the client to figure out what works best for them. Angela is primarily client-centered, solution-focused, and strengths-based. Angela incorporates cognitive-behavioral therapy and play activities into the session as well, such as board games and arts and crafts.

Outside of work, Angela enjoys spending time with her dog, family, and friends outdoors or over good food. Angela enjoys unwinding with a good tv show or a book (favorite genre - fantasy fiction or contemporary romance!), and cooking soothes her soul.

Anna Smith, BA

Anna Trout, MA, LMFT

April Knipfer, MSW, LICSW

April is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults. Prior to working at Ellie, April has worked across the continuum of care including inpatient hospital, partial hospital, intensive outpatient, school, community, and outpatient settings.

April believes the most important aspect of therapy is the therapist-client relationship. She seeks to create a safe, collaborative environment that strikes a balance between support, empathy, and "therapeutic challenging" when appropriate. She uses an eclectic therapy approach to meet people where they are at. April has experience utilizing DBT skills, CBT skills, and narrative therapies as well as solution-focused strategies to assist clients in meeting their personal goals. She has a special interest in Mindfulness and believes we can all benefit from being more mindful in our day-to-day lives.

Outside of work, April enjoys crafting, reading fiction, traveling, binge-watching bad tv, and perfecting her cookie recipes. She's also a huge Minnesota Vikings fan, plant enthusiast, and proud cat lady.

Bailey Rhoades, MA, LMFT

Clair Anderson, LAMFT

Clair enjoys working with any individual, couple, or family who is ready to dive into the gift of their own healing journey. Clair's ideal client is anyone from ages 3 to 60. Clair welcomes any client who identifies as part of the LGBTQIA+ community and is excited to work with individual adults, couples and families of all ages and stages!

Values that sustain Clair's life and work are connection, collaboration and inclusivity. Collaboration looks like using creativity to craft the best plan to meet your goals; together we can find the best way forward. Connection sounds like understanding, curiosity, laughter, and “aha” moments as we build our therapeutic relationship and embrace growth and change. Inclusion feels like unconditional positive regard for your true self, empathy, accountability, and openness while we explore barriers and empower you to make the needed shifts in your life for greater well-being. This work is hard and you are worth it; my job is to help light the paths that feel dark.

Clair’s therapeutic techniques can be described as person-centered, strengths-based, relational, and experiential. Clair’s particular areas of interest include: ADHD/ADD, anxiety, trauma, parenting issues/child development, identity, gender and self-esteem struggles, relational and behavioral difficulties.

Diane Hiles, PsyD

Diane is a compassionate, non-judgmental, accepting therapist who focuses on supporting, educating and healing clients. She is client-centered, and works with individuals from 9 years of age though adulthood. Diane’s history includes working with traumatized victims of rape/molest, emotional abuse, along with those going through mood disorders such as depression, anxiety, plus life changes, and transitions. Her toolbox, from which she draws her eclectic style, includes EMDR, DBT, CBT, all framed with unconditional positive regard.
Diane also does ADHD testing for individual ages 9 years of age though adulthood.
In her free time, Diane loves to antique shop, frequent yard sales, laugh, enjoy anything Sci-Fi and connect with others.

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Gladys Ndip, Gladys Ndip, APRN,PMHNP-BC,A-GNP-C

Halima Abdi, MA

Hanna Schaefer, LGSW, MSW

Hanna is a genuine therapist who believes in the power of compassionate connection. She has experience helping others become “unstuck” and disrupt unhelpful relational or cognitive patterns. Her clients can expect therapy to be a place where they can bring their authentic selves to engage in collaborative, strengths-based care with the intention to promote their healing and personal growth. She believes in getting to know each individual then personalizing treatment according to their specific needs. She approaches therapy from an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed perspective, and enjoys working with people that identify as LGBT+, BIPOC, and/or older adults. She specializes in working with anxiety, depression, developmental disability, adjustment disorders, and acute and complex trauma.

In her free time, Hanna will often be exploring new places and listening to live music. She is a strong appreciator of all forms of creativity. She also loves playing video games and spending quality time with her loved ones and her dog.

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Hannah Kidder, MPS, LADC

Hannah is Minnesota born and bred. She is a 2020 graduate of the Integrated Behavioral Health program at the University of Minnesota and has held her drug and alcohol counseling license since 2013. She is passionate about harm reduction, person centered philosophies, and both acknowledging and addressing the harm perpetuated by systemic racism and oppression within and outside of the therapy session. She has experience working with adults and older teens in residential and outpatient settings as well as community health. She has thoroughly enjoyed working with diverse populations including those with generational trauma, traumatic brain injuries, and severe and persistent mental illness. She specializes in working with those with developmental, racial, and religious trauma, LGBTQ populations, people who use drugs (PWUD), people in recovery, and non-binary or gender non conforming folx.

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Jessie Anderson, LICSW

Jessie is a caring therapist that believes everyone deserves a space where they feel accepted, valued, and safe. Clients can expect Jessie to be honest, non-judgmental, creative, and fun. She works with individuals 18 and older, and her previous experience includes working with individuals that are struggling with low self-esteem, relationship issues, substance use, life transitions, infidelity, and anxiety. Jessie likes to keep therapy more informal, is genuine, and is curious and attentive to what her clients feel they need to help them heal. One of Jessie’s biggest goals when working with individuals is to help them feel empowered, confident, and unapologetically authentic in their everyday lives.

Outside of work Jessie enjoys reading books, gardening, drawing, playing video games, and listening to music.

Jimmy Quach, MPS, LADC

Jimmy is a transplant from Colorado and has been living in Minnesota for the past ten years. A graduate of the University of Minnesota Integrated Behavioral Health program in 2020, Jimmy has worked in multiple settings from residential treatment programs to providing in-home therapy services. He has been working towards his Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor license and additionally has been licensed as an alcohol and drug counselor since 2018. He recognizes the importance of addressing both mental health and substance use symptoms in holistic fashion and from a harm-reduction lens.

For Jimmy, individual therapy is a collaborative process with sessions focused on exploring life stories and how they continue to impact day to day life. He works from an eclectic theoretical orientation to meet a person’'s needs and has experience working with anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, relationships conflicts, PTSD, and grief/loss.

When not at work, Jimmy enjoys spending time outside, regardless of the season. He also loves to be active, read, and spend time with friends online through video games and table-top role playing games.

Mariah Kresky, MSW, LGSW

Mariah is a spunky millennial who practices using client-focused and holistic approaches. To do this, Mariah develops an empathetic and open space as she strives for client's to be their full authentic self. Though Mariah's therapeutic approach will vary depending on the individual’s needs she is founded in the exploration of our connection and attachments to others and how this affects the way that we understand ourselves. Mariah utilizes a neurodiversity affirmative lens while advocating and offering psychoeducation as a means of not only strengthening the client's internal support but also that of the various systems surrounding the client such as their family. Mariah feels very strongly about the effectiveness of developing an honest and individualized therapeutic relationship as the key to working through whatever challenges the client may be facing. Mariah has found herself feeling very passionate about working with children, adolescents, and families with concerns related to anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, Autism, life changes, and family dynamics.

When Mariah isn't at work she is often found either in nature or attempting some DIY project she found on Pinterest. Mariah is usually vibing to either some music or a podcast (often true crime or audio theater related).

Sean Hornsby, Psy.D

Sean enjoys working with teenagers, young adults, and middle aged adults ages 12 and older who may be struggling with various issues in their lives or just seeking a different perspective in how they look at themselves or the world. By providing a compassionate, authentic, and knowledgeable environment, he hopes to use his knowledge to help others with discovering their own willpower, insight, strength, and truth into finding what works for them to improve their lives.

Sean is a pre-licensed therapist who works with individuals who struggle with past trauma, depression, anxiety, issues with anger, adjustment/life transitions, low self-esteem, problematic sexual behaviors/sexual issues, multicultural issues, substance abuse/dual diagnosis, criminal behavior/thinking, and interpersonal relationship issues. In addition, Sean also specialized in psychological assessment of individuals ages 6 and up.

On his free time, Sean enjoys hiking, ice-fishing, snowmobiling, cooking, exploring new restaurants, and exercising.

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Susan Roers, LADC, LICSW

Trang Nguyen, MA

Trang's perspective in her work is to figure out how to meet people at where they are at. She is compassionate and will try to find humor in any situation. Trang has experience working with children and adolescents with ASD, anxiety, depression, and self harm. She was a behavioral therapist at Minnesota Autism Center and then worked at Prairie Care inpatient hospital as a psychiatric technician and group facilitator. Trang loves to see the effort that people put in their own treatment like trying out new activities. Trang will be your cheerleader.

Outside of work, Trang loves to craft, play board games, go on tik tok (see the latest trends from teens), and getting comfortable to nap.

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