FAQ

We have two physical office locations. Our main office is in Circle Pines, MN, in the northern suburbs.

We have a second office in South Minneapolis.

We can see clients via video anywhere in Minnesota. We also have one therapist licensed to see clients located in Wisconsin online.

The first step is to set up your free consultation call with Lana, our intake specialist. She will help get you paired up with the best therapist for your needs and can schedule your first appointment. After that, you’ll schedule directly with your therapist.

Come ready to work! Motivation and willingness to look honestly at yourself or your part of the relationship dynamic (and then be willing to work on it!) make a considerable difference in therapy outcomes.

When both partners in couples counseling can quit blaming the other and commit to working on their part, amazing things can happen quickly!

Commit to coming consistently, especially in the beginning. It does make a difference. So much of therapy is the relationship between the client and the therapist. Solidifying this relationship early on does a lot to support the work we will do together.

Practice skills outside of the therapy session. Therapy is only an hour a week. Therefore, if you continue the work we did in sessions when outside the office, you’ll see more significant gains and deepen the skills and learning we are doing.

The answer to this question depends on so many factors. The time depends on your goals, how long you’ve been experiencing the concerns you want to address, how invested you and your partner are in working on things outside of counseling, and how deep you want to go.

However, you can expect to come weekly for the first 4-6 sessions at a minimum and then continue weekly or bi-weekly after that. An excellent general estimate might be around 4-6 months of 2-4 monthly sessions and then starting to taper down to less frequent sessions.

We are glad you asked this question! Finding a good fit is an essential part of therapy! See how you feel after your first session and do a bit of a gut check: how are you feeling? It’s normal to feel nervous when you’re just starting therapy, but is there something telling you it doesn’t feel quite “right”? If that’s the case, pay attention to it. Consider whether giving it a few sessions feels okay to see if things settle in.

Our intake specialist, Lana, has a knack for pairing clients up with the therapist that will be a great fit. If it doesn’t feel right to you, please talk to us. We want to help you connect with someone you feel safe to be honest and vulnerable with, whether that is someone else here at Renovation Counseling or elsewhere.

Our primary demographic tends to be couples and adults ages 30-55 who are interested in improving how they show up in their relationships with their significant others – their partner, kids, parents, friends, and colleagues. We want clients who are willing to focus on their healing and growth in individual or couples counseling. We also see a lot of couples who have experienced infidelity.

Beyond that, we see all kinds of people, including those who are religious and spiritual and those who are decidedly not. Some clients want to work on individual concerns, like anxiety, healing trauma, self-esteem, and spiritual or personal growth. We help clients who wish to use the Enneagram, teens, older adults, couples trying to decide if they need to get divorced, adult children, and their parents.

Some of our work focuses on moms of little ones and parents of teens trying to figure out how to raise these humans well without losing their minds and young adults working to redefine their relationship with their parents. Some clients may not know what they want but need support.

Addiction/Active Substance Abuse: We do not specialize in working with substance abuse and addiction concerns with individuals or couples. 

Domestic Abuse/Violence: We can and do see clients individually who are experiencing domestic abuse in their relationship but do not do couples counseling with partnerships in which safety is a concern.

Children: We love kids and support their parents, but we are not qualified to work with children under 13. From ages 13 to 15, we take it on a case-by-case basis.