Meet the Owner…
THERAPY, CONSULTATION, EDUCATION, & PARENTING
Erin Helleso MSW, LISW
With over 25 years of working in brain health, family services, and medical social services I have launched a practice focusing on specialized therapy and the unique needs of our community. From both personal and professional experience I come from a place of acceptance, understanding, and strive to meet the unique needs of every situation. I have extensive training and experience in family dynamics, parent-child estrangement, serious and pervasive brain health issues such as brain injuries, schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder and personality disorders. I have worked with district and juvenile court including adult and child sexual offense issues, and corrections. I have extensive leadership training and worked in corporate environment addressing corporate culture and values. I am a member of the North American Drama Therapy Association, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (Iowa Collaborative Divorce), National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and Iowa’s Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Association. I am trained in parent coordination, custody evaluation, and reunification therapy evaluation and services. In addition to this I have training in Drama Therapy, Levels 1 & 2 of Gottman for couples and families, Exposure and Response Prevention for PTSD, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). I am also an approved Mediator in Iowa and Minnesota.
I have been divorced, re-married, a step-parent, dealt with high conflict co-parenting in my personal life and recovered from estrangement in the family system. I have a very blended family and my own experiences in the family court system as both a child who experienced a very high conflict divorce and had to testify, as well as the co-parent in my own difficult post divorce dynamic.