Therapie | 210 25th Ave N suite 601, Nashville, TN 37203(615) 551 9195 | 1330 Lagoon Ave 4th Floor Ste 459, Minneapolis, MN 55408(612) 287-5100

Therapy For Women in Minneapolis

Exhausted From Managing Everyone Else's Sh*t in the Twin Cities?

Let’s be real—hauling emotional baggage through life is way less fun than hauling your weekend bag to a cabin up north. Yet here we are, schlepping around years of accumulated stress, outdated coping mechanisms, and other people’s expectations like we’re training for some twisted marathon through the Minneapolis skyways.

If you’re anything like the accomplished women at Therapie, you’ve got your sh*t together—at least on paper. Unlike certain relatives (yes, Susan who posts conspiracy theories on Facebook) or that colleague who microwaves tuna melts in the break room, you actually possess self-awareness. You speak fluent therapy—”boundaries,” “emotional bandwidth,” and everyone’s favorite party trick, “unresolved trauma.”

Yet somehow you’re still drowning. That knot in your chest follows you everywhere, making actual relaxation feel like a foreign concept. You finally carve out an hour for yourself but waste it catastrophizing about tomorrow’s meetings or hate-watching Instagram stories. Meanwhile, your body’s throwing its own tantrum—hello, tension headaches, mysterious fatigue, and digestive drama that no amount of overpriced probiotics can fix.

The real kicker? Asking for help somehow becomes another item on your already ridiculous to-do list. Your partner needs a PowerPoint presentation to understand why you’re overwhelmed. Your friends require emotional hand-holding while you explain your needs. Once again, you’re the project manager of your own support system—because apparently, even getting help requires you to do most of the heavy lifting.

Our therapists get this cosmic joke intimately. We see through the “I’m fine” facade that Minneapolis women have perfected, and we’re here to help you finally put down those bags—without judgment, guilt trips, or toxic positivity.

Ready to stop carrying everyone else's emotional baggage? Let's talk.

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Why Being a Woman in Minneapolis Feels Extra Heavy Right Now

The workplace remains a special kind of minefield. Whether you’re grinding it out downtown or hustling in a startup, we’re earning 82 cents on the dollar while being told we’re “lucky” to have a seat at the table—a table we probably organized, scheduled, and took notes for. Add our special brand of Minnesota winter darkness, and suddenly that morning run feels less “self-care” and more “self-preservation.”

Then there’s the digital circus. LinkedIn serves professional inadequacy for breakfast while Instagram force-feeds you everyone else’s highlight reel—perfect loft tours and “authentic moments” that took 47 takes. Your college roommate just got promoted to VP. Your neighbor’s starting her third business. Meanwhile, you’re eating cauliflower gnocchi straight from the bag at 2 AM, wondering when you became this person.

Everyone’s crushing it except you—or so your anxiety-brain insists during those 3 AM spiral sessions. But underneath all that exhaustion and imposter syndrome? You didn’t get this far by accident. Our job at Therapie in Uptown is helping you reconnect with that part of yourself—the one who actually knows what she’s doing—minus the constant overwhelm.

How We Actually Help (Without the Bullsh*t)

We specialize in helping successful women untangle the mess without making it worse. No gratitude journals. No “just think positive” garbage. Just real strategies for real problems.

Here’s How This Actually Works:

01 What Is Currently Happening And Why: Not the sanitized version you tell at book club. Why do certain patterns keep showing up like that ex who won’t stop texting? How did “Minnesota Nice” become your emotional straitjacket? We dig into the real story.

02 Where Do You Want To Go: Forget what your mom thinks success looks like. What do YOU actually want? Most of our clients have never genuinely asked themselves this question without immediately dismissing their answer as selfish or unrealistic.

03 What To Do About It:No theoretical frameworks that sound smart but don’t work. We give you legitimate tools for the actual problems in your actual life. Workplace drama? Check. Partner who can’t find the dishwasher? Check. Mother who communicates exclusively through guilt? Double check.

We use approaches that actually work—EMDR for that old sh*t that keeps hijacking your present, Brainspotting for the stuff buried so deep even you forgot it was there, ACT for building the flexibility to handle whatever fresh hell tomorrow brings. Plus access to The Akademie, our resource hub for when you need support at 11 PM but can’t text your therapist.

What actually happens when you work with us:

  • You stop lying awake rehearsing conversations
  • You set boundaries without writing a dissertation to justify them
  • You enjoy good things without waiting for them to implode
  • You feel feelings without drowning in them
  • You believe compliments without immediately listing reasons they’re wrong

The Answers Every Minneapolis Woman Wants to Know

"I've done therapy before. It sucked. Why would this be different?"

Bad therapy is worse than bad coffee—at least coffee is over quickly. We've all been there: the therapist who just nods and asks, "How does that make you feel?" while you internally scream and calculate how much this silence is costing per minute.

Here's the difference: We don't do emotional tourism. We're not interested in endlessly exploring your childhood unless it's actually relevant to why you can't stop saying yes to sh*t you don't want to do. We track actual progress, call you on your BS (lovingly), and change course when something's not working.

"Won't this make everything worse?"

Look, you've mastered high-functioning compartmentalization. You've kept it together through every crisis life's thrown at you—including that winter when your car got stuck on every snow emergency route. The idea of unpacking all that? Terrifying.

Yeah, it might feel intense initially—like cleaning out that closet you've been avoiding since 2019. But we don't rip off band-aids for sport. We go at your pace, make sure you have actual coping tools (not just "breathe through it"), and you can always pump the brakes. Most women feel relief immediately, just knowing they finally have somewhere to be completely, messily honest without someone trying to silver-lining their pain.

"When exactly would I squeeze this in?"

Your calendar looks like Tetris and you're already failing at "self-care." Between the commute on 35W, work, and everything else, we get it.

But that hour of therapy saves you countless hours of anxiety spiraling, relationship arguments, and 3 AM doom scrolling. We offer early morning and evening slots because we know you're not free at 2 PM on a Tuesday. Our Lagoon Avenue location is actually accessible (with real parking—a Minneapolis miracle). Think of it as preventive maintenance—way cheaper than the eventual breakdown.

Ready to Put Down the Damn Bags Already?

You don’t have to keep white-knuckling through life, pretending everything’s fine while secretly screaming into Lake Bde Maka Ska. Whether you’re burned out, stuck in patterns that need to die, or just disconnected from yourself, we’re here to help you find your way back to actually liking your life.

Start with our free 15-minute consultation. We’ll cut through the BS, answer your real questions, and figure out if we’re the right fit. No pressure, no judgment, just straight talk about getting you unstuck.

1330 Lagoon Ave 4th Floor Ste 459,
Minneapolis, MN 55408