Annika Larson

Annika provides a place of welcome, free from judgment, so clients are safe to explore deep feelings and desires for change and healing. She helps clients clarify their values and remember/discover what they want for their one beautiful life. Annika supports clients as they build their sense of self and move toward healing and wholeness.

Annika has a very relational approach with her clients and believes healing and growth occurs within the authentic relationship between client and therapist. She understands that each individual lives within unique systems that influence their quality of life including their family and friends, school, workplace, community, and broader experience in the world. Her work with clients is trauma-informed, anti-racist, and intersectional.

Annika's background includes working as a school social worker in special education with students experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and neuro-developmental challenges. She supported students’ psycho-social-emotional needs so they could best function in the school setting. She also worked closely with educators who experienced trauma in the workplace.

Prior to working in educational settings, Annika supported the mental health needs of patients and their families as a clinical social worker in Palliative Care in the hospital setting. She tended to the complex emotions surrounding grief and loss as well as adjustments to a medical diagnosis and disease progression. Earlier in her career Annika enjoyed providing therapy to young adults in a community mental health clinic and served as an advocate in a shelter for youth experiencing homelessness.

Annika graduated from the University of St. Thomas/University of St. Catherine with a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work in 2004 and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker by the Minnesota Board of Social Work, license number 16881.