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Lee Thao
Counselor/Therapist | Mental Health
Lee Thao is a Therapist in SAINT PAUL, MN. Lee focuses on working with individuals experiencing difficulties with anxiety, excessive worry, overthinking, sadness, irritability, and frustration due to trauma. She is committed to helping individuals heal and learn to build healthier relationships with themselves and others. Her work focuses on trauma, targeting ineffective behaviors, habits, and relationships. She believes in collaborating to help my clients reach their goals.
She is passionate about helping marginalized communities, BIPOC, immigrants, and refugees build resources to help them become self-sufficient. As someone who has overcome adversity, she understands the depth and impact trauma can have in multiple areas of our lives. This may manifest as anxiety, depression, melancholy, substance use, unstable relationships, self-doubt, or irritability. Contrary to what it feels like at times - she believes we have choices, and we CAN make changes. We can lessen fears and symptoms by building up our tools to better engage with others and understand ourselves in a much more authentic and meaningful way. I am here and honored to be a part of that journey.
If you’re interested in scheduling a consultation with Lee, please send an appointment request.
She is passionate about helping marginalized communities, BIPOC, immigrants, and refugees build resources to help them become self-sufficient. As someone who has overcome adversity, she understands the depth and impact trauma can have in multiple areas of our lives. This may manifest as anxiety, depression, melancholy, substance use, unstable relationships, self-doubt, or irritability. Contrary to what it feels like at times - she believes we have choices, and we CAN make changes. We can lessen fears and symptoms by building up our tools to better engage with others and understand ourselves in a much more authentic and meaningful way. I am here and honored to be a part of that journey.
If you’re interested in scheduling a consultation with Lee, please send an appointment request.
6 years
Experience
Lee Thao
- SAINT PAUL, Minnesota
- SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MIN
- Accepting new patients
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Structural family therapy theorises that the family structure is responsible for its problems, and the family system must work together to change. In structural family therapy, the therapist directs the family toward change within the session.
Bowenian, also known as intergenerational family therapy, the goal of treatment is to help the individual differential from the family and recognise the dynamics in the family system that contributes to the individual's thoughts and feelings about themselves and help them to become their person separate from the family but also cultivating relationships. This often includes using genograms to identify patterns within family systems.
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Systemic family therapy helps families evaluate their behaviours and how issues develop and is maintained in the family system. Systemic family therapy believes that changing one person’s actions can alter the entire family system because everyone is interconnected. The primary systemic family therapy technique is circular questioning. Circular questions help family members consider others' thoughts and feelings and start to see the connections between family members.
These family systems therapy techniques include psychoeducation, which aims to improve communication, teach alternative healthy coping skills, and offer collaboration among family members.
Structural family therapy theorises that the family structure is responsible for its problems, and the family system must work together to change. In structural family therapy, the therapist directs the family toward change within the session.
Bowenian, also known as intergenerational family therapy, the goal of treatment is to help the individual differential from the family and recognise the dynamics in the family system that contributes to the individual's thoughts and feelings about themselves and help them to become their person separate from the family but also cultivating relationships. This often includes using genograms to identify patterns within family systems.
Strategic family therapy believes that the family maintains problems through repeated responses to family interactions. Strategic family therapy helps families to change behaviour patterns by creating new answers to behavioural issues). Most of the work in Strategic family therapy is done outside the therapy session.
Systemic family therapy helps families evaluate their behaviours and how issues develop and is maintained in the family system. Systemic family therapy believes that changing one person’s actions can alter the entire family system because everyone is interconnected. The primary systemic family therapy technique is circular questioning. Circular questions help family members consider others' thoughts and feelings and start to see the connections between family members.
These family systems therapy techniques include psychoeducation, which aims to improve communication, teach alternative healthy coping skills, and offer collaboration among family members.
