Providing compassionate, trauma-informed individual therapy

I meet clients where they are with compassion and understanding. I have been providing counseling services for 15+ years.
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About

Compassionate and Inclusive Counseling Services

Providing individual counseling services for people ages 10+. Inclusive, trauma-informed care. "Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human." -Henri J.M. Nouwen "Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity." -Pema Chodron
Michelle Novak, MS, LPC-MH
Clinical Therapist

Services

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Trauma
  • Women's Issues
  • Work Stress
  • Transgender Issues
  • PTSD
  • Mood Disorders
  • Life Transitions
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Gender Identity

Approaches

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
  • Dialectical (DBT)
  • Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
  • Interpersonal
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Person-Centered
  • Psychotherapy

Insurance Accepted

  • Medicaid
  • Sanford
  • Avera
  • BlueCross and BlueShield

Location

Compassionate Connections Counseling Services LLC

3508 S Minnesota Ave Suite 100
Sioux Falls, SD 57105-6461

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