Helping you cultivate resilience,
and hold space for the change you long for.
Tend offers depth-oriented, trauma-informed therapy to support wholehearted living.
Serving adult individuals in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and greater Minnesota.
Therapy offers us an invitation into deeper connection with ourselves and our loved ones.
A space to ask hard questions, and embody new possibilities.
To notice what we long for, and get curious about what’s in the way.
To imagine new ways of showing up in our relationships.
To untangle how we came to be.
To befriend all parts of ourselves.
Tend Psychotherapy offers you a space to meet yourself and your challenges with curiosity, tenderness, and even humor.
This is the work of getting free inside ourselves—a bridge to wholehearted living.
Meet Laura Holway, MA, LPCC
I believe that deep, lasting change happens when we get to the root of what’s in the way—the unconscious patterns and adaptations that hold us back from what we long for.
My approach blends psychodynamic psychotherapy with the NeuroAffective Relational Model®* (NARM®—a framework for addressing complex and developmental trauma) to help you gently untangle the deeper patterns that fuel your symptoms and behavior.
From there, you can relate to these patterns in new ways, and make more conscious choices about how you show up in your life.
Are you ready to develop a more tender, curious, and responsive relationship with yourself? Would you like to bring more of your heart into your life?
We might be a good fit for working together if:
You feel disconnected from your wants, needs, and emotional life
You struggle to show up authentically in your relationships
You find it hard to stay present without ruminating or intellectualizing
You’re overwhelmed by guilt, shame, and self-doubt
You’re going through a transitional season, and navigating emotional overwhelm and uncertainty
You desire to develop a deeper, more trusting relationship with yourself
You identify as the adult child of emotionally immature parents, or the adult child of an alcoholic.
Areas of Specialty:
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Complex and developmental trauma
Adverse developmental experiences shape our relationship to ourselves and one another, and can fuel emotional dysregulation, poor self-concept, and relationship challenges.
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Parenting and family systems difficulties
Parenting highlights our own childhood experiences and the ways they’ve shaped us. Together we explore trauma-informed approaches to navigating difficult behavior, co-parenting, and family conflict.
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Seasons of grief, change, and transformation
Together we navigate the discomfort, disorientation, and growth that’s an integral part of transitions such as emerging adulthood, mid-life, divorce & separation, career change, and loss.
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Relationship challenges
Healthy relationships allow us to give and receive, show up as our authentic selves, and state our needs and boundaries. Together we explore the relationship patterns no longer serving you, and untangle how they came to be.
LOCATION
Tend Psychotherapy is located in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul, at 670 Cleveland Ave. South.
Please note that my office is located on the 2nd floor and only accessible using stairs.
Hours:
Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays 9am-4pm
Fridays 9am-12pm
