Ann Bodensteiner, MN Psychologist LP3829

Faith-inclusive care
Practical guidance
Adoption and foster care

About Ann

Ann Bodensteiner is a Minnesota psychologist with nearly three decades of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and family concerns, depression, anxiety, stress, and life changes. She also helps with adoption and foster care related issues and parenting concerns. Ann offers a calm, respectful approach that can include faith when clients want that dimension.

Her background includes long service with district court and family services, where she spent many years working on divorce, custody, mediation, and conflict resolution. That work gave her a practical sense of how family systems and legal processes affect daily life. She later spent time in a private practice clinic seeing couples and individuals for a wide range of mental health needs.

Ann blends several therapeutic methods to match what a person needs in the room. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She draws on emotion-focused work to help people name and shift painful patterns in relationships. Acceptance and Commitment and mindfulness approaches are part of her toolbox when people want skills for staying present and acting on values.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Ann listens for what matters most and helps shape practical steps between meetings. When clients want faith included, she integrates their beliefs into the work; when they do not, she follows the client’s lead.

Clients can expect straightforward guidance, a focus on everyday change, and help organizing next steps for parenting, grief, addiction concerns, or career stress.

How her approaches shape online work

Ann uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to meaningful action, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns of thinking that keep problems stuck. CBT involves testing new ways of thinking and behaving between sessions, which often produces clear, measurable changes in daily routines and mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals and preferences. That means adjusting techniques over time and checking what is or isn't helpful together.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it simpler to fit meetings into a busy schedule, cut travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when life is hectic. It also makes it easier to continue work between in-person visits when needed, and therapists can adapt exercises and homework to an online setting.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsSelf esteem Depression Coping with life changes

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsTrauma and abuse GriefIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

Abandonment Adoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDivorce and separationEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issues Forgiveness Guilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingInfidelityIsolation / loneliness Life purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersPanic disorder and panic attacksSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Mindfulness TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

28+ years

Credentials

Minnesota

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she help with?

She works with relationship and family concerns, depression, anxiety, stress, grief, addictions, parenting challenges, and related issues such as abandonment and family of origin problems.

What is her therapeutic style like?

The approach is conversational and client-focused, combining practical steps with emotional work. She uses techniques to clarify values, shift patterns, and try new behaviors between sessions.

How many years of experience does she have?

She brings 28 years of experience working in court-related family services and private practice settings.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Minnesota Psychologist, MN Psychologist LP3829, and practices in Minnesota.

Does she provide services in other languages or to international clients?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.

Which session formats are offered?

The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.

How does pricing and payment work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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