Talia Jackson, Psy.D., Licensed Psychologist

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HOW CAN THERAPY IMPROVE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH & RELATIONSHIPS?Neuroscience backed cognitive behavioral interventions offer the life changing pause between thought, feeling and behavior that will improve your ability to respond to life's stressors and relationship triggers with a calm nervous system and the emotional intelligence you yearn for. Longer-term Psychodynamic, insight-oriented therapy offers you the large scale context and illuminates the unconscious motivations for your painful interpersonal struggles. The triggers as well as your reactions likely stem from both met and unmet needs from your family of origin. Once understood, these patterns can change so you can show up in your relationships in a more intentional way. We also incorporate the most brilliant and therapeutic elements of Mindfulness, Couples' Techniques from John & Julie Gottman and Terry Real, and the Enneagram. Get ready for the professional guidance you deserve to roll out the emotional red carpet one step ahead of where you would like grow. It's never too late to do your own work. Future you, as well as everyone else in your life will thank you.

About Me

After receiving my MA in 2002, and then later my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2005 from the American Schools of Professional Psychology in the San Francisco Bay Area, I pursued my post-doctoral training and expertise in a variety of clinical settings.I worked in Community Mental Health in San Francisco, the AIDS Health Project at UCSF, as well as University Counseling Centers such as Stanford University and University of San Francisco.After getting married and moving back home to Minnesota, I completed my post-doctoral work at Augsburg University Counseling Center, the Hamm Clinic, and met my future best friend and pod-spouse, Doug Jensen, LICSW, BCD when he hired me into his Group Private Practice, the River City Clinic in St Paul.In 2006, I was licensed and started in my own Private Practice. Almost 20 years later, I have a bustling private practice, am 2 years into podcasting with Doug Jensen, and am so excited about this new chapter in my career; training, guiding and supervising top of the line pre-licensed mental health interns.If you are lucky enough to see Beth Fraley or Mary Zarling as a therapist, you will be receiving the highest level of care.My hands on training approach includes intensive clinical education and supervision.Your customized therapy experience will be guided by:* A PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH:
This developmental perspective emphasizes the importance of your family of origin, as early childhood relationships tend to give you a blueprint of how life and relationships work. We also develop our way of being in the world based on what has been expected of us, what we have determined we can expect from others, how we’re supposed to regulate ourselves, and what feels acceptable and necessary to us in relationships and what is not. This blueprint is something that you will carry with you for the rest of your life.This deep understanding of human nature also encompasses what motivates us, what success and failure looks like to us, our attachment styles, common obstacles in the way of our healing as well as how to improve relationship dynamics & communication skills.* COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL PRINCIPLES:
Thought & Behavior change will help your journey observing and leaving behind thought patterns and world views that no longer serve you, and move into more compassionate introspection which is the birth place of the change you are longing for in your life but can't quite name.*MINDFULNESS TECHNIQUES:
Mindfulness is an approach that helps ground you in the moment and allow acceptance of reality while quieting your busy mind and calming your nervous system, decreasing anxiety, depression, stress and even insomnia.*SUPPLEMENTAL EXPRESSIVE ART THERAPY
Beth Fraley has additional graduate trining in Expressive Art Therapy from the Adler Graduate School to supplement your work together if creative expression might be helpful in your personal work.

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UPCOMING EVENTS, GROUPS & WORKSHOPS

OUR JANUARY-APRIL, 2025 SECOND SEASON SESSIONS GROUP WAS AN INCREDIBLE SUCCESS!PLEASE REACH OUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO OUR NEXT GROUP!IS THIS GROUP FOR ME?
Are you are woman of a certain age on your perimenopause/menopause journey? Interested in a weekly zoom with other women in the same season of life? Each week we offer education and support for all of the facets of this stage that might be impacting you; sleep issues, irritability, anxiety, depression, trouble balancing all of the impossible tasks, sexual health, relationships, nutrition, lifestyle, self-care and more.

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RECENT EVENTS, GROUPS & WORKSHOPS.
AND YES, WE WOULD LOVE TO PRESENT AND FACILITATE AMAZING CONVERSATIONS FOR YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS, CO-WORKERS AND PRACTICE-MATES!

Join us at @yogagardenmpls Tuesday, February 25th // 6:30-8:00PM //Let me introduce you to the ENNEAGRAM!
The Enneagram is a framework of understanding personality structures rooted in both nature and nurture. It is a gateway to self-awareness and an understanding of others that opens up a path for us to experience a more integrated and rewarding life.
Knowing our Enneagram Type helps us uncover our unique drivers, motivators, fears and unmet childhood messages, which brings into sharp, clear focus nine different ways of looking at the world.It allows us to see how each worldview impacts the way we bring our unique thoughts, feelings, an behaviors to any situation. Even beyond behavior, the Enneagram delves into the often-secret, unconscious, or underlying motivations that give us a look at 'why' people do what they do.The Enneagram emphasizes that we are all different and have different motivators. And to discover what motivates us, it is crucial to find the right balance between extrinsic and intrinsic motivators so we can motivate and energize ourselves (and others) successfully.These one-word descriptors can be expanded into four-word sets of traits. Keep in mind that these are merely highlights and do not represent the full spectrum of each type.Type #1 is principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic.
Type #2 is generous, demonstrative, people-pleasing, and possessive.
Type #3 is adaptable, excelling, driven, and image-conscious.
Type #4 is expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, and temperamental.
Type #5 is perceptive, innovative, secretive, and isolated.
Type #6 is engaging, responsible, anxious, and suspicious.
Type #7 is spontaneous, versatile, acquisitive, and scattered.
Type #8 is self-confident, decisive, willful, and confrontational.
Type #9 is receptive, reassuring, complacent, and resignedJoin Dr. Talia Jackson, Licensed Psychologist and Clinical Mental Health Interns Beth Fraley, LADC and Mary Zarling, to learn how your enneagram type unveils your unique, intrinsic motivators to help stay on track!

Our Second Season Workshop a few weeks back went so well, we decided to create a 12-week zoom group to address of all of the factors impacting us in perimenopause and menopause. The impact of hormonal changes on our moods, our coping, our bodies, our relationships, our cognition, our motivation & our sleep can be incredibly challenging, even debilitating if we are not prepared with information, resources & support. Second season sisters, e-mail me if this group is for you.DETAILS BELOW:
*Our 12-week group has room for 12 amazing women, reach out if you would like to be in our next group!*The sessions will be therapist led and peer supported.*Each 55 minute session will begin with education on the most relevant perimenopause & menopause issues affecting us, offering the latest research & lifestyle suggestions for an improved menopause journey.*We will then transition to sharing experiences & supporting each other.*We end each group session with a "Wellness-to-Go" Tip, Exercise, Lifestyle Recommendation to implement into your life for an improved (peri)menopause journey.*2 supplemental “Ask your Hormone Specialist” sessions featuring Dr Jenikka Tomashek, DNP two Tuesdays @ noon* $30 co-pay/session. FSA/HSA eligible. We file your insurance claims for you.*Those that register for the “Ask Your Hormone Specialist” sessions will also have access to those meeting transcripts.We are so passionate about educating and supporting women during this pivotal time in our lives, and we would be honored to be on this journey with all of you. We are so happy you are here!

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