Clinicians
With board-certified clinicians specializing in psychology and psychiatry services at our two metro area locations, we help improve lives by offering individual, couples, family, and group psychological support. We offer assessments to help understand problems and determine the appropriate intervention to create the best outcome. Visit our Services page to see how we can help you and your loved ones.
Ann Becher-Ingwalson, MA, LADC, LPCC
Ann Becher-Ingwalson is a licensed professional clinical counselor and a licensed alcohol and drug counselor, licensed by the Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy of Minnesota. She has over 20 years of experience working with youth, adolescents, and their families, in settings ranging from community clinics to secured hospital programs.
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Anne S. Hall, MA, PSY.D.
Anne S. Hall is a psychotherapist who has considerable experience working with trauma survivors, older adults, and oppositional adolescents in diverse populations, particularly Hmong immigrants. She is also interested in motivational change and experiential/cognitive-behavioral methods in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and trauma. She prese
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Bobbi Gerling, Psychology Resident
Bobbi Gerling is a licensed professional counselor working with Natalis Counseling & Psychology Solutions as a doctoral level psychology intern. She has over 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families in a variety of therapeutic settings. Bobbi's areas of specialty include: C
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Catherine Wright, MS, LPCC
Catherine Wright is a licensed professional clinical counselor who is working with Natalis as a Doctoral level psychological trainee. She has over 15 years of experience providing therapeutic services to children and families in community and clinic settings. She uses both developmental and attachment perspectives when working with children and fa
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Dr. Arlene Boutin, MD
Dr. Boutin is a psychiatrist at Natalis Counseling & Psychology Solutions with over three decades of psychiatric practice. She has provided both in-patient and out-patient psychiatric services during her career. She has practiced at the Golden Valley Health Center, Pyramid Mental Health Center and West Central Mental Health Center with hospital
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Dr. Pastor Colon, MD
Dr. Pastor Colon is a psychiatrist at Natalis Counseling & Psychology Solutions. He believes in using a multidisciplinary team to help patients and their families understand and use psychiatric care in the best way. Over the years, Dr. Colon has provided continuing medical education on the topic of psychiatric medications to physicians, clinic
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Greg Picker, PSY.D., LP
Greg Picker is a counselor who works with adults, adolescents, couples, and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. Greg’s areas of specialty include: Inpatient and outpatient psychological evaluation/assessment of children, adolescents, and adults focusing on mood, anxiety, personality, psychotic, and at
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Jeff Hansen, MA, LADC
Jeff Hansen has worked in behavioral health for the last 17 years, including work with adults experiencing serious and persistent mental illness and adolescents having mental health and/or substance abuse issues. He is currently the lead psychotherapist for the Dual Diagnosis inpatient assessment and treatment program at the University of Minnesota
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Jonathan C. Hoistad, PH.D., LP
A licensed psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. Hoistad is the senior member of Natalis Counseling & Psychology Solutions. His clinical practice includes consultation in mental behavioral health, family practice medicine, pre-surgery psychological evaluations, court consultation, school consultation, social service consu
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Jonathan E. Wagner, LMT
Jonathan E. Wagner is a neurofeedback technician and therapist at Natalis Counseling & Psychology Solutions, providing neurofeedback and biofeedback services. Jonathan’s background includes ten years of behavioral health experience within a hospital setting working with children, adolescents and adults, and 14 years of working as a Licensed M
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Karen G. Hoistad, MA, Certified Art Therapist
Karen Hoistad has an extensive background in expressive therapy and has 20 years experience teaching creative writing, piano, creative arts, pottery, yoga, and relaxation. She’s also spent almost 15 years in community education - including teaching adults who have some form of mental illness – spanning St. Paul public schools, the Kelly Institu
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Katie A. Kuhlmann, PSY.D., LP
Dr. Kuhlmann strives to build on the many existing strengths of her clients and to collaborate with individuals to bring about positive changes in behavior, mood, relationships and self-concept. She was trained in a bio-psycho-social model which proposes that psychological problems are often related to a combination of biological (e.g. genetic, phy
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Lisa M. Johnson, PSY.D., LP, LMFT
Lisa is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has more than seven years of experience doing in-home therapy. She has worked in a day treatment facility, a state hospital, and a chemical dependency unit. Additionally, as part of her family therapy specialty, Lisa spends time on-site at South High School, in Minneapolis, where she meets with a
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Maradeth H. Searle, PSY.D., LP, CEAP
Dr. Searle is a licensed psychologist and certified Employee Assistance Professional. She uses a collaborative, client-centered approach to therapy incorporating a variety of techniques based on client needs. These include Cognitive/Behavioral; Solution-Focused; and Interpersonal and Systems Therapy techniques. The techniques are employed to treat
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Megan Spencer, MA, Psy. D. Candidate, Psychology Resident
Megan Spencer, MA, Psy.D. Candidate, is a forensic psychologist with ethics training, knowledge of the legal system, and experience in the juvenile justice system. When family members get into trouble with the law or school, or when families cannot agree on custody arrangements, Spencer can be hired by parents or family members on behalf of a child
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Monique R. Lowe, PH.D., LP
Dr. Lowe has been working with children, adolescents and families for over 16 years. In addition to her clinical experience, Dr. Lowe has experience in graduate-level teaching and supervision. She also trains other clinicians in cross-cultural competency. Dr. Lowe's Areas of Specialty Dr. Lowe has a special interest in cros
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Nicole Ward, PSY.D., LP
Dr. Ward has experience working with children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults with a variety of mental health diagnoses. She works from a developmental perspective also taking into account biological (e.g. genetic, physiological), psychological (e.g. thoughts, behaviors) and social (e.g. societal, cultural, media) factors that impact a
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Paul Ellison, MEd, PSY.D.
Paul Ellison is a respected clinician that draws from a variety of experiences working with children, adults, athletes, offenders, victims, couples, and families. He has expertise in providing assessments and therapy for a multitude of situations that impact everyday life circumstances. His experiences have broadened to include working with indiv
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Robert Hoppe, MA, PSY.D.
Robert Hoppe earned his Bachelor’s in Psychology from Metropolitan State University and his Master’s and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University - Twin Cities. Robert has worked for in a variety of outpatient settings and enjoys working with diverse clients in individual, couple
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Stephen Ziff, MA, LP, LMFT
Stephen is a Licensed Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of experience in both clinic and hospital settings. He has extensive experience working with adolescents and their families, and most recently worked at the University of Minnesota Children's Hospital in the adolescent crisis inpatient psychiatric unit. Stephen pr
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Taryn Fetscher, Psychology Resident
Taryn Fetscher is working with Natalis Counseling & Psychology Solutions as a doctoral level psychology intern. She has 20 years of clinical experience working with children, adolescents, adults and older adults. She has worked in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and secure juvenile correctional facilities where her work involved psychological e
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Thomas T. Nguyen, Psychology Resident
Thomas Nguyen is a pre-doctoral psychology intern at Natalis Counseling & Psychology Solutions. He has over eight years of experience in the mental health field, including serving in-home therapy, individual and group therapy, targeted case management, partial hospitalization, and college counseling. In addition, Thomas is specializing as a uni
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Xulivong Moua, MA, LPCC
Xulivong is a psychotherapist with ten years of experience working with immigrants and youth. Xulivong's areas of specialty include: Psychotherapy dealing with major depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, adjustment disorder, learning disorder and conduct disorder Attention deficit disorder (ADD) Attention deficit hype
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