Lyndall Johnson, M.A., L.P. Lyndall Johnson is the president and founder of the Aslan Institute where she practices as a Licensed Psychologist. She is a writer, speaker and facilitator with degrees in psychology and sociology from the University of South Africa and a Masters degree in Psychology from the University of Pepperdine in California. She has worked with ethnically and culturally diverse communities in creating dialogue, reconciliation and cooperation. Lyndall has extensive experience with couples and individuals challenged by health crisis. She is committed to teaching and facilitating communication skills that build bridges, strengthen and deepen relationships. Lyndall has extensive experience teaching and facilitating spirituality and the development of consciousness throughout the world.
Thomas Johnson, vice president of Aslan is an ordained Lutheran minister with a Master’s degree in counseling psychology and is currently completing his doctoral research. He has taught extensively in such areas as communication skills, stepfamily dynamics, personality type, conflict resolution, mind control, anger management, single adult issues and child development. His initial interest in personal and spiritual growth was sparked by a serendipitous introduction to gestalt therapy over 25 years ago and he has actively pursued growth in consciousness and personal wholeness ever since. He is committed to the belief that all human beings are created in the image of god and are designed to be creative, loving, whole and complete, and that growth towards wholeness results in improved health, deeper, more meaningful relationships, and acts of compassion and service to the earth and to all that lives and grows on it.
Eloise offers psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults. She is trained in psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral and family systems therapies and provides individual, family and couples therapy. Promoting self-awareness, compassion and self-empowerment is central to her approach. Areas of specialty include: anxiety, depression, adjustment disorder, eating disorders and trauma. Eloise’s previous experience includes working as a psychotherapist in outpatient and adolescent day treatment settings and as a consultant on a UNICEF project in Malaysia developing a manual to train mental health professionals to work with children and families experiencing trauma after natural disasters. She has taught courses on the Social Psychology of Gender and on Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination at Eugene Lange College in New York. Born in South Africa and having lived in Europe, Africa and Asia she is sensitive to culture, race and gender issues. Eloise has a Ph.D. in Psychology from New School University in New York and an M.A. in Culture & Spirituality from the Sophia Center in CA. Please contact Eloise at eloisee@aslaninst.com or at 651.686.8818 ext. 401 to schedule an appointment or for more information.
Yvette is a former international school teacher who currently works at Aslan Institute as a trainer, coach and consultant. She is currently completing her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. Having lived in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia, she has a deep appreciation of cultural differences and cross-cultural issues. Her focus lies primarily in helping people and institutions to bridge differences and heal relationships within themselves and others. She is certified in facilitating mind-body skills groups and brings extensive training in nonviolent communication (NVC) to her work. She offers a sliding fee scale. Email Yvette or call 612.208.7216. See also: Couples Communication and Compassionate Communication .
Claudine Arndt
Health Coaching
I am a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York, a cutting-edge leader in holistic nutrition education since 1992. IIN is in partnership with the State University of New York Purchase College and is licensed by the New York Education Department. At the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, I studied under the world’s foremost natural health and nutrition experts like Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil, Dr. John Doulliard, Dr. Walter Willett, Dr. Mark Hyman, and Dr. Barry Sears. I love working with motivated individuals who are ready to take charge of their own health. Nothing tickles me more than witnessing my clients thrive and overcome health challenges that have often plauged them for years or decades. I hold firm to the belief that health care can be fun. Trust me, taking care of yourself feels good. Whole foods are enjoyable. Vitality is your birthright. Visit my website
Nancy has spent over twenty five years working for various church institutions in everything from youth ministry and curriculum development to pastoral care and spiritual direction. For over a decade she has worked in support of Jewish-Christian couples and families, meeting with engaged interfaith couples, starting a local support group and publishing numerous articles in “Dovetail: A Journal by and for Jewish/Christian Families” and speaking at national Dovetail conferences. An ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, she is gifted in creating meaningful rituals, such as baby naming, coming-of-age, house blessings, weddings, death and dying, and other life transitions. At Aslan, Nancy offers spiritual direction and/or therapy for individuals, couples and families who value the integration of psychology and spirituality as they work toward healing and growth in consciousness. She specializes in providing services to other therapists, clergy, spiritual directors and their partners. Please contact Nancy at ncohen@aslaninst.com or at extension 307.
Anne Endrizzi
Occupational Therapist
Anne Endrizzi has a varied background, providing healthcare services since 1983. Anne holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy, and later completed training in Occupational Therapy at the College of St Catherine. She trained in massage at Northern Lights School of Massage Therapy in 2000. Anne has provided CranioSacral Therapy to her clients since 1994, having studied at the Upledger Institute through Advanced Level II. She has recently been training in reflex integration using the Masgutova Method.
“Therapeutic Solutions at Aslan” provides services to infants, children, teens, adults and the elderly. Anne provides individualized therapy those who are experiencing chronic pain, migraine headaches, physical and emotional trauma, anxiety, depression, autistic spectrum disorder, attention deficit disorder, ADHD, sensory integrative dysfunction, developmental disabilities, and others.
Anne offers a unique opportunity for clients to receive co-treatment and/or collaboration with another Aslan therapist to create a synergy of healing. It is rare for physical pain to be completely separate from emotional pain; often they are interrelated. Combining body therapies with counseling will allow clients to move past physical and/or emotional obstacles that would normally take a longer time to heal. For further information and to schedule a therapy session with Anne, call her directly at (612) 599-2095 or email her at anne@therasolutions.net. See her website at www.therasolutions.net
Jessica Groff
Mediation and Therapy
I work with adolescents, youth, and adults through the belief that every individual has a wonderful amount of power in the world, and with that power, can create balance and happiness for themselves and others. It is my honor to assist you in finding and using that power in worthwhile and complete ways. I offer mediation services under rule 114 of the MN Supreme Court as a certified Neutral for couples who are transitioning to different life circumstances, Art therapy for individuals and groups, Reiki, and Intuitive therapy with energy work. Meet with me for a complimentary consultation to see if I am a good fit for you. www.PeacefulPracticeMN.com(651) 686-8818 x312 Peaceful wishes!
Robyn Johnson, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist
Contact information not available.
Rev. Martin Lahn
Martin Lahn is a Certified Spiritual Director and an ordained Soto Zen Buddhist priest. He is a teacher and member at the Episcopal House of Prayer in the City contemplative Christian community in Minneapolis. He is grounded in contemplative spirituality, interfaith experience, addiction recovery and shadow integration. He is experienced in retreat facilitation and public speaking on a variety of spiritual subjects, and his special interests include Zen ritual and ceremony, poetry, interfaith dialogue.
At Aslan, Martin hopes to connect with and mentor those who wish to deepen an intentional and contemplative spiritual life, as well as teach meditation, mindfulness, and the basics of Zen Buddhist philosophy. He also performs standard and customized ceremonies, rituals and blessing that can facilitate healing for individuals and groups. He lives in Eden Prairie with his wonderful wife Karen and their two cats, Lisa and Hobbes. Please email for further information.
Rochelle Murphy
Mental Health Practitioner
Rochelle is the creator of Awakening Love at Aslan, a center committed to facilitating the growth and healing of individuals, families, and communities through therapy, workshops, and other complementary and alternative approaches. She works with others in order to promote growth, healing, and change in their lives. Rochelle helps others bring awareness to negative patterns in thoughts, feelings, and actions created out of fear, pain, and shame we experience in life. She works with others to claim their power to become conscious of and transcend negative patterns and learn to co-create new, sustaining patterns in their lives.
Rochelle is trained in marriage and family therapy and Reiki and offers meetings at a sliding scale rate of $30-$100. To contact Rochelle to schedule an appointment, make a referral, or for additional information please contact her by email at rochelle@aslaninst.com or call 414.640.0522 or 651.686.8818. Also, please visit her website.
Bonnie Resnick, Psy.D.
Licensed Psychologist
I am a licensed psychologist with a doctorate in clinical psychology. I feel honored to be a part of another person’s therapeutic process of healing and growth. I know that it can be difficult to examine one’s life and face symptoms that may include: anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness. The benefit of facing symptoms is an opening to a healthier and happier life. Together, we will set goals, address symptoms and expand your capacity for joy. I will listen carefully to you and support and guide your process with warmth, compassion and direction. My areas of specialty include: anxiety, depression, spiritual issues, Gay and Lesbian issues, parenting issues, and Asperger’s. I will also be starting an ongoing wellness support group with a here and now focus. If interested in individual therapy or the wellness group, please contact me or call 651-686-8818, ext. 403.
Roxanna L. Rutter, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist, Voice Movement Therapy Practitioner, Meditation Teacher
Roxanna offers individual consultation and psychotherapy for adults and children, groups for midlife and post-midlife women, and workshops, including training. She works interactively with clients, listening deeply to underlying dreams and desires; hidden potentials and longings. As ready, you are encouraged to explore beyond traditional talk therapy ~ breath, voice work, and simple movements to tap into your confidence and body’s wisdom. Areas of expertise: Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), shyness and inhibition, multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) and related contemporary health issues, women’s issues, life transitions and passages, grief, and loss. She has a special love for working with those from other lands and cultures than America.
Roxanna offers a creative blend of western psychotherapy, expressive arts, and contemplative practices, including Heart Rhythm Meditation, Authentic Movement and voice work. For nine years she worked as a psychologist and meditation instructor at The Marsh Balance and Fitness Center, Minnetonka, MN. Roxanna’s early training included C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, seven year study of Authentic Movement and mysticism with Janet Adler, ADTR, and four years with Carolyn Campfield, Ph.D. in Voice Movement Therapy. In 2007 Roxanna founded Vessel of Voices and continues to offer women’s retreats and ‘Sounding the Heart’ meditation. Contact Roxanna at 651.686.8818 ext 308 or email her by clicking here.
Roxanna has recently returned to Minnesota from spiritual studies and work in the southwest and west coast. “The integrative model at Aslan Institute delights me: collaborative ways of working together toward healing and wellness are a beautiful reflection of the power of the life force in nature. To evolve as a species we must collaborate. it fills me with joy to participate at Aslan Institute.”
Gary Beaver
Licensed Psychologist
Gary is a Licensed Psychologist who has been in practice since 1990. He specializes in the treatment of trauma, grief and loss, death and dying and existential concerns. Gary has completed Induced After-Death Communication (IADC) training with Allan L. Botkin, Psy.D., who developed the technique. Gary also has extensive training and experience in the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for treating trauma. In addition, he uses Thought Field Therapy (TFT) to treat stress, anxiety, trauma and numerous other conditions. Gary has a decades-long passion for the study of the world’s various mystical traditions. He has a masters degree from St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota and a bachelors degree in sociology from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Gary accepts most commercial insurance plans. Please contact him at garyb@aslaninst.com or at 651.686.8818, ext. 404 to schedule an appointment or for more information.
Tina Goess, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.
Mental Health Therapist
Tina offers psychotherapy to youth and adults with a compassionate, strengths based approach. She provides individual, family and couples therapy with specialty areas that include: depression, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, relationship concerns (intimate and/or familial), divorce, abuse, parenting difficulties, stepfamily dynamics, and addiction. Tina is passionate about supporting people during difficult times in their lives and is honored to walk alongside clients in their journey of self-discovery. She has 15 years of experience working both in schools (elementary-high school) and hospitals providing counseling, facilitating support groups, teaching, and writing. She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Minnesota and is licensed at the highest level in the field of Social Work. To obtain more information or to schedule an appointment with Tina, call 651.686-8818, ext. 402 or email her at tinag@aslaninst.com.
Dr. Reenah McGill, PhD
Dr. McGill had a clinic in Los Angeles for 15 years where she practiced Esoteric Acupuncture, which can be used alone, or in combination with conventional acupuncture to treat a variety of physical, mental and emotional problems. For patients who have suffered from a long-term illness and suspect that there may be an under-lying psychological, emotional, or spiritual component involved Esoteric Acupuncture can be the means of helping to uncover and correct the root cause, restoring patients to better health.
She is also a nutritional advisor using both eastern botanicals and herbs and western supplements. Her book on weight-loss using Oriental medicine, and nutritional supplements; Eat Right Lose Weight – Introducing the 5 Element Nutrition & Hypnosis System was published in January 2012.
Dr. McGill’s mission is to bring healing in the form of ancient techniques, which are supported and proven by current science, and to bring to each person she treats a way to find nutrition for the body and mind, and new found energy for the soul.
To make an appointment or ask a question call: 818-378-9882 or email at Dr.Reenah@hotmail.com.
Christine M. Larson, M.A.
Mental Health Therapist
Christine offers positive psychotherapy for individual adults. Her integrative approach incorporates mindfulness-based cognitive therapies, supportive techniques, a holistic understanding of the human being, and the belief in people’s innate capacities for health, joy, and connection. She helps people toward self-acceptance, deeper awareness, and a new relationship with their inner experiences, opening the way for greater peace, effectiveness, transformation, and happiness. She is especially interested in helping those persons experiencing anxiety, stress, depression, difficult emotions, life transitions, and those wishing to integrate spirituality into their search for well-being and a full life.
Christine has an M.A. in Counseling and Psychology Services from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, training in the Three Principles approach to mental health, and study and experience with meditation, Buddhist thought, Christian theology, and earth-based spiritual practices.
Tracy offers psychotherapy and educational support to individuals, families, and couples utilizing a variety of experiential models, including equine assisted psychotherapy, play therapy, and art therapy as well as psychoeduational workshops and training for education professionals. As a licensed high school English teacher and a Mental Health Practitioner trained in marriage and family therapy, she offers a variety of modalities to meet the diverse emotional and education needs of individuals. Her specialty areas include adoption, attachment, adolescent identity formation in bicultural families, anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem, grief and loss, and blended family relationship dynamics. She has over 15 years experience working with adolescents as an English teacher in an urban high school as well as providing psychotherapy in a school-based clinic. She continues her work with Red Thread Tours and Services (www.redthreadtour.org) as a family therapist and travels with families to their adoptive child’s country of origin providing mental heath services throughout the orphanage visit, finding place, and touring process. She also partners with Acres for Life providing therapeutic and educational opportunities utilizing the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association model.
Hello there! I strongly believe that effective therapy involves a flexible partnership and wide-ranging, honest dialogue which gradually discovers what works BEST for YOU in making progress toward the life goals and values which you seek to live out.
It’s for these reasons that I’ve named my therapy business: Curious Journey Forward Psychology Services. Key features of my style as a therapist are being collaborative, informal, empathetic, challenging, encouraging, educational, and celebratory.
I joined the Aslan team in fall 2012 as a psychotherapy intern doing therapy with both individuals and couples clients under the supervision of my colleague Nancy Nutting Cohen. One of our unusual specialty areas is doing co-therapy which coordinates COUPLES therapy with related INDIVIDUAL therapy for each partner to maximize the intertwined success of both types of growth work.
I love working as a therapist with adults in these areas of my special expertise:
+ mid-age and young adult life stage transitions
+ ambiguous grief / loss and trauma
+ exploring / strengthening / ending / post-divorce relationships
+ communication styles and skills
+ blended and other alternative family structures
+ family / friends of people with chronic physical or mental illness
+ anxiety / depression / suicide
I also continue to volunteer as a Crisis Connection Hotline Counselor where the staff provides thousands of callers each year from throughout MN with compassionate listening, problem-solving, and resource identification. As a result, I am very experienced at ‘thinking on my feet’ and guiding people take action to find help with a wide variety of mental health and related issues.
In addition, I have over 35 years experience as a professor helping individuals and groups explore, learn, and develop more satisfying and effective ways of reaching their goals in education / community / family development. Now, I use these same skills to provide coaching / consultation to other health care professionals regarding psycho-educational programs and learning tools through Design + Deliver Psycho-educational IMPACT !
I offer a free initial 30 minute appointment in which we can explore the ‘goodness of fit’ between us and negotiate fees / scheduling.
I bring a diverse background and range of interests to my work as an art therapist. I had a previous career as an architect, graphic designer, and most recently, a mosaic artist. The arts and creative expression are an integral part of who I am. I am currently working toward an M.A. in Art Therapy and Marriage Family Therapy at the Adler Graduate School and plan to graduate in 2013. I also hold an M.A. degree in Architecture (Southern California Institute of Architecture) and a B.S. in Business and Studio Arts (University of Minnesota).
As an art therapist, I place great importance on providing an environment where you feel safe to freely and creatively explore your inner world. I view a good therapeutic relationship as one of being in the spirit of collaboration and I will do my best to listen carefully and respond authentically. I have experience working with children, adolescents, and family groups.
As an intern art therapist at Aslan Institute, I offer reduced-cost services. For further information, please contact me at 612-483-1673 or email: cmancohen@aol.com.
Cheryl Thapa, MSW, LICSW
Mental Health Therapist
Cheryl offers integrative psychotherapy to adolescents and adults. Providing individual, family, and group therapy, she utilizes a holistic approach in her work with clients. Her specialty areas include anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, phobias, grief and loss, and other disturbances in mood and functioning. Cheryl believes that unresolved trauma can contribute to present day blockages to health and happiness and can manifest as anxiety, emotional numbing, dissociation, ADHD, chronic pain, addictions and the like. She honors both solution-focused approaches and deeper, insight-based processes and emphasizes a body-mind-spirit approach to healing. Cheryl is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which is a research based integrative approach to psychotherapy. She also integrates knowledge of brain nutrition, as well as mindfulness and meditation practice into work with clients. She is humbly honored to be a part of your path back to your true self. Cheryl is a licensed independent clinical social worker and has experience across mental health treatment settings, cultures, and age groups. She has experience providing trainings on Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Informed Care to hospital mental health staff. You can reach Cheryl directly at 612-584-9012 for a free phone consultation or to schedule a free 30 minute in-person consultation to see if she will be able to meet your needs. View her website for more information at www.evolvtherapy.com or email her at cherylt@aslaninst.com.
Christine M. Larson, M.A.
