Kendra Snyder
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - MA, LMFT, NCC (EMDR trained)
Kendra has had the honor of supporting others in healing and growth for over 10 years, in a variety of therapeutic settings. As a relational therapist, she is passionate about working with teens, individuals, couples, and families. Kendra specializes in supporting those who have been touched by adoption, grief, loss, trauma, and hurt from religion, as well as people who desire increased connection, to explore personal identity, and to find an authentic belief system or spirituality. She creates an open and inviting space for others to engage in deep introspective reflection that helps foster creativity, authenticity, and expansion. Kendra leans on depth-oriented, attachment, and existential therapies, and utilizes play, experiential interventions, creativity, as well as insight and awareness to help foster healing.
As a lover of nature, Kendra enjoys spending time outdoors in all four Minnesota seasons. A musician, potter, climber, and aspiring gardener, she believes in the healing power of time outside, creating, and authentic conversation. Kendra loves experiencing new places and learning as much as she can, through books and lived experience. Kendra found her way to the Twin Cities by way of North Dakota, Chicago, and Denver, and currently lives in Saint Paul with her husband and dog, Roo. Previously, Kendra worked at Macalester College as a Mental Health Counselor, was the Director of Student Services at the Denver Family Institute, supported clients in her private practice and at the PASS Center (Post Adoption Support Services) in Denver, and provided in-home family therapy with Maple Star Colorado.
Kendra is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Nationally Certified Counselor, and a member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, a Post-Graduate Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Bachelor of Arts in Family Studies. Kendra has completed advanced trainings related to adoption, attachment, trauma, and theology, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), and Trust Based Relational Interventions (TBRI). She has had the opportunity to speak on topics related to adoption, attachment, trauma, parenting, and interpersonal stress, as well as travel to China with the nonprofit Adopteen (a division of Chinese Children Adoption International) in 2017 and 2018 for service trips to local orphanages.
Skills and Expertise
Abandonment
Abuse / Survivors of Abuse
Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
Adjustment to College
Adoption / Foster Care Issues
Adult
Anxiety
Art
athletes
Attachment Issues
Breakups
Cancer
Caregiver Issues or Stress
Child or Adolescent
Chronic Illness or Disability
Chronic Pain or Illness
college age
Commitment Issues
Communication Problems
Codependency
Couple Counseling
Couples therapy
Creative Blocks
Depression
Emotional Intelligence
Emptiness
Family Conflict
Family of Origin Issues
Fear
Forgiveness
grief
Guilt
Helplessness and Victimhood
Highly Sensitive Persons
Identity Issues
Inadequacy
Individuation
LGBTQ
Life Purpose
Loss or Grief
Loss
Marital Therapy
Marriage Couseling
Meditation
Midlife Crisis
Mindfulness based therapy
Navigating Identity in Relationships
Parenting
Peer Relationships
Perfectionism
Premarital Counseling
Relationship Issues
Self Esteem
Spirituality
Stress
teen
Teens
Trauma
Trauma and PTSD
Women's issue
Treatment Orientation
Contemplative
Couple and Family Systems Therapy
Eclectic
EMDR
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Existential
Experiential
Experiential Therapy
Family Systems Therapy
Family/Marital Therapy
Feminist
Humanistic
IFS
Jungian
Mindfulness
Narrative
PACT
Psychotherapy
Relational Therapy
Rogerian
Somatic
Therapy unique to each client
Trauma Focused Therapy
Modality
Couples
Family
Individuals
Children