Mary Gales-Wenz has been a Licensed Independent Social Worker for 40+ years and has practiced in a variety of Behavioral Health environments during that time. After obtaining a Master’s Degree in Social Work she was employed for 20 years with The Department of Veterans Affairs @ both the St. Cloud and Minneapolis hospitals in Outpatient and Inpatient settings.
Her career path after The Department of Veterans Affairs included providing Mental Health services with Hazelden Center for Youth and Families, Allina Behavioral Health Clinics, Central MN Mental Health Clinics, Clinical Supervision of Residential Treatment for Department of Corrections, Behavioral Healthcare Management for a local MN insurance company and maintaining a small private practice since 2009.
Mary has worked with adults, seniors, and adolescents in Chemical Dependency and Mental Health Treatment facilities, addressing PTS, Anxiety, Sexual and Physical
Trauma, Depression diagnoses, to name a few. Mary continues to keep her skills updated in regards to new research and treatment modalities. She has a particular interest in the mind-body connection and therapies that clients better understand this. She is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy that helps to process the entire emotional and cognitive experience for individuals.
Additional areas of focus: LGBT, Family conflicts, Sleeping disorders, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Codependency, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Family of origin issues, First responder issues, Guilt and shame, Men's issues, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Mood disorders, Post-traumatic stress, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Sexual assault and abuse, Somatization, Women's issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
MN LICSW 4518
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She has been an amazing source of information and ‘tools’ for helping me get healthy, figure out how my brain works for me, and navigating this wild world we live in!
Written on Jan 25, 2024 after therapy with Mary for 1 year and 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, anger management, and adhd
Mary is awesome to work with, can't wait to work with her more
Written on Nov 09, 2023 after therapy with Mary for 9 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, lgbt, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and coping with life changes
Mary shows me that she is actively listening to me and gathering information that she knows will help me in the future.
Written on Apr 06, 2023 after therapy with Mary for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, lgbt, relationship issues, and eating disorders
Mary is a phenomenal therapist! She has a calming way about her that makes it easy to open up right away. She provides excellent tools and resources that have a direct impact and align to my needs. Highly recommend Mary!
Written on Apr 01, 2023 after therapy with Mary for 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, eating disorders, self esteem, and adhd
I have had only one session with Mary. With just one session I did appreciate her wealth of knowledge, and she was very resourseful.
Written on Feb 07, 2023 after therapy with Mary for 2 weeks
Doing an awesome jobs so far. I appreciate it. Very attentive and seems to be an expert in her field.
Written on Sep 23, 2022 after therapy with Mary for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue