Top Therapists in South Dakota

Mandi Scott

MS, LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Mandi Scott is a Licensed Professional Counselor and school counselor with 14 years' experience supporting elementary children and families. She provides individual and family therapy for children and adolescents with social-emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges, including ADHD, anxiety, depression, and executive functioning issues related to TBI or concussions.

Kelly Lauck

Psychiatrist

Dr. Brenden Kruckenberg is a psychiatrist at Sanford Psychiatry & Psychology Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, providing comprehensive adult behavioral health care. He specializes in treating anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and substance use disorders.

Nicole Johnson

Physician Assistant

Garet Ford is a board-certified Physician Assistant at Sanford Psychiatry & Psychology Clinic in Sioux Falls, providing psychiatric evaluations and medication management for children and adults. He specializes in anxiety disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia.

Leslie Moss

MSN, FNP, CNP • Certified Nurse Practitioner

Leslie Moss is a certified nurse practitioner practicing psychiatry at Manlove Brain + Body Health. She uses a compassionate, holistic approach and draws on prior experience in medical/oncology, infusion therapy, gastroenterology, and hepatology.

Celeste Apodaca

LAC, LPCC • Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor

Jessy Berry is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) and Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) who helps individuals and couples navigate trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship challenges, addiction, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. Her approach is rooted in compassion, collaboration, and supporting transformation.

Derek Townsend

LAC, LPCC • Licensed Addiction Counselor

Celeste Apodaca is a Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) and Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC) who brings cultural and existential perspectives to her work, offering bilingual Spanish-English support rooted in her Mexican heritage.

Rachel Waddell

MSN, NP, PMHNP-BC • Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Jennifer A. Erdman is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who provides outpatient psychiatric care to adolescents and adults, drawing on nearly 30 years of healthcare experience and 20 years in mental health.

Rachelle Broveleit

MD • Psychiatrist

Dr. Jennifer Assam, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist at Sanford Psychiatry & Psychology Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She provides behavioral health services to individuals with a broad range of psychiatric needs.

Christine Garcia

Clinical Mental Health Counselor

Christine Garcia is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor who works with children and adolescents, specializing in autism, ADHD, trauma, and behavioral concerns. She has experience as a behavior therapist in an ABA clinic.

Christie Ellwein

Case Manager

Christie Ellwein is a case manager at Dakota Counseling who has provided case management since 1998. She holds a BA in Psychology and Sociology from Mount Marty College.

Whitney Nordvold

LCSW • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Whitney Nordvold is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides trauma-informed, culturally responsive care. A member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, she integrates Lakota/Dakota and mixed European-American heritage into her work with individuals, families, and communities.

Amy Hodge

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Amy Hodge is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who provides mental health care to patients across the lifespan. She began her nursing career in emergency medicine in Rapid City.

Jason Ellwein

LPC-MH, QMHP, EMDR • Licensed Professional Counselor in Mental Health

John Daniel is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Mental Health (LPC-MH) and QMHP who treats depression, attachment difficulties, PTSD, trauma, and co-occurring disorders. He utilizes Adlerian and DBT approaches and is trained in EMDR.

Shelby Adler

LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Emily Christensen is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps individuals and couples rediscover authenticity and build resilience, connection, and purpose. She works with clients facing burnout, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, codependency, women’s issues, self-esteem struggles, and major life transitions, and previously spent six years as a high school counselor.

Emilia Flint

LP • Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Emilia Flint is a licensed psychologist who provides psychological evaluations for chronic pain and pre-surgical assessments and offers therapy for individuals and families coping with medical issues, trauma, mood, and anxiety disorders. She also serves as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Black Hills State University.

Megan Schaefbauer

Megan Schaefbauer is a clinical mental health counselor who supports adolescents and young adults facing grief, trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, low self-esteem, and relationship challenges. She has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults and completed a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2023.

Emily Christensen

LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Brenda Eddington is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Clinical Supervisor with over 20 years of experience providing culturally sensitive, strengths-based therapy to individuals and couples. She specializes in depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, substance use, eating disorders, and emotional dysregulation using evidence-based, personalized tools.

Kari Rickel

Home Base Therapist

Rhona Paradeis is a Home Base Therapist at Dakota Counseling, providing services to Davison, Hanson, and Sanborn counties. Her social work background includes roles as a domestic violence advocate, family service specialist, and ethnic and racial youth case manager.

Jasmine Morgan

Licensed Professional Counselor 6 Mental Health

Jasmine Morgan is a counselor licensed in New York and South Dakota. She focuses on domestic abuse, relationship challenges, trauma, anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief, and life and cultural transitions.

Brenda Davenport

Brenda Davenport works in the mental health and chemical dependency field, is trained in Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) and Aggression Replacement Training (ART), and has 17 years of experience.