Top Therapists in South Dakota

Traci Feathers

LCSW, MSW • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Traci Feathers is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Aberdeen, SD, specializing in trauma and mental health. She provides warm, collaborative care using cognitive and strengths-based therapies, internal family systems, and polyvagal-informed approaches.

Katie Husby

Katie Husby provides treatment for youth, adolescents, adults, and families across addiction recovery, outpatient mental health, and clinical support services. She conducts chemical dependency evaluations, facilitates group therapy, and delivers individualized care for substance and gambling addictions.

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.

Briana Powell

QMHP, LPC-MH, LAC, ACS, NCC • Licensed Professional Counselor–Mental Health

Sherry Bartels is Executive and Clinical Director of Bartels Counseling Services, Inc., with over 30 years of experience in mental health and addictions. She holds qualifications as a Qualified Mental Health Professional, Licensed Professional Counselor–Mental Health, Licensed Addiction Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and National Certified Counselor.

Maria Sargent

MSN

Maria Sargent is a psychiatric clinician with a background in cardiology, palliative care, and mental health. She earned her MSN in 2018 and practices in the Black Hills, emphasizing empathetic, patient-centered care.

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.

Karen VonEye

LPC-MH, LAC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Karen Voneye is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Addiction Counselor with a master's in Educational Psychology and Counseling. She provides counseling focused on mental health and addiction.

Janae Oetken

LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Cheyenne Spielmann is a licensed professional counselor specializing in behavioral health, working with children and families on anxiety, ADHD/ADD, anger management, ODD, and self-esteem.

Holly Garrett

LPC • Licensed Professional Counselor

Holly Garrett is a licensed professional counselor in Pierre, South Dakota, who provides community-focused counseling to individuals and families. She is committed to using her skills and experience to make a meaningful impact in her hometown.

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.

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.

Rita Van Norman

CGC • Clinical Social Worker

Rita Van Norman is a Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years of experience specializing in the mental health needs of older adults, their caregivers, and loved ones. She provides compassionate support for depression, anxiety, grief, and dementia-related challenges and has taught and developed curricula for caregivers.

Rajesh Singh

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Dr. Sandra Peynado is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Sanford Psychiatry & Psychology Clinic in Sioux Falls, SD. She specializes in pediatric behavioral health, treating ADHD, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, autism, and family relational challenges.

Lacey Olsen

Family and Emergency Medicine Specialist

Dr. John Jones is a family and emergency medicine specialist at Sanford Chamberlain Medical Center in Chamberlain, South Dakota. He provides preventive care, diagnoses, and management of chronic health conditions for patients of all ages, emphasizing long-term, personal relationships.

Christina Graham

FNP, QMHP • Family Nurse Practitioner

Christina Graham is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Qualified Mental Health Professional who provides psychiatric and outpatient mental health care. She draws on nursing experience in telemetry, emergency care, cardiothoracic surgery, urgent care, and transplant medicine.

Lindsey Krueger

CSW-PIP, QMHP, MSW • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Sarah Shoffner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (CSW-PIP) and Qualified Mental Health Provider (QMHP) who provides client-centered, strengths-based support. She draws on a diverse career background to connect with clients and nurture their potential.

Abbey Bauman

PA-C • Physician Assistant

Alyssa Peterson, PA-C, is a physician assistant in psychiatry at Sanford Psychiatry & Psychology Clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, providing medication management and personalized treatment for anxiety, ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and psychotic spectrum disorders.

Heather Janvrin

Therapist

Ashley Siebrasse is an outpatient therapist who provides person-centered, holistic, trauma-informed care to adults and couples facing anxiety, trauma, grief, eating and body image concerns, life transitions, and relationship difficulties.

Jessica SailerDalton

NP, AANP • Nurse Practitioner

Andria Petersen is a nurse practitioner specializing in psychiatry who treats depression, anxiety, and mood disorders in both hospital and outpatient settings. She is board-certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and focuses on patient-centered, confidential care.

Kristen Corkle

PMHNP-BC, CNM • Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Kristen Corkle is a dual board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse-Midwife who focuses on women’s mental health across all life stages. She treats anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, PMDD, and perinatal mental health concerns, and supports women facing infertility or pregnancy loss.