Office-Based Practicum Therapist

Minnetonka Office

Ben Layne has always been focused on guiding people to build positive relationships and experience themselves in new and creative ways. He did so for fifteen years as a theater director and producer, and now as a graduate student pursuing his Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. As an artist, Ben brings those playful sensibilities into the therapeutic relationship. He is passionate about methodology focused on healthy communications and strategies that help individuals and families navigate their individual hopes and dreams while building strong relationships and family systems. Ben will work with you to build a therapeutic process to help you meet your needs, foster healthier relationships, and find ways to cope with the challenges (and successes) life brings to all of us.

Therapeutic Modalities: Utilizing techniques from Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Bowen Family Systems, Attachment Theory, Gottman

Specialties: Couples, Families, self-identity exploration

Certification/Training: Gottman Level I, Prepare/Enrich