LuLu Zuba, MSW, LGSW (she/her)
School Services Therapist
Saint Louis Park School District
LuLu offers school-based therapy services to children, adolescents, and their families through Relate’s School Linked Mental Health program. LuLu integrates client centered practices, while focusing on how the client’s history, background, culture, identities and other environmental factors can impact their mental health and well-being. LuLu strives to bring curiosity, creativity, warmth, compassion and empathy into sessions and within relationships with clients and their families. She views each client and family as unique individuals and aims to tailor services to fit their needs and best support everyone. Outside of work, LuLu loves to spend time with her friends and family, cook, draw/create art, thrift, and be active outside.
Therapeutic Modalities: Strength-based, person/client-centered, cognitive-behavioral techniques, art/creativity, mindfulness, play therapy, systems perspective
Specialties: Children ages 5-13, families, anxiety, developmental delays and/or trauma, adoption/foster care
Certifications/Training: DC 0-5 assessment
Relate Communications September 20th, 2022
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Kayla Pavelka, MA, LPCC (she/her)
School Services Therapist
Wayzata School District
Kayla provides psychotherapy for high school students and their families in the School Linked Mental Health program. Kayla believes that the therapeutic relationship is the foundation to change, and she continuously tends to this with her students and their families. She approaches therapy with a relational, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and strengths-based lens. Kayla focuses on the multiple systems each person is a part of and how this impacts who they are in the world. She spends her time away from the office with family and friends, hiking, playing board games, puzzling, baking, and meeting as many dogs as she can!
Therapeutic Modalities: trauma-focused-cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), attachment, person-centered therapy, family systems therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing
Specialties: adolescents, trauma, attachment-related concerns, grief and loss, substance use
Certifications/Trainings: Certified Trauma Professional
Relate Communications June 2nd, 2022
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Nora Johnson, MS (she/her)
School Services Therapist | District Coordinator
Wayzata School District
Nora offers school-based therapy for adolescents. She believes in a relational, narrative, trauma informed, and culturally sensitive approach in providing care. Nora believes that everyone has a story that deserves to be told and heard. She feels that although our pasts have been shaped by our relationships, environment, and experiences we get to work towards changing our story into something we can feel good about. Nora’s goal is to provide a safe, welcoming, and non-judgmental environment where healing can begin.
Therapeutic Modalities: trauma focused, solution focused, family systems, cognitive-behavioral, and strengths-based.
Relate Communications June 2nd, 2022
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Siobhan Fitzgerald, MSW, LICSW
School-Services Therapist|School Services Supervisor
St. Louis Park School District
Siobhan provides school-based therapy at St. Louis Park High School for adolescents. Siobhan identifies as a multi-racial, multi-cultural, cisgender, heterosexual female. She is passionate about creating therapeutic relationships where clients are able to reflect and explore multiple aspects of their identities, interpersonal relationship patterns, and gain insight and compassion into the ways they’ve adapted to their world and surroundings. Siobhan works towards creating an inclusive, open-minded, reflective space for clients to reflect, heal, and grow. Outside of Relate, you might find Siobhan playing with her dogs, gardening in the backyard, at yoga classes, or laughing with friends and family.
Relate Communications June 2nd, 2022
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Lindsey Sachs, MS, LPCC
School Services Therapist|School Services Supervisor
Hopkins School District
Lindsey provides therapy for children and adolescents in the school linked mental health program. Lindsey identifies as a cisgender white woman. She believes in a holistic, relational, and collaborative approach to therapy with emphasis on client and family strengths. Lindsey’s approach is grounded in building a safe, nonjudgmental, trauma informed space that allows for curiosity, growth, learning, and achieving shared goals. She uses an eclectic mix of modalities to fit individual needs. She has a special interest in working with anxiety, adjustment disorders, family changes, and trauma. Lindsey enjoys spending time with her family, going on family adventures, long bike rides, and spending time up north.
Therapeutic Modalities: mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), solution focused, Adlerian, and narrative therapy.
Specialties: Children, adolescents, and young adults.
Relate Communications May 17th, 2022
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Erica Carlson, MA
School Services Therapist
Mound Westonka School District
Erica provides psychotherapy for middle school students and their families in the School Linked Mental Health Program. She believes that the middle school and adolescent years are one of the most pertinent stages of human development because this is when individuals begin to find their sense of self. Therapy with Erica is relation-based, strengths-focused and client centered, utilizing mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral, and systemic approaches. Erica strongly believes that authenticity and empathy are critical to the therapeutic process and works to provide a warm and collaborative environment in which clients feel understood and supported. Outside of Relate you can find Erica spending time with her kids and two dogs.
Relate Communications May 17th, 2022
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