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Welcome to
River Pines Counseling
Whether you are at a place of day-to-day navigation of life challenges, healing from loss or trauma, or perhaps exploring your human potential, we are here for you. River Pines Counseling offers customized services, an upscale private clinic location, and highly experienced providers and coaches. We are equipped to accommodate your unique needs in a manner that is welcoming, non-judgmental, and empowering. We offer a soothing Northwoods style clinic environment for in-person sessions. You may also choose telehealth or remote coaching (Hipaa compliant telephone or live video sessions). We offer something different; we provide highly customized and very private services, with direct access to your expert provider or coach.
Take a deep breath and relax. River Pines Counseling is ready to support your development journey.
About River Pines Counseling
River Pines Counseling was founded in 2022 with a vision of creating a nature-inspired boutique-style mental health therapy option for adults seeking support with life changes and challenges. Our career purpose is all about helping clients find a deep sense of peace, joy, and hope. Typically our clients want less stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship conflict. They want new perspectives, greater self-insight, and coping skills with practical tools. Above all, clients come to us because they trust us. We listen without judgment and provide unbiased perspectives and resources.
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River Pines Counseling
Located in the beautiful Saint Croix River Valley.
Retreat to River Pines Counseling
in Scenic Stillwater, Minnesota
The vibe of River Pines Counseling is calming, rejuvenating, and grounding. Wellness takes a step forward upon arrival. A shift in one’s journey is felt through a noticeably deeper breath, more relaxed shoulders, and a clear mind. Renewal is facilitated here. River Pines Counseling places you in a nature inspired atmosphere for personal exploration. We offer a safe place to explore, heal, hope, dream, and create change.
Discover your strengths, enhance/reinvent yourself, and enjoy a beautiful safe harbor to develop.
Darcy Stivland
Darcy Stivland spent 25 years as a human resources leader, executive coach, and wellness counselor. She then decided to take her healthcare industry experience and utilize it in a new direction to serve clients more directly. Darcy became a licensed professional counselor and clinical psychotherapist. She proceeded to serve as a provider within two large mental healthcare clinic systems. Darcy continues to run her executive coaching business, along with being a psychotherapist. She is the co-founder and owner of River Pines Counseling. More about Darcy Stivland
Kate Auge
Kate Auge works with adults across the lifespan to address a variety of concerns including anxiety, grief and loss, life transitions and trauma. Kate values a collaborative approach to therapy and honors the client as the expert of their own experiences. Kate integrates various therapeutic modalities to customize treatment and empower individuals on their healing journey. More about Kate Auge
River Pines Counseling Values
We believe that clients heal and grow best through self-discovery, tuning into their unique strengths, and clearing overwhelming noise. Creating a safe harbor for exploring, processing, and learning is critical. We value authentic, transparent, and compassionate communication. We respect each client’s right to their individual values, goals, and therapy priorities. Integrity and empowerment are to be demonstrated with every client and every interaction. We believe in providing practical, evidence-based, action-oriented tools, resources, and assessments. Diversity Statement
Our Services
We provide mental health evaluations and diagnosis, action-oriented treatment plans, therapy sessions, and practical tools and resources. We also provide customized physician and executive assessment and coaching programs. More about our Services
Our Clients
We work with adults and 16+ teens on an individual therapeutic basis. Common client challenges include stress, anxiety, depression, loss and grief, trauma, life change adjustments, relationship and parenting, and navigating through career challenges.
We also offer physician and leadership coaching and development, primarily for healthcare providers, first responders and executives.
Our Expertise
Mental Health Therapy
We are fully licensed clinical psychotherapists. We have the ability to assess and diagnose based on a thorough mental health evaluation, and to guide clients through goal-oriented treatment and development plans. Our providers utilize evidence-based practices, skills, and tools backed by credible research. Our team has advanced practice skills with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), CBT-I for Insomnia, and Internal Family Systems (IFS).
Physician and Executive Coaching
We are certified through the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), International Coach Federation (ICF), College of Executive Coaching, and Hogan Assessment Systems. We work primarily with healthcare organizations to assess, coach and develop physician and executive leaders. We are certified to administer and interpret leadership and emotional intelligence assessments, personality profiles (and more) utilizing evidence-based international gold standard tools.
Healing? Sustaining? Growing? Accelerating? Taking leaps and bounds forward?
We’ll meet you right where you’re at and support your next steps.