About Brenden
Dr. Brenden Troster is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with seven years of clinical experience and a long background in coaching. He practices in Minnesota and focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, and relationship concerns.
He listens first and helps clients set goals that matter to them. He has worked in school-based mental health, addiction treatment, residential care for children and teens, and outpatient settings.
Background and approach
That range gives him experience with many challenges, from severe and persistent mental illness to everyday life stressors. He uses practical methods to help people regain stability and direction. In sessions he starts by hearing a client's story and understanding what they want to change.
He emphasizes respect, compassion, and dignity. His style is collaborative and straightforward - he helps people try concrete tools and then adjusts the plan as needed. His clinical approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and the Gottman Method when relationship skills are a focus.
He mixes these methods to match each person's needs rather than using a single fixed technique. People come to him for a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career strain, and other life transitions. He aims to build practical strategies that support long-term coping and improved day-to-day functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and move toward what matters to them. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making values-based changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and skill practice. CBT is often used for depression, anxiety, insomnia, and ADHD-related routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process means techniques can be mixed and adjusted if something isn't working.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be a good option when video would be difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing coach-style practice, or quick skill reminders between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit regular work on goals into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Iowa, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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