Judith Huerta, LICSW

Judith Huerta is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Minnesota with 16 years of experience helping adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family concerns, and trauma. She works with people who want clearer patterns and more manageable day-to-day living. Judith describes clients as the experts on their own stories and draws on their strengths as therapy moves forward.

In sessions she uses practical conversation and evidence-based tools to address current problems and old patterns. Judith often focuses on how early family roles and expectations continue to affect choices and feelings now. She helps people name recurring dynamics, practice different responses, and build coping skills for anxiety, anger, or low mood.

Her approach combines Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), with elements from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) when appropriate. That mix lets her balance support for emotional understanding with concrete skills for behavior change. Sessions typically alternate listening and practical exercises so ideas can be tried between meetings.

Judith also addresses concerns such as addiction, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and body image. She works with people dealing with caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and family of origin issues. Her work includes helping clients sort through guilt, shame, abandonment feelings, and recovery from substance problems.

People who choose her can expect straightforward conversations about patterns, focused skill building, and collaboration on goals. To start, a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to set up the first session.

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