Lakes Counseling services
Individuals
Families
Young Adults, Teens and Children
Skilled In
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) Master Level Certified
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Lifespan Integration (LI)
Mindfulness Therapy
Upcoming wellness groups/classes
Emotion Focused Therapy/Internal Family Systems
Starting November 11th 11:30am-1pm
Every Tuesday for 8 Sessions
EFT (Emotion Focused Therapy)
EFT helps individuals and couples identify, process, and express emotions in healthy ways. It focuses on attachment, emotions, and communication in relationships, creating a path toward secure bonds and authentic expression.
IFS (Internal Family Systems)
IFS explores the multiple sub-personalities (or “parts”) within each of us. By identifying and addressing these internal “families,” we can create greater harmony in our inner world and live with more balance and compassion
.Cost: $40 private pay (or most insurances accepted)
Register below
Emotional Release Yoga
Fridays @ 8:30 AM | Starting 11/7/25
Lakes Counseling Center
Slow down, tune in, and let go. This all-levels yoga class guides you through gentle, mindful movements to release tension and support emotional well-being.
Why Emotional Release Yoga?
Our bodies store emotions we may not even realize—stress, grief, and tension can show up as stiff hips, tight shoulders, shallow breathing, or fatigue. This practice gently unlocks stored emotions, helping you release what no longer serves you.
In this class, we explore:
Heart-opening asanas for emotional tension & vulnerability
Hip & pelvic asanas for deep-seated emotions
Neck & shoulder asanas to release stress & heaviness
Cost: $12 per class
Register with Jen: (319) 325-5075
Email: jenschaben@kw.com
Please sign up in advance—space is limited!
Empowerment for Empaths
With Shamanic Practitioner, Lacey Boles
Saturday, 11/1/25 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Lakes Counseling Center
This intermediate class is for both new and returning students who want to deepen their understanding of personal power and learn spiritual practices to maintain homeostasis. If you are an individual who is sensitive to energy, you have probably experienced symptoms of disempowerment connected to your gifts, such as:
• A natural tendency to feel the weight of the world and a responsibility to heal it
• An orientation to keep the peace and avoid conflict at all costs
• Falling into cycles of burnout, martyrdom, and exhaustion from interaction with toxic people, environments, and systems of thought
• Attracting needy, clingy, wounded individuals with unpacked trauma
• Difficulty speaking up for yourself or sharing your truth out of fear that it will hurt others
• Default to states of dissociation
• Physcial health dysfunction or disregulation due to energetic imbalances
In this class, we will practice how to:
• Develop and maintain effective boundaries
• Protect your personal energy field via grounding, centering, and sheilding
• Establish a quality connection to Source
• Dismantle disempowering belief systems surrounding the gifts of sensitivity
• Recognize and transmute energetic holding patterns rooted in survival mode
• Safely channel, integrate, and embody your Higher Self
Students are encouraged to bring a journal, yoga mat, blanket, pillow, and eye covering for the meditation portion.
Cost: $111
Register with Lacey: (515) 779-5711
Email: changingwomanretreats@yahoo.com
Bonus Offering: Lacey will be available for one-on-one sessions from 2:00 – 7:00 PM at the Lakes Counseling Center.
Sessions are 1 hour
Cost: $88
Special Workshop: Questions & Emotional Release Yoga
With Ruth & Jen
Saturday, 11/15/25 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Lakes Counseling Center
This two-part experience begins with an Emotional Release Yoga practice to ground and open the body, followed by a Questions Workshop.
The Questions Workshop (10AM-12PM) focuses on developing the kinds of mindful, guiding questions that help us move with life’s changes rather than resist them. Poorly formed questions can stagnate energy or even hold us back—this class provides tools to ask better questions and grow with clarity. This class will provide you with tools to explore your questions and help you respond to your profound need to grow.
The Emotional ReleaseYoga Class (9-10AM) - slow down, tune in, and let go. This all-levels yoga class guides you through gentle, mindful movements to release tension and support emotional well-being.
Why Emotional Release Yoga?
Our bodies store emotions we may not even realize—stress, grief, and tension can show up as stiff hips, tight shoulders, shallow breathing, or fatigue. This practice gently unlocks stored emotions, helping you release what no longer serves you.In this class, we explore:
Heart-opening asanas for emotional tension & vulnerability
Hip & pelvic asanas for deep-seated emotions
Neck & shoulder asanas to release stress & heaviness
Cost: $52 (Yoga + Questions class)
Cost: $40 (Questions class only)
Register Below
pricing
We Accept Most Insurances: Check with Your Insurance Regarding Coverage
Intake 45-60 minutes $200
Individual Session 50-60 minutes $175
Individual Session 45-50 minutes $150
Individual Session 30 minutes $75
will provide a good faith estimate for private pay individuals
Ruth Mroch-McCleery LMHC
Ruth Mroch-McCleery LMHC
Ruth (Mroch) McCleery is a tLMHC trained in EMDR and a certified Complex Trauma Professional. Prior to working on her counseling MS, she taught in the Estherville Lincoln Central Community Schools for 30+ years. She's taught consciousness classes for 15+ years. She loves working with all ages and is passionate about creating strong families and personal growth. Born and raised in northwest Iowa, Ruth wants to serve her community from a place of understanding, compassion, and spirituality. Besides her MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, she holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University and a BA in Education from Buena Vista University. Her experience includes working within the school setting to support education goals, support and educate parents, and curriculum.
Alysa Murphy LMHC IADC
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Alysa Murphy LMHC IADC
As an Iowa Great Lakes Native, I am thrilled to be back in the area offering mental health counseling services. I bring a variety of experience with me, having worked in outpatient, inpatient, and school settings. Some areas I specialize in include: anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, substance use/addictions, family dynamics, life stages and transitions, and sport and performance psychology.
In my free time, you’ll often find me outside. Some activities I love include working in my garden, playing sports, boating, hiking, biking, and playing with my two sons, husband, and dog.
For self-care, I make sure to find time each day for exercise and music.
I am looking forward to helping you grow and change with whatever life has handed you and to unlock your full potential. My hope is to assist you in living a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.
Rachel Wassenaar LISW
Rachel Wassenaar LISW
Rachel is an Iowa licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience in social work. Rachel has worked in a hospital on a mental health unit with children and adults, volunteered at a domestic abuse shelter, been a first responder to sexual assaults, worked with children with intellectual disabilities, and has been doing therapy for the past 15 years.
“I feel privileged being someone people can share anything with, especially in difficult times,” said Rachel. “I see communication as an art; finding ways to help clients feel heard, validated while also working towards greater clarity of direction for care all in the time they are being seen with me. I am invested in my client’s growth and hope that they can leave feeling better then when they came.”
Rachel’s therapeutic approach is a non- judgmental, family centered approach. She is trained in Master’s level Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Lifespan Integration and uses aspects of CBT, DBT, EMDR and mindfulness therapy techniques.
Support staff
Jody Garms
Career Opportunities
Seeking Master’s level Mental Health Therapist’s. Please send resume and cover letter by emailing at office@lakescounseling.org, or fax 712-336-8126, or mail to 507 18th Street Suite A, Spirit Lake Ia 51360.
Contact Us
Lakes counseling
507 18th Street
Suite A
Spirit Lake Iowa
51360
Phone 712-336-8126
Fax 712-248-8722