Kimberly Endres (she/her)

Kim (she/her) is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. She got her BA in Psychology at the University of MN in 1992 and later returned to school to pursue her Master of Social Work degree. Kim completed her internship at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and completed her MSW at the College of St. Catherines/University of St. Thomas in 2003. She has been a therapist for 20+ years.

In 1998, Kim began her Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) training. This was her introduction to mindfulness, a practice encouraging living in the here and now. These experiences have been life-changing. Through mindfulness, Kim learned that much of the suffering we experience in life is caused by how we relate to our thoughts and emotions, living in the past or future instead of the present, and not accepting the reality of our lives. This changed the way she approached therapy. Mindfulness has been a game changer. 

Kim has continued to pursue the study and practice of mindfulness and meditation, DBT, and other scientifically backed, mindfulness-based therapeutic interventions. She spends time in the Arizona desert and locally participating in 5-day sesshins. Throughout her years of work, Kim has witnessed her clients’ hard work as they pursue their own mindfulness practices and learn DBT skills to both accept and change their lives in new, extraordinary ways. DBT offers four sets of skills- mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness-as vehicles to help people create a life that they experience as being worth living, the overarching goal of DBT. She looks forward to partnering with you on your own journey!

When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and wrestling with my Dobermans, Juno and Gracie. She loves live music, design and architecture, plants and gardening, being in nature, and learning new things! She looks forward to working with you!

Degrees + Trainings:

Master of Social Work (MSW)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

DBT Prolonged Exposure for trauma (DBT-PE)

Solution-Focused Therapy

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I)