Welcome to Northfield Dynamic Therapy!
Experienced therapists who are focused on helping you thrive
Individual Therapy
Group Therapy
ADHD/Autism Testing
ONLINE therapy
( throughout the state )
IN-PERSON therapy
( Downtown Northfield, MN )
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Northfield Dynamic Therapy
Our therapists specialize in college student mental health, and have expertise with anxiety concerns (panic attacks, generalized anxiety, social anxieties, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, specific phobias) and depression concerns. We also help clients with psychological suffering that is exacerbated by self-criticism, shame, or perfectionism.
Our clinicians are neudiversity-affirming and are trained to work with neurodiverse individuals including ADHD and autism.
You may be a good fit for our center if you recognize that connecting with your emotional experience (yes, even those unpleasant emotions) will bring the healing and transformation that you desire.
We work best with clients that are open minded and motivated to work hard.
We cannot do the work for you, but we know how to empower you to heal and transform in the ways you desire.
Please read through our website to learn more, and feel free to reach out to us to with any questions.
Immediate openings for individual counseling
Some evening appointments
Group therapy options with 6-8 people from across the state of MN
Meet our Therapists!
Tracy Brottem, Psy.D. (she/her)
Positionality: White, cis-het female
Tracy is a highly skilled therapist and brings a lot of compassion, warmth, and humor into the therapy room. She worked at the counseling centers at (1) Carleton, (2) St. Olaf and (3) Iowa State University and she specializes in college student mental health. She works well with clients facing anxiety, depression, perfectionism, and with those that feel like they are in the margins in many settings in life. She also has a focus on student athletes and has significant training and experience working with NCAA athletes and teams. Her dissertation work focused on the experiences of lgbtq+ student athletes.
Tracy does ONLINE therapy Tuesday - Friday, with some evening appointments.
Current Availability:
As of 12/27/2023 Tracy has openings for two new online therapy clients at this time.
Education & Training
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, Doctor of Psychology
St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, Master of Arts, Counseling and Psychological Services
St. Olaf College, Bachelor of Arts
Clinical Areas of Interest
Athletes/performance, adults, college students, neurodiversity, survivors of narcissistic abuse, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, identity development, lgbtqia+, family-of-origin, and adjustment concerns.
Personal Hobbies
Reading; cheering on Rory and Rickie; any and all things Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings; binge-watching the Marvel movies in order; singing and dancing to Taylor Swift; dancing with Panic! (and failing miserably to sing like Brendon); painting with Bob Ross; watching Mister Rogers’ neighborhood for self-care; drinking strong black tea with milk and sugar preferably lakeside in MN; and snuggling my cats (or any cat I can access)
Nate Page, PhD, LP, CGP (he/him)
Positionality: White, cis-het male
Nate is a licensed psychologist and Certified Group Psychotherapist.. He specializes in anxiety concerns and college student mental health. He runs the podcast Your Anxiety Playground. Nate sees some individual therapy clients, but mostly focuses on running therapy groups and training therapists to run groups.
Nate does ADHD testing for adults (18+) in Minnesota, and can also do adult autism assessment. ADHD evaluations typically take 4-6 hours.
Nate is the founder of Group Therapy Central LLC, and each week facilitates several different training groups for therapists.
Current Availability:
Nate generally does not have openings for more individual clients, but does have openings for (1) group therapy clients and (2) ADHD testing.
Learn more about Nate and his approach to therapy.
Laurie Page, PhD, LP (she/her)
Positionality: White, cis-het female
Laurie is a licensed psychologist in the state of Minnesota and primarily works with women (ages 18-60) and college students. She specializes in anxiety, excessive worrying, and feelings of low self worth.
Laurie does ADHD testing for adults (18+) in Minnesota, and can also do adult autism assessment. ADHD evaluations typically take 4-6 hours.
Laurie also provides supervision to pre-licensed therapists in Minnesota, and has worked in this capacity at St. Olaf here in Northfield, MN.
Current Availability:
Laurie has openings for two new clients in January 2024! It is rare for Laurie to have openings for new clients.
Learn more about Laurie and her approach to therapy.
Meet our Office Staff!
Jenni DeZelar (she/her)
Office Administrator/Intake Coordinator
Jenni is most likely the first person you'll speak with at Northfield Dynamic Therapy. She can help you find the right therapist for you, and is happy to answer all your questions about starting therapy. Her goal is to make everyone feel welcome and comfortable at Northfield Dynamic Therapy.
Jenni is a wife and a Mom of 3 + a cute Beagle! She loves Disney World, coffee, going to the movies, and anything Christmas. So if she doesn't answer the phone right away it means she's on the phone with someone else, running a kid to hockey practice, watching a movie in the theater, or trying to get a good night's rest before tackling another day as a super mom.
Jenni is also a professional photographer that specializes in Kids, Families, High School Seniors, parties and Weddings. You can check out her website or Facebook page to see her photos!
Check out our Podcast: Your Anxiety Playground
Last summer (2022) we had fun recording three podcast episodes focused on anxiety. These episodes are ideal for people wanting to improve their relationship with anxiety, and focuses on panic attacks, generalized anxiety, social anxiety and OCD concerns. They will also give you an understanding of how we tend to approach anxiety concerns in therapy settings.
Approximately 50% of our therapy clients identify as members of the queer community. We work towards allyship with the LGBTQIA+ community and we provide affirming therapy to anyone that seeks our services. We continually pursue training opportunities focused on gender and sexuality. We speak out against discriminatory practices and policies within the mental health field. We have helped a lot of individuals on their journey of securing gender-confirming medical treatments including hormones and surgeries. Our therapists are also particularly skilled in helping therapy clients face dilemmas with the intersection of their spiritual/religious identities and their gender or sexual orientation identities.
We support the Black Lives Matter movement, and we invest time, energy and money into anti-racist work. We treat all therapy interactions as cross-cultural experiences and work to understand how your identities and cultural upbringing might be related to your current mental health concerns. As therapists, we work to understand how our own identities, cultural upbringings, and worldviews might impact you as a client.
Our therapists are involved in allyship with the autistic community, and have obtained extensive training in providing autistic-informed therapy services. We actively resist dehumanizing attitudes and treatment paradigms for autistic individuals, and create more informed and empathetic treatment options for neurodiverse therapy clients.
Located in Downtown Northfield right across from the Northfield Public Library.
220 Division Street Northfield, Minnesota
Nutting Block Building (next to the Archer House Inn). We are 0.4 miles from Carleton College Sayles Hills Campus Center, and 1.5 miles from St. Olaf College Buntrock Commons Building.
Our clinicians also direct Group Therapy Central, LLC, which is an organization that provides online training for therapists on the topic of group therapy.
Our Story
College counseling centers provide wonderful services, but they can not meet the needs of every student. The reality is the amount of students seeking care is much higher than the capacity of counseling centers to adequately meet the needs of each student. Counseling centers use things like session limits, spaced out sessions, referral services, shorter appointment lengths, or other strategies to try and best manage the high demand for therapy services.
We created Northfield Dynamic Therapy to help students whose needs might get "missed" by counseling centers. Our counseling services are best for those students that need a strong and lasting connection with their individual therapist (and a strong a lasting connection with other group members in their therapy groups).
Our therapists provide relational-based therapy. We create the most appropriate treatment plan for each individual client, and follow that treatment through until the client reaches the goals that brought them into therapy. Most clients do 6-20 individual therapy sessions with us. Some appreciate meeting with their therapist twice a week (or more during times of crises) while others prefer more spaced out sessions. For group therapy, students plan to work for 6-18 months in their group.
We provide in-person therapy services to students from St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges here in Northfield. We also provide online therapy to college students throughout Minnesota. Our online therapy options can allow many students to continue with therapy services during school breaks or medical leaves of absence (in accordance with regulations regarding cross-state practice of psychotherapy).
