The Family Development Center
Healing, Compassionate, and Understanding Therapists in Saint Paul, MN.
Therapy for the Full Life Cycle
The Family Development Center welcomes individuals, couples, and families who are facing challenges at any life stage. Some of these challenges may include relationship issues, job worries, parenting concerns, emotional and behavioral difficulties in children, multigenerational family demands, work/life balance, addiction, empty nest adjustments, or end-of-life stresses.
Our Commitments and Vision
The Family Development Center is a mental health outpatient clinic that specializes in perinatal mood disorders and reproductive trauma, such as, traumatic birth, infertility, pregnancy loss, and infant death. We are also a teaching clinic that focuses on recruiting and training therapists with cultural humility and therapists of color. We are committed to providing a safe space to all individuals and families. We strive to have our clinic reflect inclusion, cultural competency, and compassion in all areas of our work. We are committed to social justice and participate with other community organizations to address the racial and socioeconomic inequities in mental health care.
We are in business to
Provide mental health care to individuals through and beyond the reproductive years.
Recruit and train therapists of color and therapists with cultural humility.
Reduce disparities in mental health care through accessible, effective and holistic programming.
Partner with existing organizations that share these values.
Our Specialty
The Family Development Center also has a particular focus and expertise in helping people and families cope with pregnancy and post-partum related issues. We support clients struggling to get pregnant, experiencing worry and anxiety during pregnancy, recovering from a traumatic birth, mourning the loss of a pregnancy or child, facing post-partum depression and anxiety, or adjusting to the pressures of a growing family.
Many people experience some mild mood changes during or after the birth of a child. However some people develop more significant symptoms. Please know that with help you can prevent a worsening of these symptoms and can fully recover. Symptoms can appear any time during pregnancy and in the first year after childbirth. Although the term “postpartum depression” is the term used most often to describe these symptoms, there are actually several forms of illness that people may experience.
Our Therapies
Couples Therapy
Adolescent Therapy
Infertility
Family Therapy
Pregnancy Loss
Play Therapy
Individual Therapy
Relationship Therapy
Teaching Clinic
The Teaching Clinic
Join The Family Development Center for an immersive internship that trains therapists to be clinically adept, relationally and systemically minded, as well as in possession of cultural humility.
Our Location
The Family Development Center works with patients throughout the Twin Cities and Ramsey County area. We’re only minutes from University of St. Thomas, 2 miles southwest of Hamline University, and a short 10 minute drive from downtown St Paul.
Land Acknowledgement
The Family Development Center is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people. TFDC resides on Dakota land ceded in the Treaties of 1837 and 1851. The Family Development Center acknowledges this place has a complex and layered history. This land acknowledgement is one of the ways in which we work to educate our clients, our community and ourselves about this land and our relationships with it and each other.