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Jill Sweeny, MSW, LICSW

Jill Sweeny

MSW, LICSW

Jill is a Mental Health Professional and concentrates on unresolved past trauma related to negative experiences including relational and attachment traumas. Mental health issues like depression, anxiety and substance use disorders often begin with an event in our lives that changes the way we see ourselves and understand our place in the world.

Jill assists in the process of healing from these negative experiences by creating space within the emotional landscape to reduce suffering and improve clarity about what is important in life. Jill uses a person-centered and highly relational approach to therapy, focusing on client identified priorities. Jill is caring and compassionate, valuing connection and deep trust, which is at the core of the therapeutic relationship.

As a clinician at Minnesota Alternatives, a program at the forefront of the Harm Reduction movement, Jill focused on interventions for people who suffer from substance use disorders and trauma. Jill joined Expanse MN in November of 2021 and specializes in trauma care using PSIP (Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy). She has been trained in EMDR, CBT, DBT and EFT and went through PSIP training in October of 2021. She has shadowed 2 leader trainings, one in Denver and the other in Minneapolis and co-led a training session in Denver in March of 2023.

Healing the healers is something that she feels passionate about because it is an overlooked and critical need in this profession. PSIP requires that we as healers keep our own nervous systems in good working order because if we aren’t well we can’t be effective in this highly attuned and intuitive work.

Jill earned her MSW from the University of Minnesota Duluth and is a licensed LICSW in the state of Minnesota.