Alex Harris, MA

she/they

I enjoy working with people experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and other mental health conditions, as well as those navigating changes in their lives and selves. I’m particularly interested in the ways that new questions challenge old answers about who we are, what we want, and where we belong. These questions often express themselves through relational dynamics, and I work with both individuals (ages 16+) and couples struggling with relationship conflict and disconnection.

I practice psychoanalytic psychotherapy through a feminist and trauma-informed lens, combining respect for individual experience with an awareness of the systems of power in which we live. Just like unjust systems can become so natural we no longer “see” them, painful experiences and unspoken desires can become unconscious to us, expressed only as overwhelming anxiety or deep sadness. Therapy is a radical challenge to this “normal” order. By letting the unconscious speak and be heard, we begin to both understand and transform ourselves.

Since moving to Minneapolis from the San Francisco Bay Area more than 10 years ago, my experiences as a transplant and career changer inform my appreciation for the complexities of change, identity, and belonging. Having worked alongside people from diverse backgrounds in many different fields, I strongly believe in the value of working across difference, and I strive to do so with humility and integrity.