About Brenden
Dr. Brenden Troster is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with seven years of clinical experience. He practices in Minnesota and brings a long background in coaching and work across schools, addiction treatment, residential care, and outpatient settings.
He focuses on helping people who face anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma among other concerns. He listens to each person's story first and treats that story as the starting point for therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - the client’s goals guide the work. He emphasizes practical steps and tools that people can use between appointments. Dr.
Troster has supported people through addiction recovery, anger management, processing abuse, and coping with ADHD and grief. His varied background includes work with severe and persistent mental illness and residential programs for children and teens, giving him a broad view of how problems and healing can look.
He draws from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Client-Centered Therapy, and the Gottman Method. Those methods are used flexibly to match a person’s needs and values rather than following a set formula. His style is respectful and direct.
He aims to help people build practical strategies, clearer perspective, and steady coping skills. The focus is on concrete change that fits each person’s life and pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Troster uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in ways that are easy to understand. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to change behavior and mood. ACT emphasizes clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts and feelings are present. He also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work grounded in listening and the client’s experience.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with each person about their goals, current struggles, and personal preferences, then recommend methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy practical. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer a way to share updates or work through issues between sessions while fitting into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Iowa, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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