David Adair

How are you showing up in your life? Perhaps you are exhausted by efforts to avoid emotional pain, with the result being you avoid being present in your life. Or perhaps you stay mired in forms of emotional pain due to its familiarity or its seeming inescapability. 

It is possible to live a more fulfilling life – a life in which joy, fear, sorrow, and wonder can be safely experienced using mindfulness, self-compassion, and meaningful connection with others.

I find great meaning in helping clients move toward their vision of a more fulfilling life. I enjoy working with adults who are experiencing anxiety, depression, challenges with substance use, and/or difficulties with adjusting to new life circumstances – who want to better connect with themselves, their friends and loved ones, and the natural world.

My role as your therapist is to listen with warmth, to ask caring and challenging questions, to teach skills, and to support your efforts toward better connection – to help you activate (or reactivate) your innate capacity for wonder and healing. Your role is to show up and to be open to shifting your perspectives and changing unhelpful behaviors.

I use a person-centered approach to therapy, heavily informed by Dialectical Behavior Therapy, as well as Existential, Trauma-Informed, and Psychodynamic approaches.

I received my bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Hamline University and my master’s degree in integrated behavioral health from the University of Minnesota. I am dually licensed as both an LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) and LADC (Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor).

When I’m not working I enjoy birdwatching and spending time with family.