You can get started by filling out the contact form or emailing Manatee Mental Health. After you reach out, Manatee Mental Health will contact you by email to schedule a free 10–15 minute consultation phone call.

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Yes. A consultation call is a required part of the intake process. This brief phone call helps ensure a good therapeutic fit, gives you a chance to ask questions, and allows Manatee Mental Health to go over next steps before sending intake paperwork.

If you and the therapist decide to move forward, you will receive an email from noreply@sessionshealth.com with a link to create your client portal and complete registration paperwork.

Once all paperwork and intake steps are completed, Manatee Mental Health will contact you by email to schedule your intake session.

Yes. Manatee Mental Health accepts both private pay and health insurance. You can view current in-network insurance plans on the Insurance and Private Pay page.

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Yes, it is recommended that you contact your insurance company to verify that Manatee Mental Health is in-network with your specific plan and to ask about your mental health benefits.

You may want to ask about copays, coinsurance, deductibles, session limits, and out-of-network benefits.

Yes. Manatee Mental Health accepts private pay clients. Please ask Stephanie for current session rates. Reduced private pay rates may be discussed depending on availability and circumstances.

Manatee Mental Health offers telehealth sessions and in-person sessions at the Isanti clinic location. Information about telehealth sessions and/or in-person clinic details will be provided before your first appointment.

Manatee Mental Health is located at:

515 First Ave NW Suite 100
Isanti, MN 55040

Manatee Mental Health works with teens age 16+, young adults, and adults. Therapy may be a good fit for people navigating trauma, anxiety, OCD, depression, grief, stress, identity exploration, relationship concerns, life transitions, or patterns that feel hard to change.

Manatee Mental Health was founded by Stephanie Ruppert, MA, LMFT. Stephanie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with teens age 16+, young adults, and adults.

Stephanie uses a warm, collaborative, trauma-informed approach that may include Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems / parts work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, self-compassion, and nervous system regulation tools.

Stephanie uses a flexible, individualized approach depending on your needs. Some of the approaches used most often include Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems / parts work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

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Yes. Manatee Mental Health works with clients who have experienced trauma, including PTSD, complex trauma, attachment wounds, dissociation, and patterns that developed as ways to survive difficult experiences.

Stephanie often uses Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems / parts work, mindfulness, psychoeducation, and nervous system regulation tools to support trauma healing. Therapy may include helping you process painful experiences, understand protective patterns, build safety in the present, and relate to yourself with more compassion.

Brainspotting is a therapy approach that helps the brain and body process experiences that may feel stuck, overwhelming, or difficult to fully talk through. It is often used for trauma, anxiety, grief, emotional pain, and other experiences that can feel stored in the body.

During Brainspotting, your therapist helps you identify an eye position, or “brainspot,” that may connect with the issue you want to work on. From there, therapy moves at your pace while you notice thoughts, emotions, body sensations, memories, or whatever naturally comes up. The goal is not to force anything, but to give your brain and body space to process and move toward healing.

Yes. Manatee Mental Health is LGBTQIA+ affirming and neurodiversity affirming. Therapy is meant to be a supportive, nonjudgmental space where you do not have to explain or defend who you are.

Stephanie works to honor each client’s identity, lived experience, strengths, communication style, sensory needs, and goals. Therapy may include support around identity exploration, relationships, self-acceptance, trauma, anxiety, depression, masking, burnout, or navigating systems that have not always felt affirming.

Manatee Mental Health is not a crisis clinic. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 911, call or text 988, or go to your nearest emergency room.

You can also contact the Crisis Text Line by texting MN to 741741.