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Fernbrook Family Center provides mental health service using innovative strategies to build relationships and transform lives. We provide services in 8 county locations across Southern Minnesota to clients of all ages: from birth through adulthood. Our services include skills (CTSS and ARMHS), psychotherapy, medication management, and children’s mental health case management. Visit our website for more information about our services and locations.

Maura McBreen, MS, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
Maura is the owner of Wounded Haven Counseling, located in lower North Mankato. For over a decade, Maura has gained experience and passion working with all age groups with attachment and trauma injuries. Attachment directly impacts how individuals connect with others. Maura has specialty training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Anchored Relational Therapy (formerly AIR Network), Enhanced trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) as well as earning her Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate in 2017. She enjoys working with family systems and providing a “youthful” approach to issues impacting children, parents and families. Much of her early clinical experience was through the lens of play therapy and child development. Although Maura is a marriage and family therapist, many of her clients come to therapy on an individual basis.

She has a special interest in empowering women, often working closely with women to improve self confidence, communication and helping them step into their innate power. When Maura is not wearing her therapist hat, she focuses on being a mom to her two sons, spending time with her husband and finding adventures as a family of four.

Emily earned her Master’s Degree in Integrated Behavioral Health in 2021 from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. During Graduate School, Emily received a Minor in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health with a Youth Specialization. She is a licensed therapist to practice as a Clinical Professional Counselor (LPCC). Emily is a dually-licensed therapist having obtained her Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC). Emily has experience working in residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment centers, outpatient mental health settings, family treatment centers, and the school setting. She specializes in working with children who have experienced Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Behavioral Dysregulation, Attentional and Impulsivity issues, Attachment Disruptions, and children living with Autism. Emily has experience in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Art Therapy, Child Play Therapy, Family Therapy, and Group Therapy.

It is Emily’s personal belief that all individuals have the potential to grow and the capability to change. She believes it is imperative that the family plays an active role in the treatment of children. Emily enjoys securing a collaborative relationship with children and their families. She will work together with families to determine the plan and goals for the counseling process that best fits the needs of the child. Building strong, trusting relationships with caregivers and their children is at the foundation of what Emily does. Emily creates a non-judgmental, emotionally supportive therapeutic environment where the child and their family can build trust and foster their internal capacity for growth and change.