About Brenden
Dr. Brenden Troster is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Minnesota with seven years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
He combines years of coaching with therapy skills to help people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, or painful life events. He begins by listening to each person’s story and asking what matters most to them.
Dr. Troster’s background includes work in school-based mental health, addiction treatment, residential care for children and teens, and outpatient settings.
That range gives him familiarity with many kinds of struggles, from grief and trauma to anger and sleep problems. He aims to meet people where they are without assuming one single method will fit everyone.
In sessions he focuses on clear, practical steps alongside deeper processing when it’s needed. He draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and the Gottman Method to shape the work.
The emphasis is on tools you can use between sessions and on tracking progress toward real goals. Dr.
Troster also addresses specific concerns like ADHD, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes. He supports people working through relationship communication, abandonment wounds, adoption and foster-care histories, caregiver stress, and other layered issues.
His sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is arranged after completing a short matching questionnaire.
How therapy approaches work online
Dr. Troster uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify their values and take small steps toward a more meaningful life despite difficult thoughts or feelings. ACT is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes because it focuses on what matters and on flexible actions.He also incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. CBT provides practical tools for managing anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger by testing unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and day-to-day life and then suggest methods that seem likely to help. Together you’ll try strategies, check what works, and adjust the plan as needed.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging gives flexibility for different routines. Video lets you use visual cues for relationship or emotion work, phone calls can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited, chat or text can fit brief check-ins or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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