Amber’s client focus is adolescents and adults experiencing anxiety, life transitions, gender and sexual identity exploration, self-esteem, gender dysphoria, trauma, and depression. Through in-person sessions at an art studio or virtually via zoom, Amber will walk with you along your path, exploring your core values, building self-efficacy, and expanding internal and external insight to promote a balanced nervous system and greater self-awareness and regard.
Amber is currently accepting clients to meet in-person or virtually on Thursdays in Minneapolis.
Hello, I’m Amber Boesel (She/They)
Amber believes in the importance of awareness and engagement with holistic perspectives between the intersection of social, cultural, historical, and individual experiences. She believes that through expanded understanding of these domains and lived experiences as well as their impact, we can operate from a place of compassion and empowerment towards the self and community. Amber considers access to mental healthcare an integral piece within holistic wellness, and commits to providing ethical and compassionate care to foster increased self-compassion, balance, and an embodied sense of empowered identity.
Amber is an analog photographer and sculptor with a passion for ecological and sustainable art processes. They believe that through engagement with the natural world via art and experience, one can explore the ebb and flow of connectivity and meaning-making both at an individual core and broader point of connection. Sessions with Amber might include reflective art-making within an open-studio or guided process using traditional, found, and experimental art materials while maintaining safe studio practices. Verbal processing and conversation including creative and metaphorical curiosity can also be experienced. Time spent connecting with and exploring nature through guided walks, gardening, and eco-based art-making may also be integrated into sessions.
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My Approach
Education and certifications
Amber is a pre-licensed clinical counselor and provisional art therapist with a nature-based and humanistic approach. She integrates narrative, person-centered, and Adlerian theory with a strengths-based and holistic therapeutic experience to foster individualized and meaningful connection. Amber’s work emphasizes mind-body connective understanding through neurobiology and movement, explored through diverse art-making and nature-based interactions.
Amber earned a Master of Arts Degree in Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy with an emphasis in Art Therapy and Clinical Mental Health from Adler Graduate School, located in Minnesota, in 2024. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and Art from University of Wisconsin- La Crosse, located in Wisconsin, in 2021. Amber continues to engage in community learning opportunities both as an educator and learner, and is a certified Master Naturalist through the University of Wisconsin Extension program.
In Progress: Anchored Relational Training
In Progress: Ecotherapy certificate through South Western College, New Earth Institute
Amber serves as Operations Coordinator for the Art(s) Therapy Hub, where they offer CEU and community workshops focused on nature-based art-making through a therapeutic lens. Learn more about the Hub.