Nikki Real, MA

(They/Them)

❌ Not accepting new clients

🗺️ Minnesota

💻 Both Telehealth & In-Person

📅 Tuesday & Thursdays evenings

🎂 Families and/or 18+

✉️ nikki@edgeswellness.com

☎️ 612.217.4539

🎓 MA Marriage and Family Therapy, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

Hi, I’m Nikki and I believe in the power of storytelling and the inherent wisdom of our embodied experiences. Each person in this world is an expert in their own life and you have permission to be human, imperfect, and vulnerable without shame. I see therapy as a collaborative, liberatory practice for us to discover, understand, nurture, and develop your authentic stories and selves. I dream of co-creating a space where we can connect, explore, try new things, and develop functional therapeutic practice for your life together. I hope to help you find a soft spaciousness within yourself that feels connected to who you are and the values you hold.

My therapy style is centered in Experiential Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. I am also a Brainspotting practitioner. As a fat, queer, disabled, neurodivergent, nonbinary person, my approach to this work is continuously informed by my values in anti-racism, anti-capitalism, queer and intersectional feminist theory, fat liberation, and disability justice. Our work together will be trauma-informed, collaborative, sex-positive, and systemic in its approach.

I am a graduate of St. Mary’s University of Minnesota with my MA in Marriage and Family Therapy. I received my Bachelor’s in both Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies. My background is in youth mentorship, social justice education, and community organizing. At home, I am typically snuggling with my wife and pets, playing video games, over analyzing tv shows and movies, or out in the hammock reading a fantasy book. If you think that we would make a good match, I look forward to hearing from you!