Our Team

Georgeanna Lewis, MSW, LICSW

Georgeanna Lewis

MSW, LICSW

In the desert of the heart
Let the healing fountain start – W.H Auden

Therapy was not my first career. I began as a student of creative writing (poetry) and literature, and taught literature and writing as a graduate student. However, I finally found my professional home in clinical social work— work which taps into my understanding of literature and of the role of the creative imagination in representing emotional experience through both narrative and imagery.

When someone shares their emotional experience in therapy for the first time (or perhaps second, third or even eleventh time) it can feel risky, even scary. My initial goal is to ensure the space I co-create with clients is a safe one, in which difficult issues and emotions can be explored without judgement. My work is relational, client-centered, body and emotion focused, and attentive to language, image and story. I am attuned to what goes on within the relational space. I aim to be genuine, and to “show up” as a person in my own right, since I believe that psychotherapy is an activity between two people, working together. To enter therapy is to enter into relationship as well as conversation.

I have had more than 18 years of experience providing psychotherapy to individuals, couples and groups, adults as well as ‘tweens’ and adolescents. I’ve provided services in a mobile crisis unit, a domestic violence agency, a middle-school/high school, and a private practice setting. I’ve worked with people with histories of trauma, addiction, abuse, and incarceration, as well as people coming to terms with loss, divorces or failed relationships, and people who simply feel they have failed in their life tasks in some way. I have a Masters degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of St. Thomas/College of St. Catherine School of Social Work. I bring experience and training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Dance Movement Therapy, and the Adult Attachment Interview. I also draw on my own explorations of Internal Family Systems Therapy.

I live in South Minneapolis with my family and two cats. Sometimes I still write poetry.