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Lake Country Associates welcomes Laura Hansen Master’s of Social Work (MSW), Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) to our Bemidji office. Laura has thirty-two years of experience working in the mental health, counseling and social work field. In 2008,...

Community members may have heard that the state of Minnesota's crisis text provider "Txt4life" is ending next month. This service will be moving from a Minnesota provider to an existing national nonprofit called Crisis Text Line. Txt4life will be responding to texts...

Caleb Roiko, a Registered Nurse, joined our Park Rapids ARMHS team in December and will be providing Medication Education services for people in the ARMHS program.  He attended Northwest Technical College in Bemidji and become a Registered Nurse in 2016.  Caleb is...

Please join us in welcoming Loretta Bach, LADC to the Lake Country team.  Loretta graduated from Minnesota State University-Mankato with certification in chemical dependency counseling in 1986. She went on to work towards certification as a CCDCR and was ultimately...

On January 2, Alicia V. Holley, MA, LPCC, ATR-BC joined the LCA team in the Bemidji office.  Alicia is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Board Certified-Registered Art Therapist with 15 years of experience providing mental health and art therapy services...

Lake Country Associates will again be offering the Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) group therapy. STEPPS is a cognitive behavioral, skills training approach to assist people in the management of emotional intensity and the...

Lake Country Cottage drop-in center has been open for a couple months now.  Construction on the building is complete and Members have been working to make their drop-in center comfortable for everyone.  Since opening, there have been many improvements and changes...

Lake Country Associates is happy to announce the addition of two new Mental Health Rehab Workers to our ARMHS team of professionals. RJ Wattenhofer RJ received his Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from Bemidji State University in 1994 and graduated on May 25,...

Lake Country Cottage opened its doors mid-May and will provide new opportunities for community members diagnosed with mental illness.  The Cottage's goal is to use the tenets of the Clubhouse Model to help people diagnosed with mental illness (its members) with...