Connie Toavs, LCSW, LICSW

Minnesota · 10 years in practice

Connie Toavs is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns.

License and registration

LICSW, Minnesota: 25715 · expires November 2026
LCSW, Wisconsin: 11792 - 123 · expires February 2027
NPI: 1033698949 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 10
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Connie

Connie Toavs is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She practices in Minnesota and brings a steady, calming presence to sessions. Connie speaks English and draws on a decade of experience in mental health care.

She blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy with attachment-based and client-centered approaches to help people understand patterns that keep causing pain. Sessions focus on noticing feelings, tracing them back to relationship or life-history patterns, and finding new ways to respond.

Background and approach

Connie uses everyday language to explain how emotions affect the body and behavior. Her background includes psychology, gerontology, and social work, which informs work with aging concerns, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and end-of-life issues. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction, intimacy struggles, codependency, and questions around sexuality including kink and BDSM when relevant.

Connie works collaboratively to identify repeated patterns that reduce quality of life. Therapy often includes life review, skill building, and exploring how thoughts and behaviors interact. Cognitive behavioral strategies are used alongside emotion-focused work when helpful.

Practical needs such as career stress, compassion fatigue, chronic pain, and caregiver burden are part of the focus. Clients can expect a nonjudgmental space where goals are set together and progress is tracked in sessions. Her approach is calm, relational, and goal-minded.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Connie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Coping with life changes
Addictions
LGBT
Relationship issues
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Depression
Compassion fatigue
Aging and geriatric issues
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Emptiness
Guilt and shame
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Mood disorders
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Post-traumatic stress
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Self-love
Sexuality
Traumatic brain injury
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Connie names

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Online support

How emotion-focused and attachment work online

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and reshaping strong emotions linked to relationship patterns. It helps people who feel stuck in recurring hurt, withdrawal, or conflict by supporting new emotional experiences and ways of connecting. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and reactions. It can be useful for people coping with intimacy concerns, trust issues, codependency, or persistent loneliness by building awareness of attachment needs. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping clients find their own solutions. This approach supports people who need a steady, accepting space to talk through life transitions, grief, or identity questions. Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up to decide whether EFT, attachment work, CBT techniques, or a blend will help most. Clients shape the plan and adjust it as progress is made. Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls let visual cues guide emotion-focused work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection, homework, and brief check-ins between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain regular care while balancing work, caregiving, or health demands, and they provide multiple ways to stay connected to a licensed professional.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns can be addressed in sessions?

Connie helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include chronic illness, caregiving stress, aging concerns, and end-of-life matters.

What is her general therapeutic style?

She works in a calm, nonjudgmental way and blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy, attachment-based, and client-centered approaches. Sessions emphasize understanding feelings, noticing patterns, and practicing new ways of responding.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Connie has 10 years of experience in mental health and social work. Her background includes psychology and gerontology alongside clinical practice.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices in Minnesota. The profile lists WI LCSW and MN LICSW as credential details.

Which languages and international services are available?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats does she offer?

Connie provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different scheduling and communication needs.

How does billing and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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