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Chris has a Master’s degree from St. Mary’s University in Human Development, a certificate from the
Gestalt Institute of the Twin Cities, a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Argosy
University, and training in EMDR.  

Chris has been working for over twenty years offering psychotherapy to individuals, couples and
families.  Her warm and caring nature has complimented her previous work experience at an
adolescent outreach program, within a church counseling program addressing spiritual and sexual
abuse issues, with traumatic injury and recovery at the Regions Hospital Burn Center in St. Paul MN,
and emotional healing and recovery at Andersen-McClelland & Associates and the Midwest Center for
Trauma and Emotional Healing.

Chris’s area’s of specialization include working with individuals who have physical and emotional
trauma experiences, as well as the families and couples who have felt the impact of traumatic
incidences within their relationships.  As part of her experience working at the Burn Center, Chris has
extensive practice working with cosmetic scarring and related isolation and social re-entry issues.
CHRISTINE GILYARD MA., LAMFT
Marriage & Family Therapy
Burn Trauma Consultant

763.286.6432
16204 Highway 7   
Minnetonka, MN 55345    

Office: 952.934.2555     
Fax:  952.934.3010   

mwtraumacenter.com    
info@mwtraumacenter.com

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