The following Counseling & Support providers work at Indian Health Board:

Laiel Baker-DeKrey, PhD, LP (She/Her)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Director of Counseling & Support and Recovery Services
  • Tribal Affiliation: Enrolled member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nations (Knife Clan)
  • Expertise: Specializes in trauma-informed, land-based, Indigenous-focused care and health equity.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Utilizes trauma-informed, land-based, Indigenous-focused care.
  • Education/Experience: Earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Dakota. Completed the Indians into Psychology Doctoral Education (INPSYDE) Program. Joined Indian Health Board in 2008.

Robin Young, PsyD, LP (He/Him)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Chief Psychologist
  • Expertise: Specializes in culturally and trauma-informed therapy, especially with children and families. Works with children, families, and individuals of all ages.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Trained in the Neurosequential Model in Therapeutics (NMT) and the Neurosequential Model in Education (NME).
  • Education/Experience: Completed a Doctor of Psychology degree at Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Twin Cities. Joined Indian Health Board in 2012.

Luz Angelic Salinas PsyD, LP (She/Her)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Training Director
  • Expertise: Focuses on complex trauma, attachment ruptures, and transracial adoption. Works with clients of all ages.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Provides therapy for individuals with complex trauma, attachment ruptures, and those who have been separated from their original families.
  • Education/Experience: Graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology in 2018. Joined Indian Health Board in 2016.

Christina Garrison-Diehn, PhD, LP (She/Her)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Manager.
  • Expertise: Integrated Behavioral Health Manager specializing in health-related concerns, cognitive functioning, insomnia, and smoking cessation.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Informed by evidence-based principles and a collaborative, strength-based therapeutic approach.
  • Education/Experience: Completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2014. Joined Indian Health Board in early 2023.

Thomas Murphy PsyD, LP (He/Him)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Staff Psychologist.
  • Expertise: Believes in the therapeutic power of humor, present-moment awareness, and individualized therapy.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Utilizes present-moment awareness and breathwork into therapy.
  • Education/Experience: Received a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of St. Thomas. Joined Indian Health Board in 2012.

Tyler Hoyt, PhD, LP (He/Him)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Staff Psychologist
  • Tribal Affiliation: First-generation descendent of the Blackfeet Tribe.
  • Expertise: Focuses on trauma, intergenerational trauma, and resilience. Provides psychological services across the lifespan and couple’s therapy.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Works from an emotion-focused, humanistic, body-based, psychodynamic perspective.
  • Education/Experience: Completed doctoral program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and predoctoral internship at the University of Hawaii. Joined Indian Health Board in 2020.

Micah L. Prairie Chicken, Ph.D., L.P. (He/Him)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Staff Psychologist
  • Tribal Affiliation: Enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Oyate and Mdewakantuan Dakota.
  • Expertise: Focuses on assessing and treating depression, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Research interests include American Indian coping styles, collectivistic coping styles, and gratitude.
  • Education/Experience: Holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Dakota. Joined Indian Health Board in 2019.

Kirsten Farmer, MSW, LICSW (She/Her)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Staff LICSW
  • Tribal Affiliation: Enrolled member of Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (SWO) and a lineal descendent of Rosebud Sicangu Oyate, the Omaha Nation, and the Senneca Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma.
  • Expertise: Specializes in culturally specific and trauma-informed care for Indigenous communities with a person-centered approach. Works with children, families, and individuals of all ages.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Trained in Brainspotting and utilizes Experiential Therapy and strengths-based approaches to help others heal from historical, inter-generational, and lived traumas with a goal of empowering Indigenous communities.
  • Education/Experience: Completed a Master of Social Work degree at Portland State University in 2020. Joined Indian Health Board in 2023.

Rosilynn Morris MSW, LICSW (She/Her)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Staff LICSW
  • Expertise: Specializes in early childhood mental health, complex trauma, and children experiencing significant emotional, behavioral, and social difficulty. Works with people of all ages.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Trained in developmental repair, CPI therapeutic holds and de-escalation. Utilizes play therapy, art, mindfulness, compassion, and humor.
  • Education/Experience:  Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of St. Thomas. Joined Indian Health Board in 2023.

Kathleen Herling, MS, LPCC, LADC, MT-BC (She/Her)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Staff Psychotherapist
  • Expertise: Dual-licensed mental health therapist and substance abuse counselor. Enjoys serving adults struggling with trauma, substance use, psychosis symptoms, and homelessness.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Trained in EMDR trauma therapy.
  • Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy from Augsburg University and a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Viterbo University. Joined Indian Health Board in Winter 2022.

Karen Leta Gillespie, MA, LMFT, ATR-P (She/Her)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Integrative Behavioral Health Consultant.
  • Expertise: Masters-level marriage & family therapist and registered art therapist. Provides wellness art therapy groups and individual therapy. Provides therapy to children, adolescents, and adults.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Utilizes somatic psychology, creative expression, and brainspotting to support wellness and trauma recovery.
  • Education/Experience: Earned a Master of Counseling at Adler Graduate School. Joined Indian Health Board in 2022.

Milo Due, MA (They/Them)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Postdoctoral Fellow.
  • Expertise: Training in psychodynamic therapy and complex trauma. Treats children, adolescents, and adults.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Incorporates play and expressive arts interventions into therapy.
  • Education/Experience: Graduated with a doctorate in counseling psychology from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota in 2023. Holds a master’s in mental health and substance abuse counseling from The New School in NYC. Joined Indian Health Board in 2022.

Noah Cole, MA, Doctoral Psychology Intern (He/Him)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Postdoctoral Fellow.
  • Tribal Affiliation: Enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
  • Expertise: Doctoral psychology intern specializing in trauma-informed and culturally competent psychological treatment and substance use treatments.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Utilizes person-centered, strength-based approaches and culturally based treatment modalities.
  • Education/Experience: Pursuing a Doctor of Clinical Psychology degree from Kansas City University. Joined Indian Health Board in 2022.

Kelly Dodson (She/Her)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Post Masters Fellow.
  • Expertise: Experience working across the lifespan and with adolescents in school-based services.
  • Approaches/Trainings: Specializes in person-centered, humanistic approaches to therapy.
  • Education/Experience: Graduated from Liberty University Online with a Masters in Professional Counseling. Joined Indian Health Board in 2022.

Julie Lufkins (She/Her)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Business Coordinator II at IHB Counseling Center.
  • Tribal Affiliation: White Earth
  • Background: From White Earth, MN. Joined Indian Health Board Counseling Center in 2022.

Michael L. Harris, MA, LP (He/Him)

  • Current Position/Role at IHB: Director of Communication & Community Engagement and Staff Psychologist.
  • Expertise: Healing from attachment trauma, foster care & adoption, grief work, mental health in the schools & community, assessing and treating Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), cross-cultural clinical supervision and training, dementia & aging services, and coaching caregivers of special needs children.
  • Education: Received a BA degree from Vanderbilt University and a graduate degree from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Completed a clinical internship at Hennepin County Medical Center in 1994-95. Became a Certified Instructor for the Wim Hof Method of breathwork and cold exposure in 2022. Michael joined Indian Health Board in 1995, and previously served as the Director of IHB’s Counseling & Support Clinic from 2002-2021.