Amelia Blankenau, MA

Amelia is a PhD candidate in counseling psychology at the University of Minnesota. She has clinical experience in a variety of settings, including primary care mental health integration at the Minneapolis VA, community mental health at Tubman at Chrysalis Center, career counseling at UMN’s Career Counseling and Assessment Clinic, and college counseling at UMN’s Student Counseling Services. Amelia especially enjoys working with college students, queer people, people of color, and adoptees. Her counseling approach is informed by acceptance and commitment therapy, intersectionality theory, and evidence-based treatments.

Amelia identifies as a queer/lesbian, cisgender woman and a transracial, transnational adoptee (born in Korea; raised in the rural Midwest; attended a small liberal arts college in LA). She has lived in the Twin Cities since 2021.

PhD Candidate in Counseling Psychology, 2027 – University of Minnesota

MA in Psychology, 2025 – University of Minnesota

BA in Psychology, 2021 – Occidental College