Strategies for Meaningful Living, PC

Strategies for Meaningful Living, PC was created in 2004 as a small, part-time private practice.  Since then, it has grown in its breadth of services.  Dr. Szporn feels passionately about helping individuals and couples explore their values and identify how they might live a more meaningful life.

About Dr. Szporn

 Andrea Szporn, PhD, is a  Licensed Psychologist in Minnesota and Colorado.  She received a bachelor's degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University.  She received a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from New York University.  She has rounded out her training at several hospitals, including: Mount Sinai Medical Center; Lenox Hill Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  In 2000, she moved to Minneapolis to pursue a Psychology Internship at Hennepin County Medical Center where she was selected for the Child Track of the internship program.  She stayed on to complete a Fellowship and in 2002, was hired by the hospital as a Staff Psychologist treating children, adolescents and adults. She continued to work at the hospital on a part-time basis until 2016. At HCMC, she provided psychological consultations to the medical units and outpatient psychotherapy in the Psychiatry Clinic and Women's Mental Health Program.  Dr. Szporn has a strong clinical interest in attachment, the impact of maternal depression on children, positive parenting strategies, and the impact of childhood trauma on parenting and intimate relationships. In 2019, she will be moving with her family to Colorado as part of a values-driven decision to explore different places in this short but precious lifetime. 

When not working, I love to bike, hike and read. I love spending time with my husband and two teenage daughters - most of the time. Yet, sometimes I don't enjoy spending time with them because relationships and teens can be difficult :D

I love using humor in my therapy sessions. I try to help people feel comfortable by being authentic and not pretending to have all the answers or the perfect life. You will never see me in a suit at work and I think jeans are under-appreciated by people in professional circles. It takes courage to decide to live consistent with one's values but I aim to do it every day. Life is a challenge for all of us at times. That doesn't have to be a problem if we can just accept that this is true.