Mary Gales-Wenz , LICSW

Mary Gales-Wenz is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 40 years of experience in behavioral health. She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work and has practiced across a wide range of treatment settings, combining clinical expertise with a long-standing commitment to helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, and life transitions.

For two decades she worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs at both the St. Cloud and Minneapolis hospitals, providing care in outpatient and inpatient settings. Her subsequent roles have included mental health work with Hazelden Center for Youth and Families, Allina Behavioral Health Clinics, and Central Minnesota Mental Health Clinics, clinical supervision of residential treatment for the Department of Corrections, and behavioral healthcare management for a local Minnesota insurance company. She has maintained a small private practice since 2009.

Mary has worked with adults, seniors, and adolescents in chemical dependency and mental health treatment, addressing post-traumatic stress, anxiety, sexual and physical trauma, depression, and related concerns. She stays current with evolving research and treatment modalities and has a particular interest in the mind-body connection. She is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, a method that helps people process the full emotional and cognitive elements of difficult memories, and draws on an array of clinical approaches to tailor care to each person.