Sam Franklin

MA, LMFT

Pronouns: she/her, they/them

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

MN License #3118

Sam is co-owner and co-clinical director at Apricity Counseling and Wellness. They received their Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, as well as completed a Graduate Certificate Program in Sex Therapy at UW-Stout. They have experience working with adolescents and adults providing individual, couples, family, and group therapy. They also have a background in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Sam enjoys working with relational issues, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, anger management, religious trauma, and topics related to gender and sexuality. They are also an LMFT MN board approved supervisor.

Sam identifies as queer and genderfluid and enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families that identify within the LGBTQIA2S+ communities. They use a systemic lens in their work, which means they see the people they work with as impacting and being impacted by their relationships and society's larger systems. They strive to be mindful of how systemic oppression impacts their clients and plays a role in people's mental health and overall well-being.

In their free time, Sam enjoys spending time outdoors, writing, watching documentaries, going to concerts, and traveling.

To contact Sam for more information regarding their services or to schedule an appointment please call the clinic or email them at sam@apricitycw.com.

For Clients

I am currently only taking on short-term clients who are interested in working through an individual anger-guilt program (clients must be located in Minnesota even if program is done virtually). This is the same program I ran in a group setting for years at Apricity and am now only offering on an individual basis at this time. I do not offer court-ordered anger assessments at this time.

I offer a free 20 minute consultation to determine if working together would be a good fit.

The Social Regulatory Theory of Anger-Guilt (SRT) Program includes the following topics:

Purpose and nature of anger and guilt
How to determine when anger and guilt are justified
How to take appropriate action with anger and guilt
Anger vs. frustration
Boundaries, use of power, resistance
Avoiding and managing the “red zone” when people are likely to over-respond in anger
Managing relationship conflict, conflict resolution, and communication
Guilt vs. shame and ways to manage shame
Anxiety, how it relates to anger and guilt, and ways to manage anxiety
Stored/built up anger
Stored/built up guilt and shame

The SRT Program is a combination of education, processing, and homework. Worksheets and handouts will be included.

If you choose to use insurance, 1-2 sessions would be used to complete the initial intake and set goals. After completing the intake process, the program would take a minimum of 20 weekly sessions, which is 5-6 months. A mental health diagnosis is required to use insurance. If there is no evidence for a mental health diagnosis, then the intake and follow up sessions would be billed as private pay.

$260 for intake (1-2 sessions)

$210 per hour for follow up sessions (minimum of 20 sessions)

If you choose to not use insurance, the program can be completed in less than 6 months by having sessions more than once a week or having longer than 1 hour sessions (1.5-2 hour sessions). Minimum amount of time to complete the program would be 2 months and would require meeting more than once a week.

$260 for intake (1-2 sessions)

$210 per hour for follow up sessions (minimum of 20 hours)

Sessions can be paid at once or in installments

For Providers

I offer consultation with other mental health providers about working with anger and guilt. Consultation can include general questions and support, specific case consultation, or Self of the Therapist work. Self of the Therapist work may include assessments completed by the provider to get feedback on how their own anger and guilt belief systems, behaviors, and experiences may be impacting their work with clients.

Licensed providers - $200/hr

Prelicensed providers - $100/hr

Sam has also presented on a variety of topics at various seminars and mental health and education conferences, including topics of anger, anxiety, family and relationship dynamics. For speaking inquiries please email Sam at sam@apricitycw.com.

Check out Sam speak about anger and how to manage it in this news story. For more information about anger you can read these blog posts: The Consequences of Built Up and Unresolved Anger and Is the World Angrier Nowadays?

Check out Sam talking about anger, guilt and shame, and how this relates to parenting in this podcast episode on the parenting podcast, "Just Don't Eff Them Up."