Care That Honors Your Whole Story

Counseling for Individuals and Families in Minnesota and South Dakota

Trauma, anxiety, and depression therapy. In-person sessions in Glenwood and online across Minnesota and South Dakota.

 
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Care built around your story, so you can find…

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    Relief

    Some of the weight off, sooner than most people expect.

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    Steady ground

    Something solid under you when the next hard thing comes.

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    Your own words for it

    Most people arrive without them. That is normal, and it changes.

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    A way forward

    Not a fixed plan. A direction that is actually yours.

Start where you are

Some people come in carrying something specific and heavy. A loss, an event they cannot stop returning to, a stretch of years that changed them. Others just know that the way they have been getting through the week isn’t working anymore, and they can’t tell you exactly when that started. Both are good reasons to start.

We work with adults, teens, and elders who are dealing with trauma, anxiety, and depression, and with families who want to find a better way through something together. Some people come to us with a diagnosis they have carried for years. Others have never talked to anyone about any of this, and aren’t sure how it is supposed to go. You do not need to know before you get here.

Every person's story is different, so every healing journey is different. We build yours together, at a pace you set, and we will be honest with you about what we see along the way.

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Our Approach

Our goal is to foster healing, resilience, and hope in individuals, families, and communities. Inspired by a legacy of strength and remembrance, we provide compassionate, evidence-based care that honors each person's story, supports growth through adversity, and empowers people to live with purpose, connection, and courage.

How We Help

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    Individual Counseling

    We start with a diagnostic assessment, usually 60 to 90 minutes, to understand what brought you in and what you want to be different. From there, sessions run 30, 45, or 60 minutes, and we can arrange something shorter or longer if that fits your life better.

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    Family Counseling

    Sometimes the thing that needs attention is not one person. It is the way a family has learned to get through hard things together. We work with families who want to communicate better, repair something, or figure out how to support someone they love.

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    Supervision and Consultation

    LICSW and CSW-PIP supervision for clinicians working toward licensure, clinical consultation, and speaking engagements.

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Why We Are Called Tin Cup

Every name carries a story, and ours is drawn from Millie Tin Cup — a full-blooded Mnicoujou-Lakota woman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and paternal grandmother of our founder, Colter Combellick. Millie was remembered for her generosity of spirit. She also lived with her own struggles with mental health and addiction, and passed away at only thirty-six — her death unresolved, her name among the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women whose stories remain, too often, untold. In her honor, this practice exists as more than a name: it is a commitment to the standard of care she deserved — clinically sound, culturally grounded, and rooted in dignity.

  • That commitment is grounded in the Glenwood, Starbuck, and Lake Minnewaska community we are proud to serve. This land was Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota homeland long before it became Pope County, ceded through the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851. The lake at the heart of this community carries that history within its own name — once known as White Bear Lake, in honor of a Dakota chief laid to rest in a mound along its northern shore, before returning, by legislative act, to Minnewaska: Dakota for “good water.” It is a name embraced across the community regardless of heritage, and it reflects precisely what we aim to offer — not a quick remedy, but clarity, steadiness, and a dependable place to do the work that matters.

    Founder Colter Combellick carries both of those inheritances into the therapy room — his grandmother’s insistence that care be dignified, and this land’s long-standing promise of good water — offering culturally responsive support for clients of every background, with particular depth in Indigenous mental health, alongside evidence-based treatment for anxiety, depression, and trauma. His professional experience spans the U.S. Department of the Interior, higher education, community mental health, and both outpatient and inpatient settings. Tin Cup Counseling & Consultation welcomes clients of every background — regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, language, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or socioeconomic status — because Mitakuye Oyasin, we are all related, is not a boundary but an invitation. Cante waste, nape ciyuzapelo: whoever you are, whatever brought you here, we’re ready to help you find the same clarity and steadiness this land has always called good water.

We Provide a Few Different Ways To Get Care

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    In-person counseling in Glenwood, Minnesota

    Our office is easy to get to from across Pope County and the surrounding area. Clients drive in from Alexandria, Osakis, Carlos, Garfield, Nelson, Brandon, and Miltona, and from a little further out in Evansville, Starbuck, Parkers Prairie, Sauk Centre, Melrose, and Long Prairie. If the drive is longer than that, telehealth usually makes more sense, and it works just as well.

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    Online, anywhere in Minnesota or South Dakota

    Telehealth means you do not have to drive. As long as you are physically in Minnesota or South Dakota during your session, we can work together, whether you are in the Twin Cities, Duluth, Rochester, Willmar, Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Pierre, Mobridge, or on the reservation.

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    Travel and community engagements

    Some of this work happens outside an office. Colter travels for community engagements with Indigenous communities across Minnesota and South Dakota, including trainings, talks, and work connected to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

    If your tribe, school, clinic, or organization is looking for a Lakota clinician for a training, a panel, or a community event, we would like to hear about it.

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Meet Colter

Colter Combellick is a licensed clinical therapist and the founder of Tin Cup Counseling. He specializes in trauma and PTSD, anxiety, and depression, with additional training in Brainspotting and Accelerated Resolution Therapy, and in working with complex trauma.

Ten years in practice across community mental health, inpatient and outpatient care, higher education, and the Department of the Interior. Licensed in Minnesota and South Dakota.

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Coming soon: we are growing. Additional licensed clinicians will be joining Tin Cup Counseling, which means shorter waits and more options for the kind of care that fits you.

Questions people ask before they call

  • 1. Book a free 15-minute consultation: We talk about what is going on and whether we are a good fit. No cost, no pressure, no paperwork yet.

    2. Complete your intake: Simple Practice handles scheduling and paperwork securely.

    3. Come in for your first full session: The diagnostic assessment, and then a plan you helped build.

  • We are in network with most major Minnesota plans, and we accept private pay including HSA and FSA. If your plan is not listed, we can help you check your out-of-network benefits. Link: See the full list

  • We are in-network with most Minnesota plans and accept private pay, including HSA and FSA. Cost should not be the reason you put this off, so if you are not sure what your coverage looks like, ask us, and we will help you find out. We try to meet you where you are in your financial journey. Learn more about our rates and insurance coverage.

  • Both. In person at our Glenwood office, and online by telehealth anywhere in Minnesota or South Dakota.

  • No. Book a free consultation, and we will go from there.

  • A diagnostic assessment, usually 60 to 90 minutes. We talk through what brought you in and what you want to be different, and we leave with a plan you helped build.

  • Yes, as long as you are physically in Minnesota or South Dakota during your sessions. Colter is licensed in both states.