Up North Therapy

Up North Therapy Providing individual and family therapy in Duluth and across the North Shore. Immediate availability available. Call us today!

Please welcome Karyl!Karyl DeWitt is a counseling intern pursuing dual licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (L...
02/05/2026

Please welcome Karyl!

Karyl DeWitt is a counseling intern pursuing dual licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). She specializes in working with couples and individuals navigating relationship distress, betrayal, communication breakdowns, and life transitions. Her clinical focus is grounded in helping people restore emotional safety, rebuild trust, and create healthier, more connected relationships.

Karyl integrates evidence-based approaches, including the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Person-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This integrative framework allows her to support clients in understanding both the emotional patterns that drive their relationships and the practical skills needed to create lasting change. She is especially passionate about helping couples move beyond conflict cycles and toward deeper emotional connection, secure attachment, and meaningful communication.

Karyl brings warmth, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard to every session. Clients often experience her as compassionate and grounded, creating a safe space for vulnerability while also offering structure, clarity, and direction. Her use of CBT helps clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, while EFT and Gottman-based interventions help couples understand the emotional and relational dynamics shaping their interactions.

In addition to her clinical training, Karyl holds a master’s degree in management, bringing nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare leadership and community-based systems. This background gives her a unique appreciation for how stress, trauma, and life demands affect individuals and families. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process, empowering clients to identify their strengths, clarify their goals, and move toward the relationships and lives they want to build.

Up North Therapy is now seeing clients in Ashland, WI! Located in the MainStreet Clinic.📍 1001 W Main St., Ashland, WIWe...
02/05/2026

Up North Therapy is now seeing clients in Ashland, WI!
Located in the MainStreet Clinic.

📍 1001 W Main St., Ashland, WI

We offer compassionate, trauma-informed mental health care for individuals and families, with both in-person and telehealth options available.

✅ Accepting insurance:
BCBS • Medica • Optum • HealthPartners
UnitedHealthcare • Cigna • Tricare
Medicare • Some Medicaid plans

💻 Learn more or request an appointment:
👉 www.upnorth-therapy.com

Care that meets you where you are. 💚

🌲 Appointments Available 🌲Up North Therapy is now seeing clients in Ashland, WI, located in the MainStreet Clinic.📍 1001...
02/05/2026

🌲 Appointments Available 🌲

Up North Therapy is now seeing clients in Ashland, WI, located in the MainStreet Clinic.

📍 1001 W Main St., Ashland, WI

We offer compassionate, trauma-informed mental health care for individuals and families, with both in-person and telehealth options available.

✅ Accepting insurance:
BCBS • Medica • Optum • HealthPartners
UnitedHealthcare • Cigna • Tricare
Medicare • Some Medicaid plans

💻 Learn more or request an appointment:
👉 www.upnorth-therapy.com

Care that meets you where you are. 💚
✔️ Individual therapy and family therapy
✔️ In-person & telehealth options

02/05/2026

‼️YOUR MENTAL HEALTH IS IMPORTANT‼️

01/13/2026

PAVSA is reintroducing our weekly Writing Circle, now as an open group (no registration needed) 📖🖋

✨Tuesdays from 3-4pm
✨Free and Confidential
✨Supplies provided
✨No writing experience needed
✨18+ are welcome

32 E 1st Street Duluth, MN 55802
Questions? Contact the PAVSA office at 218-726-1442

01/13/2026
01/10/2026

To save lives, we must focus on cultivating the conditions that prevent despair.

Winter can feel heavy — but you don’t have to carry it alonwUp North Therapy provides compassionate counseling with imme...
12/26/2025

Winter can feel heavy — but you don’t have to carry it alonw

Up North Therapy provides compassionate counseling with immediate availability, flexible sliding-fee options, and grant support for those who qualify.

As the New Year approaches, give yourself permission to grow, heal, and move forward with clarity and strength.

Let’s work together toward a healthier mindset.

www.upnorth-therapy.com

12/23/2025

✨ Holiday Reminder ✨ Take care of your mental health this season.

12/23/2025

Growing Around Grief is a model created by grief counselor Dr. Lois Tonkin. Tonkin came up with the model after speaking to a client about the death of their child. The woman told Tonkin that at first grief filled every part of her life. She drew a picture with a circle to represent her life and shading to indicate her grief. It was all-consuming.⁠

She had thought that as time went by the grief would shrink and become a much smaller part of her life. But what happened was different. The grief stayed just as big, but her life grew around it. There were times where she felt the grief as intensely as when her child first died. But there were other times where she felt she lived her life in the space outside the circle.⁠

This view of grief does not tell someone that their grief will go away in time. You will never be "over it." It acknowledges that there will be some days where you feel grief as strongly as you did when the person first died. But there will also be days when you are able to move on with other parts of your life.⁠

The "growing around grief" model shows how we can still grieve the loss of our loved one while carrying on with our own lives. It shows that we can grow a new life which includes the loss.⁠

🎨 Art by creative.clinical.psychologist on Instagram
✍️ Words by Cruse Bereavement Support

12/23/2025

Christmas can be overwhelming for children.
More noise. More people. Less routine.
So when behaviour shifts, it isn’t a lack of gratitude or excitement — it’s communication.
This season, let’s respond to what children are telling us, not just what we’re seeing.













12/23/2025

☃️ Like a snowman, we’re all a work in progress built one piece at a time. Some days the sun shines, some days we fall apart… and that’s okay. 💙

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Silver Bay, MN
55614

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 4pm
Tuesday 8am - 4pm
Wednesday 8am - 4pm
Thursday 8am - 4pm
Friday 8am - 4pm

Telephone

+12182209699

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