
HEAL Family Services
Rediscovering Hope, Empathy, and Love
in Adoptive Families
HEAL stands for Hope Empathy And Love, three crucial elements in any healing process. Our focus is on helping to rediscover these emotions in families’ current living situations.
HEAL Family Services is dedicated to helping families who have been touched by trauma. We work with all families affected by trauma, specializing in adoptive and foster families. HEAL also focuses on helping families, especially parents, to understand and cope with attachment difficulties in their children.
Heal Family Services is owned by Brenda Benning, MSW, LICSW who is a licensed, independent social worker practicing family therapy. She serves families with adopted children throughout the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, as well as the greater Minnesota areas, Brenda is a clinical social worker and skilled trainer bringing HEALing perspectives into focus while helping families understand and address their children’s difficult behaviors.