Increasing the possibility that children and families can live easier, better, and more fulfilled lives.
Neurodiversity Affirming
Child Led
LGBTQ+ Affirming
Strengths Based​
Caregiver Partner
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Dr. Kai meets kids and families where they are at and walks with them. He aims to see kids, fully, and to allow them to be their whole selves in ways they couldn't before.
Dr. Kai
Dr. Kai is an LMFT and LPCC and AAMFT Supervisor. He is the owner of Dandelion Spirit, a neurodevelopmental and mental health clinic with locations in New Hope and Eagan that includes neurodevelopmental specialists, mental health, occupational therapy (OT), and speech therapy (SLP) - Dandelion Spirit focuses on working with people who have experienced trauma, neurodiverse people, and LGBTQ+ people, with a particular focus on children, youth, and their families.
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Dr. Kai has worked with children and families for well over two decades. He partners with children and families to work on practical solutions to make their everyday lives better while also creating space for expression; processing; creation, development, consolidation, and communication of identity; and healing.
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He does not believe in treating neurodiversity (such as autism). He works with children and families to better understand how their brains work and what they need, to identify modifications to environments (e.g., at home and at school) that are more supportive of that, to build the skills they want to have to be able to navigate their daily lives, and to process and heal the trauma of living a daily life in a world that wasn't built for them.
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Dr. Kai brings a nervous-system-centric approach to everything he does, believing deeply in regulation through play, connection, and engagement in special interests. He is trained (in both foundations and implementation) in Sensorimotor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART), the Safe and Sound Protocol, and Anchored Relational Therapy / Adaptive Internal Relations Network (AIR Network).
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Dr. Kai also has specialized experience and skill in assessing neurodiverse children, with particular expertise in assessing children birth through age 5. He utilizes an assessment protocol that centers building a positive experience between child and therapeutic spaces and keeping child autonomy and child consent intact.
