Jessica Anderson, LICSW

Jessica Anderson, LICSW Mental Health Therapist
EMDRIA Approved EMDR Consultant
Veriditas Trained Labyrinth Facilitator

This page is not frequently monitored and should not be used for communication by clients or prospective clients. Please contact me at [email protected] if you are looking for therapy, EMDR consultation, supervision, or a labyrinth experience. This page was created primarily to share information related to labyrinths with a mental health and healing twist.

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I am so grateful to have found this labyrinth today. It has been on my list of labyrinths to visit for a very long time....
05/19/2026

I am so grateful to have found this labyrinth today. It has been on my list of labyrinths to visit for a very long time. Today, I prioritized fitting it into my schedule. I must’ve known exactly what I needed today.

I walked it three times today. The first walk was just in awe of how beautiful it was and how I would like to make one similar.

The second walk was capturing pictures and video for Instagram, for myself and my friends, and for someone I think this could be an inspiration to while planning her own labyrinth.

My third walk was why I came. I walked into the labyrinth, dropping more into my body and feeling the anxiety that has been bothering me. I was able to get more curious about it. I started to talk aloud, which is rare, but felt possible due to how secluded it felt and the rush of the creek next to me. I got to levels of anger I was feeling. Like so many walks before, I got to the heart of it when I got to the center. I paused and looked up and took a deep breath and let it out.

My walk out felt very different. I was filled with gratitude for this particular labyrinth and all the people and heart that went into designing it, building it, and tending it. Then I moved through gratitude for the labyrinth throughout history. Then to Lauren Artress for having the vision, passion l and determination to sprinkle labyrinths across the world, especially here in the United States. And then I came back to myself, and many layers of gratitude for myself.

Every walk is different, every person is different. Although every labyrinth is different, there is something beautiful and wonder about the universality of it.

Thank you labyrinthlocator.org for helping me find this labyrinth at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Edina, MN. It’s behind the church, along the creek. You can get to the back off the road by the creek or there the center corridor that has stairs down to the back. It’s open always to the public. Even though it’s a church, you don’t need to be a member or follow any faith tradition.

Caponi Art Park in Eagan, MN has been on my destination labyrinth list for quite some time and I finally made it there y...
05/15/2026

Caponi Art Park in Eagan, MN has been on my destination labyrinth list for quite some time and I finally made it there yesterday. Wow, it was great. I was encouraged by the amount of labyrinth signs. It is surrounded by trees and the wind blowing through the leaves added to the experience. I took a long pause with my back against the tree in the center and again on the bench afterwards.

05/14/2026

I was pumped to go to “the world’s largest labyrinth” just because that sounds amazing and I made it to Costa Rica. It was more than I could have ever imagined. I’m still unpacking it. This post has been a couple months in the making but I just can’t figure out how to find the words or choose the pictures to do it justice.

Here’s some answers to questions I’ve gotten:
🌀No, you don’t get pricked by the cactus. The paths were made 6 feet wide to account for their growth.
🌀 Yes, it was hot. I went at 8am to beat the heat. They also suggested after 4pm.
🌀 They say it takes 1-1.5 hours to walk. It took me an hour and 45 minutes. I was really into it.
🌀 Yes, you can walk off or straight to the center, just like any labyrinth. Except that this one has two centers, even creating a third “center” at the midway point of the path and the design.
🌀You can also return to the labyrinth- if you remember where you left. Maybe mark it and the direction you were going. You can orient yourself by finding the geodesic dome that looks over it.
🌀Yes, there are bathrooms.
🌀According to my research, It’s an original design of a Vesica Piscis, co-created by two Costa Ricans: Ronald Esquivel, an architect, labyrinth designer, and specialist in sacred geometry, and Sergio Salas, a homeopathic doctor and dowser who identified the two energy centers. Read about it. It’s amazing.
🌀 I sent up my visit through the “book a visit” button on their website and then communicating directly with G***t Depypere, the owner of the farm. Immensely grateful to her and all the staff who care for the land and help make visits possible.
🌀 Yes, I’ll be back.

05/13/2026

Someone added a doorway, creating a threshold to the part of Hidden Falls Regional Park where this labyrinth can be found. The bright green of spring brightens up the forest as we get more and more sunshine.

There’s a built-in threshold as you enter any labyrinth: stepping in is a possible place to pause as you enter and exit. Labyrinth have been used across cultures for ceremonies, traditions, and rituals. It’s often a space for releasing and letting go, receiving and renewal.

A deep dive into the word threshold shows how connected the word is to healing. New beginning. A place to pause. A doorway to pass through. Liminal in-between time. Sacred space. Waiting for a new season. Tipping point. Boundary.

One of the first places I really identified with the word threshold was during a free YouTube yoga video by Dr. Arielle Schwartz, who specializes in trauma healing, somatic practices, and EMDR. She talked about thresholds as in-between moments that mark progress and growth, a symbolic space between an old identity and a new one.

A few years back, when I was going through a significant loss, I spoke with Patti Miller, MA, LP, EMDRIA Approved EMDR Trainer and Consultant who co-authored Anchored Relational Therapy (formerly AIR Network). She has been my trainer, consultant, and colleague. She told me “let it change you.”I’ve taken this to the labyrinth in my process of grieving, healing and changing. It’s now something I talk about with my clients.

Most recently I was introduced to the idea of thresholds in nature while preparing for a retreat with Madelyn Steen, LMFT, q***r ecotherapist who hosts Q***r Camp Minnesota. She has her eyes open for thresholds, letting the land support you and help guide you and being in communication with the land.

We encounter a lot of thresholds in life, especially if we pause to acknowledge them, even greet them. We can choose to walk through them. We can look back at what we are leaving behind and intentionally step forward. We can acknowledge these moments and accept change.

Happy May Day parade, Minneapolis!
05/03/2026

Happy May Day parade, Minneapolis!

Happy May Day parade, Minneapolis!
05/03/2026

Happy May Day parade, Minneapolis!

Happy May Day Parade, Minneapolis!
05/03/2026

Happy May Day Parade, Minneapolis!

Yesterday was a 4 labyrinth kind of day. I joined the Minnesota Labyrinth Network at Kanne Orchard. The first one was un...
05/03/2026

Yesterday was a 4 labyrinth kind of day. I joined the Minnesota Labyrinth Network at Kanne Orchard. The first one was unlike any other- we weaved in and out of the woods and into the sunny grassland, surrounded by apple trees that will flower soon. The moss on the path under the trees was a good invitation to me to slow down extra. Their second one was mowed into the grass and I laid in the center, soaking up the sun and the experience.

Then a group of us visited Carleton College Stewsie Island Labyrinth. Another first- a labyrinth in an island. The water and the birds added to the experience.

I began and ended the day with a heart labyrinth for my family and some family visiting.

The sunshine highlighted the peaceful wave of labyrinth walks moving across the world, filled with intentions, prayers, meditations, and peaceful hearts. I’m already excited for the next World Labyrinth Day!

05/02/2026

Happy World Labyrinth Day today! People are creating a wave of peace across the world walking a labyrinth at 1pm local time.

How can you join the wave?
🌀 find a local labyrinth to walk at 1pm
🌀 use a handheld labyrinth
🌀 draw a labyrinth and walk it (see one of my posts)
🌀 join a video call (search world labyrinth day)
🌀 do any of these any other time of day and “join” a walk for peace somewhere in the world

How do you do it?
🌀 imagine what peace looks like to you realized —— in your body, in your home, in your community, in your nation, in our world, for someone you deeply care about, for a struggle happening someone that you deeply care about or even just learned about
🌀 make an intention, optional to write it down
🌀 suggestions are to make it positive and present (not “war will end” but “communities are living safe peaceful lives”) and think about specifics, even letting that come to you on the walk
🌀 walk into the labyrinth and then let it go and see how the walk unfolds OR repeat it like a mantra OR bring it to the center and let it into the world OR any way you pray or meditate or send well wishes or healing energy

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