ImTT Trauma Therapy for Veterans & First Responders in Minnesota
The Minnesota National Guard — home of the 34th Infantry Division ("Red Bull") — is one of the most continuously deployed Guard units in American history. Dr. Flores provides ImTT therapy for Minnesota veterans via PSYPACT telehealth, serving the Twin Cities, Duluth, and statewide.
Specialized ImTT Trauma Care — Available Across Minnesota
Dr. Flores is a nationally recognized ImTT trainer and trauma psychologist offering Image Transformation Therapy for combat PTSD, moral injury, military sexual trauma, first responder trauma, and narcissistic abuse. ImTT achieves rapid, durable results without requiring detailed verbal narration of traumatic events — making it the modality of choice for veterans and first responders who have found other treatments intolerable, retraumatizing, or simply ineffective.
All Minnesota services are delivered via PSYPACT-authorized telehealth. You do not need to travel. You need a secure video connection, a private space, and an hour.
Minnesota Military Context
The Red Bull's 22-month Iraq deployment in 2006-07 was the longest deployment of any National Guard unit since World War II. This community carries a distinctive deployment legacy. Minnesota has over 330,000 veterans, with a tight-knit Guard community whose deployment history has created generational trauma in many rural communities.
Military installations served: Minneapolis-St. Paul ANGB (148th Fighter Wing) and Camp Ripley (Minnesota Guard training center).
Who Benefits Most from ImTT
- Combat veterans with persistent flashbacks that have not responded to EMDR, CPT, or Prolonged Exposure
- Veterans who cannot tolerate narrative exposure — who find detailed verbal recounting destabilizing or culturally incongruent
- First responders with occupational PTSD — law enforcement, firefighters, EMS, dispatchers — who need a focused, results-oriented approach
- Veterans with moral injury — the specific wound of having done, witnessed, or failed to prevent something that violates a deep moral code
- High-functioning veterans and first responders — officers, senior NCOs, command-level first responders — who need an intensive approach rather than open-ended exploratory therapy
- Veterans who have tried everything and are looking for a different pathway
Dr. Flores has specific clinical experience with: combat PTSD, extended deployment stress, National Guard community trauma, rural veteran isolation.
PSYPACT Telehealth — What It Means for Minnesota Residents
PSYPACT (Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact) is a multi-state licensure agreement that allows licensed psychologists to practice across state lines via telehealth. Dr. Flores is PSYPACT-authorized, which means she can legally provide therapy to residents of Minnesota without requiring a separate MN-specific license.
There are no geographic restrictions on who she can serve within Minnesota. Rural residents, those in areas without local trauma specialists, and those who prefer the privacy and convenience of telehealth are all equally eligible.
ImTT Intensive Programs
Many veterans and first responders cannot commit to weekly outpatient therapy. Dr. Flores offers ImTT intensive programs — concentrated 2-day or 3-day programs delivered entirely via PSYPACT telehealth that achieve more processing than months of weekly sessions. You do not need to come to New Orleans. You need three focused days and a reliable connection.
Insurance & VA Benefits
Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota (Aware), Optum, United Health. Superbills for all other insurers..
VA Community Care: The Minneapolis VA Health Care System serves the Twin Cities metro. Community Care authorizations available under MISSION Act standards. The VA MISSION Act (2019) gives eligible veterans the right to see community (non-VA) providers when the VA cannot schedule an appointment within 20 days. Learn more about VA Community Care eligibility.
Self-pay & sliding scale: Sliding scale rates are available for veterans and first responders who qualify. Contact us to discuss options.
Take the Free PTSD Self-Assessment
If you are not yet sure what you are dealing with — or whether what you carry qualifies as PTSD — Dr. Flores offers a free, evidence-based PTSD self-assessment that takes approximately 10 minutes. No registration required.