Dr. Timothy Balke
Assistant Professor

Phone: (952) 285-5533
twbalke@comcast.net

Tim Balke earned his Ph.D. in Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota and his M.A. degree in Counseling Psychology. He is a Licensed Psychologist in private practice in Edina, where he provides individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Balke's areas of expertise include adoption, anger management, anxiety, depression, divorce/uncoupling and blending of families, domestic violence, fathering, grief and loss, intimacy, men’s issues, relationship building, and substance abuse. Dr. Balke has worked in community mental health clinics, a hospital psychiatric unit, a runaway youth center, and at the Children, Youth, and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota.

He has lectured on several different topics to a wide variety of audiences, including travels to Russia and Moldova where he trained social service providers on developing and implementing a domestic violence program. He teaches courses to graduate students at Argosy University on Systems Theory and Therapy and at St. Mary’s University on Advanced Family Therapy.

For four years, Dr. Balke was a research assistant on the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project. He did his master’s thesis on families with biological and adoptive children, and he conducted his dissertation research in New Zealand where he studied adoption members’ perceptions of birthfathers’ roles in adoption.