Zach Hubinger
Many people who reach out for therapy are stuck in cycles they cannot seem to break, feeling alone or judged for the things they do, and afraid of what life on the other side would even look like. Whether the cycle is addiction, a relationship pattern, depression, or something harder to name, the fear of change can be just as paralyzing as the pain of staying where they are.
Zach's work begins from the belief that people do what they do for a reason. Even behaviors that look self-defeating are usually meeting a real need: relief, connection, a sense of control. Therapy focuses first on understanding that need without judgment, then on the honest work of figuring out what has to change. He does not flinch from hard conversations, and he expects his clients to show up for them too. Clients often describe Zach as steady, direct, and genuinely curious.
Zach takes an integrative, person-centered, and relational approach drawing from motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral therapy, and narrative therapy. Clients working with Zach can expect to:
- Build a strong, honest therapeutic relationship
- Explore patterns, thoughts, and behaviors that are keeping them stuck
- Clarify what they want their life to look like moving forward
- Develop practical tools to support meaningful, lasting change
Zach is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor with experience across a range of treatment settings. His approach to addiction and compulsive behaviors includes:
- Meeting clients where they are — harm reduction or abstinence-based
- Exploring the underlying function of substance use or behaviors
- Addressing the emotional pain or unmet needs driving use
- Building accountability, trust, and sustainable recovery strategies
- Creating lives where the behavior is no longer needed
- Substance use, addiction, and compulsive behaviors
- Recovery and major life transitions
- Trauma and its lasting effects
- Anxiety, depression, and emotional regulation
- Patterns that feel impossible to break, and the shame that keeps them in place
- Suicidal ideation and self-harm
- Difficult internal experiences that have been dismissed elsewhere
- Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (MN #305856)
- Licensed Graduate Social Worker (MN #34409)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
Care delivery: In-person sessions (Roseville, MN clinic) and secure online teletherapy, statewide MN coverage.
Scheduling: Dedicated evening appointment slots for working professionals.
Insurance: In-network with HealthPartners, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna/Evernorth, Anthem, and First Health. Out-of-network superbills provided upon request.
1700 Highway 36 Service Road, Suite 880
Roseville, MN 55113
