Photo of Barrett G Wilson, LMFT, Marriage & Family Therapist
Barrett G Wilson
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Serves Area
Ascending Self is a safe place where we will utilize the most effective, science-based, and relationally sound approaches to helping you heal while gaining understanding of self, communication, and relationships. If you're looking for a safe place to make meaningful changes in relationships with your self or loved ones, this is the place. Barrett offers his clients the best professional help with a balance of connection, support, and efficacy. Please feel welcome to schedule free consultations or appointments through my website here: www.ascendingself.com
Ascending Self is a safe place where we will utilize the most effective, science-based, and relationally sound approaches to helping you heal while gaining understanding of self, communication, and relationships. If you're looking for a safe place to make meaningful changes in relationships with your self or loved ones, this is the place. Barrett offers his clients the best professional help with a balance of connection, support, and efficacy. Please feel welcome to schedule free consultations or appointments through my website here: www.ascendingself.com
(865) 234-9370 View (865) 234-9370

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Melissa Joy Blumell
Counselor, CMHC
Verified Verified
Riverton, UT 84096
Melissa Joy Blumell is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Utah who has been practicing since 2015. She earned her Master's degree in Counseling from Adams State University and is a Registered Play Therapist, privileged to work with children, adults, and families to improve their relationship with themselves and others. The heart of Melissa's work is to help clients recognize that they are truly valuable and worth the work to heal and change. Her warm, fun style creates a climate where individuals and families can safely explore emotions, improve relationships, and learn new ways of coping.
Melissa Joy Blumell is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Utah who has been practicing since 2015. She earned her Master's degree in Counseling from Adams State University and is a Registered Play Therapist, privileged to work with children, adults, and families to improve their relationship with themselves and others. The heart of Melissa's work is to help clients recognize that they are truly valuable and worth the work to heal and change. Her warm, fun style creates a climate where individuals and families can safely explore emotions, improve relationships, and learn new ways of coping.
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Catherine Stenquist
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, CSW
Verified Verified
South Jordan, UT 84095
Hi, I’m Catherine. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed and trapped while navigating a life/faith transition, struggling to know how to heal from trauma, or facing challenges like anxiety, depression, OCD or difficult relationships, I’m here to support you. I believe in meeting you where you are, honoring your unique experiences, and helping you reconnect with your inner strength. Together, we can work toward living in alignment with your values and fostering the growth you’re seeking.
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Phillip Candland
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Lehi, UT 84043
Are you struggling to connect or communicate in your relationship? Does it feel full of hurt, arguments, discouragement, or feeling like you’ve drifted apart? Do you feel you’re not a priority, heard, appreciated, or accepted? Has porn or infidelity traumatized your relationship? How about sexual or intimacy issues? You are not alone. It’s common for couples to get stuck in negative patterns, feel hurt, or disconnected. This causes personal hurt, disconnection and discouragement. I love joining with couples and individuals to help you understand how to heal your relationship and achieve lasting connection and true fulfillment.
Are you struggling to connect or communicate in your relationship? Does it feel full of hurt, arguments, discouragement, or feeling like you’ve drifted apart? Do you feel you’re not a priority, heard, appreciated, or accepted? Has porn or infidelity traumatized your relationship? How about sexual or intimacy issues? You are not alone. It’s common for couples to get stuck in negative patterns, feel hurt, or disconnected. This causes personal hurt, disconnection and discouragement. I love joining with couples and individuals to help you understand how to heal your relationship and achieve lasting connection and true fulfillment.
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David Zane
Counselor, LCMHC
Verified Verified
Online Only
Therapy can be hard. I like to inject as much compassion, humor, and happiness as I can into the therapeutic process as we resolve many of life's challenges. I am an expert therapist with over 15 years of experience. I specializes in trauma, all addictions, PTSD, anxiety, sex therapy, couples and marriage counseling, parent counseling, ADHD, Spirituality, and Careers; but I can also be of service in many other areas. Goals are set by my clients. I am happy to offer feedback if asked; but you are in the driver seat. I may question you at times in an effort to facilitate greater understanding; but I will never tell someone what to do.
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Logan B Prince
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Do you struggle with anxiety, depression, grief, a challenging relationship, or loss of a sense of self that affects your day-to-day life, relationships, or your ability to function with your work and career? Do you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and frustrated with managing your day to day responsibilities or feel that you constantly fall short of meeting your home and work expectations. Do you wonder and hope that life could be better? Now more than ever, people are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and at a loss about finding there place in life.
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Heather Wyler
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Online Only
Hello! I have been a therapist for 10 years. I work with children (4+), adolescents, adults, and small family businesses. I have worked with children, adolescents, and adults who have had PTSD, divorce, sexual abuse, family issues, anxiety, school-related issues, anger, depression, family dynamics, and other disorders/mental health issues. I have worked with small family business dynamics to scale the family business in both personal growth and financial growth.
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Kevin White
Counselor, CMHC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Ogden, UT 84403
Kevin White earned a Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2016. He has experience working with individuals, families, and groups in a residential setting, treating substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. He also has several years of experience working with individuals in a private practice setting. His areas of focus include depression, anxiety, ruptured family dynamics, trauma/loss, attachment, and addiction. He takes an Existential-Humanistic, evidence-based approach to therapy, and employs therapeutic modalities including Existential Therapy, CBT, Lifespan Integration, EMDR, and Psychodrama.
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Nicole R Peters
Counselor, CMHC
Verified Verified
Serves Area
Are there challenges in your life that don't seem to have answers or solutions? Are you feeling overwhelmed and over-stressed to the point that depression, anxiety or other difficulties have entered the picture? Are you struggling in your relationships? Have you experienced traumatic events that affect your overall health and well being? Or, are you just looking to take things to the next level? These are just a few of the issues where therapy can offer the support and the tools needed to create healthy, positive and permanent relief and/or change you might be looking to acquire.
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Britney Preator
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, CSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
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I believe that mental health is an integral part of our wellbeing and should be attended to like one's own physical health. The therapeutic modalities I have experience in are trauma-focused and person-centered. I enjoy supporting children ages 6 to 18 years old to improve their mental health and heal psychological wounds.
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Jessi Bodell
Pre-Licensed Professional, ACMHC
Verified Verified
Lehi, UT 84043
Realizing you need help is one thing, but actually asking for it? That’s where the real superpower comes in. We all go through stuff, whether it's issues with your parents, school, family, spouse, work, or just life in general. As a therapist, I get to help you know yourself better, tackle those challenges, and help you pick up some tools to handle whatever comes your way. I started my career as a mentor, working with foster kids in kindergarten through seniors in high school. I helped them navigate school, the challenges of being a kid in foster care, working through feelings of anger, frustration, and other challenges.
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Erin Green
Pre-Licensed Professional, MA, BA, CMHC-I
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Sandy, UT 84070
Affinity based mental health care focuses on alignment between client and counselor. For me, alignment between people means honoring that every person should feel welcome and wanted no matter who they are. I believe that feeling confident comes from having our needs honored. My therapeutic approach is focused on you and your unique needs, and how to identify your needs and speak about them confidently to the people in your life. Healing starts at home, I help my clients find a home within themselves that they can always go back to.
Affinity based mental health care focuses on alignment between client and counselor. For me, alignment between people means honoring that every person should feel welcome and wanted no matter who they are. I believe that feeling confident comes from having our needs honored. My therapeutic approach is focused on you and your unique needs, and how to identify your needs and speak about them confidently to the people in your life. Healing starts at home, I help my clients find a home within themselves that they can always go back to.
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Robin Phelps LCSW, LLC
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
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Kelly Hollie
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Verified Verified
Online Only
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Ron Squire
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Serves Area
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Kimberly Texeira
Counselor, MEd, ACMHC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
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Kevin Madsen
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Taylorsville, UT 84123
To heal it is important to be heard, understood, and seen. We go through different life events and can experience suffering along the way that impairs daily living. My goal is getting to the root of the present challenge to support lasting change so people can experience the well-being they deserve as a human right! I take an integrative, compassionate, and accepting approach meeting people where they are at focusing with experiential, emotion focused, DBT, ACT, mindfulness, psychodynamic, and person centered approaches to help people heal. I collaborate with clients to create meaning and draw out authentic living.
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(385) 279-5169 View (385) 279-5169
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Tracie Stevens
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW, EMDR
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Murray, UT 84121
I work with individuals who are seeking the awareness and empowerment to live a life authentically rooted. I want to help you to find a way to be vulnerable and discover the roots in what drives current distress. Many of my clients express having the experience of feeling safe to understand and process trauma, faith transitions, fertility issues, grief, and relational difficulties. I am an LGBTQIA+ affirming therapist and am honored to walk alongside your journey. I have strength and confidence in individuals to provide their own healing. I provide the space to explore emotion and enhance your coping strategies.
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Erin Lincoln
Counselor, MS, ACMHC
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Serves Area
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(385) 483-3134 View (385) 483-3134
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Bryan Gilmore
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, CSW
Verified Verified
Riverton, UT 84065
Bryan's wealth of training and experience working with youth of all ages, military veterans and first responders, and people experiencing loss and grief make him ideally suited to provide comfort and support to people wanting to make healthy change and live a happier life.
Bryan's wealth of training and experience working with youth of all ages, military veterans and first responders, and people experiencing loss and grief make him ideally suited to provide comfort and support to people wanting to make healthy change and live a happier life.
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Number of Therapists in 84133

< 10

Therapists in 84133 who prioritize treating:

100% Relationship Issues
100% Anxiety
100% Child
100% ADHD
100% Life Coaching
100% Grief
100% Parenting

Average years in practice

13 Years

Gender breakdown

100% Male

How Therapists in 84133 see their clients

100% In Person and Online
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How can I find a therapist in 84133?

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Is everyone in the Psychology Today Therapy Directory a licensed therapist?

The Psychology Today directory lists providers who offer legitimate mental health services to the public, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors.

Many have been licensed by the country or state where they practice; providers whose license or primary credential has been verified by Psychology Today are signified by a “Verified” symbol. Some clinicians or organizations provide services for which their state or country does not offer licenses, such as pastoral counseling. They may be selectively included without the “Verified” seal.

What’s the difference between a psychologist, a therapist, and a counselor?

Therapists, psychologists, and counselors are all licensed mental health professionals. In the US, psychologists have earned a doctoral degree. The terms “therapist” and “counselor” are used somewhat interchangeably, but generally therapists offer longer-term, mental health care, while counselors offer shorter-term care that may focus on one domain, such as marriage, career, or academic challenges.

Clients should consider factors such as insurance coverage and their primary reason(s) for seeking therapy to determine the type of professional best suited to their needs. Someone struggling with mental health challenges such as depression or anxiety, for example, may wish to seek out a clinical psychologist or therapist, while someone navigating career obstacles or marital upheaval may benefit from seeing a counselor who can offer short-term, targeted support.

What type of therapy is right for me?

The type of therapy best suited to a particular individual depends on several factors, including their primary reason for seeking therapy, their preferred timeline (some therapy types last for a set number of sessions, while others are open-ended), and their personality and preferences—some may prefer a more structured approach. For many individuals, multiple types of therapy could provide a good fit.

How much does therapy cost?

The cost of therapy depends on a number of variables, including location and the therapist’s experience and training. On average, a therapy session in the United States could cost between $100 and $200 or more. If you have insurance, the expense of mental health care is typically lower, but it varies based on your insurance plan details and whether you choose an in-network or out-of-network mental healthcare provider.

What are more affordable or low cost therapy solutions?

Many therapists offer sliding scale payments, usually on a limited number of slots, which consists in an agreement between the therapist and a client to pay a reduced rate. Therapists who provide such arrangements often consider the client's income or ability to pay, but the extent of the discount is ultimately at the therapist's discretion. Furthermore, while group therapy may have different goals and benefits compared to individual therapy, it can be a more affordable solution to address certain types of issues.

Is online therapy cheaper than in-person therapy?

Many therapists charge the same amount for online therapy as they do for in-person therapy—though clients may still find this cost-effective if it cuts down on their transportation costs. Health insurance plans often offer equivalent coverage for online and in-person therapy; indeed, in many places, they are legally required to do so. Text-based or on-demand therapy apps may be cheaper than traditional one-on-one psychotherapy; however, the practice may be less effective and is not likely to be covered by insurance.

Is online therapy a good option?

Therapy conducted online can be just as effective as in-person therapy, as long as there is a strong alliance between the client and the therapist. To find a therapist who provides telehealth services to clients in your area, click “Online Therapy” on the directory homepage and search by your city or town or your zip code.

Are therapy sessions confidential?

Confidentiality is a crucial part of the therapeutic relationship. Therapists in the United States are bound by the regulations set out by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which aims to protect sensitive health information. With very few exceptions, a therapist will only discuss their client with others when the client has given their written permission. The instances in which a therapist would be required to disclose personal information are: if a client poses a danger to themselves or others, if the therapist suspects the abuse of a child or an elderly or otherwise dependent adult, or if they are legally forced to by court order. These exceptions to the confidentiality agreement are usually discussed with a client before their first session.