Adoption Therapists in Sedona, AZ

My main specialty is adoption and attachment. I was adopted and have reunited with my birth parents and have worked with hundreds of adoptees as well as adoptive parents seeking to understand their child/young adult. I work best with those who are seeking insights into themselves. I can help guide you if you are looking to do some self exploration and find out why you keep repeating the same patterns. I have worked extensively with teens, young adults, and with parents. I have treated many families who are struggling with navigating issues related to family dynamics.

The ideal client is someone who wants to get a different perspective, who wants to address personal challenges and recognizes that their life's work is defined by how well they manage those challenges. I am interested in working with people who want to live their best lives. Spiritual emergence is the term that best describes the process of self-discovery and self-actualization. Spirituality in this context is the realization of one's potential and the recognition that the things that get in the way are the inevitable hurdles to transformation.

Accepting New Clients Globally: Are you conflicted about a painful past, stressed about your future, or surprised by current dynamics triggering unsettling emotions? Equine Guidance is a one-of-a-kind horse-human experience that creates breakthroughs talk therapy cannot. You will redefine your self-trust, belonging, and sense of self in relationship. The power of a horse to inspire healing in humans is the truth I live every day. With two decades of experience pioneering the equine therapy field since 1998, my expertise is somatic trauma informed equine therapy, understanding that healing trauma happens in relationship.

As a marriage and family therapist since 1986, I continue to work for increasing health and well being of my clients and help them find their strengths and resiliency. I am trained in EMDR Therapy and complex trauma. I also work with couples and relationship issues, focusing on family patterns and helping my clients discover how the past can contaminate the present. I work to maintain the acceptance of meeting my clients where they are, honestly and non-judgmentally. Whether you come to me as an individual or a couple, I can help you better understand yourself in relationship to yourself and others.

Promoting Hope, Wellness and Recovery is the mission of Possibilities Counseling Center. Services are provided via telehealth for residents of Arizona, Maine and Utah. Cynthia specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy with a specialty in treating insomnia. Being flooded with anxiety, free-floating worry and depression can impair memory and sleep. Grief and loss issues are appropriate reasons to explore help and gain relief. Dr. Dodge has over 30 years of experience. She works effectively with couples wanting to deal with their relationship or assist to navigate life stage changes such as empty nest and/or retirement.

I work with all manner of emotional issues that can present in a lifetime. I was trained in general mental health, much like a physician who was trained in primary care. I work with all ages and understand developmental psychology and the challenges through different life stages. I work with anxiety, depression, loss and grief, posttraumatic stress disorder, adjustment issues, parenting, and many other categories of behavioral health challenges. I work with my client or the parents of children to arrive at the best treatment options for the issues at hand.

After 30+ years practicing psychotherapy and marriage counseling, I still find relationships issues to be a major reason why people come to therapy. Relationships can sometimes be too emotionally merged, or too emotionally distant and isolating (however, there are times when relationships feel both merged and isolating all at the same time). My focus is on helping people realize and alter emotional issues that pop up over and over again and consistently inhibit relationships. Sometimes we know we're stuck or lost in a relationship, but we just can't figure out...any way 'out' of what we feel.

Trauma, fear, anxiety, shame, and self- limiting beliefs keep us stuck in old, self-protective patterns that no longer serve us. Treatment starts with exploring what you would want for yourself from doing this work. This desire guides the process. We identify and explore what gets in the way of what you want for yourself. Often times it is strategies we developed during childhood to navigate family relationships, emotions we shut down because they overwhelmed us, negative beliefs we have about ourselves, or ways we disconnect from intimate connection. The outcome leads to greater connection to yourself and with others.

I am a Licensed Social Worker who provides professional counseling services to those seeking greater hope and healing in their mental, emotional, and behavioral health. I am a trauma oriented therapist specializing in PTSD, spiritual, and psychological abuse. I am passionate about the health and wholeness of people and believe that professional counseling is one way that God meets us and draws us towards living more complete, purposeful, and healed lives. I find incredible solace in prayer, and love to integrate faith and spirituality into the professional counseling work I do.

I welcome you and aim to make you feel at ease as I offer professional guidance using research-based interventions in a confidential, non-judgmental atmosphere. Whether you are seeking to improve interpersonal relationships, find greater fulfillment, overcome addictions, depression or anxiety, I can help guide you in the most effective personalized approach. We all experience situations in our lives when we may need professional support as we face obstacles that seem overwhelming or too daunting to overcome on our own. I believe no problem exists without both a solution and a potential positive outcome.

Do you struggle with your relationship to self and others? Does your nervous system feel chronically dis regulated? Are you abusing substances or stuck in disordered eating behaviors? Does trauma hold you back from moving forward in your life? I get it. Let’s work together to help you find clarity and healing so that you can be your most authentic and free self. While many sessions will be deep and vulnerable, I’ll always bring humor and lightness as well.

I have extensive experience with trauma and am trained in EMDR therapy. I am specialized in all developmental stages from birth to geriatrics. My patients find that I am an active listener, compassionate, warm and understanding as well as knowledgeable, collaborative, solution focused, and able to suggest creative and practical solutions

Do you feel lost, confused, overwhelmed, or down? Are any of these feelings disrupting the flow of your life? Do you notice yourself getting caught up in the ‘same cycles’ that don’t align with the life you want? Are you tired of the self-limiting thoughts and beliefs telling you what you can’t do in this life rather than supporting your dreams? Do you feel called towards changing your life for the better? If so, please book a consultation with me to discuss how I may be able to support your healing journey. If you are reading these words, there is a part of you interested in living differently.

My role as a therapist is to create a safe space where clients can unpack life’s troubles in their journey of finding freedom, healing, and wholeness. I take a strength-based and culturally sensitive approach with the goal of empowerment in personal growth and overcoming adversity.

I have worked in the mental health field here in Prescott for nearly 25 years and enjoy working with the adult population including couples. I hold a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling and am trained in EMDR therapy. I have several years experience using Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT and DBT-s). In addition to EMDR therapy, I work from multiple theories including person centered, CBT, trauma informed careI , as well, I am Level 2 trained in couples counseling through The Gottman Institute.