Therapists in Salt Lake City, UT

Are you experiencing isolation and finding it hard to connect with the people you care about the most? With the right therapist, you can transform your life and relationships. I am ready to be that therapist. I offer a place to get messy, break down, and explore intense emotions without feeling judged. You need a new emotional tool box and honest, unbiased perspectives to sustain positive change. Congratulations on taking the first step towards health and vitality.

I have four specialties: 1) helping heal and deepen relationships through Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, 2) helping people understand and reduce chronic anxiety, 3) overcoming stuck places of emotional shutdown and low motivation, and 4) healing religious or spiritual wounds, including trauma and neglect. All four of these specialties have a common goal; to help you discover your most authentic self. Living as your authentic self is an experience of presence, inspiration, strength, compassion, confidence and self-awareness. It's a place of connection - to yourself, to other people, and to something larger than us.

Ever feel like you're on the outside looking in? Maybe it's your gender, your weight, your sexual orientation, your race, your spiritual beliefs, your past experiences... Somehow you just don't fit. You tell yourself if you could find the right person, or look a certain way, or just forget about what happened to you, you'd break through. Instead, all these reasons pile up and separate you from the life you "should" be living. Sound familiar? I work with clients every day who struggle to connect, and I see how the loneliness eats at them. They're so desperate for change, but they feel trapped by old patterns.

I help those who are tired of feeling trapped, constantly living a step away from what they really need. If you want to reclaim your peace, rebuild your confidence, or feel like yourself again, reach out. My clients find renewed hope as they face strong feelings in a safe way, uncovering both hidden issues and hidden strengths. Due to low availability, I limit new cases to those with issues where I’ve brought the best results. Trauma survivors (both women and men) and women, specifically, who are dealing with other issues such as anxiety, mood, chronic pain, or the effects of narcissistic abuse.

When trauma or stressors occur in life, we often become split off, or dissociated from the core self. Our core self, also known as the authentic self, is one that resides fully and naturally within all of us. It is place where we find a deep sense of compassion for ourselves and others, a place filled with creativity, wisdom, curiosity, and a sense of ease.

Connection is the antidote to everything. Having a felt sense of connection to others and to ourselves is often missing or underrated in our lives. As human beings, we need to feel seen, heard, and understood. Without these essential nutrients we are bound to seek fulfillment or satiation from things outside ourselves, that feel good in the moment but don’t actually meet our needs. I want to help my clients figure out what is getting in the way of having their needs met and how to approach their lives with authenticity and a broader sense of self.