Psychoanalytic Therapists in Tempe, AZ

Life with its transitions can be stressful and overwhelming. Even positive changes trigger distress. On this challenging path I offer my extensive training and experience to provide guidance helping you overcome obstacles to feeling better, to increase your curiosity and exploration of your self-growth, to understand yourself deeply, your relationship concerns; to make possible your working through the difficult situation. I have been successfully working with adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Together we identify long or short-term life difficulties such as helplessness, low self-esteem, relationship problems; we work them through, and increase satisfaction and meaning of life.

I offer a welcoming open environment which will help you discuss problems and pursue personal growth. I am available to help clients struggling with relationships, grades, negative habits, grief, & self-esteem. You may wish to work on body image and overcome negative habits while moving toward a healthier lifestyle. My experience in business can help entrepreneurs overcome anxiety that risk represents. I also specialize in areas such as concentration, focus, and image consultation that can help you perform better.

Now accepting new clients via Telemedicine ONLY. I’m here to help you make a change and I’m honored to walk this journey with you. My passion is to help you connect to the parts of you that need healing. Feeling “stuck” can look different for everyone – through low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, feeling unsafe, negative view of yourself, lack of confidence and irritability. I am here to guide you to help you transform pain into a life worth celebrating.

Accepting New Clients! -Telehealth & In-Person appts available. I am ready and willing to provide a safe space to help you and/or your loved one face and take on any life stressors. This can include anything contributing to anxiety, depression, relational problems, unhealthy coping skills, self-esteem issues and much more! Telehealth and/or in person are offered for individuals, couples, families, teens, young adults, and adults. I’d love to answer any questions/ concerns. Please reach out!

My name is Tiffany and I have bee working with individuals for over 20 years in the field of Social Work. I have providing therapy for the majority of these years. I love being able to work with and support individuals with a verity of needs. I am trained in EMDR and find this to be a very helpful way to help people work through anxiety, trauma and getting more control over challenging thoughts and feelings. I also incorporate a strengths perspective. We have a lifetime of experiences that can help us work through todays challenges, sometimes we just needs need a little support around them.

I am a licensed therapist who provides a safe nurturing environment for children, adolescents, and adults focus on relationship, well-being, and mental health issues. I focus on topics such as life adjustment, depression, anxiety, relationship and family issues, life transitions, ADHD, autism spectrum and neurodivergent individuals, and attachment issues. I specializes in trauma and childhood attachment issues which tend to impede emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual growth. I also have an extensive background in assisting individuals with co-dependency.

My desire is for people of all walks of life to find strength and hope in the midst of their storms. I am here to help you and your relationship Heal, Restore, and Learn. We do things and say things when we are hurt that many times we regret. Sometimes, we have a hard time accepting that we are hurt or that we have hurt others. The truth is that as humans we do not like pain, especially emotional pain; and we seek to distract, avenge or numb that pain. These efforts can become patterns and habits and some of these are blatantly wrong, but others may be more difficult to recognize.

The present moment is your greatest teacher and it is always with you. As a seasoned social work professional, I am motivated by social justice and human rights. I believe that every individual deserves to live with dignity, purpose, and a sense of belonging and connection. I will support and encourage your exploration of self through an ecological lens understanding that our identity, values, and beliefs about self and others emerge from our environment and our experiences both positive and harmful. I am here to help you identify habits of thinking that promote growth or make you feel stuck.

Now accepting new clients! Do you struggle with anxiety and depression and it’s starting to affect your work, friendships and your relationships? Do you have low self-esteem and issues with poor body image? Are you a person that wants more out of life but feels stuck and unsure of how to move forward? Are you a college student who's feeling overwhelmed with school and your social life and need help processing through your emotions?

As a professional artist and LAC with advanced training in Expressive Arts Therapy and Sandplay Therapy in the Kalffian tradition, I bring a breadth of combined training, professional and personal experience to my therapy practice. I am passionate about artistic expression and radical validation of one’s emotions and lived experiences. I believe therapy is a sacred journey towards wholeness, a return to Self. Too often harmful life experiences leave us feeling confused, stressed, traumatized and helpless, fractured within ourselves in a deep place that can be difficult to access through standard verbal therapy alone.

Do you find yourself wondering why you do what you do? Repeating the same patterns? You are not alone. In my practice, I'll guide you to learn why these things occur and what you can do to change them. We’ll take a deep dive into your childhood and reconcile the experiences you had then with the ones you’re having now. We'll take a look at how your awareness is shaped by these kinds of powerful forces and help you get to point where you can start making the types of decisions you can feel proud of.

I received my undergraduate degree from Washington State University in Speech & Hearing Sciences, (2000). Through various life experiences of my own, it became my goal to learn as much as I could about addiction and I decided to go back to school. I received a master’s degree in Addictions Counseling in 2018 from Ottawa University. Wanting to be able to work with all people, I went back to school again and have since completed a second master’s degree in counseling (2022), also from Ottawa University. I utilize an eclectic approach because everyone is different and what works for one person might not be appropriate for the next.