Couples Counseling Therapists in Tucson, AZ

I believe it is helpful to have a safe place where you feel heard and supported. My aim is to assist you in identifying your strengths to improve your relationship with yourself and others. I believe your needs are unique which is why I use an integrative approach when working with individuals. I provide strength-based interventions to assist you in uncovering your own resilience to manage challenges as well as to grow and improve your overall quality of life.

Taking new clients 18 years and older. Virtual appointments available. Do you feel stuck? Is the past holding you back? We will work together in creating a person-centered approach that fosters self-confidence and self-worth. We will provide a supportive and compassionate environment to give you space to address the past and create goals for the future. We will develop skills that allow you to be present for yourself and your loved ones and move forward on your journey.

I have always held the belief that people need people to both survive and thrive. Combined with my natural curiosity of the human experience, I have found myself here, hoping to be of some service to those who seek it. With a total of fourteen years of professional practice working with various patient populations including children ages 4-17, adults ages 18-70, families, and couples I continue to learn something new every day. I believe in building strong trusting relationships with my patients in order to foster a clear path to change.

Stressors are apart of everyday life, but sometimes we need someone to provide an objective lens and safe space to share our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. As a clinical professional counselor and counselor educator, I care most about my clients and how I can help support them in managing their stressors. With over 10 years of experience working with children, individuals, and couples with varying levels of mental health related concerns and disorders, I look forward to helping you in a supportive and productive way.

Are you struggling with a chemical or behavioral addiction, or do you love someone who is? Are you in or healing from an abusive relationship ? Is depression, anxiety or intrusive thoughts overwhelming your ability to cope? Maybe grief is weighing you down and you feel like you'll never get out from under it. There is freedom from addiction! You can love someone who has an addiction and still have healthy boundaries! You can heal from relational abuse and mistreatment. Depression and anxiety don't have to become your identity. And grief can feel like water rapids but there are gentle streams up ahead.

Sometimes our lives become so complicated and stressful that we all need an outside, non-judgmental person to help guide us back to our inner source and wisdom. My therapeutic strengths lie in my ability to create a safe and non-judgmental relationship with my clients to help them quickly identify their strengths and utilize them to problem solve and feel better. I approach all my clients with kindness and compassion, understanding that many are entering counseling for the first time or are searching for relief from stress, depression, anxiety, loss, trauma, chronic pain or illness, or many of life's difficult transitions.

You want to live your best life - free from anxiety, depression, and toxic relationships - but you have no clue how to get there. You want the career of your dreams, the relationship of your dreams, and the life of your dreams. I can help! We're going to work together to figure out what's going on and create a plan to not only confront the issues but conquer them. You're going to learn skills, use proven strategies, and build the confidence you need to get through what's holding you back (even if what's holding you back is YOU). Are ready to do the work to get what you want? If so, let's work together.

If you find yourself becoming disconnected in relationships, fighting to maintain boundaries or struggling with a trauma point, please know that you don’t have to suffer alone. Recovery is within your reach, especially when you have a team that works for and with you. I have been fortunate to work in various positions within the community behavioral health field that has offered me the opportunity to work with individuals from a variety of backgrounds. My goal is to create a safe space to process trauma, rebuild relationships and present the best version of you while overcoming life’s hurdles.

Are you and your partner arguing more than usual? Do you feel like every interaction with your teen has become a power struggle? Have you experienced unrewarding or even unhealthy relationships? Daily life can be complicated and challenging, so you look to your relationships to provide understanding, support and security. However, when your relationships are strained, you may not have anything that gives you solace or that soft place to land at the end of the day. You are doing the best that you know how, but sometimes that is just not enough.

Debra's therapeutic focus is experiential, direct and supportive. Clients are successful in resolving their family of origin issues, trauma, sex addiction, porn addiction, anxiety and depression. Debra specializes in financial therapy; a regular request in therapy. My clients have voiced feeling happier and are in healthier relationships, both within themselves and with others. Learn tools to create inner emotional safety and emotional regulation. Together, we can resolve maladaptive behaviors that once protected painful experiences due to rejection, abandonment, and/or invalidation.

Currently, my primary focus is working with children and adolescents; helping them to reprocess trauma and improve their interpersonal relationships as well as help them develop a healthier relationship with themselves. Helping children and teens learn who they are and learning to love themselves is a bright spot in my profession. My approach is trauma-informed and strength-based. In a person-centered therapeutic setting, I strive to help individuals increase their resilience by processing their trauma and re-writing the narrative of their negative belief system; replacing it with a sense of empowerment and resourcefulness.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with extensive experience working with adults facing a wide range of mental health and relationship needs. My clientele includes people who are in crisis, those who have experienced trauma, those with ongoing support needs, and often a combination of all of three. It is important to me that my practice welcomes and includes adults of varying ages, ethnic and racial identities, gender identities, sexual identities, and those with a variety of abilities and disabilities.