Existential Therapists in 84121

If you find yourself stuck in the same unbreakable loop, perhaps you need new tools and unconditional support to change. Each client needs a different approach, but all clients need a confidential and judgment free zone if they are going to make real progress. I know that with trained guidance and support, you are capable of navigating any life challenge. Addiction? I will meet you where you are at and develop one on one plan back to health. I also work with non-neurotypical (ADHD, Bi-polarity, Learning Disordered) clients and enjoy helping all humans navigate faith and life transition. (LGBTQIA+ Clients)

What do you notice in the quiet moments of your life? It might be self-criticism, guilt, or shame. Maybe you get stuck in the past, trying to figure out what went wrong, or preparing for every possible future scenario. For some people, there are no quiet moments, and for others, every second feels like deafening silence, even in a crowded room. Superficial interactions leave us feeling unseen, ignored, and alone. You deserve a time and space to be fully present and authentic without fear of judgment, dismissal, or empty platitudes.

The journey to truly understanding ourselves can be a difficult and daunting task to navigate alone. In one moment, we may feel like the wind is in our sails, and without warning we may get caught up and trapped in the same familiar storms of shame, trauma, and pain. This can feel isolating and lonely, but you don’t have to be alone in life’s storms. As a therapist my aim is to help you reach self-acceptance, inner tranquility, and personal understanding to better endure and overcome any poor weather that life sends your way.

You’ve found yourself overwhelmed, lost, and are desperately searching for guidance toward relief. The challenges you’re facing are piling up and becoming more unmanageable. Difficult experiences have left you questioning whether its even possible you’ll ever recover. You can free yourself from old unhelpful patterns of thoughts and behaviors. You can find new ways of being that can create a life that is in alignment with your truest needs and desires. It's possible to create the life you've been longing for and overcome the challenges that have stood as barriers in the way.

You want to improve your relationships, how you feel about yourself, and live a more enjoyable life. You need understanding, skills, and motivation, a plan of attack to make things better! You know you want something different you just don't know how to get it.

I help individuals and couples develop a deep understanding of themselves, which can include working through past trauma. I can support you in finding new meaning after trauma and grief, managing depression and anxiety, as well as helping build healthy self-esteem. I specialize in teaching tools to help you better communicate, repair relationships, heal attachment wounds, set healthy boundaries, find harmony, build secure attachments, and adjust to life changes, including midlife distress, breakups/divorce, & career changes.

We all experience pain and search for healing. This can be overwhelming to us and we can experience a lack of control or hope for the future. Our relationship with ourselves is often impacted, hurt, and internalized through our unbearable ​experiences of early life relationships. This can leave us feeling isolated and fearful to engage fully in life and with others. We often create subconscious strategies for managing this pain in search of safety and meaning. As we grow, many ​of the ways that we learned to cope with what was once unbearable begin to feel burdensome and overwhelming and we find ourselves needing something new.

"Everyone deserves to be and feel their very best". I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, certified in EMDR. I am a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional level II (CCTP II). At United Counseling my goal is to have a safe therapeutic relationship, create awareness to your needs, and guide your journey with positive outcomes. Suffering can happen to anyone at any given time in life. It can be hurtful on the relationship with self and others. Feeling stuck with unwanted pain is awful and exhausting. Together let’s find your need, empower you with skills and tools, so you can achieve your desired transformation.

Are you struggling with depression and/or anxiety? Do you have Borderline Personality Disorder or have you been raised by someone who does? Is your sense of self not where you would like it to be? I have worked as a mental health therapist for 16 years and in the mental health field since 1994. My education, training and experience has taught me there’s no place for judgment. I accept you exactly as you are and build from there. If you need someone to listen and validate you, I can do that. If you are seeking advice, I’ll give my best. If you want skills, I have a large toolbox I’m eager to share. Need to work through trauma?

Please take note of the following important information: Hello There! To receive therapy services from me as your mental health provider, it is required to have a Primary Care Physician at Foothill Family Clinics. As follows, I operate differently than traditional therapy. I operate using the CoCM" which commonly stands for "Collaborative Care Model." Monthly sessions. It is a care approach particularly used in mental health settings to integrate behavioral health care into primary care.

My 10 years as a therapist have exposed me to a variety of challenges from deescalating unsafe situations to mediating complex relationship barriers. In my experience trauma can often be found at the core of depression, anxiety, family/spouse conflict, disordered eating, sexual confusion and addiction. All of these challenges can create a sense of feeling stuck, unfulfilled and alone. In some cases, these struggles can be intimidating to address without help. My belief is that therapy acts as a safe place for you to address those struggles in an empowering way; one that gives a sense of purpose, and leaves you feeling connected.

Choosing a psychotherapist is an important and very personal decision. Please see my website, www.growinlove.com, for more information about me, to read feedback from former clients, to check available appointment times, and to schedule an appointment if you would like.

Have you ever wondered, "If people knew who I really am, would they still love me?" These and other (painful) questions and doubts can be the beginning of amazing journeys of self-discovery. Deep inner work can be both difficult and rewarding. I do my best to bring to therapy an attitude of deep respect for my clients and the challenges that life brings. I believe I can help make the journeys of self-discovery more rewarding and a bit less rocky -- whether the time we work together be brief or more lengthy.

I work with clients who are ready to actively address the pain and struggle that comes with difficult life transitions. Whether navigating recovery from religious or spiritual abuse/crises, working through difficult or non-traditional relationship dynamics or healing from trauma, depression or anxiety, my clients will learn the peace that comes with embracing all of it. I help clients create deep internal shifts and trust in their truest selves. They develop insight, radical acceptance, gratitude, and accountability, learning to use life’s difficulties as catalysts towards spiritual growth and psychological maturity.

We all need support at times to care for our internal and external worlds, and to dive into the depths of our often layered lived experiences. To care for ourselves in this way, we may need to pull up the weeds of adversities or traumas at a pace that feels right. I hope to offer a warm and compassionate atmosphere for you as you gently tend to the past while remaining rooted in the present. Through attention and intention in therapy, I believe that flowers of wisdom, curiosity, self-compassion, resilience, and hope can grow.

My focus in therapy is on my clients deeper experiences that lie beneath the symptoms. I believe this creates lasting change and invites my clients to have more meaning in their lives. I am an optimist by nature and aim to provide a warm, non-shaming environment in order to explore past traumas, function better in the present, and work towards a better future.

I work best with teens to adults, 15-40 years old in transition, dealing with partner, career, lifestyle changes and the anxiety and stress of everyday life; hormonal “adjustments” whether prepuberty, puberty or peri-menopause; those healing from relationship and marital breakups and trauma; and competitive athletes seeking to overcome performance anxiety, overtraining syndrome, injury, illness and defeat. You may find my therapy style a good fit for you if you are open and willing to trust the process as I will incorporate different strategies to help you to attain and maintain your personal best in health, sport and life.

I believe that we could heal the world if we would only first seek to heal ourselves. Some of the most life changing moments come when we decide to sit with our discomfort and ride that wave to healing. Though the pain and anguish can make these moments feel unconquerable, taking the steps toward your own healing allows these obstacles to become a period of transformation, growth, or liberation. Together we can explore your journey and the answers that you hold within.

If you are seeking a catalyst for creativity and change, or a safe container for processing events and circumstances, I will be able to help you with non-pathologizing, traditional and non-traditional services for wellness, trauma, life transitions, behavior modification, spirituality, performance, and groundedness. I believe in human connection and the healing powers of validation, being heard, at times challenged, and seen. I bring myself to the room with my clients and "go there" with them, healing along the spectrum from learning how to experience the deepest wells, to planning coordinated, intellecutalized courses of action.