Therapists in Provo, UT

Seeking help can be hard for anyone so I know this can be a vulnerable experience for you. I am here to help serve others and create an environment so you can become the best version of yourself. I want to be an aid in your journey and provide you with the tools necessary to grow. Through this process we will approach your struggles in life with compassion, openness, understanding, and vulnerability. By doing so you will be able to develop the tools to create positive change in your life, while also building resilience to handle any adversity that you may face.

The clients I see are familiar with pain. They want life and/or relationships to be better. They often seek understanding of themselves and respond affirmatively to guidance, empathy, and support. They come to improve the way they see and treat themselves. They come to find and/or restore their inner resilience. They want to increase coping skills, develop self-compassion and courage, and enhance their interpersonal skill and confidence.

Welcome to Relational Spaces! You’re here because you see something in me that you’re hoping will understand something in you. You want change in your life & in a space where connection matters most. It might be in yourself, your family or your friend groups. You might be having struggles at school or at work. You may see challenges in your community that are making you question if you belong. There may be challenges you haven’t been able to wrap your brain around and you need a good ear and another set of eyes.

I am committed to helping my clients increase self-awareness, strengthen relationships, reduce anxiety, depression, and trauma symptoms, and live a more value-directed life. I want to help you feel emotionally lighter, happier, and more confident. I want to help you reach your goals and become your best self.

I have extensive experience working with teenage and young adult populations; I have worked in a variety of therapeutic settings and am very familiar with the needs facing teenage and young adult populations. Given my experience, I have developed a therapeutic approach that aligns with the needs of these populations; I pride myself on a non-traditional approach to therapy, and focus primarily on meeting my clients where they are. I value providing a safe, comfortable space for teens and young adults to be themselves. I have always found that mental health is as important as physical health and should be treated as such.

I believe that all healing starts with developing a sense of connection and empathy with yourself and others. I support clients 18 to 50 years old who desire building the life they always imagined through understanding their drive for change. Each client I connect with seeks to deepen their understanding of self through feedback, cultivates the ability to ask when they want someone to listen and knows that their trauma is not something to be forgotten but a piece within them to be nurtured for rewiring.

I am passionate about helping others make peace with their suffering and overall live a more grounded life. I work with individuals (adolescents to adults), couples and families. I love helping others find new meaning after trauma and grief, manage depression and anxiety, as well as help others build healthy self-esteem. I specialize in teaching tools to help others better communicate and repair relationships, heal attachment wounds, gain skills to set healthy boundaries, time manage, build a secure attachment, self-motivate, and adjust to life changes, including medical diagnosis, breakups/divorce, loss, and career changes.

We take an integrative person-centered approach. Over 14 years of experience and multiple certifications. Our clinicians are Venise Darisme, LPC and Nadia Perez, M.A., NCC, LPC. Clients have said that Venise is "gentle, a good listener, help them see more clearly, knowledgeable, and much more." Have worked in Palliative Care, hospice, intensive in home, schools, intensive out patient, partial hospitalization, residential, hospital, and private practice settings. Nadia Perez's clinical supervisor has said that she is patient, kind, reliable, and dedicated.

I work with individuals, couples, and families to identify undesired behavioral and relational patterns. These patterns leave us feeling anxious and depressed, a telling sign that change/growth is needed. I'd like to help those who desire change to gain the needed skills to overcome challenges. I utilize Family Systems Therapy with an integration of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I have additional training in Chicanx Psychology. I specialize in immigrant trauma and second-generation immigrant experience. Being a second-generation immigrant myself, I have an understanding for the challenges families face in the immigrant experience.

Adrienne is a couples specialist with over 20 years of expertise in premarital counseling, communication challenges, conflict resolution, power imbalances, gender role clarification, family planning, revitalization of martial expectations, addressing resentments, and more. She works with couples to explore non-sexual and sexual intimate touch. Adrienne has extensive experience helping couples with sexual dysfunction related to stress/anxiety of the act of sex, arousal challenges, dependence on pornography, and past or present sexual trauma.

I created Lioncrest Counseling to help others with finding their way to a healthy and balanced life. I enjoy working with individuals, adolescents, couples and families using Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy(DBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Solution Focused Therapy (SFT), experiential, strengths-based and positive psychotherapy. I help clients with depression, anxiety, addiction, attachment issues, trauma, mood disregulation, grief and loss, and oppositional defiance. I am passionate about identifying needs and have a creative hands-on approach– using music, art and acting to help people work through their feeling and issues.

The goal is to get good at life, not get good at going to therapy. Build a toolbox of specific skills that help with your mental health. I help people with depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and many other areas of struggle. The goal is to assess and give interventions that gain control of life and heal.