SelectHealth Therapists in Salt Lake City, UT

I've worked with clients from all walks of life, primarily teens, children, and young adults. I have worked in crisis care and outpatient settings with various populations including the LGBTQ+ community. I have experience working with life transitions, sexuality, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, divorce, and trauma. I am passionate about facilitating a strength-based approach to help clients build confidence and resilience to handle life stressors. My goal is to provide a safe space to explore challenges and help clients process and integrate new skills into their daily lives.

I work with clients on a variety of issues, though my primary focus has been in the areas of LGBT and disability therapy. During my time at the Utah Pride Center and with Alliance Counseling, I have utilized a solution-focused, shame-free approach to gender and sexuality to help my clients navigate the complex issues that accompany membership in these communities.

Jayne started Blue Skies Counseling with the goal of helping women heal who have experienced trauma. Now, as four empathic, LGBTQIA+-allied feminist therapists, our expanded goal is to help you recognize and actively dismantle felt oppression and inequity on an individual basis, including supporting people who are questioning their faith, sexuality, and gender identity. We offer a client-centered, solution-focused approach through multicultural, humanistic, existential, and relational theories in a safe, warm environment. We also use EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), SE, and other modalities to help our clients heal.

Hi there, I'm Matthew! Before joining Blue Skies Counseling, I worked in the mental health profession for over seven years in various roles and capacities. I have been a youth mentor, a group facilitator, and a child welfare worker, and have been working in family, group, and individual therapy. I have a special interest in working with LGBT+ clients who are struggling with identity issues, trauma, and faith transitions. Figuring out who we are and how we belong is a difficult and sometimes challenging task, and it's okay to ask for help.

Do you wish you had deeper, more peaceful relationships? Are there issues from the past that still linger in the present? Are you feeling isolated and alone or just wish daily life wasn't such a struggle? The problems that you face are not insurmountable. There are skillful ways to build bridges and create harmony with others as well as resolve the past and feel hopeful about the future. There is a way to find joy in everyday life.

Do you feel sad, anxious, or unmotivated? Were you a trauma victim? Are you having problems communicating with your spouse or partner? Do you feel stuck in a relationship? A troubling affair? Do you want a more meaningful life? My first goal will be to come to know you, understand your situation and your hopes. In the first few sessions, working together, we will develop a detailed plan for change, with focused steps, beginning right away, to help you make important progress.

Navigating through the difficulties in life can often feel overwhelming. The journey of understanding, processing, and healing can seem daunting. You do not have to travel that path alone. If you are looking to move forward with your life, break feelings of being stuck, or better understand your place in the world then therapy can help tremendously. Trauma, crisis, loss, anxiety, and depression are only a few examples of barriers that be overcome within our therapy. Together, we can work to achieve the life that you want to have.

I was born and raised in Spain where I learned the value of relationships as an intrinsic part of my culture. I gained my Associates degree in Psychology from Ricks College, my Bachelor's degree in Psychology from BYU-Hawaii, and my Master's degree in Clinical Social Work from BYU-Provo. I have worked professionally for 15 years with children, youth, and adults. I am versed in outpatient counseling, psychiatric inpatient care, crisis intervention, and residential treatment. I served on Salt Lake County’s crisis response team for 6 years. I enjoy working with individuals and couples to see my client’s lives enhanced and empowered.

I believe that therapy is about finding that peaceful place between contrasting truths. As you are the best expert on your needs and goals, it is my aim to offer you tools that will allow you to create the life you want.

The best way to contact me is via email. I work with adolescents and young adults ages 13-40 experiencing anxiety, depression, and troubled relationships. I help individuals learn skills that help them regulate emotions in order to improve social relationships and daily function. My approach is a relational style of conversation to help individuals feel safe and willing to share about personal struggles. We then work together to increase insight and self-awareness through identifying negative behavioral patterns and building from innate strengths which helps one’s ability to make changes that improve their overall quality of life.

I work with women, trans, non-binary, and gender diverse/non-conforming clients ages 18+ and will support you in exploring your identity, values, and/or relational patterns, as well as working to manage anxiety, depression, or navigating life changes. I specialize in working with members of the queer community, as well as those who practice "alternative" sexualities including ethical non-monogamy, kink, and BDSM relationships.