Couples Counseling Therapists in Maricopa County, AZ

Tara is dedicated to supporting teens, adults, and families as they navigate challenges such as trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. At the heart of her work is a strong commitment to suicide prevention. Tara creates a welcoming and safe space where individuals can explore their overall wellness and mental health with compassionate guidance and support.

Are you struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, or just too much stress? Is depression settling in and stealing your energy and joy? Or is your relationship at a crossroad? Feeling stuck and lost without some better tools to communicate and connect with your partner? Tired of seeing everyone else's happy couple update on Facebook and wondering if you are the only one in a crappy relationship? Or are you the parent of an ADHD child while struggling to manage your own ADHD symptoms or your partner's? Or are you a leader or an entrepreneur in a high-pressure work environment wearing many hats and always on the go?

I enjoy working with both individuals and couples to address a range of challenges. Many of my clients seek help with managing depression, anxiety, irritability, and anger, while others come to me for support with ADHD symptoms or relational issues. If you're dealing with relationship issues, remember that experiencing highs and lows is normal. However, if the negative exchanges become too frequent or intense, it’s natural to feel hopeless or overwhelmed.

Have a problem? Let's begin to solve it! Therapy is much more than just having someone to talk to, psychologists are professionally-trained listeners who can help you get to the root of your problems, overcome emotional challenges, and help you make positive changes in your life. We all have problems and make mistakes; it's the choices we make while dealing with these struggles that will have an impact on our lives. I'd love to be your partner in the recovery process where we move from a state of pain and confusion toward hope, healing, and happiness.

To be able to talk to someone without judgment is an experience that can change your life. I work with clients in building a trusting relationship where you can feel comfortable talking about yourself authentically; to learn and know yourself in a new way. I have extensive experience in the field of psychotherapy; as a faculty member with Maricopa Community Colleges and counseling students, employees and faculty at Arizona State University. Additionally, I received a Doctorate in Behavioral Health in 2014 furthering my research in depression, grief, anxiety, and issues facing couples.

Currently accepting new clients. Arizona Connection Counseling is a licensed counseling agency providing Emotionally Focused therapy (EFT) and EMDR to individuals, couples, families, and groups. We have a team of specialists who focus on treating relational distress within couples and families, infidelity, trauma, and sexual difficulties. We also offer mindfulness and client centered therapy for individuals seeking personal growth.

It has always been my passion to help individuals and families through difficult situations in life and find great fulfillment in improving my community one person at a time. I am dedicated to helping individuals meet their goals by examining the connection between how they think, feel (emotionally and physically), behave, and interact in their various environments. I facilitate growth and change in my clients by teaching mindfulness, cognitive restructuring, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, as well as processing underlying trauma when needed. I provide counseling to individuals of all ages, couples, and families.

I believe that every individual deserves the opportunity to be his/her best self, and that those we love deserve it too. I strive to appreciate the unique strengths and challenges of each child, individual, couple, and family that I meet. I believe that collaboration fosters resilience and value the importance of the therapeutic relationship. My clients are provided a trusting environment based on compassion and acceptance where they are safe to explore solutions to their most intimate challenges and receive support and wisdom to improve their most important relationships.

Our practice is a communion of science and faith: the latest evidence-based psychotherapy modalities combined with ancient and medieval philosophy. we rely on the work of Greek and Roman thinkers, as well as Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Ignatius of Loyola, and others. If you are willing to put in the work, we will maximize your time to help you become more authentically YOU. No matter what you're going through, there are some things that can always help. Breathing. Grounding work. Positive self-talk. When we meet we would tailor a treatment program to meet your needs. Appointments are available days, evenings, and Saturdays.

I specialize in helping people who are struggling with anxiety, relationship challenges, or trauma to get to the root of their challenges so they can feel better for good. If you have been feeling like you are not experiencing your life because of anxiety, depression, relationship problem, or the effects of the past, I would love to talk to you. It can be difficult to think about of talk through these problems. Often time it feel like there is no hope, or way of moving forwards. However, I know that together we can create a safe environment to help you work through whatever it is life is throwing at you.

I firmly believe there is a definite quality difference between a marriage-counseling specialist and a therapist who "also" works with couples. My singular focus enables me to meet you where you are in your struggles and to work with you without judgment and never favoring either partner. I use the most-effective approach of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. This science-based method is a "brief" model, which means you may experience relief in the early phase of our work together. You'll learn about a "negative cycle" of arguing or distancing and how that cycle is your enemy, not each other!

Kerry feels honored to support adults and adolescents experiencing anxiety, depression, women’s issues, and the challenges of adjustment and life changes including becoming new parents, seasons of life, and divorce/separation. She also welcomes parenting concerns and couples wanting to improve their relationship.

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I work with Individuals, Couples and Families; specializing in Marital/Couple and Family Therapy. I have post graduate training in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. I bring a genuine compassion and understanding to the therapeutic process that I believe supports optimal healing and growth. In addition to various relationship challenges and struggles, my clinical focus also includes working with: Separation/ Divorce/ Divorce Reaction within the individual/couple/family, Parenting/Co-parenting Issues, Blended Family Issues, Parent/Child Relationships, Children & Adolescents, Anxiety & Depression, and Self Esteem Issues.

Your Solution for Christian Couples Counseling — Are you or your partner dissatisfied with your relationship? Are you feeling lonely and distant from your spouse instead of intimate and safe? Do you feel like you've lost yourself & you're just going through the motions? Do you feel more like roommates than lovers? You don't have to continue living this way. You can rediscover who you are, your passion for relationship & God's purpose for your life. Couples counseling can help get you back on track, living your most fulfilling life.

We all have challenges. Admittedly some are objectively harder than others but our own challenges are unique to each of us and can seem devastating from our perspective. I would like to help you work through yours. I am not going to give you platitudes. Instead, I want to help you learn to accept, cope, cry if you need to, and then get back up! It’s not easy, but you can do hard things! As a college professor, and my background in medicine, my natural instinct is to make sure you understand both the biological and psychological reasons behind your troubles and then we work together to put YOU back in control of your life.

We provide faith-based counseling for teens, adults, couples, and families. Our counselors have highly specialized training around integrating your faith and spirituality into the counseling process. Whether you are a regular churchgoer, a seeker, or even spiritual-but-not-religious, it is our goal to provide a safe, sacred place for you to work through whatever emotional and relational issues you may be facing — all while helping you deepen your spiritual life in the process.

Do you struggle with anxiety, depression, grief, a challenging relationship, or unresolved trauma that affects your ability to live a flourishing life? Do you long to find a nonjudgmental therapist who can understand your overwhelm and frustration from a trauma-informed lens to support your own discovery in the process? There is hope and answers to be found!

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I understand the importance of creating a safe and non-judgmental space for you to find your best self. I specialize in treating issues in marital connection and intimacy, affair recovery, trauma, anxiety, depression, grief and loss. After completing my master's work, I gained extensive training in psychodynamic therapy, which addresses family of origin issues, wounding messages from childhood, and attachment styles expressed in relationships.

Our reactions can hurt our relationships. After experiencing stress or trauma we can experience anxiety, spaciness, tension, temper flares, relational conflict, or intense shame or worthlessness. Trauma can be obvious - a sudden, horrible event, but for many, life has been overwhelming, disconnected or emotionally isolated for a very long time. I use creative and innovative experiential therapies to help you feel calmer in your body, even for those who have been in talk therapy for a long time or those for whom talk therapy or CBT has only been minimally effective.