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Treatment Specialties
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I have advanced training in complex trauma, including sexual abuse/assault, as well as trauma related to outdoor adventure sports, wilderness settings, and natural disaster accidents. These experiences can be deeply disorienting and isolating, especially when they occur in places that once felt like home or freedom. Together, we work to rebuild connection—with your body, your story, and the people around you.
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Anxiety and depression can make it hard to feel connected—to others, to your purpose, even to yourself. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, shut down, constantly on edge, or just not like yourself, therapy offers a place to slow down, make sense of your experiences, and begin to feel again.
We’ll explore the roots of your symptoms, develop strategies for coping and regulation, and work toward building a life that feels more grounded, meaningful, and emotionally alive.
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If you’re struggling with thoughts of suicide or self-harm, you are not alone, and you deserve support without shame or judgment. These experiences often speak to deep emotional pain, disconnection, or a sense of being overwhelmed. Therapy can help you begin to understand that pain, find new ways to cope, and reconnect with a sense of safety and hope.
Our work together focuses on building emotional regulation, identifying supportive connections, and developing a personalized toolkit to navigate moments of crisis.
If you are in an immediate mental or behavioral health crisis, please reach out to the national crisis line.
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Struggles with food, eating, and body image often go far beyond the surface—they’re rooted in how we cope, how we protect ourselves, and how we’ve learned to relate to our bodies in a world that can be deeply unkind. Whether you're navigating restrictive patterns, binge eating, emotional eating, or chronic body shame, you deserve a space to explore these experiences with care and without judgment.
Our work may include unpacking cultural and family messages, exploring the function of eating behaviors, and gently reconnecting with your body as a source of wisdom rather than a battleground. Healing is possible, and it doesn’t require you to shrink yourself to deserve it.
Therapy Types
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Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to the present moment with curiosity and compassion. It helps us notice what’s happening in our minds and bodies without immediately trying to change or judge it. In therapy, mindfulness becomes a powerful tool for interrupting unhelpful patterns, calming the nervous system, and building emotional resilience.
At High Desert Healing, I integrate mindfulness-based approaches to support clients experiencing anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other mental health challenges. This might look like breath-work, body-based awareness, guided exercises, or simply slowing down to notice your inner experience in real time. These practices help you feel more grounded, regulated, and connected—to yourself and the world around you.
Mindfulness isn’t about clearing your mind or “fixing” anything, it’s about learning how to be with yourself more fully, even in the hard moments. That’s where healing begins.
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Feminist multicultural theory is rooted in the belief that mental health cannot be separated from the social, cultural, and political environments we live in. It recognizes that many of the struggles we carry—like anxiety, depression, trauma, or self-doubt—are not just personal problems, but often responses to systems of oppression, marginalization, and injustice.
I work from the perspective that you are not broken. You are responding in deeply human ways to a society that often fails to meet our needs for safety, belonging, and authenticity. In other words: we are not sick—society is sick.
This approach centers your lived experience and honors your intersecting identities, whether related to race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, or culture. Therapy becomes a space to name what’s real, reclaim your voice, and imagine new ways of being that are aligned with your values—not just society’s expectations.
We do this work together, not just to survive, but to heal, resist, and thrive.
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A sister approach to EMDR to help with addressing traumatic events. This intervention is designed to bypass our ‘logic’ and offer healing from a somatic perspective.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) helps you process distressing memories quickly and effectively, without needing to talk through every detail. Using guided eye movements and visualization techniques, ART allows the brain to reprocess traumatic experiences and reduce the emotional charge they carry.
Learn more here.
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At High Desert Healing, I support clients in healing their relationship with food and body through the lens of Intuitive Eating and the Health at Every Size® (HAES) approach. This means moving away from diets, shame, and weight-focused thinking-and toward body trust, nourishment, and respect.
Intuitive Eating helps you reconnect with your body’s natural signals—hunger, fullness, satisfaction—while HAES affirms that health is not determined by size, and all bodies are worthy of care. In therapy, we explore how cultural messages, trauma, and disconnection have shaped your eating patterns and body image, and we work to reclaim a more peaceful, empowered relationship with both.
This isn’t about control, it’s about liberation.
Insurance and Payment
High Desert Healing accepts a variety of insurance plans to help make therapy more accessible. We work with the following insurance providers and can assist you in verifying your benefits before your first session.
-Select Health
-EMI Health
-PEHP
-University of Utah Health Plans
-Aetna
-Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield
Our goal is to reduce financial barriers so you can focus on taking care of yourself.
If you do not see you insurance carrier listed here, you are welcome to work with me as a cash pay client. You can also pursue low cost sessions. Many insurance companies will reimburse therapy session costs if you submit proof of payment.
If you have questions about coverage, co-pays, or out-of-network benefits, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re here to help you navigate the process.
