Services

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Life Coaching Services

Life Coaching sessions are an interactive process that assist you in evolving into the best version of yourself. As a licensed therapist and life coach, Carrie offers you a safe, genuine space for guidance and support on your life path. Sessions include partnering with you in a thought-provoking and creative process. You will be inspired to overcome perceived challenges and ultimately maximize your personal and professional potential. Carrie's approach provides an intuitive understanding of your personal goals, motivating you to discover your truest passions. The process of life coaching helps you improve your happiness, find balance and unlocks your innate connection to self, others and the world.

Counseling Services

Individual therapy addressing:

Depression
Anxiety
PTSD
Self-Esteem
Trauma Recovery
Relationship Difficulties
Life Transitions
Parenting Support
Grief Counseling
Work and Career Issues
Stress Management
Blended Family Issues

EMDR Therapy

Many seek out Carrie for her expertise in the realm of EMDR. Carrie has practiced EMDR since attending the EMDR Institute in 2003.

EMDR stands for “eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.” These words refer to the way that EMDR was first used – the client was guided by the therapist to move his or her eyes from left to right over and over again while thinking about something bothersome or upsetting. This movement of the eyes was found to help people quickly “re-wire” disturbing memories and emotions in the brain, rendering them completely undisturbing.

EMDR has been called an accelerated emotional processing tool because clients can rapidly resolve certain kinds of emotional issues that might have taken months or years to treat effectively with more regular “talk” therapies.

EMDR was originally utilized to treat the effects of trauma. People with one-time traumatic experiences (like a car crash, assault or an overwhelming medical experience) could often find fast and effective relief with a handful of EMDR treatment sessions. In addition, people who suffered years of trauma (like children who were physically, emotionally or sexually abused throughout childhood or prisoners of war) also benefited from the EMDR portion of their longer term therapies. In the early years, EMDR was used primarily to treat these kinds of traumatic experiences, along with anxiety and phobias. However, over time, EMDR has been found to be helpful with the processing of more “ordinary” stresses as well – the upset of a job loss, the anger and hurt over a broken relationship, the worry about a child’s academic future and other difficulties in life.

Equine Assisted Sessions

Equine assisted sessions offer an innovative experiential approach that engages our whole selves—thoughts, feelings and body sensations—in ways that purely talking can’t. With the guidance and support of an experienced therapist, sessions with horses offer a safe way to catalyze the therapeutic process and provide opportunities to discover and try out new ways of being with ourselves and with others.

Equine assisted sessions consist of horse-based activities that call on the client to be self-aware, experiment, learn, and apply certain skills – such as assertiveness, self-awareness, patience, creativity, and teamwork. The therapist makes observations, asks questions and helps the client get the most out of his/her experience. By observing old habits in the arena and experimenting with new possibilities, people gain practical insight that they can use to change their lives.

Many people find that working with horses – large, curious, honest, and nonjudgmental living beings – stirs up not only their deepest fears (such as rejection and failure) but also their deepest hopes (such as connection and confidence). Horses are social animals, with distinct personalities and attributes. They have the unique ability to sense individual emotions and energy and react accordingly, creating powerful, reflective moments in session.

**Equine assisted sessions are offered

in San Tan Valley, AZ**