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Treatment Specialties
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Our team has advanced training in complex trauma, including sexual abuse/assault, religious trauma, 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. We use EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, and Somatic-based approaches to reprocess traumatic events and improve your ability to tolerate triggers in day-to-day life.
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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.
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This 90-minute consultation group is designed to supplement supervision for interns and associate-level clinicians seeking additional support, community, and clinical growth. Meeting twice monthly, the group provides a collaborative space to discuss cases, strengthen therapeutic skills, explore professional identity development, and deepen trauma-informed, relational clinical work alongside fellow emerging providers. Reach out to learn more.
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We offer psychedelic integration support for individuals seeking to process and make meaning of experiences related to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and other non-ordinary states of consciousness. Integration sessions focus on emotional processing, nervous system support, insight development, and translating experiences into sustainable changes in daily life.
High Desert Healing does not provide, prescribe, administer, or facilitate access to psychedelic substances. Our role is to provide ethical, trauma-informed psychotherapy and integration support within the scope of legal clinical practice in the state of Utah.
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We provide compassionate support for individuals navigating faith crises, religious deconstruction, and the complex emotional experiences that can arise within or after involvement in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints culture and community. Our clinicians are informed about LDS cultural dynamics, and several bring lived experience related to religious trauma, faith transitions, and navigating identity outside of rigid belief systems.
High Desert Healing is supportive of clients from all faith backgrounds, spiritual practices, and belief systems. We do not promote or push any religious ideology in therapy—our role is to help you explore your experiences, values, grief, identity, and healing in a space grounded in curiosity, autonomy, and respect.
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, we 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.
We 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.
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‘Dialectical’ means combining opposite ideas. DBT helps with managing and coping with intense emotional experiences.
Lean more about this approach here.
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EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based approach that helps individuals process and heal from trauma, PTSD, anxiety, childhood trauma, and other distressing life experiences. When painful memories remain unprocessed, they can contribute to anxiety, panic attacks, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and persistent negative beliefs about oneself. EMDR helps the brain reprocess these experiences so they no longer feel as overwhelming or disruptive in daily life.
Through EMDR therapy, clients can reduce emotional distress, develop healthier coping strategies, and experience greater confidence, resilience, and self-understanding. This approach can be especially effective for those healing from complex trauma, attachment wounds, grief, identity-related challenges, and major life transitions. We offer EMDR therapy in Salt Lake City, Utah, for adolescents and adults, with both in-person and telehealth appointments available.
Insurance and Payment
High Desert Healing is committed to making mental health care accessible and affordable. We accept a variety of insurance plans for therapy services, including counseling for anxiety, trauma, depression, PTSD, life transitions, and other mental health concerns. Our team works with adolescents and adults throughout Salt Lake City, Utah, and can help verify your insurance benefits before your first appointment. We are happy to answer questions about coverage, copays, deductibles, and out-of-network benefits to help you access the care you need. We work with the following insurance carriers for in-network benefits.
-Select Health
-EMI Health
-University of Utah Health Plans
-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 us as a cash pay client. Many insurance companies will reimburse therapy session costs if you submit proof of payment. We offer private pay therapy and support clients using out-of-network insurance benefits, including providing superbills for reimbursement for services such as EMDR therapy, trauma therapy, and anxiety counseling.
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.
