Sedona Counseling website will one day be your go to place for integrative psychotherapy and nutrition counseling and or to find therapists, psychotherapists and or counselors that can help you with many issues including:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Fatigue
• Addictions
• Headaches
• Stress
• Low Energy
• Memory Loss

• Sleep Difficulties
• Eating Disorders
• Feeling Disconnected
• Excessive Sweating
• Racing Thoughts
• Sensory Sensitivities
• Attachment and Relational Challenges

“A problem cannot be solved by the consciousness that created it.” -Albert Einstein

“Therapy gives clients a safe relationship in which to explore their inner world and to consider taking risks in their external one.” -Mary Pipher

Sedona Counseling website also has counselors who specialize in transpersonal psychology as well as mindful awareness based psychologies influenced by buddhist psychology and other contemplative approaches to psychology.

We hope to provide compassionate supportive counseling to people throughout the Verde Valley including Sedona, Cornville, Cottonwood, Camp Verde, Clarkdale, Jerome, Flagstaff and the surrounding area.

Our list of personnel will have training in the following modalities:

Body-Centered Psychotherapy – This involves communicating with the body and the mind. It’s a type of therapy that helps to work with trauma symptoms that are associated with the brain. By bringing awareness to body sensations and impulses the body can finally feel that the trauma experiences are over and therefore the symptoms can be resolved.

Somatic Experiencing® – By integrating the mind and the body one can heal trauma and restore health to the nervous system. Somatic Experiencing® has been successful with releasing trauma symptoms such as: PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), anxiety, depression, anger, sleep difficulties, dissociation, and fatigue.

Play Therapy – Children often express themselves through play. This can provide an important opportunity for us to help children communicate and heal through modes of play. Sand trays are also used to give children a way to work on challenges and resolve them in a tangible way.

Love and Trauma Treatment – Influenced by the research of Peter Levine and other researchers in the field of trauma, Love and Trauma uses the method of freeing up the memory of trauma in the body along with the knowledge of attachment theory and countertransference to help counselors aid clients through the healing of trauma.

EFT or Emotional Freedom Techniques or The Tapping Solution – Tapping has been shown to provide relief from chronic pain, emotional problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, and physical diseases. While EFT is newly set to revolutionize the field of health and wellness, the healing concepts that it’s based upon have been in practice in Eastern medicine for over 5,000 years. Like acupuncture and acupressure, Tapping is a set of techniques which utilize the body’s energy meridian points. You can stimulate these meridian points by tapping on them with your fingertips – literally tapping into your body’s own energy and healing power.

DBT or Dialectic Behavior Therapy -This is a very effective system of therapy created by Marsha M. Linehan, originally developed to treat people with borderline personality disorder. It combines CBT or cognitive behavior techniques, reality testing with concepts of distress tolerance, acceptance and mindful awareness influence by Buddhist meditative practice. Recent work indicates strong results with sexual abuse survivors and chemical dependency.

Analytical Psychology or Jungian Psychology -this school of psychology was born out of the work of Carl Jung and advancements by others who continued his tradition. It has similarities to Freudian psychoanalysis but ultimately is it’s own distinct style of therapy which aims at wholeness through integration of unconscious forces and motivations underlying human behavior. Jung saw the psyche as mind, but also admits the mystery of soul, and used as empirical evidence, the practice of an accumulative phenomenology around the significance of dreams, archetypes and mythology.

Relationship Counseling – involves a process of counseling the members of a relationship in an effort to recognize and manage troublesome differences and recurring patterns of distress. This could be between members of a family or a couple (see also Family Therapy and Couples Therapy) as well as employees or employers in a business or workplace, or between a professional and a client.

Couples Therapy – is a related and different process. The duration can be different and where as Relationship Counseling could be 1 to 3 sessions and long term Couples Therapy might be between 12 and 24 sessions. Although an exception is brief or solution focused couples therapy. Couples Therapy can help clarify goals, strengthen communication and it may sometimes involve sex therapy.

Family Therapy – is a branch of psychotherapy involved in working with families and or couples in intimate relationships with a goal of nurturing new growth, change and development with respect to the systems of interaction between family members. This emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.

Sedona Therapy website was created by Wes Whittaker. It is still a work in progress. To contact Wes please email weswhittaker@yahoo.com. For immediate assistance in finding a therapist please check this Sedona Psychology Listing.