Therapy for Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse & Faith Deconstruction in Phoenix, Arizona
Whether you're in the middle of deconstruction, years out from a church that caused harm, or still trying to name what happened to you — you don't have to make your experience smaller to fit inside a therapy room here.
I work with adults and couples navigating the specific, layered wounds that religious environments can leave. This isn't generic trauma therapy with a faith overlay. It's specialized care built around what actually happens when a community that was supposed to be safe becomes the source of harm.
In-person in Phoenix, AZ · Telehealth across Arizona · Private pay
My Specializations
Religious Trauma & Spiritual Abuse
Religious trauma isn't always dramatic. Sometimes it's the slow accumulation of shame-based teaching, authoritarian leadership, or a community that conflated obedience with spiritual worth. If you've left a church — or are still inside one — and something feels deeply wrong, that's worth exploring. I specialize in helping people identify, name, and begin to heal from the specific harm that religious environments cause
Faith Deconstruction & Transitions
Deconstruction is often described as an intellectual process. In practice, it tends to feel more like grief — or disorientation, or fury, or all three at once. Losing a faith framework means losing a community, an identity, and sometimes a family. I work with people at every stage of that transition, from early questions to rebuilding a life that reflects who you actually are.
Purity Culture Recovery
Purity culture doesn't stay in the past. Its messages about bodies, sexuality, shame, and worth tend to show up in relationships, in how you experience your own body, and in the gap between who you were told to be and who you actually are. This is one of the most undertreated areas of religious harm, and one of the most important.
How I Work
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
A research-supported trauma therapy that helps the brain process distressing memories so they lose their grip. Particularly effective for the kind of embedded, shame-layered wounds that religious trauma produces.
Somatic Awareness
Trauma lives in the body as much as the mind. I integrate somatic awareness throughout our work — helping you notice and work with what your body is already telling you, not just what you can articulate.
EFT & EFIT (Emotionally Focused Therapy / Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy)
Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson and rooted in decades of attachment research. EFT helps people understand the emotional patterns and relational cycles keeping them stuck — and begin to change them. I use EFIT with individuals and EFT with couples.
Working with Couples
Many couples arrive carrying relationship wounds that are inseparable from their religious history — beliefs about gender roles, sexual shame, diverging deconstruction timelines, or a faith community that shaped how they learned to fight, avoid, or connect.
I work with couples using Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), which targets the underlying emotional patterns driving conflict and disconnection rather than just surface-level communication skills.
Couples sessions are 90 minutes.
Fees
Service
Rates
Individual therapy (60 min)
$175
Couples therapy (90 min)
$275
I am private pay and do not bill insurance directly. A superbill is available upon request for clients who wish to seek out-of-network reimbursement from their insurance provider.
FAQs
Do you take insurance?I don't bill insurance directly. I'm a private pay practice. If you have out-of-network benefits, I can provide a superbill each month that you can submit to your insurance company for potential reimbursement.
Do I have to identify as religious or Christian to work with you?No. Many of my clients no longer identify with any faith tradition at all. What matters is that the harm you experienced happened in a religious context — not where you stand now.
What if I'm not sure what happened to me counts as trauma?That uncertainty is one of the most common things people bring into a first session. You don't need to arrive with a diagnosis or a clear story. We figure that out together.
Ready to take the first step?
You don't have to have it figured out before you reach out.