Empowered Path: Trauma & Relationship Counseling

Empowered Path: Trauma & Relationship Counseling Individual, Couples, and Family Therapy. Offering Telehealth appointments. Paperwork can be filled out online. Schedule an appointment today.

Contact us at (602) 835-0364.

04/08/2022

Repairs are everything in a relationship. The reality is, conflict is inevitable. The difference in healthy relationships is the ability to find reconnection and make a quality repair. This is far easier to do when the relationship has a strong friendship.

So here's my invitation to for Friday night. Make it a date night and build up that friendship. It can be an at home date but make it a point to be present together. Here's some questions to help with connecting conversation. Be sure to approach this with willingness to just listen and learn about the other person.

1. What has been your most enjoyable activity/experience lately? What was so great about it.

2. Where would you like to see our lives 5 years from now?

3. What is something you've accomplished as an adult that your younger self would be proud of or didn't see coming?

4. What tasks or activities make you feel like your best self or you're in your element?

5. At this point in our lives, what would be the most fun things to do together? A new skill or hobby? Travel? Game nights?

6. If you were to sing a duet with a famous person, who would it be and why?

Healing looks like a lot of things. Sometimes it starts with the smallest steps that turn out to be the most important. ...
04/04/2022

Healing looks like a lot of things. Sometimes it starts with the smallest steps that turn out to be the most important. I often hear how people are waiting for "the right time" to make a change or start therapy.

The truth is, if we notice a need for change, growth, or healing then that's the time to start. It doesn't require you to have everything figured out or to know exactly what to do. It's just one step at a time.

Therapy is the perfect place to process this and have support as you walk that journey. It's OK to feel scared to start, but I promise, you're worth it.

Our bodies and minds are incredible with the ways that they can cope. When we experience something so painful our brains...
03/21/2022

Our bodies and minds are incredible with the ways that they can cope. When we experience something so painful our brains have a way of disconnecting to protect us, but our bodies remember.

It can be a troubling experience when trauma is brought back up that our bodies remember, but our minds don't. You may recall parts of it or found ways to rationalize it, but the body remembers.

This response is helpful at first to help get you through the stress, but over time it leads to other issues, negative thought processes, and can be painfully debilitating.

EMDR is often used for clients who are experiencing these things and is a very effective way to help the brain re-process the event and reconnect the brain and body to work together. The goal is to relieve the distressing reactions and create helpful beliefs and thoughts.

It can be incredibly empowering for my clients to experience this and create their narrative and perspective about what the event means to them.

If this is something you've been looking for, please reach out. I'd love to support you through that journey.

Spring is here!! Are you getting outside to enjoy the weather? Sunlight and exercise are great ways to practice and b...
03/20/2022

Spring is here!! Are you getting outside to enjoy the weather? Sunlight and exercise are great ways to practice and boost your mood.

Hello!!👋 Welcome to Empowered Path and thank you for following along.Today is a great day for introductions so let's kic...
03/17/2022

Hello!!👋 Welcome to Empowered Path and thank you for following along.

Today is a great day for introductions so let's kick that off.

I'm Monica and I am the owner/therapist behind this practice. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist in Arizona and I specialize in trauma and family systems/relationships. I've worked with clients from 4 years old and up but really enjoy working with teens/young adults and couples through all of their life changes.

I'm trained in a variety of modalities (EMDR, DBT, Gottman) because I think it's important to have options to meet my clients where they're at, including faith based services.

Prior to this practice I helped develop and run an award winning adolescent mental health and substance use treatment program over the last few years.

Outside of the office I love hiking and running, photography, and enjoy my quiet mornings with my coffee before the busy day starts.🏃‍♀️📷☕️ These have become go to self-care activities.

I hope to develop this space to be a great place for resources and inspiration, but please reach out if you're exploring the idea of starting therapy. 😊

✨️ I'd love to hear from all of you. Where are you from and what's your favorite self-care activities lately??



Telehealth services have kept us going over the last few years. Empowered Path continues to offer services virtually ac...
03/17/2022

Telehealth services have kept us going over the last few years. Empowered Path continues to offer services virtually across Arizona.

As this account starts to grow it makes sense to start out with this statement. The process of healing can look like ma...
03/17/2022

As this account starts to grow it makes sense to start out with this statement. The process of healing can look like many things, but this is a perfect way of describing empowerment through it. We cannot always control what happens in our lives but owning the path we're on can create so much strength and an opportunity to participate in what happens next.

And I won't lie, seeing clients reach this moment and realization is why I do what I do. ☺️

-care

Great news to share! Empowered Path is open and accepting new clients. You can get started with a free 15 minute consult...
03/17/2022

Great news to share! Empowered Path is open and accepting new clients. You can get started with a free 15 minute consultation to see if this would be a good fit and answer any questions you have about the therapy process. Visit the link in the bio to book.

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