Services We Offer

Addiction affects more than just habits — it impacts relationships, confidence, and overall well-being. Counseling helps clients break free from destructive cycles, address underlying issues, and create a sustainable path to recovery.

Why Addiction Counseling Helps
• Provides accountability and non-judgmental support.
• Addresses underlying causes of addiction such as trauma or stress.
• Teaches strategies to manage cravings and prevent relapse.
• Helps rebuild trust in relationships and restore self-esteem.

Who Can Benefit from Addiction Counseling
• Individuals struggling with pornography, drugs, alcohol, or gaming.
• Teens or adults experimenting with risky behaviors.
• People in recovery needing long-term support.
• Families impacted by a loved one’s addiction.

Anxiety and depression can feel overwhelming — stealing sleep, energy, motivation, and joy. Counseling provides tools to manage symptoms, uncover root causes, and build long-term resilience so you can move forward with confidence and balance.

Why Anxiety and Depression Counseling Helps
• Reduces panic attacks, chronic worry, and intrusive thoughts.
• Helps improve sleep, appetite, and daily energy.
• Teaches strategies to challenge negative thought patterns.
• Restores confidence, motivation, and emotional balance.
• Provides long-term skills to prevent relapse and manage stress.
Who Can Benefit from Anxiety and Depression Counseling
• Adults, teens, and children experiencing anxiety or depression.
• People facing panic attacks or social anxiety.
• Clients struggling with low mood, fatigue, or loss of motivation.
• Individuals coping with grief, stress, or major life transitions.
• Students and professionals managing performance pressure or burnout.

A car accident can leave emotional scars long after physical injuries heal. Anxiety about driving, nightmares about the crash, and feelings of panic or avoidance are common. Auto accident counseling focuses on reprocessing trauma tied to the accident so you can return to daily life with confidence and peace of mind.

Why Auto Accident Counseling Helps
• Helps reduce driving-related anxiety and panic attacks.
• Reprocesses trauma to reduce flashbacks and nightmares.
• Restores confidence for driving or riding in cars.
• Supports recovery while balancing medical or legal processes.
• Improves sleep, focus, and overall well-being.

Who Can Benefit from Auto Accident Counseling
• Adults and teens afraid to drive after an accident.
• Survivors of severe or fatal crashes struggling with trauma or survivor’s guilt.
• Clients balancing medical rehabilitation with emotional recovery.
• Families coping with the emotional aftermath of auto injuries.

Children often express themselves through play more than words. Play therapy provides a safe, creative space where children can process emotions, build confidence, and develop problem-solving skills.

Why Child & Play Therapy Helps
• Helps children express emotions they can’t put into words.
• Provides tools to reduce anxiety, fear, or sadness.
• Improves behavior and emotional regulation at home and school.
• Strengthens parent-child communication and trust.

Who Can Benefit from Child & Play Therapy
• Children coping with divorce or family changes.
• Kids experiencing grief or loss.
• Children who have experienced trauma or abuse.
• Kids struggling with anxiety, depression, or anger.
• Children with behavioral issues at school or home.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective, research-backed approaches to treating anxiety, depression, and negative thought patterns. It helps clients change unhelpful thinking and behaviors into healthier, more balanced ones.

What is Cognitive?
CBT focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. By identifying unhelpful thought patterns and replacing them with healthier perspectives, clients learn practical tools to manage anxiety, depression, and everyday stress.

Benefits of Cognitive
• Manage anxiety, panic, and worry
• Reduce symptoms of depression
• Learn practical coping skills
• Challenge negative thought patterns
• Build healthier habits and routines

How Does Cognitive Work?
1. Identify unhelpful thoughts and beliefs
2. Recognize how they affect emotions and actions
3. Learn techniques to challenge and reframe thoughts
4. Practice new behaviors to reinforce healthier patterns

Why Choose Deseret Counseling?
• Over 13 years serving individuals, couples, and families
• Licensed and experienced therapists trained in evidence-based approaches
• Warm, compassionate, and safe environment
• Accepts most major insurance plans
• Convenient locations in Orem, Sandy, Riverdale, and St. George
• Telehealth sessions available throughout Utah and surrounding states

Who Can Benefit from Cognitive?
• Individuals with anxiety or depression
• People dealing with panic attacks or stress
• Teens and adults wanting better coping skills
• Clients struggling with low self-esteem or negative self-talk

Relationships can bring joy, but they can also create stress and conflict. Couples and family therapy offer a neutral space to resolve conflicts, rebuild trust, and strengthen relationships. Whether you’re dating, married, or navigating blended families, therapy helps break unhealthy cycles and create healthier communication patterns.

Why Couples and Family Therapy Helps
• Improves communication and understanding between partners or family members.
• Provides strategies for resolving conflict without escalating arguments.
• Rebuilds trust and intimacy after betrayal or distance.
• Helps blended families establish healthy boundaries.
• Supports parents in raising children together through stressful times.

Who Can Benefit from Couples and Family Therapy
• Couples struggling with constant arguments or emotional distance.
• Families experiencing conflict between parents and children.
• Blended families adjusting to new dynamics.
• Couples recovering from broken trust or betrayal.
• Parents raising children with stress, conflict, or behavioral challenges.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is designed to help people manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and build skills for a balanced life.

What is Dialectical?
DBT combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices. It emphasizes acceptance and change, teaching clients skills to regulate emotions, tolerate distress, and improve communication.

Benefits of Dialectical
• Improve emotional regulation
• Develop healthier coping strategies
• Strengthen relationships and communication
• Reduce self-destructive or impulsive behaviors

How Does Dialectical Work?
1. Learn mindfulness practices for self-awareness
2. Build distress tolerance skills
3. Improve emotional regulation strategies
4. Practice interpersonal effectiveness for healthy relationships

Why Choose Deseret Counseling?
• Over 13 years serving individuals, couples, and families
• Licensed and experienced therapists trained in evidence-based approaches
• Warm, compassionate, and safe environment
• Accepts most major insurance plans
• Convenient locations in Orem, Sandy, Riverdale, and St. George
• Telehealth sessions available throughout Utah and surrounding states

Who Can Benefit from Dialectical?
• Individuals with intense emotions or mood swings
• People struggling with self-harm or impulsivity
• Teens and adults wanting stronger communication skills

Trauma can leave you feeling stuck. Maybe it shows up as flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety, or constant stress. You’ve tried to push it away, but it keeps coming back. EMDR therapy offers a proven way to help your brain reprocess painful experiences — so you can finally move forward with peace and confidence.

What is EMDR Therapy?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a research-based therapy that helps people heal from trauma, anxiety, and other distressing experiences.

Through guided eye movements or gentle bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps the brain reprocess painful memories so they no longer carry the same emotional weight.

The American Psychological Association and World Health Organization both recognize EMDR as an effective treatment for trauma and PTSD.

Benefits of EMDR Therapy
• Reduce anxiety, panic, and fear
• Find freedom from painful or intrusive memories
• Improve sleep and focus
• Build confidence and peace of mind
• Heal more efficiently compared to traditional talk therapy

How Does EMDR Work?
1. Identify the memories or triggers causing distress
2. Engage in bilateral stimulation (eye movements, gentle taps, or sounds)
3. Reprocess the memory so it loses its emotional intensity
4. Strengthen positive thoughts and beliefs
You don’t forget the memory — but it no longer controls you.

Why Choose Deseret Counseling?
• Over 13 years serving individuals, couples, and families
• EMDR-certified therapists with years of experience
• Warm, compassionate, and safe environment
• Accepts most major insurance plans
• Convenient locations in Orem, Sandy, Riverdale, and St. George
• Telehealth sessions available throughout Utah and surrounding states

Who Can Benefit from EMDR?
• Survivors of car accidents or injuries
• People living with PTSD, anxiety, or panic attacks
• Victims of abuse or neglect
• Veterans, first responders, and healthcare workers
• Anyone feeling “stuck” in painful memories or negative self-beliefs

Losing someone you love is one of life’s most difficult challenges. Grief counseling offers support as you process loss, cope with overwhelming emotions, and begin to rebuild your life at your own pace.

Why Grief Counseling Helps
• Helps process emotions like sadness, anger, or guilt.
• Provides coping strategies for navigating daily life after loss.
• Reduces feelings of isolation by offering understanding and support.
• Honors the memory of loved ones while moving toward healing.

Who Can Benefit from Grief Counseling
• Adults or children grieving the loss of a spouse, parent, or child.
• Individuals struggling with miscarriage or infertility.
• Anyone facing sudden or traumatic loss.
• People who feel “stuck” in grief months or years after the loss.

Being a teenager today comes with pressures that past generations never faced — social media, school stress, peer pressure, family changes, and the expectations of growing up fast. Teens may struggle with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, or difficulty expressing emotions. Counseling gives them a safe space to talk openly, build coping skills, and feel understood.

Why Teen Counseling Helps
• Manage anxiety and stress – Learn techniques to calm racing thoughts and reduce panic.
• Overcome depression and low motivation – Explore emotions safely and rebuild confidence.
• Improve communication – Strengthen relationships with parents, siblings, and peers.
• Navigate identity and self-esteem struggles – Build self-worth in a world of comparison.
• Develop healthy coping strategies – Replace harmful behaviors with positive outlets.

Who Can Benefit from Teen Counseling
• Teens experiencing anxiety or depression.
• Adolescents struggling with school stress or bullying.
• Teens with ADHD or focus challenges.
• Youth dealing with family conflict or divorce.
• Teens experimenting with risky behaviors.
• Any teen who feels “different” or misunderstood.

Trauma isn’t always about a single event — sometimes it’s a series of painful experiences that leave you feeling unsafe, disconnected, or constantly on edge. Trauma counseling provides a safe and supportive space to process these experiences, calm the nervous system, and rebuild a sense of safety and connection.

Why Trauma Counseling Helps
• Helps reduce flashbacks, nightmares, and panic attacks.
• Provides grounding skills for moments of overwhelm.
• Restores trust in yourself and your relationships.
• Addresses both emotional and physical effects of trauma.
• Builds long-term resilience to manage stress and triggers.

Who Can Benefit from Trauma Counseling
• Survivors of childhood abuse or neglect.
• Victims of domestic violence or sexual assault.
• Military, first responders, and healthcare workers.
• People recovering from sudden loss or medical trauma.
• Individuals experiencing complex trauma from repeated events.