Healing Begins Within
Whether you are dealing with personal challenges, experiencing relationship difficulties, or seeking to improve your overall mental health, our dedicated therapists are here to support you on your journey toward healthier and more fulfilling relationships — beginning with your relationship to yourself.
We Can Help…
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Trauma happens when an experience feels overwhelming and leaves a lasting impact on how a person feels, thinks, or relates to others. It can come from a single event or from ongoing situations that create a sense of fear, loss, or instability.
Complex trauma develops over time, often within important relationships or early in life, and can shape how someone experiences safety, connection, and self-trust. Healing involves gently restoring a sense of safety, understanding, and connection—both within yourself and with others.
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Anxiety disorders involve ongoing worry, fear, or nervous system activation that feels difficult to control and can interfere with daily life, relationships, or sleep. While anxiety is a natural human response, it becomes a concern when the body stays stuck in a state of alert even when there is no immediate danger. With support, people can learn to understand their anxiety, calm the nervous system, and develop greater ease, confidence, and resilience in everyday life.
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Attachment and relationship issues develop when past experiences shape how a person learns to connect, trust, and feel safe with others. These patterns can show up as fear of closeness, difficulty trusting, people-pleasing, withdrawal, or feeling easily overwhelmed in relationships. With support, individuals can begin to understand these patterns, build emotional safety, and develop more secure, meaningful connections with themselves and the people in their lives.
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Depression can feel like a heavy sense of sadness, numbness, or disconnection that makes it harder to enjoy life or feel motivated. Life transitions—such as relationship changes, loss, career shifts, or identity changes—can also bring uncertainty and emotional strain, even when the change is expected. With support, people can make sense of these experiences, reconnect with meaning, and move through change with greater clarity, compassion, and steadiness.
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Religious deconstruction or transition involves re-examining beliefs, values, and identity shaped by faith or spiritual traditions. This process can bring grief, confusion, relief, or fear—especially when beliefs were closely tied to family, community, or a sense of belonging. With support, individuals can navigate this transition with care, honoring what was meaningful while creating space for authenticity, agency, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Meet Our Therapists
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Stacy Ju Gibbons, MS, CMHC
Specialization: Trauma
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional LEVEL II
Relationship Issues, Identity Development, Religious Transition/Trauma, Parts work and Dissociation, EMDR, IFS
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Tiffany Paskett, MS, CMHC
Specialization: Couples
Spanish Speaking
Betrayal and Childhood/Adult Trauma, Infidelity, Abuse, Break-up/Divorce, Relationship Issues, EMDR, IFS
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Ray Wagner, MS, ACMHC
Specialization: Trauma & Addiction Recovery
EMDR, Identity Development, Relationship Issues, Mindfulness-Based
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Tiana Hoffmann, MS, LCSW
Specialization: Trauma & Marital
Premarital, Pregnancy, Prenatal, and Postpartum, EMDR
Your Comfort Matters
Therapist Education
The ITC offers a series of courses and other educational resources for therapists and the general public. Some resources are offered for free, some have a nominal cost. Click below to learn more.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there’s a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase, “each other” doesn’t make any sense.”
— Rumi