Alexander Nelson Counseling

Your First Step

Whether you are new to therapy or transitioning from a higher level or care, finding the right counselor to fit your needs is an important step on your therapy journey.

An Integrated, Evidence-Based Approach That Works

I combine several therapeutic modalities to help you experience real relief and meaningful progress:

• Talk Therapy and Emotional Processing – Building a safe, trusting relationship is the foundation. Through open dialogue, we begin to untangle painful emotions.
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – Identifying and reshaping unhelpful thought patterns helps reduce distress and foster clarity.
• EMDR Therapy – This powerful, neuroscience-based method targets the emotional centers of the brain to identify, desensitize, and reprocess trauma – so you can respond to life from a calmer, more grounded place.
• Skill-Building for Lasting Change – We’ll develop personalized coping strategies and support healthy lifestyle changes that strengthen your resilience far beyond therapy.

Helping You Integrate and Transition

After engaging in intensive inpatient, PHP, IOP, or rehab levels of treatment, it is important to continue being proactive with your mental health to keep the progress you have made, integrate what you have learned, and transition back into your life.

With individual counseling, we begin where you left off in your treatment journey to help reinforce and apply the skills and lifestyle changes that you have initiated.

Whether we are focused on general mental health (such as anxiety, depression, or ADHD) or substance use, our focus is on addressing underlying causes of symptoms. Having time and specialized focus on your individual needs, we can go deeper to understand and alleviate the root causes affecting your symptoms to cultivate lasting change.

I actively engage in ongoing coordinated care and professional relationship building with treatment facilities in the Phoenix area to provide you with the highest quality of care and treatment.

Helping to Improve Your Relationships

You may be interested in beginning therapy due to relationship distress or difficulty initiating and maintaining healthy relationships.

To help improve your ability to cultivate and thrive in healthy relationships, we often have to begin with unpacking, processing, and healing emotional trauma from the past.

Complex PTSD – Relational & Developmental Trauma

Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) often results from prolonged emotional trauma, especially within close relationships or early life experiences. This might include emotional neglect, inconsistent caregiving, or repeated exposure to unhealthy relational patterns.

Symptoms can include:

• Difficulty maintaining healthy relationships
• Anxiety, depression, and chronic self-doubt
• Emotional dysregulation
• Persistent negative self-beliefs

When treating relationship distress and C-PTSD, I utilize an integrative approach with a focus on EMDR, which is recognized as the gold standard for treating relational trauma.

Let’s Begin Your Healing Journey

With compassion, expertise, and a deep respect for your process, I’m here to help you reconnect with your inner strength and create the life you deserve.