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You don’t have to fake your way through it anymore. Whether you’re overwhelmed by anxious thoughts, weighed down by a constant heaviness, or just plain

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You Don’t Have to Navigate It Alone Sometimes, knowing you’re not the only one going through something can make all the difference. At Arizona Connection

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Sexual Health & Intimacy Issues Because your sexuality shouldn’t come with shame or pain. Intro Paragraph The quality of your sexual relationship with your partner

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Lourdes Ibarra
Addiction & Compulsive Behaviors

Lourdes Ibarra

I am passionate about helping individuals heal and feel empowered to look at their lives through clearer lenses. My approach in therapy is based on

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Valerie Southwick
Attachment/EFT

Valerie Alston-Southwick, LPC

The most rewarding part of my job is helping couples repair their relationship. I have advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy, EFT, which has shown

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Suzanne Sanders
Addiction & Compulsive Behaviors

Suzanne Sanders

I am a Licensed Counselor specializing in the issues of depression, anxiety, and trauma. My goal is to help you to meet life’s daily challenges

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Kelly Lopez
Attachment/EFT

Kelly Lopez

I am a Licensed Associate Counselor, specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, trauma, abuse/neglect, relationship problems, and basic human issues related to personal development

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Felicia Cota
Anger Management

Felicia Cota

If you find yourself struggling, feeling overwhelmed or experiencing painful emotions in your everyday life or perhaps experiencing triggers from past trauma, I work with

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Addiction & Compulsive Behaviors

Trasi Freeman, MSP, LAC

“Healing happens when we’re allowed to truly be ourselves in a safe, compassionate space.” I want you to know something important: You are NOT broken.

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4 Reasons Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Stick (and 4 Tips That Actually Create Change)

4 Reasons Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Stick (and 4 Tips That Actually Create Change)

By AZCC
New Year’s resolutions often fail—not because of laziness or lack of willpower, but because they’re built on pressure, shame, and unrealistic expectations. This post explores why change doesn’t stick and what actually creates sustainable growth rooted in self-compassion, nervous system support, and small, meaningful shifts.
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When Sexual Desire Is Out of Sync

When Sexual Desire Is Out of Sync

By AZCC
Few things create as much quiet tension in a relationship as mismatched sexual desire. When one partner feels rejected, and the other feels pressured, it’s easy to wonder what’s gone wrong. This post explores why desire differences are so common, what they’re really about (hint: it’s rarely just sex), and how couples can move out of painful cycles and back toward safety, connection, and closeness.
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5 Myths About Grief and Loss

5 Myths About Grief and Loss

By AZCC
Grief doesn’t follow a neat timeline or a set of predictable stages. In this article, we explore five common myths about grief and loss—and the compassionate truths that can help you better understand your experience and feel less alone.

Eating Disorders - It's Not About the Food

By Kelly Lopez

If it’s not about the food, what is it really about?

The eating disorder serves a function, it does a job. Despite the problems an eating disorder creates, it is an effort to cope, shield against, communicate, and solve problems. Behaviors may be a way to establish a sense of power or control, self-worth, strength, and containment. Bringing may be used to numb pain. Purging may be a way to release emotions. When one cannot cope in healthy ways, adaptive functions (behaviors) are created to ensure a sense of safety, security, and control.
According to Carolyn Costin*, some of the “adaptive functions that eating disorder behaviors commonly serve are”:
  • Comfort, soothing, nurturance
  • Numbing, sedation, distraction
  • Attention, a cry for help
  • Discharge of tension, anger, rebellion
  • Predictability, structure, identity
  • Self-punishment or punishment of "the body"
  • Self-cleansing or self-purification
  • Protection or safety (through creation of a small or large body)
  • Avoidance of intimacy
  • Proof for self-blame instead of blaming others (for exampl, abusers)
It’s not about the food, it’s a way of coping with low self-esteem, negative emotions, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, unstable home, difficulty resolving conflict and much more.
*Costin, Carolyn. The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments and Prevention of Eating Disorders. 3rd. edition, McGraw Hill, 2007.
Fuller, Kristen. “Eating Disorders: It’s Not All about Food.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 22 Mar. 2017

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-is-state-mind/201703/eating-disorders-it-s-not-all-about-food