Therapists at Utah Valley Counseling
Therapists at Utah Valley Counseling are specialized in treating individuals and couples affected by pornography and sex addiction. Utah Valley Counseling providers have pioneered treatment of compulsive pornography use and addiction, sex addiction, lust addiction, and love addiction for both male and female addicts, and relational trauma related to a partner or family members addiction. Many refer to this type of trauma as betrayal trauma or PTSD. Utah Valley Counseling providers have specialized training in facilitating a full disclosure and the healing process that follows, including creating healthy boundaries, secure and healthy attachment and repairing the relationship.
If you or your treatment provider, that resides outside of the Utah Valley Counseling service area, are interested in the specialized training for the treatment of pornography and sex addiction, lust and love addiction, female sex addiction, relational trauma or betrayal trauma recovery and full disclosure that is offered by Utah Valley Counseling, contact our office for more information.
Utah Valley Counseling Therapists
James Bailey
Therapist
James is a compassionate, thoughtful therapist who focuses on anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem issues. He focuses on careful evaluation of what you bring to counseling and helps create a personal, tailored treatment plan that fits your exact needs.
Sheri Slater
Therapist
Sheri enjoys working with clients who struggle with anxiety, depression and medical issues. She loves helping people learn how to advocate for themselves through effective communication. She is trained in EMDR and can help ease the burden of trauma.
Joanna Sumsion
Therapist
Joanna offers kind, upbeat, support as you work through your most difficult life challenges. She gives practical recommendations of what you can do today to improve your situation. She's a marriage and family therapist, and also loves to work with individuals who needs someone to champion their change efforts. She's excellent with depression, anxiety, grief and loss. She is EMDR trained and can help you heal from traumatic life events. She's great with couples and families as well.
Nick Christensen
Therapist Intern
Nick can help with a variety of challenges, including depression, anxiety, relationship issues, problematic sexual behaviors (like compulsive pornography use), trauma, and grief and loss. Nick is particularly interested in working with concerns around neurodivergence, like ADHD and autism. He enjoys working with adults but has a special place in his heart for teens and young adults. He has worked for nearly a decade with teens in various capacities.
Bryan Henrie
Therapist
Marriage, couples, and family therapy are Brian's primary focus. He is passionate about helping couples with communication problems, premarital counseling, conflict, attachment issues, and emotional disconnection, as well as betrayal trauma and sex addiction.
Nicole Hooker
Therapist
Nicole believes that connected and supportive relationships matter more than just about anything else in our lives. She is passionate about helping couples, individuals, and families connect to themselves and the people they love. She has experience working with addiction, infidelity (affairs), and trauma (emotional neglect, childhood sexual abuse, etc.) among other presenting concerns.
Melissa Larson
Therapist
Melissa is a strength-based, client centered therapist who enjoys working with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relational conflict, parenting struggles, and trauma. Melissa also enjoys working with couples.
Amy Rogers
Therapist Intern
Amy has experience in treating a range of issues including body image struggles, depression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, trauma, relationship strain, crisis of faith or faith transitions.
Danae Harding
Therapist
Danae is passionate about helping clients find growth, health, strength, and happiness in relationships, and in life. She enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families who are dealing with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, identity, perfectionism, relationship issues, addiction recovery, and LGBT issues.
Josh Myers
Therapist
Josh uses evidence-based therapies, such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical-Behavior Therapy (DBT). He works with depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, parenting problems, grief and loss, among other challenges.
Alyson Watkins
Therapist
Alyson specializes in working with those suffering with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and addictions. She also works with women’s issues such as self-esteem, shame, and body image.
Christopher Matteson
Therapist
Christopher enjoys helping couples and families, and people struggling with depression and anxiety. He also focuses on LGBTQ+ issues as well as faith crisis, faith transition, and mixed-faith relationships.
Simone Russell
Therapist
Simone is a trauma-informed therapist who specializes in EMDR and treats issues like anxiety, depression, PTSD, self-harm, and suicidality. She also works extensively with individuals suffering from grief and loss.
Skyler Clark
Therapist
Skyler works with clients from diverse backgrounds focuses on issues like anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, life transitions, grief and loss, and pornography problems.
Allyson Evans
Therapist
Allyson is dedicated to efficient work in therapy and getting right to solutions. She specializes in addiction recovery treatment and related trauma. Allyson truly enjoys working with couples. In therapy she takes a comprehensive approach to wellness that takes into account treating the “whole person.”
Jayde Scroggs
Therapist
Jayde works with range of mental health and relationship challenges, but focuses specifically on helping couples work through relationships issues in addition to faith crisis and transition. Jayde enjoys treating people with complex PTSD and childhood or developmental trauma.
Amanda Nelson
Dietitian
Amanda is a registered dietitian and nutritionist. She can help with body image, eating disorders, meal planning, accountability, and intuitive eating.
Taber Gibbons
Therapist
Taber appreciates the hard work and time that each person puts into counseling and he is committed to helping clients find change and improvement. Taber has experience helping clients with trauma processing and recovery, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addiction recovery, and reunification of families.
Dan Solen
Therapist
Dan believes you need a customized therapy approach that works just for you. Dan has years of experience helping people work through compulsive sexual behaviors and helping those relationships heal. Dan has training in EMDR therapy and also enjoys working with individuals and couples struggling with faith transitions or faith crises.
Daniel Hawley
Therapist
Daniel clinical experience and enjoy working with individuals who struggle with depression, anxiety, ADHD, relationship issues, dating problems, pornography issues, current or past traumas, as well as couples and marital counseling.
Rylee Shields
Therapist
Rylee is trained in family systems theory to improve family relationships. She enjoys working with teens and adults. Rylee specializes in treating depression, anxiety, relationship conflict, infidelity, compulsive pornography use, and women's issues.
Denhi Chaney
Therapist
Denhi loves her work as a therapist and feels joy in helping people change. Denhi is a trauma specialist. She loves being encouraging and motivating to clients. She specializes in treating compulsive pornography use and betrayal trauma, anxiety, relationship problems, and infidelity
Jodi Williamson
Therapist Intern
Jodi can help with issues such as depression and other mood disorders, anxiety and fear, grief and loss, trauma, parenting and divorce-related problems, among others. She is trained in Mind-Body Bridging therapy and emphasizes self-care and science-backed mindfulness practices in my therapy.
Courtney Rogers
Therapist
Courtney is a proud Navy veteran and loves being a therapist. She specializes in helping families navigate challenging situations and improve their relationships She enjoys helping clients with communication breakdowns, parenting struggles, marital conflict, trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and LGBTQIA+ issues.
Jen Middleton
Therapist
Jen works with adult individuals and couples. She has experience working with trauma, anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviors, grief, and loss. With couples, she enjoys doing pre-marital counseling and helping couples with communication, infidelity, and trust issues. Jen is trained in EMDR to treat trauma.
Colton Waldron
Therapist
Colton enjoys helping couples and families reach their relationship goals. He specializes in working with infidelity, pornography use and partner trauma, difficult life stages and transitions, relationship satisfaction, and depression and anxiety. Colton focuses on helping his clients use their relationship and behavior patterns to accomplish their goals, guiding them in re-patterning unsuccessful interactions.
Kenneth Fatkin
Therapist
Kenneth has training and experience treating relationship struggles, trauma, depression, and anxiety. He is EMDR trained, so he can provide extensive help dealing with traumas from your past and present.
Bryce Barker
Therapist
Bryce specializes in treating sexual and pornography addiction and the associated betrayal trauma typically experienced by partners. His additional clinical experience includes treating anxiety, depression, LGBTQ+ concerns, trauma, and relationship struggles.
Shawn Talbot
Therapist
Shawn is empowering and goal oriented. Shawn can help you if you are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, self-esteem issues, and identity struggles. He is trained to treat compulsive sexual behaviors (like pornography use) and works with couples where the partner is experiencing betrayal trauma as well.
Jody Burningham
Therapist
Jody has worked in hospital settings previously, and her clinical expertise includes working with adults who are experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, post-partum depression and grief and loss. She also enjoy working with couples who have issues with infertility and adoption.
Kelly Young
Therapist
Kelly works with individuals, couples, and families with a variety of challenges including anxiety, depression, communication, self-esteem, and trauma. She is trained in accelerated resolution therapy, a trauma informed model (similar to EMDR).
Erin Lincoln
Therapist
Erin provides a nonjudgmental environment that allows you to feel safe and secure. She works with anxiety, depression, loss, and trauma, in addition to youth, couples, LGBTQ+, and individuals.
Susie Larsen
Therapist
Susie works with people facing issues around self-esteem, betrayal, relationships, eating disorders, autism spectrum diagnoses, attachment wounds, and spiritual and faith development. She offers extra emphasis on self-care, mindfulness, and other wellness practices.
Sam Stinnett
Therapist
Sam is a person-centered and trauma-informed approach therapist who can adapt to your specific needs in the therapeutic space. Sam works with anxiety, depression, autism, trauma, LGBTQ+ concerns, sexual problems, and relationship issues.
Roy Robins
Therapist
Roy is a marriage and family therapist whose treatment experience and training includes ADD, abuse, anxiety, depression, marriage and family issues, addiction, pornography use, men's issues, faith crisis and faith transition,
Brittany Jordan
Therapist
Brittany enjoys working with clients looking to process trauma, whether that is PTSD, complex or developmental trauma. She also work with anxiety, depression, and OCD, among other mental health and relationship struggles.
Catherine Rose
Therapist
Catherine is a strengths-based therapist by nature. She loves to focus on what her clients already know and the skills they already have. Catherine is passionate about empowering her clients to build success on the hard work they have already put in to trying to survive hard times. She loves helping people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, trauma, addiction, and eating disorders.
Directors and Staff
Dan Solen
Associate Clinical Director
Dan oversees supervision of associate therapists and provides training and consultation to new hires. He provides training to therapists in the ARM-5 treatment model for compulsive sexual behaviors, and also provides in-house EMDR training for Sela Health therapists.
Allyson Evans
Associate Clinical Director
Allyson provides supervision for associate therapists as well as consultation and training for new Sela Health therapists. In addition, she provides support for therapist clinical documentation.
Dr. Adam M. Moore
Clinical Director
Dr. Adam Moore has provided professional counseling for over a decade. He specializes in treating sexual addiction (including pornography addiction), and extramarital affairs.
Dr. Moore is an educator and public speaker. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at Brigham Young University, Argosy University, and Utah Valley University. He has shared presentations and workshops on pornography and sexual addiction recovery with many thousands of people across the state of Utah.
Dr. Moore provides training and supervision for all Utah Valley Counseling therapists.
Lindsay Moore
Executive Director
Lindsay manages Utah Valley Counseling’s operations, including insurance and other third-party billing, graphic design, social media and outreach. She has a background in human resources and office management and has worked in HR and office management positions with Hampton Inn & Suites, Sodexho facilities management, and Utah Valley University facilities.
Lauren
Office Manager
Lauren manages office operations, receives intake phone calls, assigns new clients to therapists, and provides support to Utah Valley Counseling clinicians and directors. Lauren's previous work history includes event planning, retail, and forensic anthropology.
Janelle Benny
Administrative Assistant
Lyndsie Terry
Administrative Assistant
At Utah Valley Counseling, we help clients with many presenting concerns, including the following:
Sexual and pornography addiction, including for adults and teens.
Extramarital affairs or cheating. Research shows that outcomes are better for these situations when therapists follow specific protocols.
Eating disorders, including binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, and more. We treat people who need outpatient help.
Sexual dysfunction in relationships. We work with you to improve your sexual relationship.
Grief or bereavement–addressing issues with death and loss or even grieving losses of former spiritual or religious beliefs.
We can help with maternal mental health issues like post-partum depression and infertility or pregnancy loss.
Our therapists are trained to work with depression and anxiety, chronic illness, body image, and self-esteem issues.
If you have parenting problems or need help with your family relationships, we can help with that.
We also offer free community presentations and contracted speaking engagements for retreats, conferences and corporate events.