While we cannot change the past, we can change how past experiences live within us

Phoenix Soaring Counseling  subscribes to the following core values to help us fulfill our purpose:

• Ethics, Integrity, and Transparency

• Clinical & Educational Excellence

• Justice, Dignity, & Worth

• Empowerment through Relationships

• Commitment to Experiential Healing for Clients, Community, and Ourselves

Clinician Supervision & Guidance

My goal as a supervisor is to create a welcoming, safe place to engage in a collaborative process. Using the roles of teacher, counselor, and consultant, I strive to meet clinicians where they are in their professional development by taking a person-centered and developmental model.

Together, we will work to grow in the following areas: process (what you’re actually doing in sessions like interventions and techniques), conceptualization (how you think about your cases), personalization (helping you be the most authentic therapist you can be), and administration (case notes, ethics, etc

Informed Consent

Under HB 68, mental health professionals are required to get parental consent from a parent/guardian in order to both provide a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and to provide treatment, an entirely unprecedented practice requirement. When a parent/legal guardian consents to mental health services on behalf of a minor, they consent to receive assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in accordance with the provider’s expertise, best practices, and professional ethics and regulations. Consent can be revoked at any time. Mental health diagnoses are based on careful assessment of a client’s symptoms, history, behaviors, etc. by highly trained professionals, not what a client or client’s parents/guardian wants the diagnosis to be or not be. The minor will be assessed thoroughly, for any/all diagnoses within the DSM V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) that could occur on their own, or in conjunction with any other diagnosis.

 The House Bill does require that once gender “concerns” are identified for minors, that documented consent is received by at least one parent for the therapist to provide gender affirming care and to move forward in treatment.