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Our Focus

At Enso Counseling in Scottsdale, Arizona, our therapeutic work is grounded in attachment-based, trauma-informed therapy that helps individuals understand how early relationships shape emotional regulation, anxiety, self-worth, and patterns in relationships.

We deeply value the transformative power of attachment theory, integrating insights from pioneering researchers such as John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, Pia Mellody, and Gabor Maté into our therapeutic approach. These frameworks help clients understand how early attachment experiences influence anxiety, emotional reactivity, relationship dynamics, and patterns of connection in adulthood.

To support healing at both emotional and nervous-system levels, we employ techniques rooted in Post Induction Therapy (PIT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Through PIT, we work with the impact of childhood trauma and unmet emotional needs, helping clients build healthier emotional regulation and relational patterns. EMDR further supports the processing and resolution of traumatic experiences, allowing clients to reduce emotional distress, release long-held patterns, and reconnect with inner strength and resilience.

Drawing from Gabor Maté’s work on authenticity and attachment, therapy also focuses on helping clients reconnect with their authentic selves — not by forcing change, but by cultivating self-awareness, compassion, and acceptance within the context of their lived experience.

Our practice is committed to supporting individuals in developing secure internal resources, reducing anxiety and emotional reactivity, strengthening relationships, and living more authentically in alignment with their true selves.

In addition to attachment-based and trauma-informed approaches, we integrate evidence-based modalities such as Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Susan Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). CBT supports clients in identifying and challenging unhelpful thought patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, and self-criticism, while EFT focuses on strengthening emotional bonds, communication, trust, and intimacy within relationships.

Central to our therapeutic philosophy is mindfulness-based therapy, which encourages present-moment awareness and non-judgmental acceptance of thoughts and emotions. By incorporating mindfulness practices, we help clients cultivate greater self-compassion, emotional resilience, and internal stability — creating the conditions for meaningful, lasting change.

Individual Therapy

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the challenges in your life, or finding it difficult to manage emotions, stress, or relationship patterns on your own? You may have insight into what you’re experiencing, yet still feel stuck, uncertain, or unsure where to turn.

Individual therapy offers a supportive, non-judgmental space to explore what you’re going through with focused, one-on-one attention. This work is centered entirely on you — your experiences, goals, emotions, and patterns — allowing therapy to move at a pace that feels safe, intentional, and effective.

Unlike group or alternative therapy formats, individual therapy provides personalized support tailored to your specific needs. Together, we work to better understand your emotional world, develop healthier ways of responding to challenges, and build greater clarity, self-trust, and emotional regulation.

If you’re seeking a space to be heard, understood, and supported as you work toward meaningful change, individual therapy can offer a grounded and effective path forward.

Couples Therapy

Relationships can feel especially painful when the same conflicts keep repeating, communication breaks down, or emotional distance grows despite genuine efforts to reconnect. Many couples find themselves stuck in cycles of misunderstanding, defensiveness, or withdrawal — knowing something isn’t working, but unsure how to change it.

Couples therapy offers a supportive space to slow down these patterns and better understand what’s happening beneath the surface. Rather than focusing on blame or who is “right,” the work centers on emotional awareness, attachment needs, and how each partner experiences safety, connection, and closeness in the relationship.

Through couples therapy, partners learn to communicate more clearly, respond more intentionally, and reconnect in ways that foster trust, understanding, and emotional intimacy. This process helps shift long-standing patterns — not through force or fixing, but through insight, compassion, and emotional attunement.

If you and your partner are seeking a deeper sense of connection and a healthier way of navigating challenges together, couples therapy can provide a meaningful path forward.

Trauma Therapy

Trauma can shape how we experience emotions, relationships, and safety in the world long after an event has passed. While some people are able to recover with time and support, others find that trauma continues to show up as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, hypervigilance, numbness, or patterns of disconnection in their relationships.

Trauma therapy offers a supportive, grounded space to understand how past experiences are influencing your present-day emotional responses. Rather than focusing only on what happened, the work centers on how trauma lives in the body, nervous system, and emotional patterns — and how those patterns can be gently understood and regulated.

Through trauma therapy, clients learn to increase emotional awareness, develop greater regulation and resilience, and reconnect with a sense of safety and self-trust. Healing is not about reliving the past or forcing change, but about creating the conditions where the nervous system can settle and new ways of responding can emerge.

If trauma has been impacting your emotional well-being, relationships, or sense of stability, trauma therapy can provide a compassionate and effective path toward healing and integration.

Childhood Relational Trauma Therapy

Childhood relational trauma develops not from a single event, but from repeated experiences of emotional inconsistency, unmet needs, or insecure attachment during early relationships. These experiences can quietly shape how emotions are regulated, how safety is perceived, and how connection is experienced in adulthood.

Many adults affected by childhood relational trauma struggle with anxiety, self-doubt, emotional reactivity, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting others, or patterns of disconnection in relationships — often without a clear understanding of why these patterns persist.

Childhood relational trauma therapy focuses on helping you understand how early attachment experiences continue to influence your emotional responses and relational patterns today. Rather than revisiting the past for its own sake, the work centers on increasing emotional awareness, developing regulation, and building a greater sense of internal safety and self-trust.

Healing happens not through blame or forcing change, but through understanding how your emotional system adapted — and learning how to respond to yourself and others with greater clarity, compassion, and intention.

Anxiety and Emotional Regulation Therapy

Anxiety often isn’t just about worry — it’s about an overwhelmed emotional system that struggles to settle, feel safe, or respond calmly under stress. You may notice racing thoughts, physical tension, emotional reactivity, or a constant sense of unease, even when you understand that nothing is “wrong” in the moment.

Anxiety and emotional regulation therapy focuses on helping you understand how anxiety operates in your body and emotional system, rather than trying to eliminate it through force or control. When emotions are misunderstood or suppressed, anxiety tends to intensify. When they are understood and regulated, anxiety begins to loosen its grip.

Through therapy, clients learn to increase emotional awareness, develop stronger regulation skills, and respond to anxious thoughts and sensations with greater clarity and self-trust. The work is not about pushing anxiety away, but about learning how to relate to it differently — so it no longer drives your reactions or decisions.

If anxiety has been impacting your daily life, relationships, or sense of stability, anxiety and emotional regulation therapy can offer a grounded, effective path toward greater calm, confidence, and emotional balance.

Serenity Is Possible

Your Past Does Not Have To Control Your Present Moment