Aspen Turney, MS, LAC
Hi, I’m Aspen! I’m excited you’re here!
I am originally from Arizona but grew up in Raleigh, NC. In my free time, I love to walk my dog, cook, go to hot yoga classes, try new restaurants, spend time with loved ones, and travel.
I am a Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) with a Master of Science in Counseling from University of Phoenix, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature from North Carolina State University.
As a clinician, I am passionate about helping clients improve their relationship with themselves, their bodies, and their loved ones. I love to help clients let go of dieting, heal their emotional and/or binge eating, and improve their body image using Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size frameworks. With that, I love to support clients in building self-confidence in themselves and their relationships, improve communication skills, increase boundary-setting and assertiveness skills, connect more with their sexuality, and reduce anxiety. Oftentimes, many of these things overlap with childhood trauma, parental neglect, and/or faith deconstruction, so I take an integrated approach that helps clients increase self-awareness and heal from any of those pain points.
I enjoy connecting with my clients in an authentic way - I show my full personality, and I want clients to feel comfortable doing the same! My approach involves not only active listening and empathy, but also lots of curiosity and exploration, compassionate confrontation, and humor! Practicing through an existential-humanistic approach, I believe my role is not just to teach skills and help clients process, but also to create a space where clients can be vulnerable, show their full colors, and rediscover their own intuition that will help them build a life they are passionate about.
The therapeutic modalities I lean on most include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Reality Therapy, Feminist Therapy, parts work, and polyvagal/body-based approaches.
Along with my therapy work, I am the Mentorship Program Coordinator for the Arizona Counselor Association’s annual counseling mentorship program and advocate in university classrooms to improve body acceptance and disordered eating education in the counseling field. Prior to my work as a therapist, I worked with a wide variety of populations, including case management for SMI (severely mentally ill) adults, caring for children with special needs, and crisis counseling adolescents and adults.
I look forward to working with you!
