Arlene Therapist has been a social worker for almost 30 years and has been seeing clients in her own private practice for 17 years. Prior to that she worked as a Social Worker with the Minnesota Youth Authority and as a contract therapist with a nonprofit agency dealing with families in which child molestation had occurred. As a result of this experience, she has developed a keen desire to short-circuit the legacy of abuse and addiction and replace it with one of healthy connection to oneself and others. She is committed to creating a healthier world: one person, one couple, one family or one organization at a time.

Her primary focus is healing relationships - and because of that she has developed specialties in couples’ counseling, sex and love addiction and/or sex and love anorexia, codependency, chemical and process addictions, healthy sexuality, and Inner Child issues.

She has had the great fortune to be trained by internationally known experts in relationship counseling and sex addiction. These include, but are not limited to Robert & Mary Goulding (Dr. & LCSW respectively), Dr. Patrick Carnes and Dr. Harville Hendrix.

SERVICES

	Couples Therapy
	Workshops
	Groups
LICENSE/CERTIFICATIONS
	Certified Imago Relationship Therapist, 1993
	Licensed Clinical Social Worker #0000, 1981
	Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, 2001

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

	Redecision Therapy, 1983 to 1987
	Hypnosis, 1989
	Hot Monogamy, 1996
	EMDR Therapy, 2000

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

	Arizona Society for Clinical Social Work
	Imago Relationships International
	National Association of Social Workers
	Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health