Self Empowerment and Healing
Nancy Harkins MA LPC
I am a licensed psychotherapist and an award-winning motivational speaker and corporate trainer. I serve a diverse population of clients in the Scottsdale and Phoenix areas, including individual adults, couples, and geriatrics. I am committed to meeting my clients wherever they are on their journey by fostering independence and self-empowerment.
The therapeutic process is an opportunity for personal evolution: self-discovery, learning, personal growth, and empowerment. It is not just for the individual who is experiencing crisis.
Areas of Specialty
Awareness of our connectedness to the Oneness creates a positive emotional and physical impact on our lives and helps us to thrive as individuals. Anxiety, depression, anger, co-dependency, and addiction can be symptoms of poor communication, unhealthy relationships, or a yearning for interpersonal connection
Codependency
Among the core characteristics of codependency is an excessive reliance on other people for approval and a sense of identity, and is not only found...
Effective Communication Skills
Developing effective communication skills is essential for navigating relationships. Learning to listen, experience empathy and compassion...
Healing Childhood Trauma
The scars of childhood trauma are most often invisible. While one may have physical scars too, the deepest scars are the result of psychological...
Navigating Relationships
All relationships can sometimes be a challenge to navigate. This includes relationships with best friends, business relationships, co-workers...
Couples Therapy
A healthy romantic relationship or marriage must be built on a safe and loving foundation of true intimacy. True intimacy goes beyond lust and...
Assertiveness Training
Learning to communicate assertively begins with identifying where one is on the continuum of aggression, assertiveness and passivity as well as...
Anger Management
Anger is not bad; it is a normal, healthy emotion. When expressed in an appropriate manner, it can be greatly beneficial and even productive. Rage...
Stress
Stress often leads to depression. The symptoms for both may include apathy, lack of energy, difficulty making decisions, difficulty...
Anxiety
We experience anxiety when we are focused on the future and not living in the present. Individuals often report a feeling of impending doom. They...
Depression
Depression (major depressive disorder or clinical depression) is a common but serious mood disorder. It causes severe symptoms that affect how you...
Grief & Loss
Grief is an emotion triggered by loss, which might be the death of a loved one, the dissolution of a relationship, loss of a job, a geographic move...
Adult Trauma
Everyone experiences trauma. This includes little “t” traumas and big “T” traumas. Trauma may range from minor injury such as cutting one’s...
Substance Use Disorder
Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person’s brain and behavior and leads to an inability...
Personal Transformation
Change your thinking, change your life. Personal transformation begins with identifying what you want your life to be, then creating a vision for...
Testimonials
Nancy helped me to change my life by changing how I see things. I like her style, because she often tells me what I need to hear, even if it’s not what I want to hear. She challenged me to let go of what I was believing that didn’t serve me.
My wife and I have been very supported in healing some real problems in our marriage with Nancy’s help. She was very effective in helping us to communicate in a healthy manner. She taught me to listen and actually hear what my wife was saying.
Trauma and drama have held me back most of my life. After several EMDR sessions I feel free. I don’t want to create any more drama in my life. I can choose to set boundaries and to be in my happy place.
I will continue to recommend Nancy Harkins to my friends for couples counseling. Her encouragement and insight are so beneficial. It changed our marriage and made us better parents. My husband and I learned so much about ourselves and one another. She got us to talk to each other, not at each other.
With Nancy’s help I have learned to make healthier choices about what I want in life. I’m feeling that I can really live now and the EMDR was a life changing experience to move me out of the rut I was in. I was stuck.