You’ve gotten the message you’re “too sensitive.”
You may have spent years trying to change this. What if UNDERSTANDING it could change everything?
Therapy for people who feel deeply, think deeply, and still feel stuck.
In Phoenix and available online throughout Arizona
You've thought a lot about what's going on. You probably have some good insight. You know what you want to be different. So why can't you seem to change it?
Maybe you're not missing more insight. Maybe you’re missing a different way of relating to what’s happening inside you.
Your emotions aren’t problems—they are the advisors trying to guide you.
If you’ve gotten the message you’re “too sensitive,” you may have started to believe that your emotions are problems to solve, manage, or suppress.
Sometimes the reactions we most want to change are trying to tell us something important.
Instead of trying harder to stop the thoughts, feelings, or reactions you don't like, therapy can help you slow down, get curious about what's underneath them, and understand what they're trying to tell you. From there, you can begin responding to yourself with more care—and make changes that actually address what you need.
In therapy, we begin to listen to emotions differently—as information. When we do, they can clarify needs, strengthen boundaries, and support more connected relationships.
I’m Traci Andes, board-certified therapist and registered nurse.
I work with self-aware people who have a lot of insight into themselves but still struggle to make the changes they want to make.
What I’ve learned is that healing doesn’t come from just understanding yourself. Insight is important, but insight alone isn’t enough. Lasting change also depends on how we learn to relate to ourselves and others—with curiosity, compassion, and care.
I offer both individual and group therapy because each creates opportunities for different kinds of work. Individual therapy provides the concentrated attention and time needed for deeper exploration and processing. Group therapy offers something individual therapy can’t fully replicate: the experience of relating to other people in a space where you can show up as your whole self—including the parts you struggle with—and be met with understanding, acceptance, and welcome.
You don’t have to become something different to belong. In the right therapeutic space, you can experience yourself as you are AND find new ways of relating to yourself and others that actually stick.
You might be in the right place if you:
Understand your problematic patterns intellectually, yet find they still keep showing up automatically when you are stressed or overwhelmed.
Can’t let some things go and you can’t understand why.
Sometimes have emotional reactions that feel bigger than the situation seems to warrant.
Are actively trying to establish healthier boundaries but aren’t sure how to do it without feeling guilty.
Are navigating a major change in identity, belief, belonging or role.
Spend a lot of energy caring for other people and have trouble extending the same care toward yourself.
