Our therapists offer christian counseling in Phoenix, AZ

Maryann Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 10 years of clinical experience. She is dedicated to supporting individuals in achieving emotional wellness and personal growth. Maryann works with clients facing anxiety, depression, grief, relational issues, and life transitions. She is committed to providing trauma-informed and culturally responsive care, ensuring each person feels respected, understood, and empowered throughout their healing journey.

Maryann earned a Master’s in Professional Counseling from Grand Canyon University. She has experience in private practice, community mental health, schools, and clinics. Maryann integrates evidence-based practices such as cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused methods to support healing and growth.

Maryann creates a compassionate and empowering environment where clients feel safe, supported, and valued. She believes each person has the inner strength to overcome challenges, discover their purpose, and build emotional resilience. Through collaboration, she helps clients make meaningful progress toward lasting change and personal fulfillment.

Debbie Bertoldo is a Certified Counselor, ready and willing to help you understand your feelings and behaviors, and why some issues in life, create stumbling blocks for us. Her clinical background includes working with individuals struggling with substance use, trauma, anxiety, and depression. She has helped many individuals understand the source of their difficult issues and separate the emotional response to help them move forward in their lives.

One of her specialties includes using a modality called accelerated resolution therapy which helps people understand and erase their emotional response to stressful situations. "If you are struggling with emotional or mental health difficulties, I invite you to seek out the experience of certified counselors, to assist you in overcoming these difficulties. Help is available," says Debbie

Dr. Karen Ferguson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in both Arizona and California with over 35 years of experience. She has had the opportunity to work with individuals of all ages and families who are coping with issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, parenting, low self-esteem, attachment issues, relationship issues, bipolar disorder, and abuse. She has significant experience working with those who have suffered child abuse and those who have lived through foster care.

Dr. Ferguson earned her Doctoral degree from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She designs sessions to meet the individual needs of each client or family to create a warm, caring, judgment-free environment. During sessions, she utilizes a combination of family systems, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), attachment therapy, existential therapy, or trauma therapy techniques, depending on the unique needs of each client.

Dr. Ferguson will work together with you to help you accomplish your goals by exploring your concerns, thoughts, and feelings. There will be a discussion of how your family and culture have become a part of you—in order to increase understanding of your strengths and challenges and how these have affected and created the person you are today.