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Meet the Therapists at Third Place Therapy
GET FREE FROM THE PAIN OF YOUR PAST AND THE GRIP OF ANXIETY WITH THE HELP OF AN ANXIETY THERAPIST IN PHOENIX AZ
Elaine Evans, MS, LPC
I’m Elaine, and I help people who are feeling just like you—those who have it within themselves to be healthy and thriving again, but just need the support and guidance to get there.
I help my clients find peace, confidence, and joy by equipping them with the tools they need to uncover and heal from the pain of the past, tune in to emotions, and engage meaningfully in relationships while navigating change and transition.
My training in trauma-informed therapy, such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) and IFS (Internal Family Systems), means I have the expertise you need and deserve when healing from past experiences.
But at the end of the day, you want to know you are working with someone who “gets” what it means to be an adult struggling to feel connected and confident in yourself and your relationships, right?
Let’s connect and get you started on your healing journey.
Meredith Clark, LPC, MC, PhD
You might find yourself here because you are exhausted, overwhelmed, and having a hard time feeling like yourself. Maybe sleep has become difficult, your relationship feels strained, or parenthood has brought more anxiety, resentment, or loneliness than you expected. You may be caring for everyone else, managing the mental load, and wondering when you will finally feel like “enough.” On the outside, you look put together. On the inside, it feels like you are constantly managing your emotions, your responsibilities, and everyone else’s needs.
Hi, I’m Meredith, and I work with adults, couples, moms, and dads who are thoughtful, capable, and self-aware, yet tired of feeling stuck. Many of the people I support are navigating anxiety, poor sleep, burnout, parenting stress, postpartum challenges, relationship conflict, or the mental load of family life. They often want closeness and support, but struggle to fully relax, ask for what they need, or stop feeling like they have to hold everything together.
I am currently pursuing my PMH-C credential to deepen my work with parents navigating pregnancy, postpartum, parenthood, and burnout. Whether you are adjusting to life with a new baby, feeling disconnected in your relationship, struggling with resentment, or wondering why parenting feels so much harder than you expected, therapy can help you feel less alone and more grounded.
My work with clients focuses on helping you feel calmer in your body, clearer in your relationships, and more connected to yourself. Together, we will work on understanding the patterns that keep you anxious, overwhelmed, or shut down, while building new ways to rest, communicate, set boundaries, and move through stress. When helpful, I also support clients in processing past experiences that may still be showing up in their sleep, relationships, parenting, or self-worth.
Clients often describe therapy with me as emotionally safe, validating, and gently challenging. Over time, many notice they are waking up with less dread, feeling calmer in relationships, communicating more clearly, setting better boundaries, and relating to themselves with more ease and self-trust.
Alexis Lane, LAC
On paper, your life might look pretty good. You’ve built a career, relationships, maybe a family. You’re responsible, capable, and usually the person other people can count on. But lately, you’ve started wondering why a life you worked so hard to create doesn’t feel quite as fulfilling as you thought it would.
Maybe you feel restless, disconnected, more irritable than usual, or like you’re simply going through the motions. You’ve spent so much time being who you needed to be for everyone else that it’s getting harder to answer a surprisingly complicated question: What do I actually want?
Hi, I’m Alexis. I work with adults who are navigating anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, and major life transitions, especially when those experiences have left them feeling disconnected from themselves.
Together, we’ll get curious about the patterns that have shaped how you move through the world. That might mean exploring old attachment wounds, understanding why you feel responsible for everyone else, processing experiences you’ve had to push through, or noticing the expectations you’ve been living by without realizing it.
My approach is warm, direct, and collaborative. I integrate EMDR, attachment work, CBT, DBT, and mindfulness to help you understand both where your patterns came from and what it might look like to do something different. The goal isn’t to blow up the life you’ve built. It’s to make sure there’s actually room for you inside of it.
Therapy can help you feel less driven by fear, obligation, or other people’s expectations and more grounded in who you are, what matters to you, and the relationships you want to create.
Let’s figure out what your next chapter could look like.
Alba Vargas, Counseling Intern
Maybe becoming a mom was something you wanted deeply, but now that you’re here, you don’t quite feel like yourself. You love your baby, but your mind rarely shuts off. You’re constantly wondering if you’re doing enough, worrying about what could go wrong, or feeling guilty anytime you consider taking time for yourself.
Hi, I’m Alba, and I work with women navigating postpartum anxiety, motherhood, family stress, and the complicated shift in identity that can happen after having a baby. Many of the women I support are thoughtful, capable, and used to handling a lot, but motherhood has left them feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure of themselves in a way they didn’t expect.
Therapy with me is a space to put down some of that pressure. Together, we can work through anxiety, difficult birth or postpartum experiences, relationship stress, and the family or cultural expectations that make it hard to know what you actually need. We’ll also work on boundaries, communication, and making room for your own needs without feeling like that makes you a bad mom.
My approach is warm, nonjudgmental, and trauma-informed. I want you to feel like you don’t have to perform, have the right answer, or hold everything together in the therapy room. The goal isn’t to become a perfect mother. It’s to feel more grounded, more confident in yourself, and more connected to the life and relationships that matter to you.
Let’s connect and help you feel like yourself again.