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Licensed Associate Counselor
Barbara Hettinger MS, LAC
Walking alongside individuals and families as they create healthier relationships, stronger boundaries and meaningful change.
Individuals, couples & families
MS · LAC
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Mesa, Arizona
Areas of focus
Support for healthier relationships, stronger boundaries and growth.
Barbara creates a safe, non-judgmental space where people can clarify their goals, heal difficult experiences and move toward a healthier life.
Trauma recovery
Focused support for processing painful experiences and moving toward greater safety and emotional health.
Relationship healing
Care for partners and families seeking deeper connection, clearer communication and healthier patterns.
Healthy boundaries
Practical guidance for creating respectful limits that support confidence, clarity and stronger relationships.
Addiction recovery
A compassionate, non-judgmental setting for understanding patterns and supporting sustainable change.
Self-confidence and growth
Strength-based support for recognizing personal resources and moving toward meaningful individual goals.
Therapeutic approach
How Barbara works
A thoughtful path toward healing, connection and lasting change.
Safe and non-judgmental
Barbara begins by creating a helpful space where clients and families can feel respected, supported and understood.
Solution and strength focused
Care recognizes existing strengths while identifying clear, practical movement toward each person's goals.
Family systems and attachment
Relationships and patterns are explored with attention to connection, boundaries and the wider family system.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
ART provides a focused trauma-treatment option for processing distressing memories and emotional pain.
Meet Barbara
Walking alongside you toward your better life.
Barbara sees human life as an ongoing experience of change, growth and development. When life challenges create uncertainty or strain, her purpose is to walk alongside clients as they find direction, strengthen relationships and work toward their goals.
She supports people across stages of development with self-confidence, relationship healing, healthy boundaries, addiction recovery, trauma recovery and greater mental health. Her work draws from solution-focused and strength-based care, family systems, cognitive restructuring, attachment building and marital or partner relationship work.
Barbara is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, a focused trauma treatment. Outside the office, she and her husband are parents to five children.
Ideas for deeper understanding and connection.
Take the next step
Email babshettinger@gmail.com
Call the office (480)3821257