PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Therapy for thoughtful, high-capacity people navigating complex lives
Depth. Connection. Vitality.
IN PERSON IN CHANDLER, ARIZONA
ONLINE THERAPY ACROSS ARIZONA
Burnout
Grief
Adult | Late diagnosed ADHD
Non-ADHD Partners
Relationship dynamics
Major life transitions
DEPTH THERAPY
In-depth therapy that honors your complexity; helps you find footing in uncertainty; and supports greater self-understanding and vitality.
Whether you’re navigating burnout, grief, complicated relationships, challenges related to adult ADHD, or a major life transition, therapy can offer space to make sense of what’s happening, reconnect with yourself, and explore what you want for yourself.
You can expect therapy that takes your whole life into account, not only the challenge that brought you in. I help you understand what’s underneath (both what you’re aware of and what is outside of awareness) and how your experiences, relationships, and environment shape one another. From there, we can create more space for clarity, connection, and choice.
All toward vitality: Having more of yourself available to your own life.
Feel free to reach out -- happy to answer any questions and be a resource.
Relational Psychotherapy
Our lives are relational. We develop a sense of ourselves in relationship. We learn what is possible or not, good or not in relationship. We are changed, healed, and renewed through relationship.
Jen Clifton, MC, LAC, PhD
Licensed Associate Counselor, Arizona
I provide a safe space to connect and to make sense of your life, relationships, and suffering — and work with you to make meaning, gain footing, and carve out next steps in the face of difficult, even intractable, life experiences. I work best with folks who are self-reflective; curious about underlying issues; and interested in exploring and re-writing unhelpful patterns to reduce psychological distress, increase overall well-being, and bring about meaningful change.
In-person therapy in Chandler, Arizona
I am a private-pay therapist with an office in Chandler, AZ, convenient to Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, and the greater Phoenix area.
Location:
1600 W Chandler Blvd, Suite 120
Chandler, AZ 85224
Can’t make it into the office?
No worries — I offer online therapy throughout Arizona.
INSIGHT-ORIENTED THERAPY
Emotional patterns. Complex dynamics. Meaningful change.
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, capable adults whose lives involve significant responsibility and complexity.
Therapy can offer a place to understand not only what is happening internally, but also how relationships, roles, institutions, expectations, and larger systems are interacting in your life now and over time to shape you and your experience.
Therapy for College Students and Graduate Students.
College and graduate school can be inspiring and meaningful; they can also bring unique pressures, transitions, and challenges, including intense demands, perfectionism, questions of identity and trajectory, and a desire for clarity around what success is and what a meaningful life looks like.
I offer a space to explore the full picture—not just academics.
Therapy for People with Adult ADHD & Late Diagnosed ADHD.
Many adults with ADHD are thoughtful, caring, and highly competent, yet find themselves exhausted by overstimulation, nonstop demands on their attention, the work of regulating intense emotions, decision fatigue, and managing the unexpected consequences of impulsivity. Add the emotional demands of navigating unclear social and workplace expectations, along with masking to avoid judgment or feel safe, and it's a recipe for burnout.
I can help you make sense of how your emotional, relational, and personal experiences hang together, how they shape your responses in the moment, and where there may be room for something different.
Therapy for non-ADHD partners and loved ones.
Many non-ADHD partners and loved ones find themselves over-functioning, carrying more than their share, emotionally exhausted, and over time, increasingly resentful as they try to navigate complex relationship patterns with someone they love who has ADHD. It can be exhausting to continually sort through what's related to ADHD, what's happening between you, and what belongs to your own emotional experience—all while trying to respond with care and remain connected to yourself.
I offer a space to make sense of these complicated dynamics, explore the emotional and relational patterns that shape your responses, and find ways to stay connected to yourself, your values, and the people you love.
Therapy for Burnout, Identity & Demanding Work
When professional demands become difficult to reconcile with personal needs, values, or a sense of who you are, even meaningful work can begin to feel unsustainable. Burnout is more than exhaustion and isn’t fixed by “self-care” or taking a few days off. For academics, healthcare professionals, educators, therapists, and others whose work asks a great deal of them, therapy offers a space to reconnect with yourself and explore the dynamics of burnout—including institutional pressures; competing demands; experiences of contingency, uncertainty, and precarity; how you have learned to succeed, anticipate others’ needs, and derive worth from competence; and questions about identity, purpose, and what you work may be costing you.
I offer a space to connect and begin to restore yourself as we make sense of how external demands and internalized emotional and relational patterns intersect, where they may be keeping you stuck, and how to find more room for yourself in the life you're living.
Grief Counseling
Grief can emerge from the death of a loved one, but also from changes in relationships, health, identity, professions, or the life we imagined for ourselves. Loss can unsettle our sense of who we are, how we understand our past, and what we expect from the future. Grief rarely follows a predictable path, and the emotions that accompany it can be complicated, sometimes contradictory, and difficult to make sense of.
I offer a space to be with the complexity of loss, explore the emotional and relational meanings it carries, and find ways to remain connected to what matters while making room for a life that may look different than you imagined.
Therapy for Life Transitions
Major life transitions can unsettle even those who are thoughtful, capable, and accustomed to navigating change. Whether you're moving through a career shift, changes in relationships or family roles, a new stage of adulthood, or a change you didn't choose, transitions can bring unexpected questions about identity, belonging, purpose, and what comes next. Even welcome changes can involve uncertainty, conflicting emotions, and a sense of losing your footing.
I offer a space to make sense of what is changing, explore how longstanding emotional and relational patterns shape your responses, and find greater freedom to navigate uncertainty in ways that feel connected to who you are and who you're becoming.
Specializations
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especially in helping professions, academic settings, high responsibility roles, and for those navigating ADHD challenges
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including anticipatory grief; losses that are prolonged and complicated; sudden and unexpected; and hard to name or not always recognized by others
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with girls and women with ADHD who are intellectually engaged and high achieving but feeling worn down, unsure, and overwhelmed
with non-ADHD partners and family members needing support for their own experiences
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when something no longer fits, but what comes next isn’t yet clear
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whether what happened was sudden and unexpected or prolonged, complex, cumulative, and multi-dimensional (CPTSD) and whether it was recent or long ago but still having an impact