Start Your Journey of Healing
Start Your Journey of Healing
When you’ve gone through a traumatic experience or struggle with depression, the feelings of grief and helplessness can be overwhelming. However, you are not alone. Align Counseling Services PLLC is here to guide you through difficult moments in your life so you can find your path toward healing and happiness.
We provide counseling services to adults and adolescents in Ammon and other areas in Southeastern Idaho. Using a holistic approach, we help you process your thoughts and emotions in a healthy way. Contact us to schedule a face-to-face counseling session or request a virtual session if necessary.
Stephanie Toldson, Clinical Director
Stephanie Toldson, Clinical Director
Education
Education
Stephanie completed her undergraduate studies in 2011 at the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in nutrition sciences. Shortly after completing her undergraduate studies, she moved back to Idaho and worked as a social worker prior to returning to school in 2013.
She received her master’s degree in social work from Northwest Nazarene University in 2015 and has worked as an LCSW ever since.
Training
Training
Stephanie is passionate about grief and trauma work and has been trained in:
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) I and II | Recent Trauma Episode Processing (R-TEP) | Group Trauma Processing (G-TEP)
She has extensive experience working with grief and loss and has received her Grief and Loss Educator Certification through David Kessler. Additionally, Stephanie has become an Advanced Grief and Loss Counseling Specialist and believes in combining both psychotherapy and gentle yoga therapy to create a more balanced healing for those in grief.
Stephanie also has training in:
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) | Solution-Focused Therapy | Self-Compassion | Mindfulness
Yoga
Yoga
Stephanie has completed two 200-hour yoga teacher training courses. She is trained in modern contemporary yoga and has additional trauma-informed yoga training to further help facilitate the healing of the mind and body during psychotherapy treatment.
Years of Experience
Years of Experience
Stephanie has spent 10 years working in the community mental health field at Rehabilitative Health Services, working under a gifted team of individuals and business owners.
She has developed her skillset while working in community mental health, and she can connect to and help our most vulnerable populations thanks to the mentorship that she received thus far in her career.
A Passion for Helping Others
A Passion for Helping Others
Her passion for trauma-informed care has also continued to grow through her own challenging life experiences, including the death of her former spouse due to addiction. She learned the importance of addressing mental health treatment from a more balanced mind, body, and spirit approach. She looks forward to delivering the “Align” approach at Align Counseling Services PLLC.
Stephanie aims to create an environment that is warm, accepting, and trauma-informed. She believes in individualized approaches to treatment and strives to meet each client where they are in order to prioritize creating a solid therapeutic relationship.
Review
Review
“Stephanie played a large role in helping me get through EMDR therapy. It was both mentally and emotionally challenging to relive losing and giving birth to my stillborn. Stephanie made me feel comfortable and created a safe place that allowed me to process my loss and also gave me the tools I needed to help with my PTSD. I was able to find some healing through our sessions and while those memories are hard to think about, they no longer cause my anxiety and trauma symptoms to kick into overdrive. EMDR helped me heal my past experience in order to create a positive one.”
-A. R.
“I am a firm believer in counseling and the benefits it gives in so many areas of life. I truly feel everyone needs it. That being said, I was going to talk therapy once a week for a few years and eventually it felt like all I was doing was filling my therapist in about my day. I was even told a note had been made about me: “Usually figures it out herself through verbally processing.” I was needing more though, I was feeling like I needed someone who could help me see what was deeper. I didn’t know much about EMDR when I started going to Stephanie. What I have found is that she is truly gifts with not only being an expert in her field, but she is truly intuitive to what is going on below the surface. The realizations and growth that would take me half a year of once a week talk therapy, takes me one session of EMDR therapy with Stephanie. It’s been a fast track to healing deep core false beliefs and conditioning. This has brought me to a greater sense of self and peace. 10/10 highly recommend.”
-W.R.