Hopeful Horizons Counseling
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Find peace.
Heal from within.

A tranquil space to process trauma, build evidence-based coping skills, and restore your quality of life.

100% Confidential & Safe
Multilingual Counseling
In-Person & Telehealth

Therapy tailored to your healing journey

Whether in our warm Provo office or through secure online telehealth across Utah, our services are customized to your story.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety can feel like a constant hum of worry beneath everything you do — a racing mind, physical tension, and a sense that something is always about to go wrong. Whether it shows up as generalized worry, panic, social anxiety, or chronic stress, it can quietly shape your decisions, relationships, and quality of life. Therapy helps you understand the roots of your anxiety, calm an overactive nervous system, and build practical tools to face uncertainty with steadiness rather than fear.

Depression & Meaning

Depression & Meaning

Depression is more than sadness — it can feel like a heavy fog that drains energy, dulls joy, and makes even simple tasks feel overwhelming. It often carries a sense of disconnection from yourself and others, and sometimes a loss of meaning. Together we gently explore what's beneath the low mood, address the thought patterns that keep it in place, and help you reconnect with hope, purpose, and the parts of life that matter to you.

ADHD

ADHD

Living with ADHD can feel like your mind is always ten steps ahead while the world asks you to slow down. Difficulty focusing, impulsivity, forgetfulness, and feeling overwhelmed by daily demands can affect work, relationships, and self-worth. Therapy offers practical strategies to work with your brain rather than against it — building structure, emotional regulation, and self-compassion while honoring the unique strengths that come with an ADHD mind.

Trauma & PTSD

Trauma & PTSD

Trauma leaves a lasting imprint when painful experiences remain unprocessed — showing up as intrusive memories, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, or a persistent sense of danger. Whether from a single event or ongoing experiences, trauma can shape how you relate to yourself and others. Through evidence-based approaches like EMDR and ART, we help your nervous system complete what it couldn't at the time, so the past stops living in the present and you can feel safe in your own life again.

Immigration & Cultural Transitions

Immigration & Cultural Transitions

Leaving behind everything familiar to build a new life brings profound loss alongside opportunity. Navigating a new culture, language, and identity can feel isolating, disorienting, and exhausting — even years after arriving. We offer culturally sensitive, multilingual support to help you process the grief of what was left behind, find your footing in a new community, and hold both your heritage and your new home with wholeness and pride.

Pornography Habit & Struggle

Pornography Habit & Struggle

Struggles with pornography can carry deep shame, secrecy, and a sense of being out of control — often affecting self-worth, intimacy, and relationships. Healing begins by removing the weight of judgment and understanding the unmet needs beneath the behavior. We help you explore the emotional roots, rebuild healthy patterns, and restore trust and connection with yourself and those you love, moving toward freedom without shame.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety can feel like a constant hum of worry beneath everything you do — a racing mind, physical tension, and a sense that something is always about to go wrong. Whether it shows up as generalized worry, panic, social anxiety, or chronic stress, it can quietly shape your decisions, relationships, and quality of life. Therapy helps you understand the roots of your anxiety, calm an overactive nervous system, and build practical tools to face uncertainty with steadiness rather than fear.

Depression & Meaning

Depression & Meaning

Depression is more than sadness — it can feel like a heavy fog that drains energy, dulls joy, and makes even simple tasks feel overwhelming. It often carries a sense of disconnection from yourself and others, and sometimes a loss of meaning. Together we gently explore what's beneath the low mood, address the thought patterns that keep it in place, and help you reconnect with hope, purpose, and the parts of life that matter to you.

ADHD

ADHD

Living with ADHD can feel like your mind is always ten steps ahead while the world asks you to slow down. Difficulty focusing, impulsivity, forgetfulness, and feeling overwhelmed by daily demands can affect work, relationships, and self-worth. Therapy offers practical strategies to work with your brain rather than against it — building structure, emotional regulation, and self-compassion while honoring the unique strengths that come with an ADHD mind.

Trauma & PTSD

Trauma & PTSD

Trauma leaves a lasting imprint when painful experiences remain unprocessed — showing up as intrusive memories, hypervigilance, emotional numbness, or a persistent sense of danger. Whether from a single event or ongoing experiences, trauma can shape how you relate to yourself and others. Through evidence-based approaches like EMDR and ART, we help your nervous system complete what it couldn't at the time, so the past stops living in the present and you can feel safe in your own life again.

Immigration & Cultural Transitions

Immigration & Cultural Transitions

Leaving behind everything familiar to build a new life brings profound loss alongside opportunity. Navigating a new culture, language, and identity can feel isolating, disorienting, and exhausting — even years after arriving. We offer culturally sensitive, multilingual support to help you process the grief of what was left behind, find your footing in a new community, and hold both your heritage and your new home with wholeness and pride.

Pornography Habit & Struggle

Pornography Habit & Struggle

Struggles with pornography can carry deep shame, secrecy, and a sense of being out of control — often affecting self-worth, intimacy, and relationships. Healing begins by removing the weight of judgment and understanding the unmet needs beneath the behavior. We help you explore the emotional roots, rebuild healthy patterns, and restore trust and connection with yourself and those you love, moving toward freedom without shame.

Relationship & Marriage Issues

Relationship & Marriage Issues

Even strong relationships fall into painful cycles — recurring arguments, emotional distance, or a sense of living as roommates rather than partners. Using the Gottman Method, we help you and your partner identify the patterns beneath the conflict, rebuild communication and friendship, and create a relationship grounded in trust, mutual understanding, and emotional safety. Healing is possible when both people feel truly heard and valued.

Betrayal Trauma & Infidelity

Betrayal Trauma & Infidelity

Betrayal by someone you trusted shatters your sense of safety and reality. The pain, confusion, and loss can feel overwhelming, and rebuilding trust may seem impossible. We support both individuals and couples through the grief and disorientation of betrayal trauma — helping you process the wound, understand what happened, and decide with clarity and support whether and how to rebuild, with compassion for yourself at every step.

Infertility

Infertility

The journey through infertility can be one of the most isolating and emotionally exhausting experiences a person or couple faces — marked by grief, loss of control, and the strain it places on identity, relationships, and hope. We offer a compassionate space to grieve each disappointment, navigate the emotional weight of medical decisions, and hold onto your sense of self and connection while walking an uncertain path.

Life Transitions

Life Transitions

Major life changes — a new job, a move, becoming a parent, loss, or a shift in identity — can unsettle even the most grounded person. Transitions ask us to let go of who we were while becoming someone we haven't yet met. Therapy provides a steady space to process the emotions that come with change, clarify your values, and move through uncertainty with intention rather than fear.

Anger Management

Anger Management

Anger is a natural and often protective emotion, but when it feels out of proportion or out of control, it can damage relationships, work, and your own well-being. Therapy helps you understand what your anger is protecting, recognize the early signs, and develop healthier ways to express and regulate it — so it becomes a signal you can work with rather than a force that controls you.

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+

Navigating identity, relationships, and belonging as an LGBTQ+ person can carry unique challenges — from family acceptance and societal pressure to the internal work of self-acceptance. We offer an affirming, judgment-free space to explore your authentic self, process the wounds of rejection or discrimination, and build relationships and a life rooted in who you truly are.

Stress & Burnout

Stress & Burnout

When the demands of work, relationships, and daily life outpace your capacity to recover, stress hardens into burnout — a bone-deep exhaustion that dulls motivation, frays your patience, and makes even rest feel out of reach. Therapy offers a steady space to unpack what's been depleting you, reconnect with your needs and limits, and rebuild sustainable rhythms — so you can move from merely surviving the day to genuinely renewing your energy and sense of self.

Relationship & Marriage Issues

Relationship & Marriage Issues

Even strong relationships fall into painful cycles — recurring arguments, emotional distance, or a sense of living as roommates rather than partners. Using the Gottman Method, we help you and your partner identify the patterns beneath the conflict, rebuild communication and friendship, and create a relationship grounded in trust, mutual understanding, and emotional safety. Healing is possible when both people feel truly heard and valued.

Betrayal Trauma & Infidelity

Betrayal Trauma & Infidelity

Betrayal by someone you trusted shatters your sense of safety and reality. The pain, confusion, and loss can feel overwhelming, and rebuilding trust may seem impossible. We support both individuals and couples through the grief and disorientation of betrayal trauma — helping you process the wound, understand what happened, and decide with clarity and support whether and how to rebuild, with compassion for yourself at every step.

Infertility

Infertility

The journey through infertility can be one of the most isolating and emotionally exhausting experiences a person or couple faces — marked by grief, loss of control, and the strain it places on identity, relationships, and hope. We offer a compassionate space to grieve each disappointment, navigate the emotional weight of medical decisions, and hold onto your sense of self and connection while walking an uncertain path.

Life Transitions

Life Transitions

Major life changes — a new job, a move, becoming a parent, loss, or a shift in identity — can unsettle even the most grounded person. Transitions ask us to let go of who we were while becoming someone we haven't yet met. Therapy provides a steady space to process the emotions that come with change, clarify your values, and move through uncertainty with intention rather than fear.

Anger Management

Anger Management

Anger is a natural and often protective emotion, but when it feels out of proportion or out of control, it can damage relationships, work, and your own well-being. Therapy helps you understand what your anger is protecting, recognize the early signs, and develop healthier ways to express and regulate it — so it becomes a signal you can work with rather than a force that controls you.

LGBTQ+

LGBTQ+

Navigating identity, relationships, and belonging as an LGBTQ+ person can carry unique challenges — from family acceptance and societal pressure to the internal work of self-acceptance. We offer an affirming, judgment-free space to explore your authentic self, process the wounds of rejection or discrimination, and build relationships and a life rooted in who you truly are.

Stress & Burnout

Stress & Burnout

When the demands of work, relationships, and daily life outpace your capacity to recover, stress hardens into burnout — a bone-deep exhaustion that dulls motivation, frays your patience, and makes even rest feel out of reach. Therapy offers a steady space to unpack what's been depleting you, reconnect with your needs and limits, and rebuild sustainable rhythms — so you can move from merely surviving the day to genuinely renewing your energy and sense of self.

Compassionate counselors dedicated to your healing

A safe, non-judgmental alliance is the cornerstone of effective therapy. Meet the clinicians who walk beside you with warmth, cultural respect, and clinical expertise.

Rachel Blackhurst

Rachel Blackhurst

• ACMHC-I

Works with children, adolescents, and adults using Gestalt Therapy, IFS, and play therapy to navigate anxiety, depression, relationships, and chronic illness.

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Fernando Gadelha

Fernando Gadelha

• ACMHC

Supports teens (12+) and adults across Utah with EMDR and CBT for trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, cultural adjustment, and LGBTQ+ care.

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Natasha Carroll

Natasha Carroll

• Founder & LCSW

Works with adults and couples in individual and couples therapy using CBT, ACT, the Gottman Method, and ART for anxiety, infertility, betrayal trauma, and marital issues.

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Trauma & Deep Healing

Compassionate evidence-based therapy to process emotional wounds, release past burdens, and restore your inner equilibrium.

New Coping Skills

Practical mindfulness, emotion regulation, and resilience tools you can use every day when life feels overwhelming.

Meaning & Purpose

Reclaim your life trajectory, cultivate self-worth, and discover authentic clarity and hope for your horizon ahead.

Helping You Heal, Grow, and Thrive

Whether you are facing persistent anxiety, recovering from painful memories, or seeking deeper purpose, our therapists walk alongside you with tenderness, wisdom, and clinical rigor.

Every individual carries an innate capacity to heal.

At Hopeful Horizons Counseling in Provo, Utah, we believe emotional suffering is not a weakness—it is an invitation to heal, understand your nervous system, and reclaim meaning.

We craft an intentional environment free from shame or judgment. Through relational warmth, somatic awareness, and evidence-based therapeutic approaches, we empower you with practical coping skills so you can navigate life's challenges with steady hope.

Evidence-Based Approach

100%
Confidential Space

Multilingual

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What we cultivate together in every session

Therapy isn't just about analyzing past struggles—it's about opening new possibilities, restoring emotional calm, and building steady life tools.

Emotional Safety & Unconditional Regard: A confidential setting where you are met with warmth, empathy, and absolute confidentiality.
Trauma-Informed Coping Skills: Gentle grounding, nervous system regulation, and cognitive reframing you can rely on.
Multilingual & Culturally Sensitive: Full therapeutic fluency in English, Portuguese, and Spanish to honor your authentic voice and culture.
Meaning & Purpose Discovery: Clarifying personal values so you emerge from difficult seasons with renewed direction.

Words of peace & healing

Reflections shared by clients whose quality of life has deepened.

"I'm so grateful for Natasha over the past year! She created such a beautiful, safe, and supportive space for me, helping me through difficult times with so much care and patience."

Eduarda Benassi

"I’ve known Natasha for years now and would recommend her and her practice to anyone looking for a therapist to help with anxiety or couples therapy. Especially for adults, and in particular, is the only Portuguese speaking clinic that I’m aware of in Utah. Highly recommended."

Kyle Rutledge

"My experience with Natasha was wonderful. She is an excellent professional, very respectful and ethical. I recommend her without hesitation!"

Sabrina Quaresma

"I have known Natasha for over 10 years and she has been an amazing friend to my family. She is thoughtful, intentional in her decision making, compassionate and an excellent listener."

Trevar Weight

"Natasha is an exceptional therapist who provides genuine care, deep empathy, and an environment where you feel completely heard and valued from day one."

Clara Rodrigues

"I've had the opportunity to work with Natasha professionally, and I've been impressed by the care and thought she puts into Hopeful Horizons Counseling. She is warm, attentive, and genuinely committed to helping people feel welcome and supported. I also appreciate the practice's focus on serving Utah's Portuguese, and Spanish-speaking communities. I'm glad to recommend Hopeful Horizons to anyone exploring counseling."

Jonathan Sanchez

Ready to take your first peaceful step?

We offer a free, no-obligation 15-minute consultation to answer your questions.