About Gena

I’m Gena Kohner, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Owner, and Clinical Director. I provide therapy for teens, adults, and couples through both in-person and telehealth sessions.

I specialize in helping individuals and couples heal from trauma, including complex trauma (C-PTSD), attachment wounds, and long-term relational trauma. Much of my work focuses on helping clients understand the protective patterns that often develop in response to difficult experiences, such as people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, hypervigilance, avoidance, over-functioning, fear of abandonment, defensiveness, and difficulty trusting.

I believe these responses are not signs that something is "wrong" with you—they are adaptive strategies your mind and body developed to help you survive. Together, we work to understand these patterns with compassion rather than shame, while building the skills and awareness needed to create healthier relationships, stronger boundaries, emotional regulation, and a greater sense of self-trust.

My approach is warm, structured, trauma-informed, and strengths-based. My goal is to provide a safe, supportive space where you can better understand yourself, process difficult experiences at a pace that feels right for you, and move toward lasting healing and meaningful change.

Gena Kohner

Clinical director - therapist - In Person & Virtual

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Credentials & Details

License: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)

AZ License #: 18797 AZ

Sessions: In-person + Virtual

Adults

Who I Help

Couples

Teens

Focus Areas

Complex Trauma - Trauma Recovery - Attachment Wounds - Relational Trauma - Emotional Regulation - Relationship Challenges - Communication Difficulties - Boundary Setting - Self-Esteem & Identity - Anxiety Related to Trauma - Hypervigilance & Survival Responses - Fear of Abandonment - People-Pleasing - Emotional Shutdown & Avoidance - Trust & Vulnerability - Strength-Based Personal Growth

Therapy Modalities

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Somatic Therapy)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Gottman Method (Couples Therapy)
Strengths-Based Therapy

Style & Approach

Gena's therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed, balancing compassionate reflection with practical skill-building. She takes time to understand each client's unique history, nervous system, relationships, strengths, and goals, ensuring therapy feels personalized rather than one-size-fits-all.

She believes healing happens through safety, curiosity, and self-compassion—not shame. Clients can expect a thoughtful balance of emotional processing, education, and practical tools that help them better regulate emotions, improve communication, strengthen relationships, and move beyond long-standing survival patterns.

Whether working with individuals or couples, Gena helps clients slow down automatic protective responses, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and begin making choices from a place of safety, clarity, and confidence rather than fear or survival.

What to Expect:

What do the first 4-6 Sessions look like?

In the first 4–6 sessions, we will usually focus on building trust, clarifying your goals,
and developing a shared understanding of the patterns that are affecting your life now.
This may include exploring how trauma has shaped your nervous system, relationships,
boundaries, self-protection strategies, emotions, and sense of self.
Clients can also expect to begin learning tools for regulation, grounding,
communication, self-compassion, and recognizing triggers or protective responses. We
will move at a pace that supports safety and stability, while also working toward
meaningful change. Over time, the goal is for clients to feel more connected to
themselves, more empowered in their choices, and more able to navigate life from their
strengths rather than from survival mode.

What does progress look like?

Progress looks different for every client, because healing is not one-size-fits-all. To me,
progress often begins when a client starts to feel more aware of their patterns, more
connected to their body and emotions, and more able to pause before reacting from old
survival responses.
Progress may look like setting a boundary, naming a need, recognizing a trigger,
softening shame, communicating more clearly, or simply feeling a little more grounded
in moments that used to feel overwhelming. I also believe progress includes helping
clients recognize their strengths, build trust in themselves, and begin making choices
from a place of safety and clarity rather than fear, protection, or survival.