Aspire Psychological

Aspire Psychological Counseling & Mental Health Provider Stop hurting. Sometimes, we hurt so much and for so long that we forget how true happiness feels like.

We all try to navigate life the best that we can. We all try to find that glimpse of hope every morning. Yet, sometimes it just feels impossible to know exactly what we are holding on to. This is where I can help. For the past 7 years, I have had the opportunity to help adults and children cope with depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, relationship problems and other disorders/disabilities. My pra

ctice focuses on rapport-building and applying scientifically-proven theories to help my patients achieve their goals. I carefully design and implement empirically validated treatments to individuals, couples, and families. Some of the therapeutic orientations that I specialize in includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Person Centered Therapy. Aspire Psychological is housed in Comprehensive Psychological Services at 1208 E 3300 S, Salt Lake City. Please visit our website at AspirePsychologicalLLC.com or call us at (801) 483-1600 for more info!

Most trauma clients think asking questions in session means they're being difficult. It's the opposite. Informed clients...
09/03/2026

Most trauma clients think asking questions in session means they're being difficult. It's the opposite. Informed clients heal faster.

There's a quiet assumption in a lot of therapy rooms: the therapist knows best, so just follow along. But trauma work isn't something that happens to you. It's something you do with your therapist, and understanding the why behind each step is part of how your nervous system learns it's safe to keep going.

At Aspire, we want you asking things like:

Why is my body reacting this way right now? (Your therapist can walk you through what's happening in your nervous system, why your heart is racing or why you feel numb, so the reaction stops feeling like a betrayal from your own body.)

Why are we using this specific approach for my trauma? EMDR, CPT, IFS, somatic work — each one does something different, and you deserve to know why we chose this one for you.

Can we look at my Blueprint data together? We use Blueprint to track your symptoms week by week, so treatment adjusts based on what's actually shifting, not guesswork. That data belongs to you too.

Is this pace right for me, or can we slow down? Trauma work has a rhythm, and yours might not match a textbook. Slowing down is a clinical decision, not a failure.

Should I expect things to feel harder before they get easier? Sometimes yes, and knowing that in advance changes everything about how you move through it.

Asking these questions isn't overstepping. It's the work.

If you've been carrying something heavy and want a trauma-informed team that will explain the whole process with you, not at you, we'd love to meet you. Schedule with one of our therapists today.

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

Most people pick a therapist by what their insurance covers and who has an opening this week. Almost no one asks about t...
09/02/2026

Most people pick a therapist by what their insurance covers and who has an opening this week. Almost no one asks about the person's background. But a clinician's lived experience isn't separate from their clinical skill. It's often the most important part of it.

Here are three ways our team's backgrounds shape the care you receive:

1. Multicultural training matters.

Our founder, Cindy Chia, trained across Malaysia, Australia, and the US, including a postgraduate fellowship at Harvard. That breadth means your cultural context is never an afterthought. It's built into how she listens and how she responds.

2. Modality range means flexibility.

Our clinicians collectively practice EMDR, DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), ACT, IFS (Internal Family Systems), CBT, and DIR Floortime. That range means if one approach isn't clicking for you, there's a clinician or a method that fits better. You're not locked into one lane.

3. Personal experience informs empathy.

Several of our therapists have navigated their own experiences with family pressure, identity, and adversity. That isn't incidental. It shapes how they sit with you in yours, without judgment and without rushing you to a resolution.

Different stories, different training, all pointing the same direction: toward your healing.

If you've been trying to find someone whose background fits yours, we'd be honored to help you find the right fit on our team. Schedule with one of our therapists today 🌱

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

Most people choose a therapist from a bio, a headshot, and a hope that this stranger will get it. That's a lot of trust ...
08/30/2026

Most people choose a therapist from a bio, a headshot, and a hope that this stranger will get it. That's a lot of trust to hand over before the first session even starts.

So we want to pull the curtain back a little.

Every clinician at Aspire came to this work through something personal. Our founder, Cindy Chia, built this practice out of a life shaped across Malaysia, Australia, and the US, which is why cultural nuance sits at the center of how we train our team. Brady Olsen, LCSW, works from the belief that no one should face the hard things alone. Devon Robertson, CSW, sees therapy as the quiet, brave work of rewriting your own story.

Between us, our team draws on more than a dozen evidence-based modalities, including EMDR, DBT, IFS, ACT, TF-CBT, and CBT. The technique matters. What matters more is that your care gets shaped around your specific life, not squeezed into a protocol.

Before you ever walk in, every clinician here already believes something about you: that you are not broken, that your pain makes sense given what you've been through, and that you are capable of more than you can feel right now. 🌱

If you've been sitting with the "who would I even see?" question, we'd love to help you find the right fit. Reach out and we'll match you with a therapist whose background and approach actually align with what you're carrying.

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

Most people expect therapy to feel a little better every week. Trauma work doesn't move like that.Our Blueprint outcome ...
08/29/2026

Most people expect therapy to feel a little better every week. Trauma work doesn't move like that.

Our Blueprint outcome data tells a different story. For a lot of clients, distress scores actually peak around session 12, not session 1. That's the moment many people sit across from their therapist and say, "I think I'm getting worse."

They're not. Something harder and more honest is happening.

Around week 8 to 12, the nervous system finally starts touching what it's spent years avoiding. Old memories surface. Sleep gets weird. Emotions that were tucked away for a long time show up uninvited. It feels like backsliding, but it's the body doing the actual work of healing.

Here's what the data keeps showing us: clients who stay in the room through that window are the ones who show the most significant improvement by week 20. The dip isn't the ending. It's the turning point.

If you're somewhere in the middle of therapy right now and quietly wondering if it's working, we'd gently ask you not to walk away yet. Talk to your therapist about what's coming up. Name the "I feel worse" part out loud. That conversation is often where the real shift begins.

And if you haven't started yet, we're a trauma-informed practice, and we track your progress with real outcome measures so your care adjusts to what your nervous system actually needs. Reach out when you're ready. We've got you. 🌱

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

Most people don't come to therapy because they're broken. They come because they've spent years editing themselves for e...
08/28/2026

Most people don't come to therapy because they're broken. They come because they've spent years editing themselves for everyone else, and somewhere along the way, they forgot what their own voice actually sounds like.

If you grew up code-switching, translating for your family, or softening your story so it would fit in the room you were in, you know this quiet exhaustion. It's not weakness. It's what happens when your nervous system learns that being fully yourself isn't safe.

This is the work Devon Robertson, CSW, does every day at Aspire. Devon's approach is storytelling-centered, drawing from CBT, DBT, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and motivational interviewing. Instead of asking you to perform insight, Devon helps you tell your own story back to yourself, out loud, without editing.

There's a specific moment we see in Devon's sessions. A client says something they've never said without softening it first. Then they pause. Because for the first time, no one flinched, no one corrected them, no one asked them to translate. They were just heard.

That moment is not small. For clients who grew up silencing their own narrative, being fully heard is often the first real step toward healing.

If your story has been living in the margins of everyone else's expectations, Devon has space on her caseload. You don't have to arrive polished. You can arrive as you are, and we'll build from there.

Schedule with Devon today.

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

Most people spend weeks picking the right therapist. Then walk in on day one with no idea what to say.That gap between "...
08/27/2026

Most people spend weeks picking the right therapist. Then walk in on day one with no idea what to say.

That gap between "I found someone" and "I know how to start" is where a lot of first sessions quietly stall out. The good news: a little structure before, during, and after your first session makes a real difference.

Our Blueprint data backs this up. Clients who come in with even a rough sense of what they want to work on show measurable progress earlier, often by week 20, because their therapist can meet them where they actually are from session one.

Swipe through for the three steps we walk every new client through:

Step 1: Name what's bringing you in (before your session)
Step 2: Show up and be honest (during your session)
Step 3: Notice what shifted (after your session)

You don't need a polished story. You don't need the right words. You just need to show up in the right order, and let the process do the rest. 🌱

Ready to take step one? We'd be honored to be part of your story. Schedule with one of our therapists today.

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

Most people quit therapy right before it starts working.Not because they're not committed. Because around session 12, so...
08/26/2026

Most people quit therapy right before it starts working.

Not because they're not committed. Because around session 12, something confusing happens: they feel worse. And they assume that means it isn't working.

Our Blueprint outcome data tells a different story. Clients walk in with an average PHQ-9 score of 10.14 (moderate depression). Scores often peak around session 12, then drop meaningfully after week 16. By week 20, most clients are rating their care as moderately to significantly effective. Since 2021, 89% of the people we work with have shown real progress on this same curve.

That mid-treatment dip isn't failure. It's the point where the deeper work begins, when your nervous system stops rehearsing old patterns and starts rewiring them. Discomfort is often the evidence that something is finally shifting.

Knowing the shape of the journey before you're in the middle of it changes how you handle the hard parts. If you're in the dip right now, please don't quit the week before the breakthrough. 🌱

Swipe through to see what our data actually shows, and reach out if you'd like a therapist to walk this middle stretch with you.

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

A client once told Brady Olsen, LCSW, that they couldn't have trauma. Nothing "bad enough" had ever happened to them.The...
08/25/2026

A client once told Brady Olsen, LCSW, that they couldn't have trauma. Nothing "bad enough" had ever happened to them.

Their nervous system disagreed.

This is one of the most common reasons people delay getting help. They compare their pain to someone else's story and quietly decide theirs doesn't qualify.

But trauma isn't measured by the size of the event. It's measured by what your nervous system couldn't process at the time, and what it's still carrying now.

Chronic criticism. Emotional neglect. A childhood spent scanning the room for someone else's mood. Repeated small ruptures in safety that never got named out loud. These leave the same physiological imprints as the events people typically call "traumatic," and they show up in the body the same way, through hypervigilance, shutdown, sleep disruption, and relationships that feel harder than they should.

At Aspire, we see clients every week who spent years dismissing their own pain because it didn't look dramatic enough to earn support. The body doesn't grade on a curve. It simply responds to what overwhelmed it, whether that overwhelm arrived in one moment or across ten thousand small ones.

If you've been waiting until your story feels "big enough" to justify reaching out, this is your invitation to stop waiting. Our trauma-informed therapists work with clients across a full range of experiences, using evidence-based approaches like EMDR, Trauma-Focused CBT, and IFS to help your nervous system finish what it couldn't finish before.

You don't need to prove your pain. You just need somewhere safe to bring it. 🌱

Schedule with one of our therapists today.

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

Most people don't cancel their first therapy appointment because they don't need it. They cancel because they have no id...
08/24/2026

Most people don't cancel their first therapy appointment because they don't need it. They cancel because they have no idea what they're walking into.

We hear it all the time: "I almost didn't come." "I rehearsed what I was going to say for two weeks." "I thought I'd need a bigger reason to be here."

So we asked a few clients what they wish someone had told them before session one. Three things came up over and over:

→ You don't need a crisis to start. "Not having anything big enough" is the most common opener our therapists hear.
→ You don't have to arrive polished. The performance you're rehearsing on the drive over is unnecessary. Your therapist has seen it.
→ Progress actually gets measured. We use a tool called Blueprint to track how you're feeling between sessions, so if something isn't working, your therapist sees it in real time and adjusts. It's not just talking and hoping.

A few other things worth knowing before you book: our self-pay rates range from $80 to $250 depending on the therapist, we hold your spot with a $40 refundable deposit, and we have a 48-hour cancellation policy so life can still happen.

The hardest part is usually the week before you go. Once you're in the room, most people wonder why they waited so long.

If you've been circling the idea of starting, we'd be honored to be your first session. Reach out whenever you're ready. We've got you.

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

There's a specific look clients get around session 16. Not fixed. Not finished. Just lighter. Like they finally put down...
08/20/2026

There's a specific look clients get around session 16. Not fixed. Not finished. Just lighter. Like they finally put down something they didn't realize they'd been carrying for years.

Trauma recovery isn't a single breakthrough moment. It's a quiet shift in the nervous system, when the body stops bracing and finally starts breathing. Shoulders drop. The jaw unclenches. Sentences slow down because there's no longer a threat to outrun.

Brady Olsen, LCSW, is one of the therapists our clients describe as "the reason I kept coming back." He works in EMDR, ACT, DBT, and IFS, all modalities that meet trauma where it actually lives, in the body and the nervous system, not just the story you tell about it. His presence is warm, steady, and unhurried. That matters more than most people realize. Safety isn't a technique. It's a felt sense, and it's the ground everything else grows from.

We track progress at Aspire using Blueprint, a clinical measurement tool that shows how you're actually feeling week by week. 89% of our clients show significant improvement when care follows this model. That number isn't a slogan. It's what happens when a trained clinician, the right modality, and a nervous system that finally feels safe all meet in the same room.

If you've been bracing for a long time, you don't have to keep doing it alone. Brady has openings, and we'd be honored to walk with you through the quiet turning point. Schedule with us today. 🌿

📍 12427 S Pasture Rd, Suite 201, Riverton, UT 84096
🌐 www.AspirePsychUtah.com
📞 Call/Text: 385-202-6113
✉ [email protected]

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