Tiara Rodriguez
I’m an Arizona Licensed Professional Counselor and founder of Weathered Reins Therapy, a telehealth practice serving adolescents and adults throughout Arizona. I hold a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and am a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner, with over three years of clinical experience in community mental health, crisis services, and private practice. I specialize in trauma, anxiety, difficult relationships/attachment wounds, life transitions, and Christian counseling. My approach is warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed, integrating somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and the mind-body connection to support healing and meaningful change. As a follower of Jesus Christ, my faith is central to who I am and guides how I serve others with compassion, grace, and a genuine desire to help each person find healing and meaningful change.
First session
Finding the right therapist matters, especially when reaching out for therapy can feel vulnerable. I strive to create a space where you feel heard, understood, and comfortable being yourself. I want therapy to be a place where you can explore what you're experiencing, build on your strengths, and take meaningful steps toward the life you want. Our first session is a chance for us to get to know one another and begin understanding what brings you to therapy. We’ll talk about your experiences, what you’re hoping to work on, and what support might be most helpful. You don’t need to have everything figured out or share anything before you’re ready. My goal is for you to feel heard, comfortable, and supported as we begin working together.
Strengths
I bring warmth, compassion, curiosity, and gentle challenge into the therapy room. My approach is trauma-informed and considers the connection between our thoughts, emotions, nervous system, relationships, and lived experiences. I draw from evidence-based and somatic-based approaches to help clients not only understand their patterns, but also become more aware of how stress and emotions show up in the body. I don’t believe therapy should be one-size-fits-all, so I tailor our work to each person’s needs, goals, and pace. I especially value helping clients understand themselves more deeply, recognize patterns that may no longer serve them, and build greater trust in themselves. My own life experiences also shape the way I show up, with an understanding that healing can be difficult, nonlinear, and deeply personal. One of the most meaningful parts of this work is watching someone begin to feel safer within themselves, develop healthier relationships, and recognize that difficult experiences can shape their story without defining their future.
Ideal clients
My ideal client is an adolescent or adult navigating trauma, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, difficult or unhealthy relationship patterns, attachment wounds, boundaries, or major life transitions. They may find themselves overthinking, people-pleasing, striving for perfection, feeling disconnected from themselves, or struggling to trust their own thoughts, feelings, and decisions. They may understand some of their patterns but feel unsure how to change them. I enjoy working with clients who want to better understand themselves, heal from difficult experiences, feel more grounded, build healthier relationships, and create meaningful change at a pace that feels safe and sustainable. For clients whose Christian faith is important to them, I also welcome the opportunity to integrate faith, biblical principles, and spiritual values into the therapeutic process in a way that supports their individual beliefs and goals.
Origin story
My decision to become a therapist grew from both my personal experiences and a genuine desire to walk alongside others during some of the most difficult seasons of their lives. I have experienced trauma, difficult relationships, unexpected life changes, and seasons where I had to rebuild my own sense of safety, identity, faith, and trust in myself. Those experiences gave me a deeper appreciation for how much courage it can take to heal and how meaningful it is to have someone beside you who can offer support without judgment. Through my own faith and healing journey, I learned that healing is rarely about simply “getting over” what happened. Our experiences can shape the way we see ourselves, relate to others, respond to stress, and even how safe we feel in our own bodies. At the same time, I came to believe that the difficult things we experience do not have to define the rest of our lives. That understanding ultimately became a large part of why I chose this profession. I wanted to create the kind of therapeutic space where people could feel safe enough to be honest, curious about themselves, and supported as they work through the things they have carried.
Ongoing work together
Ongoing work together is collaborative and tailored to your goals, needs, and pace. Early in therapy, we’ll work together to create treatment goals that reflect what you want to change, strengthen, or better understand. These goals will be reviewed periodically to measure growth, recognize progress, and adjust our work as your needs evolve. Along the way, we’ll explore the patterns, experiences, thoughts, emotions, relationships, and nervous system responses that may be keeping you feeling stuck while building practical skills to support change. Progress may look different for everyone—it might mean recognizing patterns sooner, feeling more regulated during difficult moments, setting boundaries with less guilt, quieting your inner critic, trusting yourself more, or responding differently in relationships. Over time, the goal is not simply to manage symptoms, but to help you feel more grounded, connected to yourself, and confident navigating life beyond the therapy room.
Treatment methods
Trauma-Informed Care
I approach therapy through a trauma-informed lens that prioritizes safety, choice, collaboration, trust, and pacing. I consider how past experiences may influence current emotions, relationships, beliefs, and nervous system responses without defining the person by what they have experienced.
Somatic
I incorporate somatic strategies to help clients notice how emotions and stress show up in the body, increase nervous system awareness, and develop skills that support grounding, regulation, and a greater sense of safety.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I use IFS-informed parts work to help clients approach different parts of themselves with curiosity and compassion, better understand protective patterns, and develop a more connected and accepting relationship with themselves.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT to help clients recognize connections between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, identify patterns that may be contributing to distress, and develop healthier ways of thinking and responding.
Faith-based therapy
When desired by the client, I integrate Christian faith, biblical principles, prayer, and spiritual values into therapy in a way that respects the client’s beliefs, goals, and comfort level.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- ArizonaLicense LPC-24964