Who We Are
About Tawna Waters
Well hello! I’m the human behind Waters Counseling. This all started with my own struggle to find balance. Through my teens and young adulthood I became adept at ignoring my body and emotions at the peril of my mental/emotional/spiritual wellbeing. Talk therapy had its place, I needed strategies and someone to challenge my distorted thinking. However, the deepest change happened while I was in the yoga studio breathing through Navasana, on a long walk outside, or improvising in the dance studio.
I was a high school dance teacher and community yoga teacher at the time. Interestingly, I was witnessing my students’ own healing
processes in my classes: the “problematic” student becoming a meditation mentor, students expressing feelings around world events through dance, the studio becoming a place for community, emotional safety, and sometimes grieving-facilitated through quiet, music, or movement.
I decided to pursue a Master’s in Mental Health Therapy with an emphasis in Dance/Movement therapy. One internship was working at an expressive arts residential facility for teens in foster care. Another internship was at a substance abuse rehab. I graduated and took my first job at Primary Children’s Hospital, where I worked with teens impacted by cancer or neurotrauma in finding joy and embodiment again. My niche was discovered working at Center for Change, and Eating Disorder Recovery Center.
I bring my whole self to my practice- the stumbles, the learning, the experiences, the teacher, the mom, the artist, the clinician, and especially, the fellow human.
In my freetime, you can find me wrestling a toddler, on my yoga mat, or enjoying the trails or farmer’s markets of Ogden.
Who We Are
About Belinda
I’m Belinda, and I work with Tawna at Waters Counseling. My path here began as a teenager navigating foster care, trauma, and young motherhood. During that time, I sat across from a strength-based therapist who changed everything for me. She saw my intrinsic worth before I could see it myself. That experience stayed with me. It led me to earn a bachelor’s degree in Marriage, Family, and Human Development in 2002, where I learned what science has to say about how people grow, struggle, and heal. Even then, it was my dream to do for others what that therapist did for me. I spent many years raising six children and one foster son while walking through some hard and holy things with the people I love: eating disorder recovery, substance abuse recovery, neurodiversity, identity development, and faith
transitions in spaces that did not always feel safe. Through all of it, I kept coming back to one truth: people do not need to be fixed. They need to feel seen and safe enough to heal. Before becoming a therapist, I worked as a high school teacher, group facilitator, and life coach. I was often the person people came to when life felt heavy. I loved that work, but I also wanted to be grounded in research and evidence-based care. So I went back to school and stepped more fully into the work I had already been doing for years. Now I work as a trauma therapist with women and LGBTQ clients who are carrying more than most people can see. I use evidence-based approaches like EMDR, IFS, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). But honestly, the most important thing I bring is myself. The parts of me that have struggled, learned, loved, and rebuilt. When I’m with you, I bring my whole heart to this work: the therapist, the mom, the advocate, and the one who laughs too much. I will sit with you in the messy moments, honor the strength in the ways you survived, and help you reconnect with your own intrinsic worth, just like someone once did for me. In my free time, you’ll probably find me singing way too loud in the car, laughing around a campfire with my family, getting lost in a Brandon Sanderson book, or curled up watching Friends in my pajamas with Simply Cheese Puffs.