Hearts Healed
Passions Ignited
New Beginnings
Women on the Move is dedicated to helping you
• Rebuild relationships
• Chart a new course
• Heal your emotional pain
• Live from the heart
We have worked with well over a dozen therapists for our daughter in the past several years. It wasn’t until she worked with Tracy that she started to acknowledge her harmful behavior.
Getting to the heart of the matter
Embracing the struggles of the heart –It’s all about getting to the real source of the conflicts, the emotional chaos, the confusion. Behaviors are often a way of communicating how much you are struggling and how you aren’t able to reach out to others because your fears – whatever they may be – stop you.
The longer the struggle goes on, the more layers you develop to survive, the more your self-destructive or maladaptive behaviors increase just to get by. All of us do this. And we all need assistance from time to time to help us create a different way of interacting with ourselves and the world we live in.
Women on the Move creates an environment that both challenges and compassionately nurtures you – whether you are an adolescent, a young adult, a woman in your twenties or thirties, a family – to thrive again.
With our years of experience with different treatment modalities and settings, we ensure our plans are tailored to meet your every specific need.
You helped me not only understand who I truly was but to accept and love myself for who I am.
Adolescents 13-18 & Families
“My parents are so stupid.”
“They don’t get me at all.”
“I feel like they want me to be who they want.”
“I’m afraid to talk to them about what is going on.”
“Every body drinks and does drugs, what's the big deal?”
“All we do is fight and argue with each other.”
“I feel like I’m losing my daughter.”
“The house is full of tension and I don’t know how to change it.”
“I can’t even talk to my child anymore and I’m really afraid.”
“I feel like I’ve failed as a parent.”
Adolescence is a time of rapid growth, a time of physical, emotional, and social change. It’s hard to integrate all of these changes and figure out who you are, where you fit in as your own person. This naturally leads to a great deal of confusion and conflict.
Women on the Move specializes in working with adolescents who struggle with the following issues or behaviors:
Self-Harm
Identity
Family Conflict
All Major Mood Disorders
(Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar)
Personality
Parasuicidal Behaviors
Drugs and Alcohol
Social Withdrawal
Emotional Dysregulation
Parent Consulting
Over-Achievement
(Perfectionism and High-Functioning Anxiety)
Sexual Assault Recovery
Adoption
Gender orientation
Internet/Gaming Issues
In-Home Consultations.
From pain to joy, from rough seas to calm waters, we help you move forward and beyond.
Young Adults 18-24 & Families
Emancipation and vision! While young adulthood can be fun, it can also be anxiety provoking, confusing, and scary. For the first time, you are fully responsible for your life and what you want to make of it.
While the issues noted under Adolescents may still be at play, we focus more on the emancipation process between you and your family, your life plans, your decisions about a career, your relationships, and basic adulting skills. We help you ensure you live your own authentic life and follow a plan that is unique to your passions, your gifts, your skills, your deeper inner knowing.
If you are just going thru the motions and doing what you are supposed to do, you may find yourself wondering what you were thinking to begin with as you realize it’s not really what you want to be doing. There is no formula on how to live your life — your path is unique to you and reflects who you are. So take charge, be you, and live out your dreams.
Women 25 & Up
Life and how to deal with it. This period is all about major life decisions: work; technical school or college; relationships – move in together, marriage, divorce; children – to have or not. Whatever transitions you are facing, we can provide guidance and help you gain clarity. We specialize in women’s issues and your experiences as a woman moving thru your life process.
We also work with all major mood disorders, drug and alcohol issues, personality issues, emotional dysregulation, relationship issues, family conflict, grief or loss, stress management, and many others. Including how to live from your heart and thrive.
Contact
Women on the Move Counseling
143 N. McCormick Street
Suite 204
Prescott, AZ 86301
Phone: 801-376-6298
Email: tschrunk16@gmail.com
Fax: 1-866-431-8783
Tracy is a tenured, mature, insightful, compassionate and direct therapist who cuts through to the core issues to facilitate deep emotional work.
About Me
Tracy Schrunk, LCSW
Tracy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Arizona and Utah with 20 years of working with adolescents, young adults, families, and women in a variety of different private pay treatment modalities.
Referral sources from around the country appreciate her clinical skills and she has worked both domestically and internationally with highly complex individuals and family systems. Tracy's direct and compassionate style elicits immediate trust, respect and rapport with her clients.
Tracy has been trained in many different therapeutic approaches that include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Skills, gestalt therapy techniques, relapse prevention, strategic family therapy, creative experiential activities, and trauma techniques to name a few.
Her areas of specialization include all major mood disorders, cluster B personality issues, family conflict, gender identity and orientation, self-harming behaviors, over-achievement with perfectionism and anxiety, learning challenges, drugs and alcohol, sexual assault recovery, body image, relationship issues, grief and loss, adoption and attachment, identity issues, social anxieties, women’s issues, and life transition issues.
Tracy started her work as a rape crisis counselor in college while earning her BA with honors in psychology from the University of Iowa. She then completed her Masters in Social Work at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, TX. She completed an internship at a children’s crisis shelter and at an adult, dual diagnosis acute hospital while working with juvenile gang members in a court ordered residential program.
After completing her Master’s Degree, Tracy returned to Utah and worked in two top ranked residential treatment programs for adolescent boys and girls. After serving as a clinical director of a wilderness program in Idaho, she moved to Texas to start up a young adult women’s residential program for dually diagnosed women, ages 18-25. As the clinical director, Tracy created the programming and clinical model specifically for women’s developmental processes and issues.
After a year, Tracy moved into being the executive director as she and her team supported these young adult women from intensive therapy to semi-independent to independent living over the course of a year and helped them create authentic life plans. This allowed her to fully grasp the unique process of transitioning to real life and the post treatment follow up that occurred. Tracy then returned to Utah and worked in two premier wilderness programs as a primary therapist for adolescents and young adults.
Tracy began her coaching 10 years ago by continuing to work with parents and young adults during post treatment year and beyond. She became a trained facilitator in the Self, Soul, and Spirit model developed by Dr. Roger Strachan and has continued to develop and expand this model in both her counseling and coaching work. This then lead her to create Women on the Move counseling services and WOMC coaching services.
Tracy makes her home in Prescott, AZ where she has established a private practice. She is available via phone, Skype, or in person, either in your setting, her office, or in the wilderness.
Testimonials
Insightful, compassionate
Dr. Neal Christiansen, Ph.D. Clinical Director and Partner, Elements Wilderness Program
“Tracy is a tenured, mature, insightful, compassionate and direct therapist who cuts through to the core issues to facilitate deep emotional work. She quickly gains the respect and trust of her clients as she helps them create new meaning for themselves and a passion for living. Having known and worked with Tracy for 10 years, you will not find a more gifted therapist who helps families and individuals truly heal and move forward in their lives. ”
Thought-provoking questions
Felicia, 23, CA
“Tracy was the first and only therapist in my life who made a tremendous impact on my self-esteem, and my relationship with myself and my family. As a troubled 17-year-old with lots of hidden potential, I was convinced my parents and my background in foster care were to blame for everything negative in my life.”
“Tracy’s high expectations but patience with me made a huge impact on the level of openness I was able to give. She was a hard-ass (excuse my language) with love and care in her eyes. Her patience with me allowed me to learn to trust her, and her thought-provoking questions made me think about how I viewed myself, my family, and my life in general.”
Truly understands teens and their struggles
Lynn, mother
“After many years of searching for a therapist who could understand our daughter’s complicated struggles, we had the pleasure of working with Tracy. She immediately bonded with our daughter and provided the first glimmer of hope for her as well as for our entire family.”
“Tracy truly understands teens and their struggles. She is firm but so loving, compassionate and kind. She is down to earth, which puts everyone at ease, and we trusted her immediately. Her many years of Wilderness therapy brought much peace and mindfulness to our daughter. Tracy was able to adapt those skills to help our daughter in a therapeutic/residential setting.”
“She listens and understands how to bring a sense of reality and groundedness to struggling teens and their families. She helps the entire family by coaching them on how to improve communication and ultimately restore trust. Because of Tracy, we finally were able to pinpoint the true issues and get our daughter the help she so deserved. Our daughter is now home and thriving and we owe it to Tracy.”
Tremendously healing
Dr. Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., LMFT, MedFT, Clinical Director, Telos U
“Tracy possesses a high degree of clinical sophistication in working with individuals and family systems, including those that are complex and mired in heavy conflict. She is extremely competent as a diagnostician. She is well-grounded in evidence-based practices, and also has demonstrated a unique ability to customize her treatment approach to the individual needs of each client.”
“Tracy’s work has been recognized as high quality and ethically sound by referral sources all over the nation. While Tracy has shown great skill in working with a wide variety of clients, I have been particularly impressed with her skills with emerging women facing trauma and deep identity issues. Tracy has a special gift for connecting them to a collective culture of healthy womanhood and authentic identities in a way that is tremendously healing.”
Saw through my facade
Shannon, 18
“If you look at me today and look at me before I met Tracy, you would see two completely different people. The young girl you would have met before was insecure, lonely, filled with self worthlessness, riddled with abuse and trauma, but she presented as someone who was completely fine. It took Tracy to see through my facade to work on the things deep down and help me to find the beautiful, talented, and perseverant young woman I always was.”
My confidence in my abilities to pursue goals has never been higher
Felicia, 23, Lasting impact
“With an extensive, life-long background in therapy, Tracy is the only therapist I have had whom I can genuinely credit a lot of my current accomplishments to in regards to how confident and strong I feel about myself.”
“Five years later, I am in my last semester of college, I am on the honor roll, and I have a job as a behavioral therapist working with children with Autism. My relationship with my parents has never been as strong as it is now, and my confidence in my abilities to pursue goals has never been higher.”
Balance between empathy and interpersonal challenge
Ryan Pepper, LCSW, Clinical Director, Vista at Dimple Dell Canyon
“I have had the professional honor of knowing and working with Tracy Schrunk for over 16 years. During this time, I have observed her clinical sophistication and competence, mixed with an abundance of compassion, sincerity, and authenticity for those she works with therapeutically.”
“Tracy truly works with the individual to assist them in reaching their objectives, without agenda or bias. Tracy listens to hear versus listens to respond. Tracy treats those she works with as strong individuals, capable of healing and understanding their obstacles or traumas.”
“Her personal ability to balance between empathy and interpersonal challenge has always been an admired quality among clinicians who have worked with or know of Tracy. This effective therapeutic combination has proved to be a key source of success for those who have had the opportunity to work with her.”
“Lastly, you cannot find a more engaging and caring individual who will create a safe space, full of integrity, empathy, compassion, and clarity for those individuals seeking to solve or heal from personal adversities.”
Pushed me to find that little shard of spirit
Sarah, 27
“I never thought I would be alive this long. I don’t think I wanted to be. I don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch but if I keep trusting my process and doing what works I’ll have nine years of recovery in January. Nine years of a life I didn’t think I wanted.”
“I don’t know if I would have been able to see any light or have had any hope if I hadn’t worked with you. I was afraid and angry, and lost, and so, so dead inside. I am alive today, in large part because you pushed me to keep digging deeper, you pushed me to find that little shard of spirit, that faint drum beat. You kept reminding me that I am the one who makes it stronger and louder, that I was the one who would decide that.”
The work is hard
“The work is hard, it hasn’t stopped but today I’m grateful to be able to do it. I couldn’t say that at 18. ”
Out-of-the-box, creative and dynamic clinician
Matthew Estey, LCSW, Program Manager, Pathfinder, Menninger Clinic, Houston, TX
“I have known Tracy for ten years and closely worked with her in therapeutic settings. You will be hard pressed to find a more skillful clinician. Her combination of compassion, intuition, humor, and intellect is only matched by her willingness to speak the truth.”
“She’s experienced in numerous treatment modalities but is truly an ‘out-of-the-box,’ creative and dynamic clinician who gets to the heart of the matter.”
Love myself for who I am
Tea, 17
“You helped me not only understand who I truly was but to accept and love myself for who I am.”
The one therapist who read me
Erin, 20
“Tracy is an amazing therapist. She helped me at one of my lowest points in my life where I felt helpless. I’d tried countless therapists. They tried to help to no avail. Tracy is the one therapist who read me. She couldn’t be fooled into the mask I wore everyday like the rest were. She dug deep into my core issues and helped work through them. I faced childhood trauma and self-esteem issues. I became a strong independent woman with her help. She taught me coping skills that were unique and worked. Tracy challenged me in everyday life and showed me that I have a reason to live. I couldn’t have found a better therapist than her! ”
Truly a gifted healer, counselor, mentor, and friend
Dia, step-mother
“Where do I begin with Tracy Schrunk? How can I summarize her immense knowledge, experience, help, patience, and guidance in a few sentences? She is truly a gifted healer, counselor, mentor, and friend for anyone fortunate enough to cross paths with her. She is a God-send.”
“She helped our teenage daughter, and our family, during a life-event crisis where we found ourselves literally out of options — out of time, out of energy, out of hope — basically, desperate. We worked with Tracy intensively for three months and in that amount of time, she completely gained our trust and respect, as well as that of our adolescent daughter.”
“Tracy relates to adolescents in crisis — getting them to open up in a way most adults (parents) have lost their voice and ability to communicate effectively with a teenager. That said, Tracy has the same gift with adults in crisis. There is no one I could wholeheartedly recommend or endorse more highly than Tracy Schrunk.”
A Note from Tracy Schrunk
Prescott, Arizona
“It is a sacred gift and act of trust to be allowed to be a part of people’s lives at their most vulnerable and human moments. I’m grateful and humbled by these words and what a privilege it has been to be part of these amazing people’s lives.”