Women’s issues
Personal, relational, and life-stage concerns, in a setting built around respect and goals you set.
Support that meets you where you are
Alethea Braun-Dunagan is a licensed professional counselor who provides individual, couples, and family counseling, along with group support. Her work joins a holistic view of the person to carefully chosen Cognitive Behavioral techniques, so that counseling stays both compassionate and practical.
Rather than fit every client to the same treatment plan, she shapes the work around age, circumstances, goals, culture, relationships, and readiness for change.
Her experience spans children, adolescents, and adults, which makes her useful to families whose concerns shift as the years pass.
Education and licensure
Ms. Braun-Dunagan holds both a master’s degree in counseling and a bachelor’s degree from Northern Arizona University, in the same Flagstaff community where she practices today.
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Beyond Arizona, her practice rests on the Counseling Compact™, which lets a counselor licensed in one member state serve clients located in others.
She sees clients in person in Flagstaff, Arizona, and by telehealth for clients located in Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wyoming. She also has availability for Medicare and TriCare West clients. It is worth asking for Ms. Braun-Dunagan specifically, as this is not true for every clinician in the practice.
As with any compact, what governs an appointment is the state you are physically located in when it happens, and the member list can change. CompactConnect publishes the current participating states.
Areas where she may be able to help
Her professional interests cover the range of transitions and relationships that bear on emotional health. Care is tailored to the person rather than reduced to a checklist.
Postpartum mood concerns
Support through the emotional, relational, and practical changes that can follow pregnancy and childbirth.
Stress management
Name the pressures shaping daily life, and practice the boundaries and decisions that steady it.
Relapse prevention
Insight, accountability, and coping tools that protect the progress recovery has already cost you.
Trauma and healthy relationships
Work through the effects of difficult experiences while building safer patterns of trust and communication.
Culturally responsive care
Discuss your experience in the context of your culture, identity, family, and community, not apart from it.
Counseling that supports the whole person
A holistic approach recognizes that emotional well-being is tied up with relationships, health, school, work, family expectations, and personal values. Counseling can make room for all of that and still aim at specific, achievable change.
For children and young people, the work may include advocacy, trauma support, and repairing family relationships. For adults and couples, it more often turns on communication, stress, transitions, recovery, or the pattern that keeps a relationship stuck.
Children, adolescents, and families
Young clients are seen with a parent involved, at a pace and in language that suits their development. Couples are seen jointly, and families can be seen together in a single session.
Full biographies, training, and areas of expertise for every clinician are listed on our providers page, and you are welcome to ask her directly about her qualifications and experience.
Concerns We Help With
Whether you meet us by secure video or in person at our Flagstaff office, these are the concerns we most often help with.
Anxiety
Worry that never quite switches off, treated with practical CBT so your days feel steadier.
Depression
Low mood that drains interest and energy, met with patient, structured care that rebuilds one step at a time.
Trauma
Careful, paced work for difficult experiences, with you in control of what you share and when.
ADHD assessment and coaching
Clear testing when you need answers, and practical coaching for the schedules and habits that follow.
Young adults
Support through the first years on your own: school, work, independence, and the relationships that come with them.
Burnout and stress
For professionals running on empty: therapy for the exhaustion, and coaching for the work habits underneath it.
Questions people often ask
Does she work with children and teenagers?
Yes. Her experience includes children and adolescents, with attention to advocacy, trauma, development, and repairing family relationships.
Can she work with couples and families?
Yes. She provides couples and family counseling, with an emphasis on communication, relationship health, and goals the family sets.
On what authority can she see me if I am not in Arizona?
Through the Counseling Compact™, which covers clients located in Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wyoming. Authorization follows your physical location at the time of the appointment.
Does she take Medicare or TriCare?
She has availability for Medicare and TriCare West clients. Confirm current availability with the office before scheduling, because it varies by clinician.
