Cody Merrell, LCSW
Clinical Therapist
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About Cody at New Heights Counseling
As a therapist, I believe therapy is a collaborative process. It isn’t about fixing you. It’s about creating space for your story, your growth, and your healing.
I work with adults in Salt Lake City and offer online therapy across Utah, providing support that affirms their identity, values, and lived experiences. Many of the people I support are navigating trauma, shame, anxiety, or perfectionism and striving to build lives that feel more grounded and meaningful.
I often support gay men, LGBTQIA+ adults, and individuals seeking secular or non-religious therapy. I welcome anyone who resonates with my approach. Together, we create a space that respects your background, values, and identities.
My work is rooted in compassion, dignity, and respect. I bring warmth, honesty, and curiosity to the therapy space, always seeing clients as resilient, capable, and thoughtful human beings.
This is a space where you can show up as you are, bringing whatever you’re holding and however you’re feeling.
My Approach to Therapy
Therapy works best when it honors who you are. I see our work as a collaboration built on curiosity, honesty, and respect for your lived experience.
I provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive therapy for adults who want to understand themselves more deeply and create meaningful change. My approach is flexible and individualized, drawing from a range of evidence-based practices that may vary based on your needs.
This may include EMDR, CBT, mindfulness, trauma-focused approaches, humanistic, existential, narrative, psychoeducational methods, and other therapies as appropriate. I integrate these approaches thoughtfully to support your goals and what matters most to you.
Whether you’re working through trauma, navigating shame and self-doubt, or redefining beliefs and identities, therapy can be a space to reconnect with yourself and shift patterns that no longer serve you.
You deserve care that affirms your identity, values, and goals without pressure, judgment, or assumptions.
Credentials & Education
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with experience supporting adults navigating trauma, shame, identity, and the pressure to be everything for everyone.
My background includes:
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Utah)
Master of Social Work (MSW), Arizona State University
EMDR-Trained Clinician
I integrate evidence-based practices such as EMDR, CBT, and trauma-focused therapy with a humanistic, collaborative approach tailored to your needs and goals, drawing from additional methods when clinically appropriate.