Meet our team of dynamic and energetic providers. Our goal at Salt City Wellness is to assist you in connecting with your own inner wisdom and values to help you find the way to your preferred life. We actively work to create an inclusive and respectful environment for all individuals.
Emily Hawkins, LCSW C-IAYT
Salt City Wellness Founder
Mental Health & Yoga Therapist Contact Emily
With over 15 years of experience as a therapist, social worker, director and educator, I am passionate about bringing the tools for health and wellness to everyone - to help individuals work from their strengths and build lives of consistent wellness and joy. Born and raised in Salt Lake City, I grew up hiking, fishing and exploring the Wasatch mountains and streams, where I developed my deep love for and awareness of the healing capacity of nature and our own bodies.
I am an empowerment and strengths based therapist. My therapeutic approach combines present moment focused therapy and evidenced based therapies to assist clients to effectively address personal life challenges. I integrate complementary methodologies and techniques to offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each client. With compassion and understanding, I work with each individual to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing.
Among my areas of expertise are working with the impact of trauma and childhood experiences, psychology of women, sexual violence, oppression and relationship dynamics. Other areas of interest include the impact of trauma and other experiences on the brain and body, mindfulness based psychotherapy, integration of the mind-body experience and spirituality based work.
Salt City Wellness Founder
Mental Health & Yoga Therapist Contact Emily
With over 15 years of experience as a therapist, social worker, director and educator, I am passionate about bringing the tools for health and wellness to everyone - to help individuals work from their strengths and build lives of consistent wellness and joy. Born and raised in Salt Lake City, I grew up hiking, fishing and exploring the Wasatch mountains and streams, where I developed my deep love for and awareness of the healing capacity of nature and our own bodies.
I am an empowerment and strengths based therapist. My therapeutic approach combines present moment focused therapy and evidenced based therapies to assist clients to effectively address personal life challenges. I integrate complementary methodologies and techniques to offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each client. With compassion and understanding, I work with each individual to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing.
Among my areas of expertise are working with the impact of trauma and childhood experiences, psychology of women, sexual violence, oppression and relationship dynamics. Other areas of interest include the impact of trauma and other experiences on the brain and body, mindfulness based psychotherapy, integration of the mind-body experience and spirituality based work.
Alicia Thompson
Health and Wellness Coach Schedule an appointment with Alicia
I am a Certified Clarity Coach, founded in The Work by Byron Katie. my coaching utilizes meditative strategies to help in identifying conditioning that had/has been cause of victimhood, self-doubt, limited thinking, anxiety and worry. By identifying the thought, conditions and beliefs around the thought, this process of coaching helps us to understand difference between life happens to us versus now accepting and knowing life happens for us.
I am a 300 RYT (yoga instructor) and my specialty, love and passion is with Yin Yoga. So much of our experience, emotion, pain and sorrow is held tightly in the body. With a practice of self-inquiry, self-connection, self-awareness and the opening and releasing that comes with Yin Yoga, I will work with you to connect more fully with your experience and actively create the life you want.
Through a life balancing process, setting goals for happiness (not achievement), utilizing The Work as a self-inquiry process, yoga for body awareness and releasing, and a coaching in nourishing the body and mind, she I will work with clients to find happiness and thrive in their most grounded and peaceful life. My goal as a coach is to guide you through an awakening of all of your truths, discovering all your gifts, an acceptance of the emotions of oneself and sharing your light and truest, happiest self with our world.
I provide one on one coaching experiences, group workshops and corporate wellness experiences with the multidisciplinary Salt City Wellness Team.
Health and Wellness Coach Schedule an appointment with Alicia
I am a Certified Clarity Coach, founded in The Work by Byron Katie. my coaching utilizes meditative strategies to help in identifying conditioning that had/has been cause of victimhood, self-doubt, limited thinking, anxiety and worry. By identifying the thought, conditions and beliefs around the thought, this process of coaching helps us to understand difference between life happens to us versus now accepting and knowing life happens for us.
I am a 300 RYT (yoga instructor) and my specialty, love and passion is with Yin Yoga. So much of our experience, emotion, pain and sorrow is held tightly in the body. With a practice of self-inquiry, self-connection, self-awareness and the opening and releasing that comes with Yin Yoga, I will work with you to connect more fully with your experience and actively create the life you want.
Through a life balancing process, setting goals for happiness (not achievement), utilizing The Work as a self-inquiry process, yoga for body awareness and releasing, and a coaching in nourishing the body and mind, she I will work with clients to find happiness and thrive in their most grounded and peaceful life. My goal as a coach is to guide you through an awakening of all of your truths, discovering all your gifts, an acceptance of the emotions of oneself and sharing your light and truest, happiest self with our world.
I provide one on one coaching experiences, group workshops and corporate wellness experiences with the multidisciplinary Salt City Wellness Team.
Bonnie Edwards, CMHC.
Mental Health Therapist Schedule an appointment with Bonnie
I believe that everyone has the ability to know wellness. I provide a therapeutic approach that is honest and supportive, offering practical feedback and skills to help individuals effectively address personal life challenges. Throughout my thirty-year career helping children and families, I have come to rely on my own long-term meditation practice combined with my formal training to bring this approach to individuals. I practice mindful movement (Tai Chi Chuan or Chi Gong) and Insight meditation daily, often in the outdoors where I receive a sense of grounded presence.
I am committed to being fully present in a session. When mindfulness and compassion are present, I find that I am well equipped to explore the challenges presented, assist in awareness of physical sensations as issues arise in the session, and to discover together options and practices for healing and growth. I integrate complimentary methodologies and techniques to offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each person. With compassion and understanding, I work with each individual to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing. I have a strong foundation in traditional clinical models and Mindfulness oriented models including I Bowen Family Systems Theory, Mindful Self Compassion, MBSR. Mindfulness-based interventions allow for deep listening, opportunities for guided practice and support to bring skillful means into every moment. The result is a process of becoming someone who lives life fully, with all that is.
Mental Health Therapist Schedule an appointment with Bonnie
I believe that everyone has the ability to know wellness. I provide a therapeutic approach that is honest and supportive, offering practical feedback and skills to help individuals effectively address personal life challenges. Throughout my thirty-year career helping children and families, I have come to rely on my own long-term meditation practice combined with my formal training to bring this approach to individuals. I practice mindful movement (Tai Chi Chuan or Chi Gong) and Insight meditation daily, often in the outdoors where I receive a sense of grounded presence.
I am committed to being fully present in a session. When mindfulness and compassion are present, I find that I am well equipped to explore the challenges presented, assist in awareness of physical sensations as issues arise in the session, and to discover together options and practices for healing and growth. I integrate complimentary methodologies and techniques to offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each person. With compassion and understanding, I work with each individual to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing. I have a strong foundation in traditional clinical models and Mindfulness oriented models including I Bowen Family Systems Theory, Mindful Self Compassion, MBSR. Mindfulness-based interventions allow for deep listening, opportunities for guided practice and support to bring skillful means into every moment. The result is a process of becoming someone who lives life fully, with all that is.