Choose your counselor.
Rather than automatically assigning you to whoever has the next opening, we invite you to explore your options. Compare specialties, personalities, and approaches, then choose the person who seems like the best fit for you.
About Joshua Tree Counseling
A counseling collective built around finding the right fit.
Different counselors. Different specialties. Different personalities. One place to find the person you may actually want to talk to.
Joshua Tree Counseling is a counseling collective in Northwest Tucson offering in-person therapy and telehealth throughout Arizona. Finding the right therapist involves more than choosing whoever has the next available appointment.
Instead, we want you to know more before you book. Explore who each counselor works with, how they approach therapy, and what it might actually feel like to sit across from them.
Tucson + Telehealth
Visit one of our two Northwest Tucson offices or meet with a counselor through telehealth anywhere in Arizona. Christian counseling is also available when you want faith to be part of the work.
A Different Kind of Counseling Practice
A little different on purpose.
Joshua Tree was built around the idea that good therapy involves more than credentials or availability. The relationship matters, too. For that reason, we make it easier to understand who our counselors are, how they work, and whether one of them feels like someone you could actually talk to.
Know more before you book.
Our counselor profiles go beyond a headshot and a list of credentials. In addition, you can learn who each counselor works with, what they specialize in, what they charge, and what working with them may actually feel like.
Therapy does not have to feel clinical.
Our Northwest Tucson offices feel comfortable, personal, and lived-in rather than institutional. Because the environment matters, we designed our spaces to feel more like places where you can settle in and talk.
Specialized Counseling in Tucson
Specialized counseling, without expecting one counselor to do everything.
Joshua Tree brings together counselors with different specialties, training, personalities, and approaches. Some focus deeply on trauma, while others work primarily with couples, teens, grief, addiction, anxiety, relationships, or major life transitions.
Faith + Counseling
Rooted in Christian faith, without assuming what you believe.
Joshua Tree Counseling is a Christian-rooted practice. However, you decide whether faith becomes part of your counseling.
Some people come to counseling specifically wanting their Christian faith to be part of the work. Others want excellent counseling without discussing faith at all. Both are welcome here.
Our counselors do not assume your beliefs or introduce Scripture, prayer, or spiritual practices unless you want them included. When faith matters to you, however, your counselor can integrate it naturally in a way that respects your goals, questions, and lived experience.
The Story Behind the Name
Joshua Tree began with a person, not a business plan.
Joshua Tree Counseling is named for Joshua Formo, whose life, suicide, and memory deeply shaped the heart of the practice.
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People can carry far more than anyone around them can see.
Joshua was friendly, curious, quick to help, and known for a laugh that could fill a room.
Many people saw his warmth and energy. Far fewer could see the pain he carried inside.
Joshua took his life in 2019. What was never healed on Earth was healed in heaven.
After his death, Rachel became determined to better understand the kind of suffering that can remain hidden even in people who are deeply loved.
Over time, that search shaped Rachel’s clinical work and the kind of practice Joshua Tree would become: a place built around curiosity, relationship, and taking seriously what may not be visible from the outside.
At Joshua’s memorial service, his family planted a tree in his honor. Later, when Rachel founded the practice in 2021, the name Joshua Tree felt right.
Joshua Tree carries his memory forward and reminds us to look beneath what is visible, take suffering seriously, and keep believing that healing is possible.
Behind Joshua Tree
A few of the faces that keep Joshua Tree human.
Joshua Tree is a collective of independent counselors. Behind the scenes, a few familiar faces also shape the day-to-day experience of the practice.
Founder + Counselor
Rachel Neville, LPC
Rachel founded Joshua Tree in 2021 and shaped the practice around something she believes matters deeply in therapy: finding someone you can actually be honest with.
She continues to work clinically with adults while guiding the larger vision, voice, and culture of Joshua Tree.
Meet Rachel
Practice Manager
Kelly Formo
Kelly handles many of the practical details that keep Joshua Tree moving. She is also often the first human you will hear from when you have a scheduling, billing, or getting-started question.
Meet Kelly
Therapy Dog
Henry
Gentle, slow-moving, and highly motivated by treats, Henry joins Rachel in sessions. Meanwhile, he contributes his own quiet version of hospitality to the office.
Meet HenryAnd, of course, Joshua Tree is much bigger than these three. Our counselors bring their own personalities, specialties, training, and ways of working to the collective.
Find Your Counselor
Find someone you think you could actually talk to.
Explore our counselors, learn how they work, and choose the person who feels like the right place to begin.