Therapists in 98110

You know what over 20 years experience teaches me? Life can get better, starting today. Even after trauma, loss, or hopelessness. Even if you're anxious or think you've lost your way. Or if you're just ready for more! We all miss our best and brightest selves sometimes: the self who knows peace, strength, and connection. They're still in there! I combine the best of neuropsychology, energy work, and respect into a collaborative practice that brings your brightest self back and creates the habits to keep them. We'll attend to the body-mind-spirit and show you: you already have everything you need.

My passion is helping clients rediscover their true potentials and bring joy back into their lives. I follow a strengths-based model of practice while utilizing a combination of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral techniques. Essentially, I believe in a holistic approach, in that all of our experiences (physical, emotional, spiritual, and social) are integral in our unique compositions. Our early experiences often show up in our current lives, and can manifest themselves in a myriad of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. I value the interaction with my clients and believe in empowering clients by direct participation in the therapeutic process.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist with training from the University of Washington School of Medicine and Utah State University. I offer individual, couples, and family psychotherapy for issues related to depression, anxiety, health concerns, grief, and/or adjustment difficulties due to life changes. I have worked with many successful professionals who require the services of a highly trained doctoral level provider.

Are you bright, curious and know the depth that resides within you deep inside? Are you feeling depressed or anxious or a sense of loss or trauma from life not going as planned? Is your relationship or job suffering? Are you feeling parental moodiness or crankiness? Are you grieving a life that was? If so, I can help you! Together, we can create concrete plans to live more positively and carve a pathway of hope! If you are wholeheartedly interested in investing in your well-being right now, contact me! Together, we’ll explore how to get to a place where your self-doubt, worry and stress no longer run your life.

I am interested in the meanings that you make from your life experiences and the influence that these have on your perspectives of yourself, your relationships, and your future. I find that viewing problems as separate from personhood helps to lessen feelings of guilt and shame so that we can work together in a collaborative environment. My training in family systems theory informs my view of people in the context of their relationships, environment, and culture. I consider it a privilege to work with people to bring about the changes they desire in their lives and relationships.

As a Clinical Psychologist with 30+ years of experience, I strive to help you find pathways to enjoy your life, feel more deeply connected to others, and to enhance your sense of meaning in life. My goal is to help you find ways to better cope with the difficulties that bring you to therapy and make healthy changes that enhance the quality of your life. I provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions in a warm, supportive, and professional therapeutic environment. My approach is collaborative and tailored to the personal history and present goals of each of my clients.

Every human enters this world as a whole and complete being. As we navigate through modern society, we often find ourselves drifting away from our natural state of wholeness, resulting in challenging emotions and varying degrees of personal and relational distress. I take a holistic approach to therapy, supporting my clients as they rediscover themselves and their intrinsic wholeness. I work with couples and families from an attachment-based perspective, aiding in the development of safety and effective communication. I believe that the possibility for healing is endless within the context of a secure relationship.

Are you standing on the threshold of a heartbreaking or unimaginable tragedy? It could be a midlife transition, a death, an empty nest, a divorce, a different unspeakable loss, or even a gnawing pain that haunts you from the past that you don't know how to shake. Despite how good you are at "holding it together," I understand how exhausting & painful it can be to navigate loss. I've been in this place before too, & I want you to know that hope is waiting for you even if you feel breathless, broken, or lost. My work is all about helping you claim your precious life despite the pain & maybe even because of it!

You may hear a calling to forge a new path toward a more meaningful life, one free of old patterns that no longer serve you or your relationships. The calling inspires you to go deeper within. You long to live life more fully with greater aliveness, creativity, and life purpose.

I work with career professionals, adults, couples and teenagers who are experiencing difficulty in the office, at home or at school. I work with clients whose life experience is impacted by: trauma, relationships issues, midlife, leaving home, relocating, job loss, grief, anxiety, depression, culture shock or other significant life events including simply feeling stuck or at a loss. I bring over 30 years of professional and personal development to my work with individuals, families, adolescents, and couples. I hold a safe, secure, non-judgmental space in which to explore emotions, behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.

As a LMFT, I treat individuals, children, adolescents, couples, and families with concerns including anxiety, depression, attachment and relational difficulties, anger management, trauma, identity issues, and gender questioning. I utilize an integrative, collaborative, systemic, humanistic, emotionally-focused perspective to help clients work through conflict, life transitions, blended families, grief, and loss. I use evidenced-based like CBT+. Also, Somatic Transformation and Lifespan Integration to help clients with trauma. Additionally, I am an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and a Washington State Supervisor offering supervision.

As a client-centered professional, I recognize the strength necessary for an individual to take the first step through the counselor's open door. Through trusting and empathetic positive relationship building, I join my clients in the exploration of a healthier, self-accepting perspective in addressing the challenging components of their life experience. All areas of my practice focus upon acceptance and healthy management of personal questions through the discovery of an enhanced understanding, within a positive environment, which utilizes personal strengths to contribute to a happier, self satisfying life experience. Come take this walk with me...

"The journey we are on takes us in all different directions, testing us at every turn. There is help and hope. I have been honored to hear people's stories at various points of their journey; witnessing, observing, supporting, empathizing, listening and reflecting. Through hearing their stories, I have learned how fragile the human condition is, and at the same time, the empowering strengths and resiliency each one intrinsically has in adapting and surviving the difficulties put before them."