Therapists in 98119

Taking the hardest step of asking for help is powerful. You don’t have to do it alone. As a Therapist, my goal is to help you honor all parts of your feelings. There is never a one size fits all solution. My focus ranges from strengths-based, client-centered, solution focused, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness practices and play therapy interventions.

We are living in very challenging times within this pandemic & this political administration. Our daily lives have been turned upside down with shelter-in-place, job loss or working from home, the threat of illness, and the loss of people we love. We have no choice except to adjust, but the stress, fear, anxiety, and grief that our bodies are holding is a lot. Whether the impacts for you are immediate or distant, we are all being effected. How we cope, process, and move through what's happening in our world, at home, and inside of us is essential to our overall wellbeing and survival.

I work with individuals that experience anxiety, depression and obsessive behaviors involving controlling or avoiding people and situations in attempts to manage what is happening inside of them, in which some people would call Codependency. I identify it as a learned behavior that we adapt over time to survive in response to really difficult life experiences. You may also struggle with other behaviors such as eating disorders and substance use that are also common in attempts to cope with Life's uncertainties, but they may be unsuccessful and unmanageably for you right now, and something still doesn't feel quite right.

How do you know it is time for therapy? You can't get traction. You have unmanageable stress. Relationships aren't working. You need different, but don't know what or how. You can't make changes stick. You need answers***Come explore your situation through a different lens and let's work to find REAL solutions. My approach is direct, honest, and curious. You are the expert in your life but I am there to support and shine the light on your path so you can create lifelong change, using all of the tools and resources available to you. The first step can be hard, but together, we'll walk, create insight, and empower you on your journey.

Dr. Sveund completed a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Antioch University Seattle. She is a licensed Mental Health Counselor, Art Therapist, and Registered EMDR clinician. Her warm and caring approach focuses on individual strengths, empowerment, and understanding the mind-in-body connection to help navigate trauma, illness, stress, and life transitions for adults, teens, and children. Dr. Sveund has a passion for health psychology and working with survivors of traumatic experiences. She provides guidance towards deeper insight and access to one's full potential using a trauma informed integrative approach.

Melissa A. Manix

I have learned that people can deeply disappoint you, and that your heart can be hopelessly broken. I have learned that marriages will turn stagnant and stale and that you will war within your body while no one else is looking. I have learned you will get dizzy from circling within your conflicted relationship with no signs of light at the end of the tunnel. I've learned that your marriage can come to be the place you feel most lost and alone. In my psychotherapy practice, we will start with where you are.

We specialize in comprehensive assessment and therapeutic intervention for children and families. We often work with children who have learning disorders (e.g., in reading, writing, or math), have ADHD, are gifted/highly capable, or are transitioning into college (e.g., accommodations for standardized testing and in class). Our practice is currently expanding to offer more therapy services for families and children. Please contact us if you would like to discuss therapy options directly with Dr. Casto.

There are a number of reasons people choose to seek out therapy: grief and loss, an unexpected crisis, or a difficult life transition just to name a few. But when you are dealing with increased stress or feeling "stuck," it can be even more difficult to manage life's challenges or utilize former ways of coping in an effective way. Whatever your reason for seeking out therapy, my goal is to create a safe, supportive space to explore existential questions, gain a fresh perspective, and build hope that change is possible.

My primary focus is treatment of children, adolescents, teens, and young adults. I work with a wide array of mental health concerns. Including, ADHD, self-harm, defiance, OCD, suicidality, self-harm, emotion regulation, depression, and anxiety. Majority of my career has been spent working in an emergency department and inpatient hospital setting. During this time, I worked with pediatric patients and their families to facilitate age appropriate de-escalation techniques and crisis intervention services. As an outpatient therapist, I combine these skills with additional therapeutic intervention to complete treatment goals.

You were created for connection and pleasure. Are your relationships nourishing or has life pulled them apart? So much of how we experience life fails to give us the skills we need to cultivate deeply attached relationships. Yet when our days are done, this will be what's most important. In the 25+ years I have been in practice, I have developed a way of working that strengthens and integrates the spiritual, sexual and emotional skills individuals & couples need to heal and experience the connections they crave. My institute (The Northwest Institute on Intimacy - NWIOI) has therapists trained in this life changing model.

As a trauma therapist, I believe that personal growth and transformation is vital to the human experience, and that sometimes we need support through this process. Therapy is embarking on a journey, and you are the hero of your story. In meeting with you where you are at in your journey, I will help you to develop your own set of skills to help you through your daily experiences. I also encourage approaching challenges with vulnerability and self-compassion and will assist in practicing these areas in our sessions. Even though painful experiences are inevitable, I believe that suffering does not have to hold us back from living.

I am a clinical psychologist dedicated to providing collaborative, empathetic, client-centered care. I strive to create a supportive, non-judgmental, compassionate space for exploration and here-and-now processing to improve one’s quality of life. While historically the field of psychology has embraced a disease model that emphasizes pathology and deficits, I emphasize a “strength-based” approach. In addition to symptom reduction, I am equally invested in building resilience, identifying and promoting strengths, and improving psychological well-being and values-congruent living.

People come to therapy when they are seeking support with problems that feel overwhelming, or when they have a sense that they are not living the life they want to live. Perhaps they are ready to step more powerfully into themselves. I work collaboratively with individuals & couples, walking alongside them as they seek new perspectives, helping them to re-examine old beliefs and approaches that may no longer be working. I offer new tools and strategies that can help create greater room for happiness, authenticity and a deeper sense of purpose and meaning.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in helping women, men, and couples struggling with relationship issues, sexual concerns, infertility, depression, and anxiety. I work to establish a place where people can disclose and focus on their most personal challenges openly and honestly. I view treatment as a compassionate and collaborative process. I work to help clients reach their goals by listening carefully to and understanding present concerns and problems. My therapeutic orientation is best described as integrative, drawing strongly from interpersonal, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral therapy modalities.

The best is yet to be! I strive to offer a positive atmosphere for real personal change. Helping people learn to manage and cope with emotions like, fear, frustration, sadness and worry is my specialty. Self defeating behavioral patterns that involve anger, phobias, procrastination, or poor impulse control can also be addressed. I assists individuals, couples, and families by providing skills-based counseling so they can live life more peacefully and productively.

I specialize in navigating and resolving emotional discomfort with individuals, families and adolescents. For over a decade I have worked with adults and families in transition, with military members and families, elderly people in crisis; and in-patient mental health settings. Contact me to see if we can collaborate to build emotional strength, and tackle concerns, patterns and experiences that prevent happiness and forward movement.

I work with individuals struggling with anxiety, grief, and the impact of trauma in their everyday lives. We are taught to disconnect from our bodies, and this can leave us anxious, numb, depressed, or at times unsure of our current direction. In working together, we can learn to listen to what is at the root of these feelings, care for the needs that are found there, and become more connected, whole-hearted beings. I am particularly passionate about seeking to understand sexual trauma, attachment/relationship issues, as well as general life anxiety and perfectionism.

I have no ideal person who might consult me. I try hard to avoid placing people in theories. What matters is the relationship I will have with you. In collaboration, we formulate the therapy goals and how best to achieve them. Each person brings his/her own entrenched detrimental beliefs, that have blocked achieving such complex goals as satisfaction in love and in work. In therapy, I expect those beliefs to be tested. Where I intervene has more to do with fostering resilience, and with the challenging of fears/anxieties that often accompany the sense of incapacity and isolation.

My style is warm, genuine and open. Together we will learn to listen to your inner and outer experience in order to better understand, and attend to, your unspoken needs, injuries, fears, and uncertainties. I work with individuals and couples experiencing anxiety, trauma, depression, relationship issues, relationship breakup, career and workplace issues, life transitions, abandonment, co-dependency, and loss and grief.