Therapists in Lopez Island, WA

I blend traditional, evidence-based practices with holistic practices, such as mindfulness, meditation, and yoga (and a touch of humor!), to guide you on a path toward self-healing and understanding. I specialize in helping you manage feelings of stress, depression, and anxiety. I also provide executive function, self-regulation, and social skills support related to ADHD, autism, and other related challenges. Along with patient care, I work with parents and caretakers of children with disabilities to help them overcome everyday challenges, navigate the intricacies of special education, and discuss how to best support their child.

I enjoy and am qualified to help individuals, couples, or families navigate life's challenges, whether personal, with a partner, family, or peers. You will find that I am respectful, personable, open, knowledgeable, and humorous in my sessions. All faiths, or lack thereof, are welcome. I am experienced with grief, loss, trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, bipolar, schizophrenia, autism, ODD, and OCD. My therapeutic approach involves collaborating with clients to identify and enlist their strengths or resources to improve their quality of life.

I am trained in talk therapy, Play Therapy, Sandtray Therapy, expressive art and TF-CBT to provide support to my clients. My people are children 3+, tweens, teens, adult individuals, and couples. I provide support to people from a variety of cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds and focus more on an individual than their diagnosis. I believe every human being deserves compassion, love and respect. I will hold your hand and join you on your journey of self compassion and peace. My motto is 'embrace your elements, attain your peace'.

I strive to help my clients build confidence to handle life challenges, self & social pressure, so that they can voice their concerns and continue to seek the support they need to overcome any obstacle long after they are done with counseling. Counseling is setup to help provide you with tools/ skills specific to your innate skills and strengths. We work collaboratively to identify environmental factors and your support system.

I enjoy working with a variety of people from all walks of life. Each person comes with their own set of strengths, accomplishments, challenges, mistakes, goals, ideas, and questions. I have worked with people who have dealt with anxiety, ADHD, depression, OCD, emotional abuse, trauma, relationship issues, stress, low self esteem, college struggles, and life transitions, among others. I have found great joy in helping my clients work on treatment goals to feel more confident, empowered, and self-aware. I have worked with adults 18 and over, children, adolescents, and couples.