Therapists in Richland, WA

I take a Solution Focused approach to guide clients to find solutions on life or personal issues they are struggling with. I work with the client at a pace they are comfortable with to resolve past, present, or future issues of concern. I utilize a variety of theoretical tools that best fit the client’s needs in session. I serve children, adolescents, adults, and elder populations.

As a dual diagnosis/co-occurring psychotherapist, (licensed mental health counselor and licensed substance use disorder professional) my goal is to help you uncover your true potential and lead a life that is worth celebrating. While we can't change difficult situations of the past, we can work together to better understand and resolve challenges. By applying specific therapeutic approaches and techniques, we will unearth long-standing behavior patterns or negative perceptions that may be holding you back from experiencing a more fulfilling and meaningful life and incorporate healthy coping skills.

Do you feel stuck? Repeating the same patterns, no matter what you do? Struggling to just get by, let alone flourish? Are you experiencing fractured relationships, unhealthy boundaries, and a harsh inner critic? Do you find yourself in the shadow of depression, the grip of anxiety, and lingering trauma? If so, it’s time for a change. The journey toward hope, healing, and a sense of control starts with a single step.

We have availability! Actualize Psylutions, Dr. Ted Carroll and Associates: a unique in-person (office) and teletherapy (online) agency. Through various therapies, sometimes utilizing horses and other animals, we specialize in uncovering your potential for wholeness by combining solution-focused, mindfulness-based, psychoanalytic, and transpersonal methods. We offer counseling therapy services for individuals, couples, families, adults, and youth. + If you are an Associate-level counselor seeking supervision in WA, contact us for options.

I am here to help YOU find YOU on this courageous journey of self discovery. Together we can approach your mental health, destructive behaviors, unexpected challenges, and difficult transitions with compassion and hope. We will work to find new solutions to your problems, rediscover a meaningful life, communicate more effectively, and strengthen your connections with others. I believe everyone has the internal resources to walk this path and access deep and lasting change.

Authentic living can be difficult. Life's paths often do not warn of the hardships that lay ahead. Building a trusting relationship with you and creating an environment that you can explore your hardships is paramount to me. Whether you are an individual or a couple, I strive to bring to light the problematic behaviors and thought patterns that interfere in your life, in order to help you make choices that promote a more congruent and authentic living experience. Theoretically, I am psychodynamically driven with strong ties to cognitive therapies but use a variety of techniques to meet your needs.

I love my job! I am user-friendly in your difficult time. I specialize in clients experiencing trauma disorders and symptoms related to trauma, including substance use issues. I invest in the sacred trust relationship between client and therapist and provide a non-judgemental, caring, empathetic, safe place where I believe all my clients are capable of solving their own wellness issues by utilizing the tools and experience I bring to them to assist them in building their own solutions. I understand each client is doing the best they can with the tools they have and truly wants to improve their quality of life.

Therapy is about change. In my work with clients, we often identify coping mechanisms and habits which could be modified, tweaked, or replaced to bring about positive changes in our lives. I believe you are the expert of your own life so I am honored to connect with you and help you garner the strength and insight to live your most meaningful life.

Let me use my many years of experience working with clients to help you through lifes most difficult and challenging events. I use different forms of therapy depending on the need of my client. I can help with a variety of problems such as trauma, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.

My caring knowledge as an esteemed therapist is that I am committed to guide clients to realize their greatest potential, I will lead you on a transforming journey toward self-discovery and personal improvement. I provide my clients with a secure and caring environment in which they can explore their inner worlds and deal with life's issues by combining evidence-based therapeutic techniques with a warm, compassionate, and trauma informed approach.

I counsel my clients to overcome relationship challenges, depressions, anxieties, and to cure their own struggles with an unhelpful past. I implement evidence based practices such as EMDR and CBT to help clients to have happier lives, transform their work and personal situations, and reach goals that may have once only been a dream. My mission is basically to help people find a way out, get to a better place, and stay there. I am highly trained for working with both couples and individuals. Understanding your goals and helping you get there are my specialities. All this can be accomplished through you actively working with me.

Life has its up and downs and navigating through it alone can feel isolating but with help from a clinician and support from family and friends you can find ways to cope in a more functional and positive way. I provide a safe, nonjudgmental, client centered, culturally sensitive, humanistic, psycho dynamic, multi perspective, and integrative approach. I come from a diverse background which helps me understand many people from various cultures and dynamics. It derives from the realization that each individual's journey is unique.

Anxious? Depressed? Irritated? Unfulfilled? Tired? Moody? Relationships problems? Work issues? Life got you down? You want to feel better, function better, see things from a new perspective, unload, get refreshed and be renewed.

Relationship with others is a primary motivating force in our lives, it is a basic need we all seek to meet in different ways. Non-judgmental collaboration with clients to help discover the emotional patterns in their lives and relationships that can cause and/or maintain distress, with the goal of creating more adaptive and fulfilling responses, is the main focus of the work we do. We will team up to identify the needs underlying your emotions and thoughts and we will work to find clearer and more authentic ways of communicating those needs so that they can finally be met.

A central focus of my theory and practice is to help my patients recover a sense of freedom and choice in relationship to others and to the self. Being able to live fully, in spite of your circumstances, is possible. The work we do together will be to explore your thoughts, feelings, and experiences to discover what kind of life you wish to have, and what has prevented you from living fully, whether it be unrecovered/unresolved loss, trauma, or wounds that won't heal.

Let me assist you on your therapeutic healing journey. I can help with finding your pathway to freedom in expression and helping to resolve patterns that keep us from living the life we deserve and desire. I am a person-centered therapist that pulls from many different approaches to meet you where you need to be met. I do believe that the relationship we create in therapy is the foundation for all transformation that will occur. I would feel very privileged to be witness and hold the space for your healing. I look forward to speaking to you soon.