Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Therapists in Lynden, WA

With deep commitment to inclusivity, I am here to support you on your path of self-discovery and personal growth. I specialize in providing guidance for those navigating dissociative disorders, as well as assisting individuals facing challenges related to transgender, non-binary, and gender-fluid identities. Recognizing the profound impact that trauma can have on mental well-being, I offer trauma-informed counseling. I am skilled in providing a safe space for you to process and heal from past traumatic experiences. Drawing upon Internal Family Systems (IFS), I will guide you towards healing, resilience, and a renewed sense of hope.

I want your therapy experience to be a safe place to explore your life, your problems, and your dreams. Thoreau's quotation says it for me: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Your issues may be small or large. My commitment to you is to respect you as an individual and to really listen to you.

We offer a full spectrum of parenting and family support for all types of families. We believe that healthy families create strong communities and with the right support, families, children and their communities can thrive. Parenting and marriage doesn’t come with an instruction book, but our experienced and professional, outcomes-based support professionals can be by your side to meet you right where you are at on your journey. We have a diverse, but small group of licensed mental health professionals and family support specialists to help you every step of the way.

Gaia Wellness Center offers counseling for presenting issues and challenges that individuals, relationships, and families are experiencing. Please contact us today to see how we might be helpful to you.

Victor H. Plucy has been in practice for 35 years. During that time he has seen a wide range of clients and is skilled with anxiety, depression, transitions, marriage/ relationships; and his orientation addresses spiritual needs. He is passionate about helping clients live meaningful lives. Sub-specialties include sleep disorders, weight management and sports psychology. Victor relies heavily on building trust-filled counseling relationships in order to pursue the kinds of challenges that clients experience and combines that with client centered/solution-based psychotherapy.

It takes so much courage to search for a therapist and reach out for help. Just by looking at this website, you are already taking steps towards something better. You can stop automatically reacting to thoughts, feelings, and sensations in ways that seem to only make things worse, like shutting down or exploding. Together, we can make space for tough feelings and discover how to live with meaning, purpose, and intentional action. I specialize in treating mood disorders, chronic pain, health issues and SSRDs, stress management (including professional and/or parenting stress), and prolonged grief disorder.

Our clients have not had complete recovery with traditional mental health treatment. We offer Ketamine Infusions with wave-paths Psychedelic program and integration coaching. Collaboration with any client therapist or provider who has an interest is welcomed.

This is your journey into the world of developing insight and awareness, or for accessing the parts of you that will help you feel more successful (as defined by you) in your everyday life. My goal is to understand you; how you think, feel, and learn so I can facilitate self-awareness, and enhance your understanding of yourself. We will take the journey together, no matter what the starting point. We will move forward at your pace and with your consent.

Throughout my 20+ years of providing therapy, my focus has increasingly been on supporting clients in realizing their potential. Each of us has a purpose: a gift we can offer to others that is unique to us. Attempting to emulate someone else robs the world of you. Minimizing the influence others have on you is essential to reaching your optimum capacity. Actively listening to others’ feedback while maintaining your reality is paramount to becoming an authentic adult.

When we live our lives in a state of constant fight-or-flight, we can go into survival mode. Worries, phobias, panic attacks, trauma, obsessive thoughts, avoidant behavior, and/or repetitive/compulsive behaviors can make us feel hopeless and helpless. We can find ourselves overthinking, overanalyzing, and feeling powerless. If you're feeling like life hasn't been moving in a positive direction, find yourself in a state of hypervigilence due to trauma and/or frozen by fears and uncertainty, you CAN find your way out - sometimes we just need some extra support to do so.

Accepting new clients. "While we all move through similar spectrums of emotions and experience similar battles with attachment and old patterns, we all have unique conditioning that sets us apart from each other. No two people have traveled the same journey. And we each have our own emotional history that we have to traverse when we start our healing. Since each individual has their own conditioning, how one person heals is not how all people heal." (Yung Pueblo, Lighter 2022) As a therapist, I hope to create and hold a place where clients can feel safe to do the work they desire to move closer to the life they would like to live.

I have experience working with individuals and families, and offer skill building and process oriented sessions. I have specialized training in the treatment of eating disorders, and those struggling with body image/self acceptance. I also specialize in the treatment of anxiety, anger management, ADHD, OCD, depression, trauma, parent/child conflict, mood disorders, self-harm, and suicidal ideation. My hope is for each of my clients to leave our session feeling heard and knowing that their experience and struggle is valid.