Therapists in 98104

I'm Dr. Julie Kinn, a licensed clinical and research psychologist who specializes in treatment of anxiety, OCD, intimacy, and sleep disorders using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure & response prevention (ERP), and motivational interviewing. I serve individuals age 13 and up in: Washington, Texas, Maine, and Utah. I am known for my sense of humor and my research on health technology. I have worked with adults, children, teens, and their families since 2000. I am sex-positive, encouraging, and warm in every interaction.

I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist treating individuals, couples and families with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, relationship issues, sexual concerns and career challenges. I work to establish a place where people can disclose and pursue their most personal challenges openly and truthfully. Therapy is a kind of 'second chance', an opportunity to 'correct' behaviors that may have been necessary in the past.

Everyone experiences anxiety, depression, and loss at sometime in their life. Often events and people happen in our lives that cause distress. No one deserves to be in pain and no one should have to endure when there is the possibility to reduce the pain. My goal is to help my clients find relief through self exploration and a desire to want to feel better. My job is to walk with my clients in their path to mindfulness. My goal is to provide a safe space for emotions to be expressed and validated without judgment. Together we will identify patterns and triggers, and create skills to reduce future emotional distress.

Abrupt life changes, relationship stress, and traumas can leave us feeling disconnected and overwhelmed. It’s a brave move to reach out for help and I am here to offer compassion, collaboration, and empowerment. I am LGBTQIA+ and ENM affirming and pull from feminist theory and its framing of oppression as a contributor to personal struggle. My expertise includes adjustment to life transitions, family trauma, complex PTSD, and addiction issues.

I provide an opportunity for individuals, couples, and/or families to tell and shape their stories using verbal and visual means. Creativity is not only an emotional outlet, it also provides a window into other parts of our selves and has the power to create profound change.

I believe in the importance of feeling connected in relationships, to our environment, and to ourselves. Addressing the “here and now” that arises during therapy allows our sessions to adapt and work with the difficult emotions or thoughts that come up, in an environment that is judgment free and safe. I specialize in working with those who are experiencing anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, trauma, life transitions, self-esteem issues, grief and chronic pain, among other issues. I am LGBTQIA+, gender-affirming, and enjoy working with clients along the spectrum of neurodiversity and disability.

Have you been seeking greater calm, clarity, and centeredness? Are you carrying deep traumas or stresses that continually hinder you from living life to the fullest? If so, I want to assure you that you are not alone. Seeking help takes courage, and I want you to feel at ease throughout the process. Whether you are dealing with trauma, PTSD, C-PTSD, panic, anxiety, grief, depression, or relational issues, my approach is individualized, inclusive, and strengths-based. Every step of the way, I want you to feel deeply seen, heard, and empowered.

I offer individual and group Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Training for adults ages 18 and up. New group members are accepted each week, and the commitment is for one month of treatment. This is an ideal space to learn effective coping skills and practice applying them with like-minded individuals.

I specialize in cognitive-behavioral therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy for anxiety, depression, and trauma. I have an extensive background providing services for young adults, families and individual therapy. I believe in emotional, mental and physical wellness through holistic healing.

My clients are typically adolescents and young adults struggling with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, disordered eating, self-injury, suicidal ideation, substance use, or trauma. I focus on helping my clients identify and achieve their personal goals to improve their daily functioning and overall well-being.

I believe in the importance of providing a therapeutic environment that is safe, supportive and non-judgmental. As a therapist, I am actively involved helping clients explore issues to gain insight, identify strengths, and learn effective coping skills. Additionally, I work to be genuine, accepting and empathic, because my experience has been clients are more successful with making healthy changes when these factors are present. I work with a range of clinical issues including depression, anxiety, chronic pain, relationship difficulties and addiction. I am experienced working with diverse ethnic, racial, and socio-economic clients.

I help athletes who struggle with anxiety, perfectionism and overthinking. If you have a hard time letting go of mistakes, overwhelming anxiety and feel like you can never do enough (both in your sport and life), I hear you. I also see a lot of clients who struggle w/ body image and their relationship to food. Struggling with anxiety can be overwhelming, exhausting and make life (on and off the court) so much harder than it needs to be. If you want to improve you relationship to yourself and to others and see what your performance can be like without negative or anxious thoughts constantly swirling, I am here to help.

I assist clients in building skills and acquiring tools to align their life with their values and vision. I help clients identify their own strengths and wisdom to effectively face life's challenges, achieve goals and create lasting changes. I consider the social and cultural factors that impact each person's ways of being, how they are treated in this world, and how they adapt to difficult experiences. I offer a collaborative, non-judgmental, creative and hopeful space that is conducive to self-exploration and transformation.

You're struggling with past traumas. Maybe you don't even realize that a lot of your frustration, anxiety and depression and current struggles are linked to past traumas. It can be overwhelming dealing with intense emotions and identify the why behind it to change your life. I would love to work with you and address some of the emotions and struggles that you have been dealing with. Have there been some past events in your life that have fundamentally changed you as a person?

It feels like you’ve lost everything. Morning no longer holds the promise of a new day, only the weight of unspeakable sadness. This is just the way life is now. The mail is piling up. Work deadlines are coming and going. Food has no taste, and everything that once seemed so important feels meaningless. Everyone else has moved on, but you're still stuck in that moment when your whole world ended. You can’t move on because you can’t imagine living without that love. And moving on would mean giving up that last remaining connection to the life you had. But, at the same time, you know you can't go on this way either. You feel trapped.

My patients are usually hard working adults who have run into some tough times or are experiencing difficult emotional issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and addictions. I focus on using a strengths-based and harm reduction approach, which views each person as an individual with unique strengths and challenges. Using this approach values the person and facilitates a customized treatment plan for the individual. My role is not to judge you or your behaviors, but to act as an independent consultant for improving your mental well-being and quality of life.

Life can be isolating at times. This is especially true when you add in ADHD, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, chronic illness, and Queerness, cultural, and relationship issues. We hold so many identities and struggles that influence who we are and how we move through our place in the world. It is essential to find yourself among those identities and move into the whole version of yourself that finds comfort in the here and now. This includes finding your community and support through all that life throws at us. As a therapist, I move through sessions with a person-centered, feminist, and multicultural lens.

Therapy-curious, therapy-jaded, therapy-fans: I am here for you. If you're a caring professional dealing with exhaustion or burnout, I see you. If you're an international student or immigrant in the U.S. trying to figure out ways to thrive, I bring a deep understanding of migration (especially visa-related stress), cross-cultural living and life pressures. Visit my website to schedule your first 60-minute session!

Maybe you're tired of suffering from being bossed around by OCD or anxiety. Perhaps you’re in a painful life transition and feeling uncertain, afraid, or lost. I’m glad you’re here. If you feel hopeless, I believe things can get much better, one step at a time. Although it sure can feel this way, rather than viewing OCD or anxiety as a monster trying to torture us, I see it as a hypervigilant alert system whose aim is to keep us safe at all costs. Retraining that alert system can help us get unstuck, heal, and thrive. I never claim to have the answers for anyone’s life, but I love helping people find answers within themselves.