Anger Management Therapists in Bainbridge Island, WA

As a child, adolescent, and adult therapist, I customize treatment to clients of all ages and all walks of life. The art and science of counseling is one of listening, reflecting, teaching, and learning. It is a process of co-creation where individual differences and unique challenges to the human experience are valued. You will find my twenty years of experience as a therapist useful in assisting you to move through such experiences as family transitions, trauma, anxiety, depression, and other issues. I seek to help you find resolution to challenges your are facing in your life.

As a LMFT, I treat individuals, children, adolescents, couples, and families with concerns including anxiety, depression, attachment and relational difficulties, anger management , trauma, identity issues, and gender questioning. I utilize an integrative, collaborative, systemic, humanistic, emotionally-focused perspective to help clients work through conflict, life transitions, blended families, grief, and loss. I use evidenced-based like CBT+. Also, Somatic Transformation and Lifespan Integration to help clients with trauma. Additionally, I am an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and a Washington State Supervisor offering supervision.

I work with adults and couples and have experience working with a wide range of issues. We’ll talk about what’s important for you and what goals you have for therapy, and this will guide our work together. I am interested in learning more about how individuals become able to access parts of themselves that can be open to growth and change. When I work with couples I try to understand what is preventing growth in their relationship and to facilitate an atmosphere for new growth and new ways of being with each other.

I work in an impactful and caring manner helping individuals, couples and families who are experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship issues, life transitions, career challenges, parenting support, sexual concerns, and changing families including separation, divorce and blended families. Additionally, I specialize in helping children and adolescents who are having difficulty in school, with peer relationships and experiencing loss and changing family dynamics. I use a holistic and client centered approach; working together to co-create greater insight, wholeness, self awareness and understanding and increased emotional health. My work includes the use of cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, insight, and solution focused approaches.

I welcome you to taking the first step to supporting your individual/couple/family mental/emotional needs. It is a huge step and I am here to support you in your therapeutic process. I am bilingual (English/Spanish) LMFT in the state of CA & WA. I have extensive knowledge, training, and experience working with children, adults, families, and couples on a broad range of issues particularly trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and family conflict. I also provide immigration evaluations.

I counsel children, teens and their parents, as well as adults and couples who are experiencing a wide range of psychological and relationship difficulties due to parent child conflict, major life transitions, grief and loss and recent or historic trauma. My approach is systemic, meaning that I try to understand human problems in terms of the complex set of psychological and social systems in which they are embedded - family, social, cultural, educational and emotional experiences. I have specialized training and experience in treating anxiety and depression and trauma/PTSD using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

I provide a safe, supportive environment for you to explore the areas in your life in which you are struggling. We all have challenges, and, at some point, we are ready to experience lasting change and healing. Seeking help takes courage and commitment but can lead to a more meaningful life and overall well being. My approach is based on genuine compassion, understanding and mutual respect. I have over 20 years of experience in the mental health field and would love to help you discover your personal strengths and resources, regaining your inherent vitality for life!

I work with career professionals, adults, couples and teenagers who are experiencing difficulty in the office, at home or at school. I work with clients whose life experience is impacted by: trauma, relationships issues, midlife, leaving home, relocating, job loss, grief, anxiety, depression, culture shock or other significant life events including simply feeling stuck or at a loss. I bring over 30 years of professional and personal development to my work with individuals, families, adolescents, and couples. I hold a safe, secure, non-judgmental space in which to explore emotions, behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.

My professional orientation is very eclectic. I combine a Jungian philosophy with CBT and DBT interventions with a client centered approach that involves a caring and insightful focus on self, others and community. My intention is to collaborate fully with each individual and to assist him or her in changing the trajectory of his or her life in a positive way. I view self discovery as an essential part of our unfolding experience together and value our time together. To become an agent of change in one's own life takes tremendous courage and strength; I can help facilitate this.

Human beings are born with a desire to be seen, cherished, nurtured, witnessed, engaged, and comforted. People crave connection with one another, relationships fall short, hearts get broken, and our most genuine selves are buried beneath layers meant to defend against further wounding. My passion is helping people find healing and joy after surviving significant disappointment and trauma. I offer clients an invitation to grieve and to challenge defense mechanisms that undermine healthy relationship to self and others. I provide a safe and calm space in which therapeutic integration leads to wholeness and health.

Counseling provides a safe place to explore beliefs, thoughts, emotions and patterns of behavior interfering with functioning and well being. Emphasis is solution focused to improve quality of life. Specific training over the last 13 years has included suicidal thoughts, self harm, adolescent and teen transitions, pregnancy, postpartum transitions and depression, chronic trauma/invalidation and its effect on the individual throughout the lifespan. CBT, DBT skills and developmental theory influence my interventions.

Hi y'all, I am honored you are taking steps toward empowering yourself! Suffering is an inherent part of life. Hardships in isolation, in aloneness or toxic relations, forms habitual patterns of trauma that can degrade our potential for living and loving. Yet when supported in holistic and compassionate relationships, our past pains have the potential to become present healings. Our trauma responses become wisdom to learn from, and our relationships become integrative dances of healing self and others. Together we can create a therapeutic relationship to unlearn traumatic patterns, empowering a thriving and flourishing life for you.

Glyn Deputy, M.Ed, LMHC, brings a keen awareness of both the necessities and subtleties of surviving our human condition and reaching one’s full potential to his clients at the Poulsbo office. Glyn has worked with generational family issues in rural and frontier communities, has assisted students with all types of disability in pursuing higher education, and has gained exceptional skills in mental health and substance abuse diagnosis and treatment, having broad experience in community mental health services.

I provide support for anyone experiencing any form of distress, depression, or anxiety. This is often expressed as unhappiness with your life, work, or relationships. Overarching my approach is an interest in the creation of meaning. How do you make sense of your experience? What do you want? How do you navigate life’s challenges and build reserves of flexibility and adaptability? Together we can explore these questions of purpose and direction to create new pathways. In addition to working with individuals; I am also a trained mediator and enjoy working with couples and family members on relationship issues.

Lucy Banic, LMHCA, was initially trained and educated in British Columbia, Canada, and has been a mental health counselor in Washington state since 2017. She earned her BA in Psychology from Simon Fraser University in 2010, and then her MA in Clinical Counseling at City University, Seattle, Washington, in 2014. Lucy has received advanced training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) through Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress, as well as has experience in using components of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), narrative therapy, emotion-focused, and expressive art therapy techniques.

NOTE: client names were necessarily changed for confidentiality: "Dr. Danny sees the true issues with more insight than most." --- Tammy (professional teen girl advocate and club founder); "Dr. Danny has a keen understanding about the hidden struggles of people." --- Brent (therapist/counselor); "Dr. Danny's willingness to be real is refreshing!" --- Liz (wife, mother); "Without gimmicks or cliches, Dr. Danny fosters and facilitates a very safe space to know healing and freedom...to talk about what, before, could not be said out loud." --- Mike (minister)

Do you feel stuck, suffocated, or misunderstood? Or do you feel confused and unsure what is next for you? You are not alone. I work with clients who experience a wide range of mental health challenges. As your therapist, we will work together to meet your mental health goals. I thoroughly believe that connecting with clients, building safe spaces, and developing a mutual sense of trust are the first steps to success.

Do you feel unbalanced and overwhelmed? Feeling trapped by your own life? Sometimes people and life expect more and more out of us, leaving nothing for us but a full schedule and an empty life. You may also fear expressing our emotions because you're not sure what will happen if you do. Whether it’s problems with work, home life, a relationship, chronic illness or a specific event like a major transition, accident, or sudden death, I can help by providing a safe place for you to open up and feel heard.

I welcome you to heal and grow from past/present stressful situations in a professional, emphatic and validating therapeutic environment. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Wellness Counseling Inc. with 12 years of experience working with individuals, couples and families. I am English-Spanish bilingual.

Hello! Through Sapphire Empowerment’s private sessions and classes, I offer healing and mindset training to help people clear blocks to optimal health, happiness and success. The processes are based on an accurate premise of our powerful ability to transform our lives and uplift others as we learn. With my support, you’ll move quickly towards your goals with a lighter mental and emotional load. Most of us did not learn these processes – in fact we were socialized to replace our wise inner voice with external approval. Not to worry re-connecting is a simple process.