LifeWise Therapists in Bainbridge Island, WA

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.

You know what over 20 years experience teaches me? Life can get better, starting today. Even after trauma, loss, or hopelessness. Even if you're anxious or think you've lost your way. Or if you're just ready for more! We all miss our best and brightest selves sometimes: the self who knows peace, strength, and connection. They're still in there! I combine the best of neuropsychology, energy work, and respect into a collaborative practice that brings your brightest self back and creates the habits to keep them. We'll attend to the body-mind-spirit and show you: you already have everything you need.

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!

Every human enters this world as a whole and complete being. As we navigate through modern society, we often find ourselves drifting away from our natural state of wholeness, resulting in challenging emotions and varying degrees of personal and relational distress. I take a holistic approach to therapy, supporting my clients as they rediscover themselves and their intrinsic wholeness. I work with couples and families from an attachment-based perspective, aiding in the development of safety and effective communication. I believe that the possibility for healing is endless within the context of a secure relationship.

I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (Washington State and New Mexico), Nationally Certified School Psychologist, Prescribing Psychologist (New Mexico Only). I am an Affiliate Faculty in the PsyD Clinical Psychology Program at Antioch University, Seattle. My private practice (Lifespan Psychological Services, PS) is located on Bainbridge Island, WA. I am also contracted, as a prescribing psychologist, with the Family Medicine Center at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, NM.

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.

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 am a licensed clinical psychologist with training from the University of Washington School of Medicine and Utah State University. I offer individual, couples, and family psychotherapy for issues related to depression, anxiety, health concerns, grief, and/or adjustment difficulties due to life changes. I have worked with many successful professionals who require the services of a highly trained doctoral level provider.

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.

Sometimes clients who reach out to me are struggling with identifiable issues - depression, anxiety, addictions, stress, grief, life transitions, or illness. Sometimes they're couples grappling with the fallout of infidelity or suffering from a loss of intimacy. And sometimes new clients don't even know what the problem is. They just know something isn't working. I've been practicing for over thirty years, helping individuals and couples gain a deeper understanding of themselves and each other so they can live whole-heartedly and in the present.

My counseling approach is to first help you clarify your presenting problems from an integrated mind-body-spirit-environment perspective. I utilize mindfulness to help you to develop clarity in the present moment, and with depth psychology, psychodynamic, EMDR, art therapy, Jungian psychology, and focusing-oriented psychotherapy to help you explore and embrace your, SELF, inner wisdom, and unconscious awareness for healing. Through processing unhealed wounds in the past, we can unveil the authentic SELF, and finding life meanings to journey on.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist trained to provide psychological assessment and therapy for individuals struggling with chemical dependency, co-occurring disorders, mood disorders, neurocognitive impairment, learning disabilities, eating disorders, trauma, and adjustment disorders. I utilize empirically-supported testing and clinical interviewing techniques to provide thorough psychological assessments and differential diagnoses. My treatment approach is grounded in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. I use evidence-based mindfulness exercises, cognitive-behavior therapy, and biofeedback training to help clients gain increasing awareness of their vulnerabilities and strengths. Clients change by learning to monitor and redirect dysfunctional thoughts before they manifest into undesirable behavior.