Child Therapists in Bellingham, WA

I have immediate openings available! If your family is going through challenges or transitions, you’re not alone. I'm available to support your family where you are. I work exclusively with adult parents and their child - birth to age eight. I serve biological, adoptive, foster, and kinship arrangements. This is my specialty and passion. I provide a climate of safety where you can feel comfortable to explore new ways of interacting with yourself and others. I offer evidenced-based methods to promote connection and boundaries within family relationships.

Accepting New Clients... Life can take us on an unexpected journey. Sometimes, that leaves us feeling out of control and overwhelmed. Do you find yourself wishing things could get “back to normal”? Feelings of loneliness, anxiety, and depression are normal when we’ve experienced trauma, loss, or even a major life transition, but difficult experiences don’t define who we are. I have worked with children and families in a variety of settings and have several years of experience working with children who have experienced trauma. I believe that healing is possible.

My belief is that each person is uniquely capable of transforming their lives with the right kind of support. The way that we handle life stressors, how we view our past and how we enact change are always evolving. I’m here to partner with you through that process using a strengths based, mindful approach that examines what’s working for you and what needs adjusting. If you are experiencing grief, my goal is to help you and/or your child integrate the reality of your loss into your daily lives in a healthy, meaningful way.

I am passionate about helping people make sense of their lives in complicated times. I am an actively involved psychotherapist. I believe in developing a strongly collaborative relationship. With mutual curiosity, we can explore meaningful ways to find relief and make lasting, positive changes. I do psychotherapy with children , teens, families, and adults in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and in Japanese. I also do psychological evaluations for Attention Deficit Disorder.

Therapy helps us find a way to live in the world authentically and wholeheartedly. Are you looking for ways to alleviate negative thinking, behaviors or beliefs? Would you like to learn your personal boundaries and implement changes to empower yourself in relationships? Counseling offers an opportunity to learn positive ways to respond to life's challenges, to understand and change self-defeating behavior patterns and build a more balanced, meaningful and rewarding life. Everyone has the potential to improve, make positive changes, and deepen their relationship with their self.

I embrace the theory that people are not defined by their problems, but their problems are external of them. Through this strength-based approach, I believe a person can be empowered to take control of their life. By exploring one's psychology, culture, system, and spirituality I believe one will find the strength within themselves to change.

My approach is person-centered, relationally-based, and narrative. I work with a wide variety of clientele, but some of my strengths include working with children and families, working with men, and integrating culture and spirituality, especially Christian spirituality, into the treatment plan, if desired.

Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual. When you are ready for professional partnership in your journey, I am here to meet you right where you are at and support you through the other side. Life CAN get easier with the right tools and support. I enjoy working with a variety of people and challenges, especially empowering young women (ages 13-25).

Welcome! Counseling begins with safety, support, empathy, and trust. Perhaps we seek a non-judgmental ear that will listen, connection to our personal strengths, or an approach such as EMDR, DBT, CBT, or coping skills. I draw from multiple approaches so that therapy is collaborative and customized to meet your unique needs, hopes, and goals. I am trained in EMDR, an effective approach in healing from trauma. Helping youth of all genders is one of my specialties and I dedicate part of my practice to kids, tweens, and teens. I happily work with adults too. I am a LGBTQIA+ ally and cultural awareness is important to me.

I have extensive experience as a school counselor, drug alcohol counselor and in my private practice helping adolescence navigate and work through issues regarding anxiety, school struggles and family conflict. I also assist and give parents skills in raising teens. My Masters Degree is in marriage counseling. My primary focus with married couples is a family systems and Gottman method approach which is researched based approaches to help couples work toward reconciliation by overcoming resentment and better communication in marriage. Lastly, I have close to 10 years experience working in inpatient drug and alcohol treatment.

As a licensed psychotherapist and coach specializing in loss and transition, I support people of all ages before, during and after serious loss by: Providing practical tools for coping with serious illness, death, divorce, retirement and other life transitions, allowing the pain of loss to serve as an opportunity for positive change. Facing loss can remind us of what we value most providing opportunity to consciously make choices that re- affirm these values in all aspects of our lives. Over time, this process of reaffirming and recreating our lives reveals the skills, gifts and talents we bring to the world.

I am accepting new clients! Insurance does not cover my services. I primarily work with anxiety and the way it manifests in behavioral or physical dysfunction. I help people discover and release old patterns with dialoguing and SomatoEmotional Release in order to heal, make a change, overcome an obstacle, or reach a goal. The combination of bodywork and dialoguing is highly effective in reducing internal conflict. We will work with emotions, sensations, images, self-talk, personality parts, past and future selves, memories, dreams, and anything else that comes up.

Life is ever changing and evolving. At times change brings with it a sense of excitement and joy, and at other times a turn of events leaves us disappointed, overwhelmed, sad, or disconnected from others and ourselves. Although therapy cannot stop the ups and downs of living, it can help us develop new strategies, new perceptions, and new behaviors that transform feelings of self-doubt and despair into resilient feelings of inner strength and fulfillment. I provide a safe, confidential and caring environment, and bring a heartfelt and genuine approach to support you in finding joy and inner peace.

My practice involves working with individuals, couples, and families. My therapeutic approach is interactive in that I ask clarifying questions, give personal feedback, provide support, and challenge assumptions. I am also likely to assign homework and ask clients to better inform themselves. Length of treatment varies according to the nature of the client's difficulties, but the vast majority of my therapy is completed within 20 sessions. For more details, go to my website at pauldavidphd.com where you review my articles and clinical approach to working with different individual, couple, and family concerns.

I work extensively with past/childhood trauma, divorces, family conflict, grief, and fear. The focus of my work is about acknowledging and releasing the beliefs we develop about ourselves from events that occur in the past that are hindering our True selves for flourishing in the present. As an original life coach and counselor of 40 years, I help people see all possibilities and make a greater vision of themselves, their unique talents, gifts and abilities. I have been teaching seminars, workshops, and private sessions for my whole career. My unique healing modality, "The Clearing Process", is the basis for all 24 of my workshops.

Is your relationship with your significant other feeling hopeless? Are you struggling to establish and maintain peace within your family? I am passionate about working with the entire family system, specializing in couple’s counseling and therapy for preteens and teenagers! While working with me, you will receive a non-judgmental approach based on your individual needs and goals. My goal as a counselor is to partner with you to help you feel heard while working to remove the obstacles and barriers in relationships that leave us feeling stuck and unfulfilled. All are welcome here: this is a nondiscriminatory space :)

My name is Rachael Simmer and I'm a licensed mental health counselor in Bellingham, WA. Currently, I work with individual adults who identify as women, gender expansive and non binary.