Therapists in Burlington, WA

Sometimes life is hard. You get stuck. You realize that this isn't the life you thought you'd be living. Unexpected life changing events happen. Old patterns or unresolved trauma may hold you back.. My strength is to help support you in an honest and direct way. I want to help you gain insight into the challenges you are facing and the life experiences that have brought you here. With that insight, we can work together to develop a plan for positive change, and give you the tools you need to live the life you want to be living.

I see individuals, couples, and families. My treatment approach is systemic and transpersonal, meaning I try to understand human problems in terms of the complex interactions between our inner world and our outer world. I have a collaborative and non-judgmental style. I offer a safe place to develop a trusting relationship in order to foster resiliency and growth. Your job will be to be willing to get to know yourself better.

I work with individuals and couples (whether romantic, familial, or otherwise). I am passionate about healing relationships and trauma, fostering identity development, and supporting the myriad struggles arising in young adulthood, parenthood, and relationships. I believe that you are the expert on your own experience and hold within you the innate ability to heal and grow. I strive to create deep and lasting change in my clients, not simply symptom management or reduction. I welcome all clients regardless of sexual orientation, religion, etc. and am committed to facilitating your growth with compassion and without judgement.

Life's difficulties can feel overwhelming at times, leaving us unsure how to manage. Yet, adapting to the changes and losses that life brings is possible. You have resources within you that can help you grow and thrive. Together, we will find them.

The simple fact you are seeking help through therapy is tremendously hopeful. You are half way there! My approach in therapy is to provide a safe, non-judgmental environment to identify what it is you need to create more resolution, meaning and happiness in your life. We will co-create a plan to achieve these broader goals through your daily living, how you relate with others and how you think. Therapy can be a powerful way to transform yourself (and your challenges) into living more fully, and with more in-depth understanding of who you truly are. Email is the best way to reach me.

Hello I am currently accepting new clients and their families. We will work together, enhancing personal and relational skills for immediate concerns and prevent relapse. I support progressive family and social change, helping parents and partners, understand their children as individuals while nurturing children to be respectful, engaged family members, informed critical thinkers, and responsible citizens. I guide parents offering boundaries appropriate to children's developmental stage, while involving children in decisions. I offer a welcoming, sensitive and respectful approach, using my talents and humor to aid the child, individual, couple, and family to successfully achieve their relationship goals.

In over 25 years of working with individuals and couples, I have developed a very successful growth process. It begins by my understanding the problems that brought you into therapy, and then, together, developing treatment goals that take into account those problems, your strengths and fears, and that considers the progress you have already made. Then we engage as appropriate, always staying focused on you and your goals. I enjoy and am trained in both short-term specific problem therapy and also in-depth psychodynamic therapy. I look forward to meeting with you.

I work with clients to clarify their goals and then figure out what we can do to support those goals and identify anything that has been interfering with achieving those goals. In other words, I start with focusing on the future, not the past. I prioritize understanding over suggestions because I believe that once people understand what they want they will make healthy choices.

I love to work with people who are actively seeking support for gaining clarity in any areas of stress or discomfort. It is personally fulfilling to help these clients as they work through life's issues. I provide a compassionate atmosphere that supports individual and family exploration of areas of concern; from mood, anxiety, and behavior concerns, to: family, work, school, performance, relationship dynamics. Your own desire for happiness, courage and wisdom will be recognized and nourished.