Therapists in Gig Harbor, WA

Life is hard. Sometimes we have deep wounds that have been shoved down or covered up for years. It may be a significant traumatic event, adverse childhood experiences of abuse and neglect or painful moments in adulthood. These events may shape the way we see ourselves, others and the world around us. Whatever the wounds, when you find they are impacting your life in the here and now it is necessary to clean the wounds in order to allow the body and brain to heal.

Oftentimes we seek out therapy because components in our lives are causing us significant distress and disrupt our ability to function effectively and feel happiness. I ask clients who come into therapy to bring with them an open attitude, a willingness to explore their life perspectives and their relationships with others, that they may experience true change and healing. This journey towards emotional maturity often involves a certain amount of discomfort and pain before the healing and change can occur. I provide a warm, trusting, safe space to assist people so that they may continue that journey.

Help is here. You've made it to the right place! I work with clients struggling with depression & anxiety. My niche is women of color processing racial trauma, workplace micro aggressions, and struggles navigating being a person of color living in a predominantly homogenous community. The weight that BIPOC folks feel is often too heavy to lift alone. Having a therapist who looks like you, and understands your cultural lens, is paramount to partnering with you to achieve wellness and recovery. Racial trauma looks like subtle slights + stress from internalized pain of tolerating intolerable systemic stressors based in a toxic culture.

I provide counseling services to women and small groups in recovery. Areas of special interest are supporting women with issues related to trauma and betrayal, grief, spiritual growth, and life transitions. I have counseled women in cross-cultural settings for more than 30 years. I am particularly sensitive to the cultural, spiritual, and family backgrounds of my clients. I enjoy exploring the experiences that make each woman unique. I will work with you to uncover and develop your strengths as you overcome personal challenges.

Are you a new parent? Struggling with the transition? Feeling anxious or overwhelmed? Feeling down or like your expectations don't match what is right in front of you? Have you struggled with infertility? Planning to begin a family hasn't looked like you imagined and it is creating strain on your relationship and your emotions are BIG? Have you had a miscarriage or stillbirth and no one knows how to talk with you about it? Or really hears you when you say you're hurting and scared to try again? Then you have come to the right place. Find support, compassion and healing. Find yourself again and the encouragement to look to the future

Many of us have experienced trauma in our lives, whether it be in our childhood as adults or just being individuals in our society. Without proper treatment, the effects of trauma can render us at stuck points in our lives The anxiety, panic, ruminations, and fear, are all too much to cope with on your own. You find yourself stuck in the past unable to move forward. Maybe you have mastered other things in your life, yet still, past hurts and traumas are weighing on you and you feel it’s time to heal. There is a solution and now is the time.

Maureen Turner, Psy.D. is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the diagnostic evaluation of children. Dr. Turner earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford University. She then completed her doctoral work at Pepperdine University and her post-doctoral training at the Center on Human Development and Disability at the University of Washington Medical Center. She is experienced in assessing a wide range of children from birth through adolescence and especially enjoys providing assessments for young children, including infants, toddlers and pre-school aged kids.

I provide a safe space for my clients to be heard, understood, and supported. I believe counseling is a process in which I work with them to reflect on, develop, and shape their unique story. Everyone has intrinsic strengths, and I love helping clients identify and utilize their personal strengths to heal and grow. My goal is to create a space that allows for personal exploration, genuine healing, and skill development to help them become healthy and confident in their identity and path forward.

Are you struggling with anxiety or depression? Having trouble dealing with issues from your past? Recovering from a toxic relationship? Finding it difficult to love and accept yourself? We all need support at times. We are not meant to be self-sufficient islands. By reaching out for help, you are taking your power back and confirming that you deserve to be supported and understood. Therapy can be a healing, transformative experience. We can work together to create a healthy plan to help you achieve your treatment goals.

I’m here to help you heal anxiety, create healthier relationships and deepen your self-understanding.

Having difficulty with relationships? Feeling lonely or isolated? We all need support in our lives, especially during these difficult times. Life can be overwhelming, chaotic, stressful, and unpredictable. You are brave. You are ready take the first step in acknowledging that something isn’t quite right. Therapy can be a healing, wonderful, and freeing way to connect back to your inner self and with those you love. There is hope and there are ways to help and re-build and re-gain confidence, self-esteem, and manage emotions that we often want to ignore. There is HOPE!

As I thought of the mission for Tisino Family Services, I thought of strength's-based. TFS facilitates children, youth, adults, and families back into the arms of what family means. One important goal of TFS is to reduce recidivism and teach preventative steps for sustaintainability. So often, I see individuals dealing with unmitigated trauma, self-identified barriers, and generational disadvantages without coping skills. This mission implements practical skills with persistence that capture the attention of specialized techniques that provides significant breakthroughs of unstable mental health and increase healthy living.

Are you an intelligent, driven, passionate person who is living a double life? You appear unflappable and levelheaded, but inside, you feel anxious, exhausted, and unsatisfied. These feelings are confusing because you have many of the things you wanted. You’ve had success in your personal life, your career, or as a parent, but everything feels SO HARD. You might also be wondering if there’s something wrong with you. Or maybe it makes total sense that you’d feel this way. Some events from your past are emerging. You suspect trauma and emotional wounds are at the root. But you don’t know how to deal with it.

My goal in counseling is to help my patients go from where they are to where they want to be. I provide a nurturing, emotionally safe environment for people experiencing life transitions, grief and loss. My patients learn to: 1) understand and better manage anxiety, stress, life transitions, relationships, sleep problems, and disturbing thoughts; 2) identify innate gifts, talents, strengths; 3) develop and work toward achievable goals.

I provide therapy for adult relationships as well as individuals and I have a special interest in working with parents. My attention is drawn toward identifying and exploring the roots of anxieties, triggers, and other emotional challenges. I see this exploration as foundational to building resilience, growth and connection. I feel privileged to witness clients deepen their relationships to self and others throughout this process. I approach my clients with curiosity and humility. I recognize strengths and wisdom within each of my clients and encourage embodying internal resources and living empowered.

I am currently offering both Telehealth and in-person sessions. I work specifically with clients who have a desire to learn more about themselves, and to increase their experience of vulnerability. While employing a holistic mind, body and spirit perspective, my approach validates each client as having the answers and abilities within themselves to become the best person they can be.

Openings 2/2023! Is anxiety, procrastination and self-doubt keeping you stuck and unfulfilled? Would you prefer to have more joy, better relationships and be reaching goals? Together we can uncover the barriers to living this more joyous life. I can help you interrupt these negative patterns and become healthier and happier. I provide a caring, unjudgemental and direct approach which is tailored to your needs specifically. I want you to feel proud of yourself and we can make that happen. I also offer walk and talk which combines exercise, talk therapy and outdoor therapy. Get steps and get moving on an improved life.