Therapists in Seattle, WA
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Jennifer Bielenberg
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified
3 Endorsed
Verified
3 Endorsed
I am a licensed psychologist who provides telehealth services to California, Washington State, and PSYPACT state residents. While I've spent much of my specialist practice at the intersection of substance use, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders in adults (18+), my generalist training has also prepared me to support those experiencing anxiety, depression, perfectionism, boundary issues, deep wisdom experiences of grief and relational transitions, and overworking/burnout related to high-pressure or exploitative work environments. I regularly engage in culturally responsive training to support members of marginalized groups.

Marissa DiBella
Counselor, LMHC, MHP, MAed
Verified
Verified
Finding a therapist who is the right fit for your individual needs can feel overwhelming. This can be especially true for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, or those who have questions about gender or sexuality. It's essential that your therapist will hear and value you for who you are. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community myself, my goal is to offer a safe and empowering space for my clients to explore their identities and experiences. My therapy style is trauma-informed, centering the overlap of identity and systemic oppression as we process what wellness uniquely means for you.

Anastasia Imig
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LPC, LMHC
Rumi said it best: "She overcame everything that was meant to destroy her." Just love it. Inspires me every time I read it. My small online private practice focuses on women's mental health and wellbeing, supporting women's unique, innate power to triumph even during the most challenging of times. With 20 years in the counseling field, I have been witness to some remarkable strength and profound insight. I am truly inspired by the courageous work women do to rise and overcome.

Bob Goettle
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified
Verified
My office is a safe space for all individuals and couples. People look to counseling for a variety of reasons - anxiety, depression, dissatisfaction, misery. Those who find work with me helpful seek fuller understanding of themselves and their connections in the world. We take a compassionate and curious stance as we pay attention to you. Through the lens of attachment, we examine how your current experience of (in)security and safety influence your feelings and choices in adulthood. In couple work we look at repairing what interferes with meeting each partner's normal human need for safety and connection with one another.

Allison Avery Decker
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, LMFTA, she/her, they/, them
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
I support all types of couples and individuals seeking to enrich physical and emotional intimacy in their relationships. My work typically involves helping couples transform conflict into connection.

Tina Schermer Sellers
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
Verified
4 Endorsed
Verified
4 Endorsed
You were created for connection and pleasure. Are your relationships nourishing or has life pulled them apart? So much of how we experience life fails to give us the skills we need to cultivate deeply attached relationships. Yet when our days are done, this will be what's most important. In the 25+ years I have been in practice, I have developed a way of working that strengthens and integrates the spiritual, sexual and emotional skills individuals & relationships need to heal and experience the connections they crave. My institute (The Northwest Institute on Intimacy - NWIOI) has therapists trained in this life changing model.
Not accepting new clients

Pakalana Lokahi Li Sun
Counselor, M, Ed, MC, LMHC
Verified
Verified
Aloha, I am a QTBIPOC Therapist. My therapeutic approach is empathic, nonjudgemental and non-directive. I use both Eastern and Western techniques. I work with thoughts, emotions, body sensations and the breath. I also use yoga, I am a yoga teacher (E-RYT500).I work with being in the present moment. I use mindfulness: being in the present moment, awareness, acceptance, compassion, body scans and meditation (Vipassana). I use Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), meditation and yoga to treat depression, anxiety, trauma and chronic pain. I am not accepting new clients.

Roy C. Hodgson
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified
2 Endorsed
Verified
2 Endorsed
Roy is an individual, couple, and family therapist who provides a supportive, thoughtful, and encouraging environment. Experienced in the medical, educational, and mental health fields, with two master's degrees. Certified trainer and supervisor in emotionally focused therapy one of the only therapies clinically shown to help couple's find love with less conflicts. Caring therapy for children and adolescents surfing from school problems, family problems, and trauma.

Julia Hall
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified
Verified
Hi there! I’m Julia Hall, LCSW and practicing psychotherapist in New York. I specialize in PTSD, OCD and anxiety disorders and I'm capable of treating a wide range of issues as there is often overlap. I tend to begin by getting to know you, what brought you to therapy and what potential goals you have for therapy in order for us to have a collaborative approach and relationship. I often integrate cognitive behavior tools into the work to help identify problematic patterns in life as well as ways to interrupt these patterns and make change. Other approaches I include over time are providing psycho-education and mindfulness.

Ashley L. MacLaren
Counselor, MA, LMHCA
Verified
Verified
Our relationship with ourselves is life-long and at times, takes the back seat in our lives. Perhaps you have felt overwhelmed as life moves forward while you have found less joy in things you used to love. You feel stuck as if you’re losing parts of yourself, or maybe you aren’t sure who you are just yet. You need a safe space to process your relationship with yourself, create a pathway to radical self-acceptance, and the grace to process transformative healing. Together, we will build a partnership to explore with curiosity how you struggle and feel pain, and how you have learned to cope and adapt.

Kathryn Willis
Counselor, MS, LMHC, LMFT
Verified
Verified
You're taking the first step in such a beneficial journey, and I am honored to be a part of your process! I am a strengths-based therapist who believes in the power of building on what is already working well in your life to help you achieve your goals in therapy. I work from a client-centered approach, supporting you in the process of getting to know yourself better, and determining how you can shine in the environment that you're in. I am an expert in my field, and you are an expert in your own life; together we can build and achieve a plan that will help you create the lasting positive change you want to see for yourself!
Not accepting new clients

Maia McCoy
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LSWAIC
Verified
Verified
Social wounds need social salves. As a client you will be met with empathy and humility and a place of compassion, safety, and connection. I believe the body is built for healing, and you don’t need to be in therapy the rest of your life. There are simple tools for tolerating distress, managing anxiety, depression, and PTSD, and regulating our emotions and nervous system, and together we will find what works for you. Once we have built up your resilience, we can work on creating a life that is affirming, daring, and uniquely yours. My focus is to help individuals heal and energize.
Waitlist for new clients

Derek Trlica
Counselor, LMHC
Verified
Verified
I work with guys in hi-tech, mostly software engineers and managers, who struggle with some sort of anxiety &/or depression, often brought on by things like workplace stress, relationship problems, or big life transitions (like having a baby). My typical client leads an engaged life of achievement and focus, and he usually feels on top of things. But then life has come along and hit him with something his well-developed intellect can't quite handle. The result is that he feels stalled and filled with self-doubt - something he is unaccustomed to and often deeply uncomfortable with.

Christopher John Olsen
Counselor, MS, LMHC
Verified
Verified
Let's get started, call me so you can start getting relief from your pain, confusion or fear. I provide psychotherapy and counseling for adults, teens, children and couples. A sign that therapy would be helpful is the presence of recurring pain in relationships, lack of intimacy, loss of friendships, work or career dissatisfaction, shame, physical symptoms or lack of meaning in your life.

Laura Meehan
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified
Verified
Are you feeling anxious, overwhelmed, stressed-out or depressed? Do you find you keep repeating the same patterns in your life? your work? your relationships? I can help transform your limiting beliefs into an empowered life. I work with a process that is very powerful and I have seen very positive changes in my clients. You don't have to stay stuck and unhappy. You could live a life with meaning and purpose. If you are you experiencing a painful breakup? I work with Individuals and Couples to Uncouple Consciously. I help you heal your resentments and angers.

Mira Farrow
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MA, MSW, LSWAIC
Verified
Verified
Life can be complicated and stressful at times and change can include triggers making the journey complicated. During these times it is human to reach out for empathy, support, and safety. My therapy approach is guided by the needs of each individual I work with. We will collaboratively create affirming, safe space to share and address your needs and concerns, explore potential solutions, and honor growth, no matter what stage your are at along your journey to a more fulfilled life. I employ a psychodynamic approach to therapy for healing of trauma and identity exploration. I treat all individuals with dignity and respect.

Sara Cotto
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified
Verified
Experiencing anxiety, career concerns, life transitions, or loss and grief? Working together, we can address those concerns.

Alexis Miller
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
Verified
Verified
I believe in a strengths-focused approach to therapy. We’re often conditioned to look only for what we are doing wrong, while ignoring or dismissing what we’re already doing right. I try to build awareness of innate strengths and to put these to use while working toward change. I like working with people who are working to adjust to changes in their lives or environments, and with people who experience anxiety and/or depression.
Not accepting new clients

Bruce Perham Counseling
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified
Verified
I became a therapist because I want to join with clients as they heal from pain and trauma. People need support for many reasons, some relatively simple and some so complicated as to seem unbearable. Psychotherapy is not only for people with severe illnesses or trauma but for people who feel stuck with their relationships, their careers, their friendships or have experiences that have a major impact on their daily lives and functioning.

Erin Karcher
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified
Verified
Everyone is welcome in my office; I am honored to work with and witness folks from all walks of life. I specialize in working with queer and trans folks, especially those with neurodiversity, and people exploring and practicing non-monogamy. I'm passionate about identity development; discovering and vocalizing boundaries; and understanding how values change as we unpack internalized oppression and look at your life experiences. Therapy helps us gather an understanding of how the world views us, and reorient to stand up for our full selves.
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What type of Seattle mental health professional is right for me?
While most types of therapy have a lot in common, they also fall into clusters that share core features, such as cognitive therapies or psychodynamic approaches. It is important to seek someone who practices evidence-based therapy, meaning one or more forms of treatment that have been scientifically evaluated and tested, and demonstrate consistent improvement for a majority of patients.
If you are unsure about choosing the right therapist or psychologist, it might be useful to first learn more about therapy types and modalities.
If you are unsure about choosing the right therapist or psychologist, it might be useful to first learn more about therapy types and modalities.
How to find a therapist or counselor in Seattle?
When looking to find a therapist, start by considering training and credentials. Studies also indicate that the therapeutic alliance, or the relationship the client develops with the therapist, is an important factor in their ability to work together to achieve the client’s goals.
What method of therapy is right for me?
When it comes to treatment methods, there's no 'right way.’ Each method of therapy can be beneficial for a variety of issues. Finding a psychologist or therapist who is a good fit for you is the most important step to discovering what type of therapy, or combination of therapeutic approaches, will meet your individual needs. Learn what to expect from different types of therapy and how they work.
How to use my insurance?
Understanding cost and insurance coverage is an important concern for many people. With some basic research and conversations with prospective therapists, you should be able to have a good understanding of the best way to afford therapy.