Therapists in Queen Anne, Seattle, WA

I want to offer you more than scratching the surface, or putting a band-aid on your pain. Let's get to the root. This work is about you - how you relate to yourself and to me. It's about the pain that you've carried (consciously or unconsciously), the grief that has shaped you and the coping mechanisms and defenses that you have adopted in order to live your life. I will bring my curiosity and my awareness to your thoughts, your feelings, your behavior. Together we will get to know the true you.

Psychotherapy involves entering into the stuck places of your life and listening for how you struggle to live freely and authentically. It involves discovering, caring for, and reshaping the parts of your mind that are related to the problems you experience. This may involve learning to recognize unhelpful responses to pain that have themselves evolved into addictive or compulsive behaviors, addressing problematic relational patterns or making room to feel the deep hurts of loss or trauma and learning how to live well with the wounds that have shaped you.

You may feel as if everyday life has become challenging due to issues of anxiety, depression or an inability to integrate a loss in your life. These issues become apparent in symptoms you experience, behaviors you develop at work or at home, or through a narrative you tell yourself.

Anxiety, panic, worry and stress can hold people back from performing in life. It can hold people back in school, from getting the job they want, getting promoted, and flourishing in relationships. Trying to escape anxiety can lead people to doing things they wouldn't normally do. When people are frozen with fear they are not living life fully as their authentic selves. Working with a therapist can break you free from anxiety. I've helped so many people work through these feelings to go on to be more successful in their lives.

We all have times when life seems like more than we can navigate on our own. With over 30 years of experience, I help clients with a wide range of issues for both short and long-term goals. My style is warm, interactive, and direct while honoring individual uniqueness and self-expression. In a safe and confidential setting, my goal is to provide an opportunity to challenge self-limiting beliefs/behaviors and to establish lifelong tools for improving/maintaining a healthy and fulfilling life.

I am committed to helping people live happier, more satisfying lives. I know that relationship and work difficulties, anxiety, depression and cultural issues can make it harder to live the life you want. I have a flexible style and work collaboratively, taking into account your family and personal history, racial/cultural background, religious/spiritual life, sexual orientation, and other identities. Together we will figure out what approach will work best for you. If you have questions after looking over my profile and website about whether I am the right therapist for you, I offer 20-minute free phone consultations.

As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, with a combined 20 years of advocacy and clinical experience, I continually marvel at how profoundly strong, resilient, and adaptive humans are and the many ways, usually unconsciously, that we develop to navigate and cope within our uniquely formative personal, familial, and cultural contexts. Often these coping skills that served us so well in childhood, as we dealt with difficult experiences and/or trauma, do not work as well once we become adults and move into new contexts. It can be scary when coping strategies, that used to help, no longer provide the solace and comfort they once did.

Welcome! I work with children, adolescents, adults, and families. I specialize in treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, Gender Identity Issues, and Trauma with a focus on working with the LGBTQ2IA+ community. I have specialized training in the most effective Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment (CBT) called Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for the treatment of OCD and related anxiety issues. I am also trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and provide both individual and group DBT treatment. I currently co-lead a DBT teen group through NW DBT. I'm currently only seeing clients via telehealth video sessions.

I specialize in helping couples, families, and men deal more effectively with their emotions and difficulties in their important relationships. I also offer executive coaching and support for leadership development and proactive personal growth. My style is warm, interactive, holistic and direct, and the strength of my approach rests on forging a genuine and trusting working relationship so that you can feel comfortable in getting real about what's happening with you. As your sense of trust and readiness deepens, we'll take stock of what changes are needed and find personal, realistic and creative ways to help you move forward.

Welcome to Seattle Couples Therapy. Emotions are what make us human. I help high achievers connect with their emotions in a way that fuels authenticity, attunement, and connection. Suffering that results from trauma, neglect, loss, or oppression can force us to experience our emotions as overwhelming, too painful, and too terrifying to bear. In order to cope, we bury our true feelings under competent-looking facades and ignore experiences that inadvertently continue to undermine us, our relationships, our work life, and our communities. This is a recipe for anxiety, depression, and relationship distress.

If there is any part of you who wants to feel empowered and in charge of your own life, learn more about yourself, your healthy and unhealthy patterns, your capabilities, and you want to claim and connect to your own power and BE authentic, then let's meet and decide whether we can work together. My commitment as a therapist is to facilitate the process of awareness, acceptance, choice, and letting go with deep respect for the personal pace, process and style of each client. I am a fully licensed Mental Health counselor with the state of Washington with over 20 years experience.

As humans, we are hardwired for connection, love and a felt sense of belonging. I can help you to create deeper connections in relationships that matter, with partners, friends, family, and most importantly, with yourself. Together we can create a space, for you to design what you want for your life. I offer compassionate guidance assisting individuals and couples, who have arrived at some sort of impasse in their lives. It takes courage to begin to examine one's life and relationships. Mary Oliver wrote in The Journey, "One day you finally knew what you had to do...and began."

I hold a PhD in Counseling and am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in the State of Washington, providing both short-term and long-term individual psychotherapy to adolescents (over 13 years) and adults. I aim to provide a safe, supportive, self-reflective, and healing environment where we will work toward a deeper understanding and appreciation of your authentic self. Together we will strengthen your personal awareness and confidence by exploring, uncovering and sharing your personal truths, life experiences, losses, achievements, fears, goals, and dreams.

Suffering is not evidence of failure. It is evidence of one thing... your humanity. We all suffer sometimes and we all deserve compassion and care simply because we're human. Coming to therapy can be scary. Even as you're reaching out to have a chance at a better experience in life, you want to know that who you are, and where you are now, will be respected and cared for. I believe good therapy can be both challenging and gentle, supportive and enlivening.

I help individuals and couples create and sustain the positive changes they seek in their lives. I provide a supportive environment for clients to practice skills designed to enhance personal, relational, and professional satisfaction. My approach to therapy is brief, client centered, and outcomes-focused.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist who works with adults and adolescents. I specialize in helping those with issues related to depression and other mood disorders, anxiety, and chronic pain. I support people struggling with relationship and communication difficulties, grief, pervasive worry, intrusive thoughts, and overwhelming feelings. I empower clients to gain the skills needed to reach their goals, understand and regulate their emotions, and improve mindfulness and acceptance through a nonjudgmental and collaborative approach. I also provide supportive and affirmative therapy to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients. I am available to assist transgender clients in attaining transitioning services.

Do you feel like you're in a never-ending game of "Whack-a-Mole," trying to balance work, kids, relationships, and self-care? As a therapist with 20 years of experience, I understand the unique challenges that women, especially moms of young kids, face when it comes to managing stress and anxiety. That's why I use evidence-based therapies like cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness-based, and compassion-oriented to help you find the balance you need.

As a psychologist, I ensure that evaluation and treatment services are comprehensive and tailored to meet the needs of each client. I have an expertise and passion for working with preteens, teens and young adults. I have a humorous, warm, and down to earth style of counseling that clients appreciate. My treatment approach emphasizes evidence-based practice that works toward building skills and strategies including *Cognitive Behavioral Therapy *Acceptance and Commitment Therapy *Dialectical Behavior Therapy-informed coping and skill building *Exposure and Response Prevention *School collaboration *Parent consultation

I specialize on working with people who work under pressure and need to feel at their best. My goal is to help you improve the quality of your life, dramatically. I'll help you identify positive changes to reduce your anxiety, ease your stress, and gain more control in your life. You will achieve a higher quality of life in a non-judgmental space, you'll discover untapped strengths, and you will enhance your current capacity to cope with the difficulties of life.