Chronic Pain Therapists in Seattle, WA
I love helping people with anxiety, including panic, stress, social anxiety, OCD, and posttraumatic stress. I also help with related issues, e.g., insomnia, depression, alcohol use, and pain. Additionally, I have expertise in burnout resilience/recovery. I primarily offer cognitive-behavioral therapies with good scientific backing, and I combine non-judgmental support + practical skills. Finding a therapist who is a good "fit” is important, so I offer a free 20-minute phone consult to help you decide if my approach is a good match for you. Apart from therapy, I offer professional coaching to help people do well + feel well at work.
I love helping people with anxiety, including panic, stress, social anxiety, OCD, and posttraumatic stress. I also help with related issues, e.g., insomnia, depression, alcohol use, and pain. Additionally, I have expertise in burnout resilience/recovery. I primarily offer cognitive-behavioral therapies with good scientific backing, and I combine non-judgmental support + practical skills. Finding a therapist who is a good "fit” is important, so I offer a free 20-minute phone consult to help you decide if my approach is a good match for you. Apart from therapy, I offer professional coaching to help people do well + feel well at work.
I specialize in supporting individuals who are living with chronic illness, injury, and physical disabilities; facing job stress, job loss, and career change; processing trauma including geopolitical crisis, displacement, natural disaster and climate disaster, and wrestling with identity and purpose.
I understand that the world can feel overwhelming and I’m here to support you throughout your healing journey and to explore the challenges you are facing. I serve individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds and I strive to provide a compassionate and inclusive space for you to be seen, heard, and share your story. I am passionate about helping people to navigate uncertainty, anxiety, loss, trauma, and life transitions. My approach is centered on culturally responsive and trauma informed care.
I specialize in supporting individuals who are living with chronic illness, injury, and physical disabilities; facing job stress, job loss, and career change; processing trauma including geopolitical crisis, displacement, natural disaster and climate disaster, and wrestling with identity and purpose.
I understand that the world can feel overwhelming and I’m here to support you throughout your healing journey and to explore the challenges you are facing. I serve individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds and I strive to provide a compassionate and inclusive space for you to be seen, heard, and share your story. I am passionate about helping people to navigate uncertainty, anxiety, loss, trauma, and life transitions. My approach is centered on culturally responsive and trauma informed care.
Areas of special interest and training include: Relationships/Couples; Anxiety/Trauma/PTSD including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing); Pain Management & Body/Mind Psychotherapy including use of EMDR, Lifespan Integration, Focusing, and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy; Art Therapy (see below).
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.
Areas of special interest and training include: Relationships/Couples; Anxiety/Trauma/PTSD including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing); Pain Management & Body/Mind Psychotherapy including use of EMDR, Lifespan Integration, Focusing, and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy; Art Therapy (see below).
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 envision my therapeutic process as helping clients explore the roots of their emotions and experiences, delving deep into their past to uncover patterns and sources of pain.
My ideal clients are children, adolescents, and adults who seek to understand and express their emotions in relation to their life experiences and identity. Clients who work with me want to grow in processing their feelings and deepen self-understanding. Through a psychodynamic basis, I utilize a trauma-informed, narrative, and relational approach to therapy, incorporating parts work, attachment theory, and somatic techniques to emphasize the mind-body connection. I specialize in working with neurodivergent clients, those with chronic illnesses, queer clients, and those processing spiritual deconstruction and grief.
I envision my therapeutic process as helping clients explore the roots of their emotions and experiences, delving deep into their past to uncover patterns and sources of pain.
My ideal clients are children, adolescents, and adults who seek to understand and express their emotions in relation to their life experiences and identity. Clients who work with me want to grow in processing their feelings and deepen self-understanding. Through a psychodynamic basis, I utilize a trauma-informed, narrative, and relational approach to therapy, incorporating parts work, attachment theory, and somatic techniques to emphasize the mind-body connection. I specialize in working with neurodivergent clients, those with chronic illnesses, queer clients, and those processing spiritual deconstruction and grief.
The realities of pain, suffering, and grief are universal human experiences that need to be tended to with compassion and acceptance.
If you are here that means you are likely seeking support for something in your life that feels difficult, overwhelming, confusing, or painful. My work is to offer you a safe, kind, and accepting space to further explore your internal and external realities. Together we will be curious about your unique life experience, the impact of your experience, the struggles and conflicts you may be facing, and what you need to thrive. I believe therapy is the process of uncovering who you were meant to be before the world told you who you should be or wounded you with its expectations and cruelty.
The realities of pain, suffering, and grief are universal human experiences that need to be tended to with compassion and acceptance.
If you are here that means you are likely seeking support for something in your life that feels difficult, overwhelming, confusing, or painful. My work is to offer you a safe, kind, and accepting space to further explore your internal and external realities. Together we will be curious about your unique life experience, the impact of your experience, the struggles and conflicts you may be facing, and what you need to thrive. I believe therapy is the process of uncovering who you were meant to be before the world told you who you should be or wounded you with its expectations and cruelty.
" We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow at the broken places." ~Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt.~
You had the courage to travel this far in your quest for healing. As a Transpersonal therapist, I believe you are wise and that within you resides the ability to heal from pain and trauma. My role is to be a guide, a facilitator in your process of healing unhealthy patterns of behaviors causing you to feel anxious and depressed. My approach is holistic. I blend many disciplines in search of the most effective way to work with you.
" We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow at the broken places." ~Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt.~
You had the courage to travel this far in your quest for healing. As a Transpersonal therapist, I believe you are wise and that within you resides the ability to heal from pain and trauma. My role is to be a guide, a facilitator in your process of healing unhealthy patterns of behaviors causing you to feel anxious and depressed. My approach is holistic. I blend many disciplines in search of the most effective way to work with you.
Sha'ari Garfinkel - Certified Emdr Practitioner
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW, LCSW, FAMI
Verified Verified
Seattle, WA 98106
Underneath the disappointments and pain, you have more strength and wholeness than you may realize. It takes real courage to break out of our old ways of doing things into new thinking and behaving. I admire and respect anyone who has the willingness to start on this journey and am there to support you through that process, even if you don't know what needs to change. Together we will navigate these uncharted waters, bringing you closer to the fullest and most satisfying life possible for you. NOTE: Remote therapy ONLY (including EMDR) in Idaho, North Carolina & Kansas. Remote & in-person therapy available in Washington State.
Underneath the disappointments and pain, you have more strength and wholeness than you may realize. It takes real courage to break out of our old ways of doing things into new thinking and behaving. I admire and respect anyone who has the willingness to start on this journey and am there to support you through that process, even if you don't know what needs to change. Together we will navigate these uncharted waters, bringing you closer to the fullest and most satisfying life possible for you. NOTE: Remote therapy ONLY (including EMDR) in Idaho, North Carolina & Kansas. Remote & in-person therapy available in Washington State.
Sometimes in life we all need a “companion on the journey,” someone to partner with us and help make sense of our experience, ease our pain, and support our goals. As a therapist, I am committed to providing a safe environment where individuals can identify their strengths, recognize unhelpful patterns, and live into their goals. Working from an integrative, client-centered approach, I seek to support individuals wherever they are on their journey and my approach is holistic, collaborative, and non-judgmental. I value cultural humility and look forward to working with people of all backgrounds, identities, and walks of life.
Sometimes in life we all need a “companion on the journey,” someone to partner with us and help make sense of our experience, ease our pain, and support our goals. As a therapist, I am committed to providing a safe environment where individuals can identify their strengths, recognize unhelpful patterns, and live into their goals. Working from an integrative, client-centered approach, I seek to support individuals wherever they are on their journey and my approach is holistic, collaborative, and non-judgmental. I value cultural humility and look forward to working with people of all backgrounds, identities, and walks of life.
I have specialized training in perinatal/maternal mental health and in other areas, such as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, trauma, supporting healthcare providers, and coping with health conditions.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist offering online individual therapy to clients located anywhere in NM, and Washington state. I am passionate about supporting my clients through life's transitions and helping them to build authentic connections in their communities. I consider it an honor to be part of that journey. I often work with individuals who are willing to try new things, value growth, and appreciate honest feedback. I tailor my approach to the needs of each client and work collaboratively with clients to develop treatment plans that highlight each individual’s unique goals.
I have specialized training in perinatal/maternal mental health and in other areas, such as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, trauma, supporting healthcare providers, and coping with health conditions.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist offering online individual therapy to clients located anywhere in NM, and Washington state. I am passionate about supporting my clients through life's transitions and helping them to build authentic connections in their communities. I consider it an honor to be part of that journey. I often work with individuals who are willing to try new things, value growth, and appreciate honest feedback. I tailor my approach to the needs of each client and work collaboratively with clients to develop treatment plans that highlight each individual’s unique goals.
My practice helps individual adults and older adults closely study their lives so they can make effective and meaningful change. I blend the graduate education I received at Naropa University in transpersonal counseling with the post-graduate trainings I have focused on in Hakomi and IFS. I hold the view that my clients' problems and pain, no matter how distressing and debilitating, stand to be their greatest teachers. I choose to see the potential and not pathology in the people I serve. I respectfully meet my clients at their door so that we may embark on this journey of unfolding together.
My practice helps individual adults and older adults closely study their lives so they can make effective and meaningful change. I blend the graduate education I received at Naropa University in transpersonal counseling with the post-graduate trainings I have focused on in Hakomi and IFS. I hold the view that my clients' problems and pain, no matter how distressing and debilitating, stand to be their greatest teachers. I choose to see the potential and not pathology in the people I serve. I respectfully meet my clients at their door so that we may embark on this journey of unfolding together.
I love supporting my clients learn how to live a life they want to live while effectively navigating through life's difficulties and challenges. I enjoy working with teens and adults who struggle with anxiety, depression, chronic mental health issues, chronic health problems and life transitions including divorce/breakup, developmental stages, career, education, grief, and illness. I also enjoy helping clients let go of negative core beliefs formed early in life using EMDR.
I love supporting my clients learn how to live a life they want to live while effectively navigating through life's difficulties and challenges. I enjoy working with teens and adults who struggle with anxiety, depression, chronic mental health issues, chronic health problems and life transitions including divorce/breakup, developmental stages, career, education, grief, and illness. I also enjoy helping clients let go of negative core beliefs formed early in life using EMDR.
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Like Reiki, Energy Medicine helps people with a wide range of illness.
In this time of unprecedented loss and stress due to COVID-19 and other world events such as accelerating climate change, I can help you deal with anxiety and depression. My orientation is transpersonal as I see physical and emotional issues as doorways to transformation and spiritual awakening. In my psychotherapy practice, people have achieved new levels of personal freedom and self-esteem. Together, we can enrich your quality of life and enhance your creativity. Integrative healing encompasses body, mind & spirit. We all deserve to be happy in our bodies and our lives. I work also with couples to resolve relationship issues.
Like Reiki, Energy Medicine helps people with a wide range of illness.
In this time of unprecedented loss and stress due to COVID-19 and other world events such as accelerating climate change, I can help you deal with anxiety and depression. My orientation is transpersonal as I see physical and emotional issues as doorways to transformation and spiritual awakening. In my psychotherapy practice, people have achieved new levels of personal freedom and self-esteem. Together, we can enrich your quality of life and enhance your creativity. Integrative healing encompasses body, mind & spirit. We all deserve to be happy in our bodies and our lives. I work also with couples to resolve relationship issues.
In my work with clients, I strive to create safe, respectful, and compassionate relationships, to help them understand and transform their pain, and to guide them toward new ways of being with themselves, with others, and with their larger communities.
My practice is focused on helping individuals understand and heal from the profound wounds caused by emotional or physical violence/neglect in close personal relationships. This includes adults who've experienced childhood abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment, as well as sexual assault, violence, and betrayal trauma. By conceptualizing complex forms of trauma from a feminist perspective, I investigate issues of gender, power, and culture, and identify them as the center of oppression, distress, and dysfunction in a person's life. Relational trauma often creates isolation, and I believe it is only in relationship that we heal.
In my work with clients, I strive to create safe, respectful, and compassionate relationships, to help them understand and transform their pain, and to guide them toward new ways of being with themselves, with others, and with their larger communities.
My practice is focused on helping individuals understand and heal from the profound wounds caused by emotional or physical violence/neglect in close personal relationships. This includes adults who've experienced childhood abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment, as well as sexual assault, violence, and betrayal trauma. By conceptualizing complex forms of trauma from a feminist perspective, I investigate issues of gender, power, and culture, and identify them as the center of oppression, distress, and dysfunction in a person's life. Relational trauma often creates isolation, and I believe it is only in relationship that we heal.
This means to have the capacity to tolerate pain, confusion, frustration in order to learn from our experiences and relate to our own sense of self which feels alive and real.
We need help to feel secure in, trust, and make sense of our emotional experiences. When we don’t get the help we need, we can feel stuck, insecure, anxious, depressed, or hopeless. Over time, this often leads to patterns of feeling emotionally dead, chronically overstimulated, or, simply, feeling out of touch with oneself. Therapy is a kind of relationship in which we are able to recover our own sense of self by exploring those emotional experiences, large or small, that for whatever reason come to mind, stay with us, and make us pay attention to them.
This means to have the capacity to tolerate pain, confusion, frustration in order to learn from our experiences and relate to our own sense of self which feels alive and real.
We need help to feel secure in, trust, and make sense of our emotional experiences. When we don’t get the help we need, we can feel stuck, insecure, anxious, depressed, or hopeless. Over time, this often leads to patterns of feeling emotionally dead, chronically overstimulated, or, simply, feeling out of touch with oneself. Therapy is a kind of relationship in which we are able to recover our own sense of self by exploring those emotional experiences, large or small, that for whatever reason come to mind, stay with us, and make us pay attention to them.
Life can be isolating at times. This is especially true when you add in ADHD, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, chronic illness, and Queerness, cultural, and relationship issues. We hold so many identities and struggles that influence who we are and how we move through our place in the world. It is essential to find yourself among those identities and move into the whole version of yourself that finds comfort in the here and now. This includes finding your community and support through all that life throws at us.
Life can be isolating at times. This is especially true when you add in ADHD, PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, chronic illness, and Queerness, cultural, and relationship issues. We hold so many identities and struggles that influence who we are and how we move through our place in the world. It is essential to find yourself among those identities and move into the whole version of yourself that finds comfort in the here and now. This includes finding your community and support through all that life throws at us.
Constellation Therapy PLLC
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, MS
Verified Verified
Seattle, WA 98103
In my professional training I have obtained specialized experience working with Couples, specifically couples dealing with Infidelity, Pre-marital therapy, Individuals dealing with Anxiety, Depression, Substance Abuse/Misuse, Chronic Mental Illness, and Adolescents dealing with adjustment disorders.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate and Licensed Mental Health Professional in the State of Washington My training primarily comes from my time obtaining my Masters in Science from Seattle Pacific University. While in school I specialized in Narrative therapy as well as various other Post-Modern therapies. I have wide and varied experience ranging from working with clients in elementary schools to clients in jail, and everyone in between. Sometimes I joke that I have seen clients for every part of the DSM, but of course that's not true, I am still missing two diagnoses.
In my professional training I have obtained specialized experience working with Couples, specifically couples dealing with Infidelity, Pre-marital therapy, Individuals dealing with Anxiety, Depression, Substance Abuse/Misuse, Chronic Mental Illness, and Adolescents dealing with adjustment disorders.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate and Licensed Mental Health Professional in the State of Washington My training primarily comes from my time obtaining my Masters in Science from Seattle Pacific University. While in school I specialized in Narrative therapy as well as various other Post-Modern therapies. I have wide and varied experience ranging from working with clients in elementary schools to clients in jail, and everyone in between. Sometimes I joke that I have seen clients for every part of the DSM, but of course that's not true, I am still missing two diagnoses.
Tina Schermer Sellers
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT, CST, CST-S
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98117
Discover the Northwest Institute on Intimacy (NWIOI) for expert guidance in strengthening you & your relationships. With 25+ years of experience and a unique blend of spiritual, sexual, and emotional expertise, we've developed a unique approach that combines spiritual, sexual, and emotional tools to heal & enhance your life. Our 28 therapists have unparalleled training & expertise. Less than 5% of therapists in the US are trained as comprehensively in individual, couple, family, sex therapy, & healing trauma, racial, & sexual oppression. Many medical clinics refer only to us due to our experience serving people w pain and illness.
Discover the Northwest Institute on Intimacy (NWIOI) for expert guidance in strengthening you & your relationships. With 25+ years of experience and a unique blend of spiritual, sexual, and emotional expertise, we've developed a unique approach that combines spiritual, sexual, and emotional tools to heal & enhance your life. Our 28 therapists have unparalleled training & expertise. Less than 5% of therapists in the US are trained as comprehensively in individual, couple, family, sex therapy, & healing trauma, racial, & sexual oppression. Many medical clinics refer only to us due to our experience serving people w pain and illness.
Naomi Tajchman-Baumer
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LSCW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Online Only
Waitlist for new clients
My therapeutic approach is relational, liberatory, collaborative and strengths based. I work with folks who are navigating life transitions, identity, gender and sexuality exploration of self/loved ones, chronic illness, workplace challenges, survivors of trauma, and those who want to understand how to make adaptations in their lives to support their neurodiversity. I am a queer, white, jewish, neurodiverse, 2nd gen american, parent, who lives with chronic illness. My ideologies are grounded in: social justice, fostering resilience, Black Feminist theory, Queer theory, a HAES model, and trauma informed practice.
My therapeutic approach is relational, liberatory, collaborative and strengths based. I work with folks who are navigating life transitions, identity, gender and sexuality exploration of self/loved ones, chronic illness, workplace challenges, survivors of trauma, and those who want to understand how to make adaptations in their lives to support their neurodiversity. I am a queer, white, jewish, neurodiverse, 2nd gen american, parent, who lives with chronic illness. My ideologies are grounded in: social justice, fostering resilience, Black Feminist theory, Queer theory, a HAES model, and trauma informed practice.
Perhaps this involves death, chronic illness, substance dependence, family discord, infertility, or marital difficulties.
Life is unpredictable and difficult at times. Things don’t always work out the way we planned or expected they would. When we find ourselves out of balance and upset; it can be helpful to talk about our thoughts and feelings with someone who will listen. In a safe space, it will be easier to consider what is working for you and what is not. I’d like to offer you that safe space and to help you by listening and discussing your situation and experience. I believe in the strength and resiliency of each individual. I know you possess the power to regain balance in your life and I’d like to help you do that.
Perhaps this involves death, chronic illness, substance dependence, family discord, infertility, or marital difficulties.
Life is unpredictable and difficult at times. Things don’t always work out the way we planned or expected they would. When we find ourselves out of balance and upset; it can be helpful to talk about our thoughts and feelings with someone who will listen. In a safe space, it will be easier to consider what is working for you and what is not. I’d like to offer you that safe space and to help you by listening and discussing your situation and experience. I believe in the strength and resiliency of each individual. I know you possess the power to regain balance in your life and I’d like to help you do that.
Through compassionate and personalized counseling, we’ll work together to honor your feelings, understand your pain, and gently guide you towards a path of healing.
I'm Nathan Mayes, and it's an honor to welcome you to Opening Heart Therapy. Whether you are experiencing the deep pain of loss, the loneliness of heartbreak, or relational struggles, your journey is unique, and so is the healing process. Here, you’ll find a safe haven where your heart can begin to heal and you can grow.
Through compassionate and personalized counseling, we’ll work together to honor your feelings, understand your pain, and gently guide you towards a path of healing.
I'm Nathan Mayes, and it's an honor to welcome you to Opening Heart Therapy. Whether you are experiencing the deep pain of loss, the loneliness of heartbreak, or relational struggles, your journey is unique, and so is the healing process. Here, you’ll find a safe haven where your heart can begin to heal and you can grow.
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