ComPsych Therapists in Seattle, WA

Therapy is an opportunity to engage in a healing relationship unlike most others. The focus is on you: your feelings, your thoughts, your strengths, and insecurities. My job is to support you as you work your way toward understanding, accepting, and growing into yourself. Psychotherapy involves exploring feelings, perceptions, and beliefs about oneself and others, understanding how and why self-defeating or painful patterns of living have developed, and discovering how to modify them. I am committed to helping you discover and speak the truth of your experience, including parts of you that may have been left unspoken and unlived.

I have focused primarily on individuals with multiple cultural identities, such as military veterans, LGBTQ2Spirit, POC, and people recovering from various forms of trauma experience, such as physical and sexual abuse and trauma, community violence, and systemic oppression. My personal and professional background is occupationally, culturally, and racially diverse.

My clients are usually the people everyone else leans on. They find it hard to express or even acknowledge their own feelings because they're taking care of others at home, work or school. They also have a history of rough experiences they don't feel safe talking about. They may not even consider their experiences rough. My clients are strong but need help creating boundaries so they aren't used or dismissed by others or come off as aggressive. I work with people in need of support as they make tough decisions. Do you want to stop apologizing for who you are?

Have you been stressed from the current state of the world, covid, exacerbated racial trauma? Are you experiencing microagressions at work? Have you been in a funk that you just can't get out of? Have you experienced a recent loss? Or are you just looking for extra support and guidance through a challenging situation? If so you have found the right place. Perhaps old coping mechanisms aren't as effective and/or you seek a different unbiased perspective. Whatever the reason I would love to help guide you thru the path of self-discovery, awareness, and well-being. I can assist you in overcoming the challenges you are currently facing.

My practice is about creating space... a relational space to be, to reflect, to see, to heal, and imagine anew. Life can often feel overwhelming or bring feelings of hopelessness, but our inner resources are often more than we are able to imagine in the moment of our distress. New strength and connection can be found in parts of yourself that have been cut off or neglected for various reasons. Often we need the presence of someone, like a therapist, who has the potential to reflect back who we are being and what we might be neglecting, in order to see ourselves more clearly and engage life and relationships more fully.