Jungian Therapists in Seattle, WA

My style is warm, compassionate and direct. I offer support, insight, and guidance when family and friends aren't enough. I enjoy helping motivated adults to strengthen their innate gifts and overcome blocks to lead more authentic, creative, fulfilling lives. I help individuals move forward with relationships, sexuality, work and career, and aid them in reducing anxiety, depression, low self-worth and self-defeating thoughts and habits. I welcome all faiths and spiritual practices, all ethnic backgrounds, and all gender orientations. I help couples forge a win-win approach to intimacy, caring, responsibility and fun.

Choosing therapy is putting yourself first. As a therapist at Self Space, I work alongside clients who might struggle with prioritizing their well-being. Together, we can process your innermost thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a collaborative way that feels safe. It is my goal to help people seek healing through acceptance, and fulfillment through self-exploration.

I believe the beauty in each of us is contained in both light and shadow, and strive to hold compassionate loving-kindness for all aspects of the paradoxical nature of being human. Together we will explore existing strengths, while encouraging growth, and holistic wellness. I am currently providing tele-mental health only, which means we will meet via a HIPAA compliant teleconferencing platform. Tele-mental health has benefits and draw backs; please visit my website, or contact me, for questions and additional information. www.spiracounseling.com

If you are here that means you are probably 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 for you to further explore what is happening for you. Together we will be curious about your unique life experience, the impact of that experience, the struggles and conflicts you may be facing, and what you need in order 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 and wounded you with its expectations and cruelty.

We are navigating strange times, marked by abundant challenge and change. Some days, getting by is all we can muster. However, I believe that you are deserving of so much more, just as you are in this very moment. As your therapist, I consider myself an advocate for your innate right to thrive. My top priority is supporting you in whatever your mental health goals might be in a validating, understanding, and accepting space. We will foster a therapeutic partnership and collaborate at every step, rather than my taking charge — you are the expert on you, after all. My role is to help guide you toward where you’d like to go.

As a clinical therapist, I help people who are struggling with feelings of anxiety, depression and loss. I teach my clients to practice what I call "the reverse golden rule": treat yourself as you would treat others! We are often so critical of ourselves, while with a friend we would be kind, supportive, compassionate. My 20+ years of experience have given me the tools to work using an eclectic approach that I tailor to each client. I offer a comfortable, safe environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, where you can feel heard, understood and validated.

Crisis and life challenges can serve as a threshold leading to depth, healing, and deep personal meaning. I consider myself a partner who walks with my clients through challenges as they discover strength and insight. I enjoy working with people who are committed to growth, healing, self-exploration, and self-discovery.

We are inherently driven and have the strength within to be our best selves - this is my philosophy on the human condition. The path to true self-discovery and a fulfilling life can be muddied by relationships and experiences we encounter. In attempts to smooth out the trail ahead, we often construct defenses and self-limiting patterns that hold us back from the life we truly desire and deserve. This is where the power of our therapeutic relationship can transform. Self-discovery is an unending and powerful process that strengthens the mind, body, and spirit.

I work with people who need help with anxiety, depression, trauma and victimization, grief, school issues, social and relationship problems and parenting issues. I have completed a certificate in the Secure Beginnings, program which helps to address postpartum depression and other attachment issues. I also work with people who are struggle with medical problems. I speak fluent Finnish helping cultural integration and diversity issues.

I am a Licencsed Mental Health Counselor specializing in working with seniors suffering with all types of memory disorders. I have been working with Alzheimer's patients for 23 years and have pioneered the DreamRem Method for helping to improve cognitive, emotional and social functioning for those suffering with early to middle stages of alzheimer's disease and other cognitve disorders. The DreamRem Method has demonstrated it's effectiveness both on an individual and group basis. I have been the CEO of the web based DreamRem Institute since 2010. We now offer the innovative Life Portrait program for preserving the life story.

Although I specialize in Biofeedback, my emphasis is on the interaction of our relationship. What is it that brings you to search for a skilled professional to be present to your inquiry, an inquiry perhaps ignited by an ineffable experience, invoking you to reshape your life, or perhaps an inner call to open deeper connectivity and understanding beyond the multitude of daily cyber interactions? What do you require most to navigate your life through the labyrinth of work, relationships and community? I am available to explore your questions with you, and to support you to awaken to your own potential.

I offer professional aid in coping with life's complexities and facilitate clients' deeper engagement of their inner and outer worlds. Clients are often seeking a greater sense of vibrancy and to work with their suffering. I've been lucky to work with people of a wide variety of backgrounds and concerns but work most frequently folks desiring a psychoanalytic treatment style and LGBTQ+ young adults.

My hope for our work together is that you can begin to process and engage the pain that we so often don’t want to make space for. Instead of ignoring or pathologizing whatever has gotten you stuck, we will explore ways to honor and grow from these realities.

Anxiety takes on many forms: social, obsessions and compulsions, attachments, phobias, and post-traumatic stress to name a few. Clinical research has shown all of the above to be treatable, given the right therapeutic relationship matched with the right treatment. Daniel has treated clients coping with anxiety, depression, ADHD, behavioral issues, psychosis, social difficulties, divorce, sibling relationships, unhealthy attachment styles, and various forms of trauma (including PTSD). For more information visit: SOSpsychotherapy.com .