Kaiser (Out-of-Network) Therapists in Seattle, WA

I work with people of all ages—child, adolescent, and adult. I have strengths in working with children, with people experiencing depression, anxiety, and trauma reactions, and with people who have been abused in the past. My goals are to help you make the changes you are ready to make, and to help relieve the struggles you are having.

*******************Dr. Cohn is not accepting new clients at this time.**********************I am a licensed psychologist with more than 20 years of experience treating clients with anxiety, chronic illness, substance dependence, trauma, depression, mania, and relationship concerns. My approach is eclectic, encompassing Internal Family Systems, CBT, family of origin, motivational interviewing and hypnosis. Please see my website for more comprehensive information.

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 enriched life.

For over 19 years, it's been an honor to partner with individuals, couples, and families to reconnect where there are divides, repair places of harm or loss, and restore hope. Together, we'll weave a wholistic picture of your experiences, family history, culture/ethnic influences, strengths and struggles so we can cultivate deep healing - in relationships, daily thriving, faithful living, and fullness of heart. For those who share a faith-oriented view of the world, we can integrate spiritual beliefs and resources into our work together. (If not, please know that you will be held with deep honor and respect.)

I believe it is important to listen carefully and develop an understanding of your concerns and difficulties. After getting a clear picture of what is happening, we can begin to work on and explore areas of your life that are significantly impacting you. I strive to ensure a safe, collaborative and caring environment that allows for your growth and change. My therapeutic orientation is a combination of humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, psychoeducation, and emotion-focused therapy.

I provide psychotherapy in Seattle and coaching for clients around the world. Special focus on couples, cultural adjustment issues and sexuality. With more than 30 years of experience, my approach is based on your strengths, focused on empowering you, centered on your goals, and connects you with other resources. I was born in Turkey and have lived and worked in the US, Turkey and Europe. I provide individual, couple, family and group therapy, consultation and training from Seattle's University District.

I am passionate about guiding my clients through a process of self-discovery, helping them learn about their strengths and weaknesses, and assisting them in developing more effective coping skills and communication techniques. I use multiple modalities of counseling, teaching, learning, and healing, and incorporate various psycho-social-educational models within a culture and gender sensitive framework. My approach to therapy is warm, non-judgmental, collaborative, and conversational. I generally work from family systems, structural and symbolic experiential theoretical orientations. I use elements of play therapy and story telling in my work with children.

I am an WA and ID licensed therapist and here to help. Often, because of trauma and stress, we might consciously or unconsciously disown parts of ourselves. We might grow to view certain coping skills or patterns as “bad” when ultimately, they most likely served an important purpose in our lives. I aim to help my clients explore themselves, part by part, with gentle curiosity. Through using a variety of experiential approaches, we will work together to heal these pieces, allowing us to become more integrated, free, and whole. Every individual is the expert of their own life and is wise, intuitive, and has the capacity to heal.

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 you enter counseling, I want to applaud you for having the courage to embrace growth and vulnerability. You may be feeling stuck, withdrawn, or emotionally overwhelmed. It can be cathartic and healing to address wounds that leave us feeling disconnected. Therapy can help build a deeper connection to yourself, gain awareness, and develop a stronger foundation to live a life you desire. In our sessions, I incorporate your lived experience and intersecting identities to understand the person you are. I practice from an anti-oppressive, sex-positive and kink-affirming, multicultural and social justice lens.

Certain passages in life call one to walk hand in hand with uncertainty. I offer my clients support and guidance through periods of instability, change, and self-discovery. My approach is collaborative and process based, encouraging a sense of trust, safety, and self-agency. Integrating Jungian, psychodynamic, humanistic, and family systems techniques, I work with each individual to develop their inner emotional resources and natural creative resilience.

The greatest and most freeing gifts you can give yourself are self-exploration and compassion. Together, we can work collaboratively to further develop these tools, uncover new ones, and foster your innate resilience. My goal is for you to feel safe, challenged, and empowered during our time together. The sheer fact that you are seeking assistance, demonstrates both strength and courage. I aim to create a non-judgmental, secure, and open-minded environment for clients to explore the entirety of their feelings. We will work together to problem-solve, create lasting change, and develop techniques to help overcome barriers in life.

I specialize in working with women who want to improve how they feel about themselves and their relationships. Many of the women I work with have known adversity. You may be struggling with sadness, anxiety, anger—all feelings which are very normal given the stressful experiences you are going through. You want to move beyond the past so you can accept yourself as you are. Learning how to manage negative thoughts, intense emotions, setting boundaries, and improved communication would all be skills you’d like to improve upon.