Male Therapists in Seattle, WA

I guarantee your first session will be within 48 business hours of receiving your paperwork. I’ve been certified in EMDR since 2018 and as a consultant in training for EMDRIA, I train other therapists to utilize EMDR. As a clinically certified trauma specialist, my focus is to help you resolve previous traumas in your life. Clients have said that coming to see me is like seeing a good friend or sitting in their friend’s living room. I say that's how therapy is supposed to be. The comfort, along with my training and ability to help you heal, aid clients in experiencing success within the first few sessions.

Hi, fellow journeyers! I am an mixed Indigenous (Mohawk/Metís) & white (Swedish/Scottish) male who walks the sacred journey of mental and emotional healing with others in the Seattle area. My first priority is to get to know you, understand your current situation, and support your goals for therapy. Our therapeutic relationship will be characterized by respect and confidentiality. It is my greatest honor to walk the healing path with people. Our lives are the context for a myriad of great joy and sorrow. I look forward to walking alongside you in your journey of bringing healing to the sorrow and cultivating the joy.

I've been passionate about offering therapy to queer people for all of my 40 years as a therapist. While therapy with gay men has been the heart of my practice, along the way I've gained experience working with other people and situations: e.g., women; people of various classes, ethnicities and races; massive cultural trauma; HIV and other grave and/or chronic illness, including migraines; grief and mourning. And I love working with artists! Since moving to Seattle in 2006, I've found myself working with a wide range of couples, work which remains rewarding, challenging, and a welcome constant in my practice.

Thank you for visiting my profile. I provide psychotherapy and assessment services to adults (individuals, couples, and groups) who are struggling to thrive. I help others increase insight into their struggles and make concrete changes toward experiencing a more fulfilling life. During difficult times it is common to struggle with daily functioning while also trying to heal broader psychological and emotional concerns (e.g., trauma, relational struggles, problematic behavior). Therefore, I often will establish short-term and long-term goals, collaboratively with you, so that counseling can be sustainable, supportive, and effective.

Isolation is the killer. For many adolescent and adult males influences to pivot away from isolation and towards healing, connection, and growth is complex, challenging, and hopeful. My clients are invited to explore their “painful wounds” and discover how their pain’s influence leads to self-identity issues, certain behaviors, relationships, and patterns that decrease movement toward growth. Growth towards living with a full heart of emotions, less ambiguity, finding increased purpose, and engaged relationships. Growth towards self-compassion and employing in their lives what they value most.

Sometimes life feels too big, too complex, and too messy to get your head around. If you're ready to make changes in your life, but aren't sure where to start, I can help you develop a plan to make it happen. I can support you in your desire to stop destructive behaviors and create new, healthier ways of living. We go at a pace that is comfortable for you, taking on problems one-at-a-time. Together we tackle the things that are keeping you from the kind of life you want to live.

I specialize in helping couples, families, and men deal more effectively with their emotions and difficulties in their important relationships. I also offer support for major life transitions, identity issues, and personal growth. My style is warm, interactive, holistic and compassionately direct, and the strength of my approach rests on forging a genuine and trusting therapeutic 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.

Relationships in Crisis: We Have Four 75 Minute Private Couples/Marriage Workshops & Individual Sessions, in order to Rapidly Accelerate Your Healing & Your Communication Process (Traditional 45 min. session Does Not Work). During these 4 to 6 weeks, we will see both of you Together & Individually, as well as Help each of you Learn the Art of Empathy, Sensitivity & Compassion. These Workshops are Informative & Powerful, in order to Accelerate the Healing Process & Stop any further Damage from Occurring. In Addition, Our Success RATE is 85% of Our Couples that have Successfully Completed Our Couples Workshops or Alcohol Treatment.

Now accepting clients via teletherapy. Teletherapy is secure and easy to use: you simply need access to strong WiFi or cellular, privacy, and a smartphone/tablet/laptop. As a therapist with more than 13 years’ experience in the Seattle area, I provide strengths-based, solution-focused mental health therapy to clients from diverse backgrounds. I specialize in working with young adults, adolescents, and their families. I also frequently work with men and women to address addiction, work performance, relationship challenges, and other life stressors.

I comprehensively treat individuals and couples with sexual/relationship issues. I address communication/intimacy problems and all sexual concerns, including inhibited or low sexual desire, male erection and female arousal problems, premature ejaculation, painful intercourse, vaginismus, lack of orgasm, sexual and emotional skills, sexual "addiction," and sexual trauma. I also fine-tune sex lives. I am a cognitive (CBT) therapist. AASECT and five other national boards certify me as a sex therapist and a sexologist. I help clients get rid of distorted and negative thinking, which has a positive effect on emotions, behaviors and relationships. I assign homework/home-play!

I offer a holistic approach to help young people who are impacted by mental and behavioral health concerns. I begin work with each youth by seeking to understand their personality, their skills and challenges, the environments they are embedded in, and the way mental health symptoms are impacting them. I provide treatment that is grounded in a humanistic, youth-centered approach using mindfulness and DBT skills. I include creative and play therapy in my practice as structures that help facilitate our work together, and offer nature and music therapy to interested youth. Many of the youth I work with identify as boys and young men .

Stop feeling like you're always in trouble at home. We help you build confidence and get more satisfaction in relationships. We explore what happens at the beginning of an argument so that you can avoid them in the first place. It may seem impossible right now, but after a while you'll be less stressed while you're in conflict. You'll feel better equipped when you’re feeling trapped, outmaneuvered or backed against the wall. Visit my website to see how my men ’s group can work for you.

Men : Are you hard on yourself and find it hard to be close to your spouse? Do you lack joy and passion? I will be your personal coach to make your relationships work better and feel better. Many of my clients work in IT or manage others. I help them gain the people skills needed to be effective communicators at work and at home. Women: Do you find it hard to speak up for yourself and not keep saying, "I'm sorry." I will work with you to find your voice and speak up for yourself. I currently have openings to help you live the best life possible.

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.

I seek to create a warm, down-to-earth, and accepting experience for you to explore the hard-ass things in life. Many of us, myself included, were rarely taught how to connect with and understand our emotions, and so when we experience difficult feelings like shame, fear, and pain, we don’t know how to engage them in a helpful way. But that can change. We will work together to promote positive change and restore direction, meaning, and resilience during these difficult times. We will be teammates in our work together.