Marriage Counseling Therapists in Seattle, WA

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works exclusively with couples. I also offer therapeutic groups for individuals looking for healing and self-discovery. As a couples counselor, I utilize Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy to help partners uncover underlying emotions and communicate more effectively for attention, understanding, compassion and caring. The result is greater warmth, trust and safety in the relationship. Honest and direct in my approach yet gentle and patient, I am committed to creating compassionate and authentic relationships where every client feels supported, understood, and seen.

Welcome! Relationships anchor our lives as we experience life in relationship. Experiencing interpersonal and relational conflict is a shared human experience and it occurs at all stages of life. It is not an indicator that we are weak or unworthy, but a reminder that we are human. Freedom comes when we realize that we have the power to make choices that shape the life we want to live. If things in your life are no longer working for you, you can choose to start doing something different today. I welcome the opportunity to learn more about you and the experiences that have brought you to this unique point in your life.

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.

For over 30 years I have worked with families, couples, individual adults, and children to help them feel better about themselves and their lives. I have taught people skills at communicating which can help them take care of their needs and not interact in ways that can damage relationships or others' self esteem. Because counseling involves healing on all levels--the body, the emotions and the mind--I help people learn how to heal themselves, and in turn help others to heal. My approach is holistic and client-centered where I integrate therapeutic modalities according to the person's needs.

Seeking out counseling is a courageous act of support that you give yourself and is a challenging and rewarding process that is full of support and deep exploration. I am excited to talk with you about what you are experiencing and how to move forward through the challenges you are facing today.

As a licensed psychologist for 36 years, I have worked with a wide variety of clients, helping them to successfully move through their challenges and achieve their goals. Examples of these goals could be symptom relief, improved marriages/relationships, working through problems with teens and parenting, personal growth, improved relationships with friends or colleagues at work, increased satisfaction with feelings about yourself or your direction. My style is highly engaged and interactive. I will provide a safe/caring environment, focusing on your strengths as well as your areas of pain and distress.

If your relationship is feeling strained, and it’s getting harder to communicate or connect with your partner, I can help. I’ll show you how to shift the ways you understand and interact with each other during times of stress, which will hopefully improve your ability to work as a team and manage conflict much easier together. If you’re not sure your relationship conflict is “bad enough” to start couples therapy, I want to assure you that now is the perfect time to get started. Just like medical intervention, therapy can be helpful at any level of distress: before problems start, early in the process, or when you're in crisis.

Therapy can be the greatest tool in understanding ourselves and creating the lives we want. It is a designated time to pause amidst the chaos in order to connect with ourselves and how we are truly doing. As a Marriage and Family therapist, I believe it is my job to create a safe space in which people are able to do the brave work of looking inwards and examining any parts of their lives that feel unsatisfying, and to then support them in making value-driven changes.

You can create a better life. Call upon your courage as you grow to meet the tasks of work, friendship, and intimacy and overcome life's inevitable misfortunes. Encouragement fosters an attitude of hopeful striving and nourishes our potential for a meaningful life. Overcome the snares set by Fear, Anger, Despair, and their many cousins. Courage grows through relationship. I won't try to fix, repair, or heal you or determine your way. I offer you a counseling relationship to which I bring encouragement, authenticity, understanding, compassion, and wisdom born of a lifetime of study, and personal and professional experience.

You are probably reading this because something in your life needs to change, and working through it by yourself has left you feeling stuck. A good therapist can assist with creating meaningful relationships, overcoming emotional pain, finding clarity, and handling stressful situations. I help individuals, couples, and families overcome the struggles that brought them to therapy. My counseling practice often involves supporting people who struggle with relationships, depression, anxiety, trauma, and coping with difficulties. Couples work involves breaking through old, stuck patterns that create conflict and disconnection to create sustaining and satisfying partnerships.

At the edge of your comfort zone is where your journey begins. Challenges are part of life and although we navigate most with courage and confidence, there are times we feel powerless and stuck. By exploring new strategies for understanding our difficulties, we construct a different lens for viewing hardships and subsequently discover our unique capabilities and emerge stronger and wiser. Whether you are a parent struggling with the evolving dynamic of communication with your children, or a partner grappling with the ebb and flow in one's relationship, these are our most essential opportunities for a life changing transformation.

I have learned that people can deeply disappoint you, and that your heart can be hopelessly broken. I have learned that marriages will turn stagnant and stale and that you will war within your body while no one else is looking. I have learned you will get dizzy from circling within your conflicted relationship with no signs of light at the end of the tunnel. I've learned that your marriage can come to be the place you feel most lost and alone. In my psychotherapy practice, we will start with where you are.

If there is one constant in life, it's change; a new job or suddenly having to look for one , a new relationship or a heart break, a marriage , a divorce, life not working out the way you had hoped. Let me help you navigate these uncertain times, helping you to find a way through them or take a new tack or tap into hidden strengths. Sometimes we can change the situation; sometimes we must change ourselves, tearing down limiting beliefs and narratives to create new beliefs and narratives that honor our true self, our true values, and our goals.

Mental Health Counseling in Seattle | Psychotherapy Private Practice: Psychotherapist and counselor for problems of depression and anxiety. Therapy for panic disorder, generalized anxiety, post traumatic stress, simple phobia, anger management, stress reduction, social anxiety, phobias and avoidance. I help people by providing skills based therapy to assure you effectively manage your moods, emotions and behavior. I'll help you learn the competencies to resolve unwanted life defeating habits. Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Learn effective personal solutions from anxiety and panic to sex & pornography addiction - lasting behavior change. Thanks for your interest in my practice! I'm just a phone call away!

All too often there is an absence of communication about money within our most intimate relationships. While discussing finances with your partner may feel vulnerable or uncomfortable, the risks of avoiding the discussion are too high, and while arguing about finances with your partner may be second nature at this point, it doesn't have to be. Compulsive spending, financial enabling, financial avoidance, and financial marriage prep, are a few reasons you might seek financial therapy. Through financial therapy, you will be able to implement healthy financial behaviors, adapt to financial changes, and feel confident in your decisions.

I work with individuals, couples and families to gain insight and to identify the underlying causes to challenges in their lives. I help people to figure out where they are currently at and to find solutions, while building on the strengths of the individual, couple and/or family. With my assistance, clients prioritize their needs and then set simple, realistic, and achievable goals. Clients draw on their experience and learn to appreciate the areas of their life where they are enjoying success. Clients gain the skills and tools needed to meet their goals.

You have taken the first step of reaching your goals by searching for help, which is often the most difficult. You did it! As your therapist I work collaboratively in finding a solution that is catered to you and works well for your present and future self. I have experience working with a various different clients that includes but not limited to those suffering from Life Transitions, Relationship Difficulties, Anxiety, Depression, PPD in individuals, adolescents and family settings. Additionally I work with couples going through relationship distress, pre- marital , communication, separation or divorce.

I provide Telehealth therapy for individuals 25+ years of age and couples counseling, including pre- marital . I bring to therapy a diverse and expansive array of professional experiences. My experience has equipped me to work with clients with a wide range of issues including trauma, grief, loss, divorce, recovery and healing from emotional abuse, narcissistic abuse, marital issues, struggles with self-esteem, family of origin issues, anxiety, depression, attachment issues and those experiencing major life changes. I love working with couples and individuals who are authentically ready for change.

I provide therapy to people who wish to make lasting positive changes in their lives in a warm, safe environment. I have extensive experience working with people who have loved ones who have completed suicide and/or are working through other complicated grief issues. I am a certified hypnotherapist and EMDR trained for PTSD and trauma. I am experienced helping with self-esteem, personal development, marriage or premarital counseling, depression, anxiety and divorce recovery. Other areas I work with are Crisis Management, Anger Management, Traumas, Adult ADD/ADHD, Sleep Disturbance, Career Counseling, Social Discomfort and cultural issues.