Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors Therapists in Seattle, WA

I have spent my career treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, and life transition/relationship challenges. Aside from counseling, I give community lectures on mental health and relationships and provide supervision to aspiring social workers.

Today you are one step closer to a new you who feels empowered and on a positive path to growth and well-being. As a client-centered counselor, my goal is to help you uncover your true potential and lead a life that is worth celebrating. While we can't change difficult situations of the past, we can work together to better understand and resolve challenges in your life. By applying complementary therapy approaches and techniques, we will unearth long-standing behavior patterns or negative perceptions that may be holding you back from experiencing a more fulfilling and meaningful life. I am also a WA State Approved Supervisor .

Rumi said it best: "She overcame everything that was meant to destroy her." Just love it. Inspires me every time I read it. My small online private practice focuses on women's mental health and wellbeing, supporting women's unique, innate power to triumph even during the most challenging of times. With 20 years in the counseling field, I have been witness to some remarkable strength and profound insight. I am truly inspired by the courageous work women do to rise and overcome.

With more than 20 years of experience as an educator and therapist, Jackie specializes in helping parents interact compassionately and effectively with their children. Her training and experience is rooted in evidence based therapies with a focus on creating and maintaining authentic, healing relationships. Jackie has advanced and intensive training in DBT and offers individualized coaching sessions for parents with children of all ages struggling with regulating intense emotions. She also runs DBT skills groups for parents, providing them with the skills and support to effectively manage parenting and family challenges.

I love to work with supervisees and mentees ( supervision of supervision ) as we grow, laugh, and learn together. The process of deepening knowledge, experience, and wisdom can be rewarding for both the supervisor and supervisee. I approach supervision and mentorship from a structural supervision perspective as I believe we all thrive with the right balance of structure and support. I use a good amount of humor and curiosity in my approach, as I believe the elements of fun, delight, and joy are important parts of the professional growth process. If we work together, you will be challenged and you will be uplifted.

Are you creative? In transition? Depressed? Different? Parenting? Re-discovering YOU? Are you wanting to make changes in your life or to heal from old wounds? Do you want to develop self-compassion? Do you want to learn how to be present for your life, to learn mindfulness to help you through the tough times? If so, let’s see if we can create a compassionate, interactive and authentic therapeutic relationship to work collaboratively towards healing. In therapy, I can help you identify your goals, look at what is and isn't working for you, explore your stories, emotions, and experiences (past and present), develop new skills, and embrace your learning styles and talents. I also provide consultation and supervision to therapists.

Supervision provided for LMHCAs. I work with kids and families on issues of attachment after adoption, trauma, related behavioral problems, emotional regulation, identity and separation issues. With kids I use a variety of play and art therapy techniques. Infants and very young children are seen with their caregivers. With adult adoptees I help to recognize old patterns, gain awareness about internal conflicts, tolerate and overcome the threat of change, and awaken to new and more satisfying possibilities for thinking, relating and living. EMDR and/or Somatic techniques for trauma. Safe and Sound Protocol is a service I offer.

I enjoy working with adults who are navigating complex life transitions. I also appreciate working with creative individuals., assisting them with managing anxiety and depression, and setting goals. I support individuals in exploring new ways to cope with challenging situations and relationships. I see therapy as an active and reflective partnership, a safe place to find support and learn tools for living. I provide Clinical Group and Individual Supervision to Social workers pursuing Licensure in WA State.

Call upon your courage as you greet the tasks of work, friendship, and intimacy while overcoming the slings and arrows which life's inevitable misfortunes lay upon us. Overcome suffering in the snares set by Fear, Anger, Despair, and their kin. Encouragement is the key that fosters hopeful striving and nourishes our potential for a meaningful life. Courage grows through relationship. I bring encouragement, authenticity, understanding, compassion, and wisdom born of a lifetime of study and personal and professional experience to the counseling relationship.

I work with individuals, families, and those in intimate partnerships who are experiencing distress in their relationships with one another and/or their peers, work, and community. I use goal oriented and solution focused approaches to help clients manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, behavioral challenges, and problems with communication. I am using my many years working with families in crisis to help clients manage the current circumstances, including feelings of isolation, financial hardship, anxiety, panic, sadness, low motivation, managing work at home with children, and balancing autonomy with togetherness.

I am committed to helping people live happier, more satisfying lives. I know that relationship and work difficulties, anxiety, depression and cultural issues can make it harder to live the life you want. I have a flexible style and work collaboratively, taking into account your family and personal history, racial/cultural background, religious/spiritual life, sexual orientation, and other identities. Together we will figure out what approach will work best for you. If you have questions after looking over my profile and website about whether I am the right therapist for you, I offer 20-minute free phone consultations.

Ari Gartin, LMHC, Ph.D.(c) is a licensed mental health counselor and a clinical psychology candidate in Washington State. Ari is an interpersonal psychotherapist, clinical supervisor , and forensic consultant. She provides training in mental health to organizations across Washington State and is available for professional, private consultation on topics such as parental alienation syndrome, Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another, (Munchausen by Proxy) filicide, parenticide, and postpartum disorder with psychotic symptoms.

Mettarel Associates, PS is improving the community one relationship at a time. We provide quality therapy services and workshops for the general public, and professional training, supervision , and employment for therapists. We are inclusive and serve a variety of cultures and communities.

Do you find it challenging to show up for yourself? Are you making decisions that aren’t aligned with the way you want to live your life? Do you struggle with boundaries in your relationships? Are there things from your past that are impacting your life now? I’m passionate about helping my clients develop a grounded and secure sense of self so that they can build a meaningful and fulfilling life. The majority of my practice focuses on helping clients’ relationship with themselves and relationships with others. I often work with those who are feeling lost, stuck, depressed, and anxious.

I believe in putting every client at ease so that we can build upon your strengths, uncover areas of challenge and the patterns that no longer serve you, while working toward your goals and ambition. I specialize in anxiety, stress management, life transitions, identity exploration, pregnancy, parenting, depression, grief, loss, trauma, infertility and third party reproduction, and chronic illness. I am especially passionate about supporting individuals and couples experiencing infertility because of my own experience with it, which inspired me to pursue additional postgraduate training and supervision .

Undergoing intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy is deeply personal. For many individuals, this adventure into unknown recesses of their psyches reveals personal vistas previously unimagined. Such exploration frequently involves painful disclosures, frightening discoveries, an extraordinary development of self-understanding, an increase in capacity for intimate sharing, and an integration of strengths and aspirations. Such a journey, with phases of both pain and exhilaration, usually takes place over an extended period.