Women's Issues Therapists in Seattle, WA

Therapy is an incredible tool for healing, exploration, and liberation. I am specially trained in lending a neutral ear as you navigate new truths and find growth in old wounds. As a relationship therapy specialist, I know that enriching connections to Self, Partners, Family, and Community are key to achieving the high quality of life that you deserve. My role is to help you gain confidence, truth, and a chance to re-author your life’s narrative. I work with individuals, people in relationships (couples, spouses, polycules, etc.), and families of all kinds. I draw from a strengths-based narrative approach that is client-centered.

As a marriage and family therapist I use a family systems approach based on gaining an understanding of how we think, feel and behave in the systems we belong to. I use an integrated approach, structuring sessions applicable to the client's needs; therefore, therapy is a collaborative effort and exchange. Both past and present life experiences shape who we are. Sometimes it can be difficult to navigate the many roles we play. It is my hope that I can help ease any discomfort or pain you experience in your families and relationships.

I am passionate about helping people better understand their bodies and sexuality to empower them in their intimate relationships. By gaining knowledge of and comfort with ourselves, we can enjoy a deeper sense of bonding and pleasure in sexual relationships. Whether you are looking to improve your connection to your body or your relationship with your partner(s), I am here to support your journey. I believe sexual health and pleasure are fundamental to both personal well-being and fulfilling relationships. We will collaborate to help you develop a sexual life that gives you joy, pleasure, a sense of connection, and an authentic identity.

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.

I believe in supporting my clients in their desire to find more wholeness, aliveness, acceptance, and peace within themselves. Using multiple modalities such as IFS, EMDR, AEDP, mindfulness and somatic techniques, and person-centered therapy, I will help you in navigating life transitions, doubt, grief, anxiety, overwhelm, and fear. I rely on holistic practices and tools to help you increase self compassion, expand your capacity to feel and sit with the harder seasons of life, develop both skills to manage the many stressors of life, and make room for more joy, trust, intuition, and deep connection to others.

Greetings and Congratulations on taking your first step in finding the right therapist for you! My name is Tayler Peterson and I am a Master’s level intern pursuing my degree in Social Work from the University of Washington. I am passionate about supporting clients on their journey towards healing and personal growth. I approach therapy with empathy, authenticity, and a genuine desire to work with individuals navigating life’s challenges. Drawing from my training and coursework, I utilize a client-centered approach, tailoring therapy to meet the unique needs and goals of each individual.

I am passionate about offering counseling and therapy services to women and femmes of color experiencing anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, PTSD, life transitions, and issues around spirituality. Through interpersonal, contextualized therapy and mindfulness (paying attention to our whole bodies), I aim to facilitate spaces where healing and wellness can be experienced and intentionally re-integrated. I have also expanded my practice to include Immigration/Psychological Evaluations for community members who need this service. This includes Asylum, Extreme Hardship, VAWA, U and T Visas. Please contact for fees on this service.

With twenty years in private practice, I’ve honed my ability to attune to a person’s unique lens and her lived experience. My passion is women's wellness: I holistically support women in all phases of life to thrive. My special focus is on those faced with infertility, pregnancy loss and birth trauma. Having lived through and healed from those challenges, my connection to women and mothering is intuitive. Drawing upon mindfulness and somatic (body-focused) training, I offer wellness skills for building trauma resilience, practicing mindful self-compassion, and managing the cumulative stress of womanhood and motherhood.

Do you spend all your time/energy anxiously taking care of everyone else or feel the need to work for people’s love and approval? Do you crave softness, a slower pace, more peace? Are you tired of being a perfectionist or people pleaser? Are you ready to break free from enmeshed and toxic relationship dynamics? Then you've come to the right place! As a radical, anti-oppressive and trauma-informed psychotherapist, I focus a lot on decolonization, fluidity and flexibility; and avoid applying bandaids and rigid, outdated protocols to your healing process. Together, our sessions will involve a lot of deconstruction and inner child work.

I would love to help you create more flexibility and creativity in your relationships to self and others. We'll do this through mindfulness, somatic attention, and moment-to-moment curiosity. I listen to the stories you tell and how you tell them. Attention to posture and sensation helps us see body narratives, and observation of speech patterns and words provides clues about mental and emotional themes. Eventually new stories and possibilities appear as we interrupt worn out messages and invite new meanings. You will learn emotion regulation, self-advocacy, boundary-setting, and increased creative resilience.

As a mom you believe you can just do it all & once you get through the next big busy day you'll finally catch your breath. Except, those days never come. Trying to support your kid's emotional demands has you coming in last. As far as what others’ see, you’ve got it all together, you're living a happy & fulfilled life. You’re accomplished, hardworking, reliable & appear to be somehow rocking out the illusive life balance. But inside, you feel stuck, overwhelmed & like you’re just going through the motions. You never feel present in the moment & the overbearing voice in your head is quick to let you know you’ll never be good enough.

I use a holistic approach to healing that includes mind, body and spirit. I have a particular focus on women's health issues, sexual abuse, and PTSD. Every pain, trauma, and obstacle we experience in life has information to share with us. The most difficult times we face can be truly transformative if we know how to listen to them. Sometimes we can get lost down these turbulent roads and my job is to help you navigate the path that you are already on.

I understand how frustrating and powerless it can feel to be trapped in our own mind. It feels like someone is in the driver seat and we are merely a passenger, along for the ride. This might look like overthinking before going into social situations, negative self talk or entering into relationships because we crave a sense of safety. This is just the mind trying to keep us safe. My goal for all my clients is to get a point where we are able to understand why we might feel that way, and still do the thing that scares us. Our mind will create a million narratives to keep us safe, and they might not all be true.

Do you feel like you're maintaining or surviving, rather than thriving? Maybe you're not sure what the next step is, but you know you want to feel less stress, anxiety, and fear and more peace, joy, and confidence. I believe that many distressing feelings are often responses to a world that tries to tell us who we are and who we should be, through inherited belief systems, culture, relationships, experiences of trauma, and systems of oppression. I love working w/ people to reveal what those stories are, the meanings you've held in them, and how to discover and make space for the self inside you that felt small, boxed in, or stuck.

Hi, I’m Kim, a therapist and coach experienced in working with individuals facing a variety of challenges. I hold a belief in each person’s innate wisdom, intelligence and ability to solve problems given the right support. I collaborate with you in identifying your values, needs and goals and offer counseling and coaching services in hopes of helping you to finding your individual path toward health and wellness.

Do you have difficulty trusting your experiences and navigating how the world perceives and treats you? Are you struggling to feel comfortable in your body? Many of us learn to think and behave in unsustainable ways in order to stay safe in an unaccepting and marginalizing world. If you are struggling to break free from patterns that helped you survive in the past but are keeping you from thriving in the now, you're in the right place. I help LGBTQ+ individuals, couples and women build self-compassion and body-awareness to better understand how trauma is holding them back.

I know that reaching out for therapy can be an overwhelming and vulnerable experience. You deserve to prioritize your mental health, and therapy can be a great start for that. I aim to create a warm, safe, open, non-judgmental space where you feel seen, understood, accepted, and supported. I offer both individual and couples therapy and enjoy building relationships with my clients to help support them in what they are navigating. I have experience supporting clients navigating depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship challenges.

You may be experiencing a great loss, or even many losses from the pandemic, or feel stuck in patterns that no longer serve your growth. You may be experiencing pain or conflict in relationships, anxiety at work, stress from trying to “balance it all”, or residual pain from the past. There may be a sense of increased collective grief and eco-anxiety. The discomfort brings us back into conversation with ourselves- all the parts. From here we begin the process of healing and meaning making, to come to inhabit your life in a more embodied, present, and clear way.

I primarily focus on dating, love, and relationships. I love LOVE. And, I love to help women have better love lives when it comes to dating, having more fulfilling relationships, or healing from a break up. I also help couples who want greater connection, intimacy, or "spark" and specialize in working with queer couples.