Therapists in Hough, Vancouver, WA

Life is complex and struggles are inevitable so cultivating resilience to recover from life’s challenges is essential. Part of my role is to provide that safe and confidential space for authentic connection. I believe positive change is possible with compassion and encouragement. I endeavor to understand your story and help you to improve your overall well-being. I will collaborate with you to find solutions to the challenges you are facing. I tend to help those suffering from anxiety, depression, trauma, grief/losses as well as adjusting to major life transitions---relocations, relationship & career changes, & family cycles.

Therapy can seem daunting; you have to become vulnerable before you will start seeing benefits. For many, this is more anxiety producing than not. You might not know what to expect. You might have had a bad experience with a prior therapist. You might feel hopeless, like no amount of therapy can help you. You can be helped. It’s likely that you have an issue in your life that is causing you ambivalence, or else you wouldn’t be seeking therapy. To have ambivalence means you are uncertain about your life in the now, and choices you must make to manifest the future you want are causing you depression, fear, and/or anxiety.

When I hear the words "ideal client," I immediately think about someone who is willing to change. This is someone who is wanting to work on themselves and is ready to take "personal inventory." Someone who is open, honest, and vulnerable with themselves and their therapist. A client who is willing to engage and participate in the process of bettering themselves. We can work on managing stress, day to day challenges, or learning coping skills. We will work together on a therapeutic approach that is right for you.

I am passionate about working with clients who have experienced grief and loss around relationships, illness and life transitions. As someone who has experienced my own grief and loss I understand that we as individuals need space, empathy and support from others. I honor your experience and will partner with you on your journey toward healing. I believe that from loss can come renewed strength and hope. You are supported in a safe and nonjudgmental space with me. Through pain can come great clarity around your priorities, goals and what is most important to you. You will discover how you have survived and can thrive moving forward.

When one door closes but another door isn't yet open, it can get lonely out in that hallway. Maybe a loved one has died, or you've received a diagnosis or you just moved to a new area...Is what you're feeling grief, trauma or culture shock? Or all of the above? How do you find courage, support and strength when you're in this in-between territory? It helps to have someone who's been there listen as you sort it out. Someone who gives you space to discern what you need. Someone who understands your language and can help you recognize and explore new possibilities. Someone who helps you discover who you are now, and who you can become

Have you lost interest in activities or hobbies you once enjoyed? Are you feeling constantly tired or lacking energy, even after rest? These feelings are exhausting, but they don’t have to linger forever. My goal is to help you live a happier life. Through emotionally focused training and acceptance and commitment therapy, you can achieve these goals.

Part of being a human and living means we face pain. Sometimes the pain is so difficult, longstanding, early or layered that we develop behavioral patterns or beliefs about ourselves or others that allow us to survive, but we become stuck in. Often something in our present life invites us back to the pain that we missed. Symptoms like depression and anxiety, burnout, anger, emptiness, or numbness can point us back to places that need healing. Through tending to our pain by hearing the story our bodies, symptoms, or behaviors are telling we can find our way back to ourselves and restore connection, meaning, and hope in our lives.

I am a dedicated telehealth psychotherapist committed to helping individuals navigate their emotional journeys towards well-being and personal growth. With a foundation in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), I offer evidence-based techniques that empower clients to identify and modify unhelpful thought patterns, leading to healthier behaviors and emotions.

My focus is working with individuals who are experiencing anxiety, depression, or post traumatic stress and have not found success with conventional counseling practices. I focus on holistic care providing neuromodulation to identify and treat imbalances in the brain that are caused from long term stress. When the body is able to move from a fight, flight, or freeze state is it easier to apply skills you have been trying so hard to achieve. I believe you do not have to learn coping strategies to manage symptoms but that symptoms of depression, anxiety, and trauma can be healed.

Are unexpected panic attacks causing distress, with blurred vision and heightened sensitivity to sound overwhelming you? Regaining calm in these moments might feel challenging, but please know you're not alone in this struggle against anxiety. There is a path forward, and enduring this forever isn't your only option. I believe in beginning our treatment with solution-focused brief therapy, and building a treatment plan from there.

To seek help means acknowledging that toughing it out alone isn't working. Whether you are a seasoned recipient of counseling, or this is your first time, I commend you for taking this step and look forward to working with you. My approach to counseling is trauma-informed and integrative, drawing on my knowledge of a variety of therapeutic models while being rooted in humanistic, psychodynamic, and emotionally-focused psychotherapies. We'll work well together if you're looking to change relationship patterns, free yourself from feelings of sadness and fear, or work through old traumas.

Going to therapy can be intimidating, and finding the right therapist can be difficult! I applaud you in making that stride and hope I can make the process easier for you. On that note, Hi! My name is Mariah and I love helping individuals who are making the journey to better themselves and improve their lives.

My passion for helping my clients involves providing the space to feel heard, validated and empowered to commit to positive behavioral health changes for themselves, interpersonally and with the world around them. My theoretical lens is grounded through my studies and practice in humanistic theory, attachment-based theory, child development, and family systems theory. I strive to help individuals and when working with families, to develop healthier communication, interpersonal, behavioral, relational and coping skills to strengthen both their interpersonal relationships and positive behaviors, for overall mental well-being.

I am a queer, trans, non-binary therapist. I provide talk and expressive arts therapy for LGBTQIA+ adults, women, and non-monogamous people. I specialize in working with trans and non-binary folks and on relationship concerns, confidence, trauma, and integrating the arts in therapy. I strive to create an environment where you can feel comfortable exploring your experience and take steps towards what’s important to you. I am social justice oriented, neurodiversity-affirming, and work from a trauma-informed perspective. I am an LPC Associate in TX, supervised by Candice Holloway, and an LMHCA in WA, supervised by Breona Mendoza.

I work with various issues including infertility, pregnancy and postpartum, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, stress management, grief and loss, and marriage/relationship.

Life is just getting too hard. The nightmares, the memories, the sleepless nights, the triggers, what do I do with it all? Will it always be this way for me? Trauma, CPTSD, and PTSD can feel overwhelming, frustrating and isolating. It's possible nobody around you understands, or they are telling you that you should "get over it", or that you should have been able to move on by now, and you want to. You want to be able to connect with people again, to feel safe in your environment and in your body. You want to feel better, and you want to thrive.

Are you (or is your child) struggling with depression, anxiety, or trauma? Do you ever feel like you're mourning the childhood you never got? Are you on the cusp of adulthood but don't feel like you're ready to grow up? Are you the parent of a teen that struggles to "just be a kid"? I'm here to help. I specialize in supporting students and young adults who are seeking understanding and guidance. I have a passion for helping young people thrive and find their voice. Together, we'll navigate the challenges of adolescence, tackle life's big questions, and develop strategies to enhance confidence and resilience.

While I support clients who are navigating a wide range of concerns, those who have experienced pain, disappointment, grief, and distress from experiences in faith communities are especially drawn to my work. It can be incredibly impactful to have a dedicated space to process these experiences. It is also important to acknowledge how isolating it can be to pause, deconstruct, or reconsider long-held beliefs or spiritual practices that once held a lot of hope and meaning. Or, to simply explore how embracing your full humanity and identity can be celebrated after experiences of being shamed for those aspects of you.

I practice a dynamic style of therapy that is rooted in creating a supportive, caring environment where we establish a good working relationship that fosters self-awareness and insight. I work in-depth with you to discover how past family experiences may (often unconsciously) influence present day issues. We work to understand how difficult situations of the past contribute to longstanding frequently dysfunctional behavior patterns or negative self-perceptions. Therapy can help heal painful emotional wounds and relieve symptoms, improve self-acceptance and coping, improve relationship quality and overall life and work satisfaction.