Teletherapy for Washington

Hello! Do you feel like you're constantly struggling with ADHD, even though you're ambitious and bright? You may feel unmotivated, scattered, and overwhelmed. You may feel like you don't fit in, and you may start to doubt yourself. You're not alone. I have ADHD too, and I know the struggle well. I'm also here to tell you that it's possible to live a successful and fulfilling life with ADHD. I can provide you with tools and strategies to help you manage your symptoms and process the pain that stems from additional emotion dysregulation, anxiety , depression, and trauma. If you're ready to make a change, I'm here to help you get there.

Contrary to what movies show you about therapy, I won’t give you unwanted advice or simply nod solemnly the whole session. I bring curiosity, compassion, humor, free expression, and movement to join with my clients and help them explore what healing means to them. I hope to empower clients to access their natural abilities and to gently disrupt the unhealthy patterns we humans often get stuck in using more than traditional “talk therapy” approach. My goal is to facilitate somatic healing, so your whole body begins to feel better as you gain new awareness and get “unstuck” from the patterns you’re ready to release.

ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS! We believe that tending to your mental health is just as important as your physical health. We have a team of Mental Health professionals at Vancouver Wellness Studio who have different types of expertise to meet your needs. Our therapists use a Trauma-focused, Holistic, Collaborative, and Client-centered approach, and are able to provide clients with a different experience in therapy including Mindfulness, EMDR Trauma therapy, LENS Neurofeedback and Somatic Therapy. Our therapists can work together to provide you with coordinated care. Our team includes Kendall Hagensen, LMHC, BC-DMT (Lemecia Lindsey, LICSW)

Is anxiety , overwhelm & past trauma making you feel like the walls are caving in? You’ve done everything “right” in life, only to realize that hasn’t made life any easier. Maybe you are one of those high achievers that succeeds at everything, or a people-pleaser terrified of confrontation. Either way – you feel out of control & ashamed, because - why can’t you figure this mental health stuff out? On top of all this, you are at a time of great transition, change & growth. Learning how to be an adult in a scary & unpredictable world can feel very lonely & sometimes crushing. Especially a world that seems like it’s going off the rails.

We provide Safe Affordable Talk Therapy for Women, Nurses, First Responders, Patients/Caregivers with serious medical diagnoses, and those that love them. You want to talk to someone who’s had similar experiences and really understands. SATT is a diverse clinical group of helping professionals that provide in-office and online talk therapy and support services to clients throughout Washington state. Let us help you to work through what’s holding you back. We will help you to clarify the next steps that are the best for you. We believe that you deserve respect and access to supportive resources that can serve to enhance your lives.

Feeling exhausted from the chatter in your mind? Reworking that thing you said last night, "what if..." Worrying about what will happen tomorrow or next year? Sleep can restless or evasive when anxiety is high. Would your friends and family be shocked by the comments, self -recrimination, and judgments floating around in your head? It can be exhausting keeping up the pretense of having it all-together. You probably mostly do have it together: great job, friends, a loving partner. But you wonder why it's not more more enjoyable? Or maybe two or three areas of your life and fantastic but that missing piece is leaves you longing.

I specialize in the successful treatment of stuck and repeating habits, and unwanted patterns of worry, anxiety , stress, fear, phobia , and PTSD. My ideal clients are women, who are motivated, intuitive and intelligent, ready to evolve beyond the past, and the anxiety and fears that keep them suffering. I treat the whole human system including the spirit, energy, intuition, psyche, emotion, body and subconscious mind. With my help, my clients dissolve the blocks in their subconscious minds so that they can be free of the past, and repeating unwanted life and relationship patterns and problems, to live in the present moment.

“To heal, together we must embrace the formerly unbearable: reality and our feelings about it” (Jon Frederickson). When faced with unbearable pain, every person develops ways to deal with that pain. These ways of dealing (or adaptations) were necessary at the time. However, these same adaptations often become automatic and habitual, and thus get carried into adulthood where they now cause more pain. I work with people who find themselves in pain, which can present as anxiety , depression, harsh self-criticism, attachment-related trauma or (often) a combination of all of the above.

I am passionate about working with couples and clients who are motivated to find solutions, and who are open to working towards being present, to create the life that they want. We'll work side by side to uncover and resolve experiences from the past and process whatever's impacting you today. My specialties include: relationship issues, concussion/ brain injury, womans health, pregnancy/parenting, anxiety , and depression.

**NEW CLIENTS - Please email me** No one deserves to live in pain. For therapy to work, you need three things: curiosity about yourself and your interactions with others, an authentic connection with your therapist, and concrete, practical tools and skills to promote real and lasting change. My job is to facilitate an understanding of what is causing you pain and getting in your way of creating your best life. As your therapist, I don’t “just listen.” I use an integrative approach, combining several modalities to create the most effective treatment for each client. I practice remote therapy with individual adults.

Are you struggling to show up in the present? Do you ever feel 'haunted' by past experiences that foreclose your way toward the future you want? I have met such roadblocks myself and believe that building a healthy interpersonal relationship in therapy paves the road to unlocking your goals & desires. I have specialties working with queer women & femmes in addressing anxiety , t/Trauma processing & recovery, sexual assault, and identity exploration.

You’re feeling stuck, out of touch with yourself, unfulfilled, and you’re looking for relief and real change. It may appear like you have it all together, but on the inside you feel doubtful, burdened and stressed. Maybe you’re caught between different cultures, struggling with your identity and finding your place in the world. You might be carrying the trauma of your past or family history, and seeing the impacts in your work, relationships, sleep, energy levels, feelings of isolation and sense of self-worth. Even in your free time, you may find it difficult to truly relax and rest, your sense of pleasure and purpose depleted.

My calling is to support women and teens (15+) to overcome anxiety , self esteem, relationships, and trauma lead more empowering and fulfilling lives. I create a safe space for you to explore your feelings, and embrace your vulnerability without judgment. By offering compassionate guidance, you will experience greater self-love and self-acceptance, leading to more secure relationships and personal fulfillment. My hope is that through our sessions, you would feel a sense of respite from the struggles and obstacles you have faced, to connect deeply with yourself and gain a new perspective on your life and your future.

Our minds go all day without an "off" switch. We're always thinking, thinking, thinking, whether or not we notice. Our thoughts - pleasant and unpleasant - give rise to our feelings. Unfortunatley, it's the unhappy ones that tend to linger and cause pain and suffering, like depression, anger and anxiety . We're driven by an instinctual survival system to stay alive, and our brains use thinking to make sure we're prepared for the worst. "I'm not safe." "Maybe they don't like me." "Something's wrong with me." "I'm a fraud." Unexamined, worst-case scenario thinking causes dis-ease. We're stressed, tense, worried and exhausted.

Morning/afternoon Availability. Mindfulness, compassion focused and positive psychology are at the core of my practice. Resistance to the very normal experience of suffering, as if something has gone terribly wrong, is natural. We become disconnected from the fullness of our experience and ourselves; the mind, body and our relationships. We practice inclining toward your experience and yourself in these areas with curiosity, cultivating tenderness, interconnectedness, and wise attention. Within all of us these precious core values have a capacity to hold space and a sense of wholeness that runs deeper than our problems.

I specialize in working with clients that try to manage life's pain with substances and other addictions. Many of my clients want to simply change their using habits and I work to support them weekly in understanding their intentions, feelings and motivations as they make healthy changes to their relationship with alcohol or other drugs. As we well know, many clients suffering from substance use disorders have a myriad of other issues that drive these compulsive coping mechanisms; I am experienced in many co-occuring issues such as depression, anxiety , trauma or grief. Supervisor: T. Christopher Portman PhD.

I am a Latinx from Texas. I enjoy working with people of all races, ethnicities and cultures, and I am passionate in advocating for social justice issues. I believe that when transgressions occur and cause trauma, one should have a place to find safety, allyship and advocacy. I myself have Dyslexia and HSP (Highly Sensitive Personality), which have presented challenges in my life, but I have grown from them and learned to use them as the gifts that they are. For example, being highly sensitive enables me to be an excellent empathetic listener, and my dyslexia sometimes allows me to see possibilities for growth that others might not.