Teletherapy for Washington

We understand that life can be beautiful and hard. Whether it is relationship challenges, feeling anxious or depressed, experiencing loss/transition or adjusting to something tough that is happening, we are here to support you to find hope and healing. We are a team of caring clinicians, who serve couples and individuals with a warm welcome and compassion for the challenges life can bring. With this group part of my practice, associate counselors and/or counseling graduate level interns are ready to support you. Openings available, depending on billing and scheduling needs.

Whether you are experiencing an especially difficult season or just want to learn more about why you get caught in painful, repetitive cycles, together we can explore what brings you to therapy and your personal goals for healing. Current neurobiology shows us that through a healthy therapeutic relationship we can learn new ways to relate to ourselves and others, enabling us to heal from past hurts and live into our full selves. I provide a welcome space for childen, adults, and couples to explore what is hurting them and to open up a path to deeper connection, meaning, and joy.

I work with women: daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts, and grandmothers, and the people who desire to enjoy healthy, loving relationships with them. Together we work to develop the insight and skills necessary to experience the pleasure of love. We may explore trauma, loss, grief, anger, repressed desire, lack of vitality, and current challenging relationships. My orientation is analytical, depth/archetypal, and feminist. I am trained to listen for ways in which your own unconscious is your truest guidance. Through this connection you can access your most satisfying, unique potential. Above all, I am committed to female empowerment.

I work with children and adolescents struggling with anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, grief and loss, family changes, challenging peer relationships and the behaviors that can result from these issues. I have training and experience using Play Therapy and Sandplay , which employ children's natural way of communicating and learning, as well as other therapeutic modalities as appropriate to each individual. My approach is client centered and often non-directive, believing that when children experience emotional safety in a non-judgmental relationship, their inner wisdom naturally emerges to guide their learning, healing and growth.

I work with people of all ages committed to developing self-awareness in order to change or enhance their quality of life. I work with children experiencing anxiety, depression, and home/school challenges. Supporting children usually involves working with parents/guardians and families. I enjoy working with individual adults interested in understanding themselves, their relationships, and their actions. My therapy practice includes play therapy and art therapy, sand-play, active listening, family systems work, and parenting education. I am curious and compassionate in my relationship to clients with varying needs and backgrounds.

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.

Saltwater Therapeutic Wellness Services, a Licensed Mental and Behavioral Health Service Provider, with an office in Gig Harbor Washington. As a social worker for the last 23 years, I have met many people from all walks of life. My genuine authentic approach with my patients has always been person-centered. I want to work alongside you to achieve your goals.

Are you feeling overwhelmed? All of us experience seasons of unbalance, heartache, and emotional distress. My practice is centered on us co-authoring respectful and lasting solutions to the struggles you have experienced in the past or are presently experiencing. It is important to me for sessions to include: hopefulness, compassion, and a sense of humor. I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington State. I also have a Professional Counselor License for the State of Oregon (LPC). I have worked at CHARIS Counseling Associates for over a decade. Before my counseling career, I was a high school teacher with PPS.

Have you been dealing with challenging or concerning patterns that keep coming up in your life and in your relationships? Have you experienced times in your life that were very painful, and find them coming up again and again, even though you’ve tried to forget about it and move on? If any of these sound familiar, you are not alone!

My clients come to me because they are struggling with behavioral issues, school problems, difficulties controlling worries, or poor emotion regulation skills. I am a Psychologist that enjoys working with children, adolescents, and families. Working collaboratively with clients, I strive to create shared goals and build skills using play therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. I'm here to help bring out the best in your child and family. My clients leave with new strategies to help them navigate behavioral challenges and a renewed sense of hope.

I am here to help you and to listen. We can work together to better understand the challenges in your life. Through talking, things will get better. Today, you are one step closer to a new you where you can feel empowered and go on that positive path to growth and well-being. As a therapist, my goal is to help you lead a life that is worth celebrating. 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.

Is anxiety and OCD symptoms ruling over your life? Maybe you find yourself often stressed, fearing the worst will happen, experiencing body tension, engaging in compulsions, and feeling constantly overwhelmed. You find that the only way to manage this fear is by avoiding certain places, people, thoughts, and emotions. However, all this anxiety and avoidance takes you away from enjoying activities you once loved and lead to an ever-growing sense of doom. You don't need to be in constant fear, or struggling alone anymore. I'm here to help and accompany you into your healing journey.

“Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you need to do it alone.” - Lisa Olivera. Change isn’t easy—I don’t need to tell you that. You’ve been trying to do this on your own for a while now. You may feel stuck, wondering how you can get out of your self-defeating patterns, move forward from trauma or grief, or gain more self-confidence to reach your goals. If you face systemic oppression due to being BIPOC, LGBTQ, an immigrant, or disabled, you have probably faced even more obstacles to your healing, including in the therapy room. I’m here to help with culturally informed, compassionate care.

I believe that the relationship to our self is the most important relationship that we will ever have. A bond with a therapist who witnesses and understands us in a nonjudgmental way can be a wonderful ally in improving that relationship and making positive changes in our lives. Trauma, attachment issues, toxic families of origin, oppression, grief, and ancestral/family patterns are just some just some examples that can cause suffering that motivates someone to start therapy. I have experience working with clients with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, PTSD, and other mood disorders that make it difficult to function in life.

Hi, I'm Laura. I’m happy that you're here. My priority is to provide a welcoming and compassionate space for each of my clients experiencing anxiety, depression, relational distress, low self-worth, difficult life events and transitions, or whatever challenges they might be facing. I am available for in-person counseling with children, teenagers, and adults in Vancouver and Ridgefield, Washington. I am also available for teletherapy with adult residents of Kootenai County, Idaho.

Counseling: As a holistic counselor, I work with individuals and couples using a creative and holistic approach that is strength-based and client-centered. Together, we will develop working goals and create a toolbox of personal and unique gifts.