Therapy

Therapy offers a means to explore and address the challenges and limitations we face as individuals, partners, and families. It also helps us to recognize and celebrate our Unique strengths.

Individual Therapy

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Individual therapy provides a safe space in which to investigate, process, and heal the personal issues that affect you. I use a collaborative approach and will partner with you to identify and address your unique challenges and goals. My intention is to help you reduce shame and anxiety, build confidence, and increase the health and vitality of your relationships with those you love and with yourself. Individual therapy can include mindfulness practices such as breath awareness and identifying feelings as they arise in the body. Through the process of therapy, you will know YOU better which will allow you to make healthy, informed choices in your life. Traditional issues of psychotherapy such as anxiety, depression, grief, and relational issues are a part of my practice, as is working through larger questions of spirituality, creating meaning in life, and transforming stuck patterning in the body and breath.

Partner/Couple Therapy
Partner therapy offers an arena where the hopes, desires, fears, and frustrations of both partners can be shared and processed without judgment. Whether you are seeking to address a particular challenge in your relationship or to develop tools for your on-going communication and growth, my aim is to assist you in determining what you want and to support you in pursuing your goals in the healthiest way possible for all parties concerned. All configurations of partnership are warmly welcomed. Issues that are commonly explored in partner therapy include: communication, sexuality, mental health diagnosis, drug/alcohol use, family history of one or both partners, abuse, parenting or the choice to have children, decisions around staying together or not, and many more. All relational concerns are valid and are worth exploring.

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I offer Walk and Talk sessions for both therapy and coaching clients. We will stroll slowly through a beautiful, quiet tree filled park, taking time to be in our bodies and in nature as we work through anything that needs to shift in your life. These sessions are good for the body, mind, and soul. We'll meet at my office and on days that you are interested in walking, we'll head over to the park!

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Coaching
I offer coaching sessions for those wanting shorter term, intensive work that is less process oriented. Coaching sessions are less oriented toward working through painful events in your life and are more geared toward helping you get unstuck personally, relationally, and professionally. These sessions are perfect for people who are looking for an open dialog and mentorship relationship. In coaching sessions, we are not managing or reducing symptoms of mental health struggles, instead we are trying to find a new way of addressing particular challenges in your life and together we will create a plan to help you move forward with creativity and vitality. For most coaching clients, we work intensively together weekly for one month then determine how often we need to meet after that.
Coaching sessions are $70 and 45 minutes long.

**Serious clients only (those who are willing to work and committed to your process) please. It is my strong preference to see all new clients weekly for a minimum of one month to form the therapeutic relationship, though with busy schedules I know this can be a challenge. We'll try our best. Therapy, like any other healing practice, is by far more effective when it is consistent, therefore I see clients weekly or, depending upon the needs of the client, I do see some clients every other week.**

Currently I am not accepting new clients for therapy or coaching. I encourage you to reach out in the future if you are still interested in working with me. As of September 10, 2018, my practice is full with a waitlist so I suspect it will be quite some time until I am taking new clients.

I see clients in person in my office in Sellwood or I use a HIPPA compliant therapy video conferencing platform for secure video sessions. These are surprisngly effective and can be done from the comfort of your home. I have daytime, evening, and weekend hours available for Tele Health sessions; they are 55 mins long, cost is $100 (sliding scale available). Due to licensing considerations, I can only see clients who live in WA and OR for therapy.

Please do not hesitate to email me at therapistseattle@gmail.com to schedule an appointment. An hour (55 min) session is $100; 90 minute session $120. TeleHealth sessions are 55 mins and cost $100. Payment due at time of session, I accept credit cards, cash, and checks. I do not bill insurance directly but am happy to give you a statement to self submit.