My practice has limited openings, please inquire. Practice openings are between Monday and Thursday, 8am to 3:30pm. All clients are being seen via HIPPA protected video sessions.
Current clients, as well as past clients, can schedule sessions here.
These are foundational aspects of my work. All humans are inherently worthy of love and connection. Our worthiness is not impacted by our behavior. All we hope to give to others must first be given and practiced within ourselves. Connection is essential, our bodies come loaded with all we need to create connection; our experiences early in life shift or change how we approach connection. We are all emotional, feeling beings who sometimes have access to rational thought. Diversity, a recognition of difference, is a strength. Acknowledging and listening to understand the lived experience of others is essential to connection. Feelings are never wrong.
Individual Therapy
Weekly, emotion focused sessions are the foundation on which our work is built. I will actively invite exploration of your symptoms, feelings, and thoughts with a non-judgmental curiosity. You will be encouraged to move away from binary ways of thinking, such as good/bad, right/wrong, and healthy/unhealthy. You will be invited to view your behavior from a perspective of recognizing everything you do once worked; in fact, it has helped you survive. Naturally, survival skills often cease to function effectively in long-term connection. What once worked so well, no longer results in what we need. We will examine what change may look like by understanding your behavior, the thoughts that proceed your choices, and most importantly, the underlying emotions. Meeting our imperfection with softness and understanding is how we rewrite our stories.
As our understanding of your protective or attachment style develops, we will discover how past experiences, primarily your emotional experiences, are activated in relationships, work life, periods of transition, or emotional distress. While diagnoses can help guide treatment, differentiating the self from symptoms is essential in understanding how we process and manage the world around us. You will be encouraged and supported to manage your wellbeing through holistic, flexible, and ongoing self-care. Our work should be a process of accepting where you are, identifying where your current patterns are not working, and finding ways to build the emotional resilience needed to make change.
Couples Therapy
Similar to individual work, couples will be encouraged to share their histories with one another, understand the unspoken and invisible elements of established patterns, and initiate change by increasing their vulnerability with one another. Sharing the elements of our internal worlds serves to rewrite the narratives we develop about our partners, based on where there have been disconnects, and grow a more trusting foundation from which we can address conflict as a united front. Our connection with our partners must be nurtured and protected in order to withstand the storms of life.
I accept the following insurance providers: Premera, including LifeWise Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plans First Choice Kaiser PPO Plans Only, First Choice Linked Plans Cigna Medicare, Plan B Optum, United Healthcare, Providence Feel free to contact me directly to discuss insurance, private pay, and billing Out of Network.
If you are in a mental health crisis, please call 911. You can also reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255). You can also text HOME to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line.