I am a mental health therapist with a private practice in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. I provide psychotherapy to individuals and couples with experience working with a variety of issues that include, but not limited to
• Sexual abuse
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Relational and Interpersonal Issues
• Racial/Ethnic Identity Issues
• Self Esteem Issues
• Body Image Issues
• Grief and loss
• Isolation and Loneliness
• Destructive life/relational patterns
I am committed to providing competent, compassionate, transformational counseling services to individuals, couples and families within a therapeutic context that honors clients where they are, where they were, and where and how they’d like to grow.
Fees
Each session is 50 minutes in length. The fee for individual counseling is $95 and the fee for couples counseling is $130.
Education and Experience
I completed my undergraduate work in Social Work at the University of Missouri-Columbia and received my MA in Counseling Psychology from Mars Hill Graduate School.
In addition to my private practice I have also worked with couples in the Intimate Mystery conference and with sexual abuse survivors in a Recovery Week conference.
My training and education has included much experience working with diverse racial/ethnic populations as well as with those of diverse socio-economic backgrounds.
My Approach and Philosophy
I hold the belief that we are shaped by relationships with others and God, and we develop belief systems, paradigms for life and ways of relating and being based on the joys and traumas of those relational experiences.
It is part of the therapeutic work to explore and engage how those life paradigms and ways of relating have facilitated a greater sense of isolation, shame, despair and fear as well as to begin to discover and celebrate new ways to embrace life.
It is my belief that relationships are not only a source of wounding but source of healing as well. We need the presence of another to enter the dark spaces of life without a sense of being alone. We need the eyes and face of another to help us see and name the places we feel stuck, hide, feel afraid, flee or fight life, but also to see and name beauty, desire and hope.
At the beginning of therapy, we will negotiate a kind of psychotherapy contract in which we will agree to meet at a given frequency, usually once a week, at a set time, and for a given fee. Occasionally, circumstances are such that I may suggest meeting more than once a week. The consistency of appointments and mutual commitment to the psychotherapy process are important ingredients to a successful outcome.
Credential
I am registered in the State of Washington as a Mental Health Counselor Associate. My state credential ID is MC60140447.
