As a mental health counselor for adults, couples, and teens, I provide nonjudgmental caring and  passionate support. Issues addressed include:

• healing from physical, emotional, verbal, or sexual abuse using EMDR (eye motion desensitization and reprocessing); 
• traumatic past experiences, PTSD, wounding family patterns, grief, and loss that contaminate the present;
• challenges of being intellectually gifted, creative, or artistically talented;

• optimal marriage and divorce adjustment;
• anxiety, phobias, and fear;
• chronic pain management especially fibromyalgia;
• managing complex medical needs;
• improving relationships at work, at home, at school, with friends and family  (communication skills, intimacy, trust, partnership problem solving);
• return to career after extended absence;
• ​making major career changes;
• family patterns and personal experiences that led to addiction;
• alleviating depression and reducing anxiety;​
• poor self-esteem, social isolation; and
• how to experience feeling content, fulfilled, creative, appreciative, and joyful.​

I am passionately committed to helping you:

• reduce stress and worry,
• improve concentration and productivity,
• cope effectively with life challenges,
• discover happiness,
• enjoy fulfilling relationships,
• understand and transform creative block,
• achieve goals, 
• establish healthy boundaries,
• learn skills,
• lessen chronic pain,
• ​resolve trauma and heal old wounds,​
• cope with the demands of parenting chronically ill, disabled children,
• change self-defeating and self-harming patterns,
• practice good self-care, and 
• find that ever moving point of balance.

Therapy dog Princess, a miniature poodle, is often present during sessions to provide you with a tail-wagging welcome, heartfelt concern, and furry affection.

TELEMENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING
THROUGH A FREE SMARTPHONE APP OR INTERNET VIDEO

Secure, confidential, HIPAA compliant video sessions are available to residents of Washington State.

Due to coronavirus outbreak in King County, I am currently seeing existing clients and new clients via phone or internet video counseling. I use HIPAA compliant methods that allow us to meet via the internet, using your computer's video camera, or a free smartphone app. This method of providing mental counseling is sometimes called telehealth  or telemedicine.

I started using video counseling after a storm dumped hip deep snow around my home. Clients responded positively, finding telemental health services could be accessed if they were traveling for work or pleasure, if they were home caring for sick children, if chronic illness or disability made it difficult to commute to an office appointment, if they wanted to protect confidentiality and not be seen in a clinic waiting room, if they wanted to access a psychotherapist with my training and specialties but lived too far away, etc. 

Now that we are under shelter in place orders, wanting to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our community, phone or video counseling is a good option. Does it feel as connected as meeting in person? No, not in the same way. Yet, during video or phone counseling, a meaningful connection is made, the counseling process is effective, and client outcomes are good! Research also supports the use telemental health counseling.

Because counseling via video or smartphone app might be unfamiliar to you, I am offering a free first session. And because of the financial insecurity of this time, I am offering sliding scale/reduced fee services to a  limited number of new clients, as a means of offering support at this challenging time. 

SPECIALTIES 

Gifted and Talented

​I work with intellectually gifted, high achieving, creative, and artistically talented individuals. My adult clients are entrepreneurs creating new businesses, visionary CEOs and senior VPs, artists (writers, journalists, film makers, dancers, visual artists, designers, musicians, animators, game designers, etc.), healers (doctors, counselors, and social change makers), attorneys, architects. Gifted teens may be challenged by expectations of high performance, feeling different than peers, experience problems in friend groups, and anxiety around transitioning into college and adulthood.
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I am open minded and accepting, I've worked with LGBTQ teens who are "coming out" and poly families. 

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