As a mental health counselor for adults and teens, I provide nonjudgmental caring and  passionate support as you learn skills and become whole from past wounds. Issues addressed include:

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

• optimal marriage and divorce adjustment;
• anxiety, phobias, and fear;
• chronic pain management and adapting to chronic illness, processing the grief and loss that accompanies chronic illness;
• 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 career changes;
• alleviating depression;​
• 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 relationship and communication skills,
• lessen chronic pain,
• ​resolve trauma and heal old wounds so that you are less burdened by the past,​
• change self-defeating and self-harming patterns,
• practice good self-care,  
• find that ever moving point of balance, and 
• share a good laugh together, now and then.

The demographics of my clients are:

• almost half identify as women, almost half identify as men, several are nonbinary.
• one half are immigrants.
• one half were impoverished or low income as children.

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TELEMENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING - TELEHEALTH
THROUGH SIMPLE PRACTICE EHR USING A FREE SMARTPHONE APP OR INTERNET VIDEO CONNECTION.

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

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 a few years ago - after a storm dumped hip deep snow around my mountain 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. So, when the pandemic started, the telehealth tech was already familiar and ready to go full-time. 

During telehealth counseling, a meaningful connection is made, the counseling process is effective, and client outcomes are good! Research also supports the use of telemental health counseling.

FORMAL EDUCATION

PhD - Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
MA  - Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy
Graduate Certificate - Psychology of Creativity
Masters of Fine Art
Bachelors of Fine Art, Magna cum Laude

Additional Training

Chronic illness, chronic pain, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
EMDR I and II (trauma treatment)
Polyvagal Theory
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Please see my Bio for additional education and training information.
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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, politicians, and social change makers), attorneys, architects, and engineers.
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I am open minded and accepting, I've worked with LGBTQ teens who are "coming out", poly families, and members of many different religions and ethnic groups.

INSURANCE

​Please note, I am an out of network provider only. I provide a monthly superbill statement that has all information needed for you to submit a claim directly to your health insurance company.  Some companies do not cover out of network providers. 

FEES

Counseling 50 minutes: $270
Counseling 80 minutes: $405

Initially, I meet with most clients for 80 minutes.  A longer session allows deeper work, supports faster progress, and is required for trauma treatment. 

After we complete trauma work, develop skills, and achieve change, maintenance and growth phase counseling is often 50 minutes biweekly.