Trauma Therapy in person in Seattle Washington 

LGBTQ therapist for Seattle and surrounding areas; Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, Mountlake Terrace, Edmonds and Lynnwood. 

 

At a minimum, therapy needs to be a place where you feel safe enough and supported to express an honest range of emotions and feelings. Therapy is an experience with the potential to also encourage dialogue of and exploration around thoughts and beliefs that are limiting for our lives, whether that be preventing us from making a decision and taking action we want, or changing a behavioral pattern or relationship dynamic that is no longer working or at a breaking point.

During our time together, I will listen with empathy and compassion and provide feedback and suggestions. If you are seeking specific tools and strategies, we can problem-solve together what might benefit you. If you aren’t sure what to talk about or where to start, I can help us get started with topics and questions for you to reflect on. Therapy may or may not feel straightforward, and part of my role is to help you navigate the process as it unfolds. I will make recommendations for treatment and next steps toward the resolution of your challenges.

I frame all of psychotherapy within a broader sociopolitical context; systemic oppression means some people and identities are left with less opportunity and agency due to how resources in society are structured, which undoubtedly has significant impact on mental and physical health. People with intersecting oppressed identities are the most impacted by systemic oppression. Psychotherapy has roots in white supremacy and patriarchical values; the frame within which I view the work I do is an updated feminist, experiential and psychodynamic lens that takes history and attachment neuroscience into account. I am a neurodivergent-affirming therapist and explicitly anti-racist, fat positive, kink, poly, sex-positive and LGBTQ+ affirming and identified.

Specialties:​​

• LGBTQ identity and family building (all stages)

• Sexuality, including sexual health, pleasure and satisfaction in sexual relationships, pelvic floor health; kink and BSDM affirming, consensual non-monogamy affirming

• Perinatal mental health for all genders

• Pregnancy loss and parental grief for individuals and couples, including childlessness

• Eating disorders and disordered eating (binge-eating, restriction, binge / purge cycles)

• Trauma re-processing; Dissociative Disorders (DID / OSDD / D/RD), PTSD, Complex PTSD, developmental trauma including being the child of mentally ill and / or personality disordered parent(s)

• Fat Positivity (from an allied lens)

• Anti-diet culture and nutrition