Therapists in Seattle, WA

"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. It's not always comfortable, but it's never weakness."--Brene Brown. Hi, I'm Lydia and I utilize a solution focused, mindfulness based approach to aid clients in exploring their authentic selves and behavioral patterns. Like a Phoenix, I believe individuals have the ability to rise from the ashes as renewed, stronger versions of themselves. Whether those ashes are from broken relationships, perpetual marital problems, crippling anxiety, career dissatisfaction or the aftermath of trauma, they have the power to transform you.

Are you struggling with unhealthy habits and lack of motivation? Is pain and trauma from the past interfering with your life today? Are you struggling with anxiety, fears, shame, or depression and nothing has helped? Do you just want to feel worthy, confident, productive, empowered, and successful? If you are ready to heal your past, love yourself, and gain control of your thoughts, feelings, and behavior, I can help. Even though I don't accept insurance, you'll discover quicker, more effective, and longer-lasting results with the services I provide with fewer sessions Contact me and let's talk, so you can begin feeling better now.

In this line of work, it is amazing to see how positive progress is made with patients and how much their lives improve thanks to achieving small victories and through community resources/services. I would like to work with folks who seek to better themselves and create positive change in their lives. Together we could develop coping skills and build upon your strengths to enhance your quality of life.

My goal is to help you make contact with the most alive and vital parts of yourself, and to foster the natural creative energy that we all have inside. I believe that all symptoms exist for good reasons. Together we can discover these reasons and help you transcend the thoughts, feelings or behaviors that limit you. Through patient and careful listening, I seek to become attuned to what is struggling to become known in and between your words, and to reflect this back to you in a way that allows you to more fully inhabit your truth.

Welcome to a space where transformation begins, and the promise of a brighter future awaits. I work with individuals seeking profound change. My ideal client is someone ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery. Clients who resonate with my approach often seek a therapist grounded in curiosity, compassion, strength, and insight. They are drawn to a methodology influenced by attachment theory, psychoanalytic theory, somatic work, nervous system regulation, and neurobiology.

The focus of my private practice is on parents who need support navigating the demands of parenting. These challenges can be related to a number of factors including parent mental health, a child with more challenging behaviors, difficulties between parents, and/or navigating the multiple daily demands parents experience.

As you are in the process of looking for a therapist, you may already be half-way through resolving your issues. It is said that client's readiness and willingness to make changes is the strongest indicator of successful therapy outcome. As a therapist, I will accompany you in the journey of actualizing your fullest potential by assisting you to develop internal and external resources such as the sense of freedom, choices, healthy sense of self, responsibility, managing life balance, and strong support systems and relationships.

I work best with couples and individuals who want to work on themselves and/or a relationship with the goal of success and freedom. I am especially passionate working with client’s who have a drive for their own transformation through understanding their story, journey, and style of relating. By understanding yourself in a deeper way, I strive for clients to have better intimacy, communication, and satisfaction from their relationships and their internal world. We’ll leverage your curiosity to co-create an environment where awareness, honesty, and freedom can occur.

Accepting NEW Clients - - - Are you living your best life? Are you feeling stuck? I provide evidence based treatments to help you experience a life with meaning and purpose and to feel better quickly. During our sessions, my goal is for you to feel unconditional acceptance and compassion in our relationship. My style is friendly, light-hearted and I use humor quite a bit. I will work with your strengths and unique needs to cultivate an environment where you can learn the skills to boost the quality of your life.

I take the mysticism out of therapy. We both know that not everything is "about your mother." Figuring out why you are the way you are can be interesting and even enlightening, but it's worthless if you're still experiencing the same emotional pain. You have the ability to make changes in your life. Things don't have to stay the same.

If you're feeling in the dark navigating a difficult transition, you're in the right place. You may doubt your power to change life as it is right now. You may have absorbed cultural messages that say, "There's nothing you can do, things will never improve." I disagree. My specialties include using solutions-oriented methods which include: “Compassionate Effectiveness Training,” "Enneagram profiling," and "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy." Together we’ll work with feelings you might have of being different from the norm; of hoping to find ground in an ever-changing world; of wanting to find a sense of home within yourself.

With over 15 years of experience in mental health, I help individuals and couples discover, create, and sustain the positive changes they seek in their lives. I specialize in anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and trauma. However, I have worked with many mental health issues over the years and frequently work with stress, addiction, motivation, intimacy issues, family conflict, life changes/adjustments, grief, communication issues, emotional regulation, parenting, self-esteem, and personal growth and discovery. I have extensive experience working with adults, teens, couples and families.

As a licensed counselor in Washington state helping clients learn how to understand and bring more clarity to their mental, emotional, and physical, challenges. My work focuses on understanding more about how each persons unique life experiences have brought you where you are today. Working with transformative modalities such as EMDR I currently offer many ways to process and find greater relaxation, ease and deep lasting healing. Through my own personal life work, journey and engagement in the field of mind body, somatic and transformational practices, I offer a deep understanding of the depths of being human, here now.

I provide Christian counseling, focusing on bringing faith and mental health together. Our wounds from some of the most important relationships can distort the way we see God, ourselves, and the world, impacting our relationships. With Holy Spirit's help and the sacred space that counseling provides, I'd love to walk with you to attend to those wounds with compassion, love, and the truth from God's Word. My approach is holistic (as in we will consider the health of your spirit, soul, mind, and body) and trauma-informed. Together, we will attend with curiosity and compassion to understand and heal what is at the root of your pain.

In this time of unprecedented loss and stress due to COVID-19 and other world events such as accelerating climate change, I can help you deal with anxiety and depression. My orientation is transpersonal as I see physical and emotional issues as doorways to transformation and spiritual awakening. In my psychotherapy practice, people have achieved new levels of personal freedom and self-esteem. Together, we can enrich your quality of life and enhance your creativity. Integrative healing encompasses body, mind & spirit. We all deserve to be happy in our bodies and our lives. I work also with couples to resolve relationship issues.

I work with those who struggle with anger. Often times the anger is brought on by unmet expectations and merely a symptom of deeper issues under the surface. It's my job to metaphorically stand in a place you can not see, and point you in the right direction as to the cause of what is contributing to the anger. By doing so, you can receive insight that will enrich your life and change it for the better.

I strive to provide quality, dependable, and helpful therapy to those in need. I find extreme satisfaction helping people identify areas in their life that are challenging them and helping those individuals find resolution, perspective, and peace. My experience as a counselor includes working with adolescents, adults, and couples in areas of transition, crises, personal growth and development, divorce, strengthening relationships, communicating more effectively, weight and eating issues, anxiety, blended family structures, identity crises, depression, women issues, sexual dysfunction, grief, and gender issues.

I have immediate openings! Life demands a lot from us. Responsibilities, relationships, and navigating of daily life drains our energy and we often spend precious downtime exhausted, mindlessly staring at our screens. I help individuals and couples experiencing anxiety, stress, and overwhelm make meaningful changes in their lives. By giving yourself space to heal, learn, and grow… change can come. Anxiety can become presence. Stress can become acceptance. Overwhelm can become peace.

Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed, anxious, low mood, or in need of big change? I support clients facing challenges across life circumstances: pregnancy, parenting, college, career, health changes, relationship shifts, identity exploration, or grief & loss. My clients are interested in looking closer at how thoughts and behavior patterns get in the way of living the life they want to live--with a willingness to discover what matters most and try new ways of dealing with stressors to achieve the vision you have for your life.