Therapists in Tacoma, WA

Mark’s first love has always been in practice with family and individual counseling. After managing, he decided to enter into private practice, currently with the Mindful Therapy Group. Mark provides individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy services to people with a variety of mental and emotional difficulties including depression, anxiety, attention deficit, multiple personality, anti-social and other personality issues. Mark has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults from different backgrounds, cultures, and unique circumstances.

My name is Janean Stepp, and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I provide telehealth therapy to individuals age 10+. I have worked with clients with a wide range of issues including serious mental illness, behavioral issues, grief and loss, trauma, crisis situations, and major life changes and transitions. One of the most important aspects of providing therapy is forming a relationship based on empathy, trust, and a safe environment. I believe you are the expert on yourself, and I want to help you identify your strengths and the coping strategies that work best for you.

Life events sometimes throw us curve balls when we least expect it. Do you now or often experience anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, divorce, or even post-pandemic returning to work concerns? These are stressors that give us feelings of uncertainty and hopelessness, impacting the ability to function in relationships, occupation, social life, and obtaining educational goals. Does it seem as though you’ve been knocked down once too many times and getting up is a struggle? When in the middle of a struggle words such as “tomorrow” and “feeling better” seem so far away.

I want to work with couples, families, and individuals through the difficult challenges that happen in life, that affect their relationships, and their world. I want clients to be equally involved in therapy communicating their needs, and goals, and listening to each other throughout the process.

For more information about Dr. Casie Duplissey, please visit our website. Therapy is a place for healing, transformation, and growth. When working with children, teens, families, and adults, I strive to help them achieve their current goals. I offer psychoeducation, insight, and interventions with a client-centered approach. In other words, I meet my clients where they are in their life and work with them at their own pace. Specifically, I have experience working with anxiety, depression, trauma, self-injurious behaviors, suicidality, behavioral/ communication issues, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

Whether you are looking for a new way to go about therapy or would like something standard, I am here for you. Therapy doesn't always have to be rigid and serious. We are never too old to play and look at things from a different angle. I like to be hands-on and weave in play, art, TT-RPG and gaming therapy, pop culture, and the outdoors into my modalities. Therapy can be different for you and together we will create an individual treatment just for you. I welcome a non-judgmental, casual and warming approach to the therapeutic relationship.

If you’re here now – chances are you’re ready for a change. Perhaps you’re feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Burdened by wounds from your past. Maybe you’re struggling to cope with anxiety, low self-esteem, or managing the relationships in your life. Many of my clients come to therapy seeking help in these areas. They typically gain a greater sense of self-awareness, growth, and empowerment through the work we do. Nobody is immune to the struggles that life often brings. I won’t tell you that therapy will be easy but the power of working with a therapist you connect with can make all the difference.

Life can be experienced in various degrees of openness or constriction in one’s existence. When you live life in relative openness to yourself and the world around you, suffering is typically minimal. This is the realm of health and happiness. When you begin to experience a constriction in your openness to yourself or the world around you, suffering begins to color your existence. This is the realm of illness and pain, wherein people often seek help from others. If your life has become constricted in some way, it is my job to help your reestablish an openness to life.

Therapy offers an opportunity for discovery, self-reflection, and ultimately transformation. I approach the therapeutic process with curiosity, genuineness, and compassion. Theoretically speaking, I draw from cognitive-behavioral and existential perspectives to help conceptualize your life journey and challenges. My overall style is warm and direct while honoring and recognizing the expertise you bring on your life to the counseling process.

Therapy is a journey where people can be accepted just as they are and gain support in navigating their internal world to find healing and growth. Time spent living in different cultures has given me a deep level of respect for the diversity of human experience and the interconnectedness of beliefs, relationships, environment, and mental health. I believe that understanding the narratives we have about ourselves and how they came to be can help us break free from shame and overcome barriers in our lives- ultimately gaining the capacity to redefine our sense of self.

Informed by liberating-direct-action with workers, survivors of mental health incarceration, and skilled professionals, I value lived-experience just as much as highfalutin philosophy. I believe in the universal human drive to transform + heal through caring community connections, self-awareness, access to dreams by way of meeting basic needs, and the responsibility to recover personal and collective strengths. Healing of the self is healing of communities, and ultimately our interrelated societies. In place of paternalism, I offer avenues for developing your self-trust.

Welcome all! I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker Associate (LICSWA) and I have over 7 years of experience working with children and adults. I have worked in schools, correctional facilities, and for community organizations. I enjoy working with individuals 1:1 to assist them to achieve their goals. Through my practice, I hope to guide clients along their path to individual success. It is important to me to build a therapeutic relationship with clients prior to diving in deep. My approach is strengths based, individualized, and has a strong focus on empowerment.

Working with the client to realize ways to a better understanding of their unhealthy thinking patterns.

As an LICSW, I believe it is important to decolonize mental healthcare, reduce harm, and create healing. Trauma, loss, life transitions of all sorts, relationships issues, all of these and more can cause depression, anxiety, and real doubts about our next steps or where to turn in times of pain. I believe that therapy is one of the best tools for self-exploration and healing. My goal is to cultivate a strong, safe therapeutic bond such that we can safely discuss challenges in your life.

I have experience working with couples, families and individuals of all ages from a variety of cultures/ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, and religious beliefs, as well as LGBTQIA+. My approach is integrated, operating from a systems theory background, with a lens that is relational and informed by awareness of how societal factors impact experience. Working as a certified chemical dependency counselor, I address not only the individual substance user, but the impact of use on loved ones. I see change happening through shifts from a person seeing themselves as the problem to seeing themselves as a person up against a problem.

As a counselor, I believe that the most important aspect of my work is meeting clients where they are and building a therapeutic relationship. I have found that many clients seek help with anxiety, ADHD, life transitions, trauma, and depression, and I strive to create a safe and non-judgmental space for clients to explore these issues. By using a flexible and integrative approach, I help clients to develop a deeper understanding and compassion for themselves and provide them with support as they overcome their challenges, whether healing past experiences, coping with the present, or moving towards their future potential.

I provide Telehealth therapy for individuals 25+ years of age and couples counseling, including pre-marital. Symbis trained facilitator. I bring to therapy a diverse and expansive array of professional experiences. My experience has equipped me to work with clients with a wide range of issues including trauma, grief, loss, divorce, recovery and healing from emotional abuse, narcissistic abuse, marital issues, struggles with self-esteem, family of origin issues, anxiety, depression, attachment issues and those experiencing major life changes. I love working with those authentically ready for change.

You find yourself completely overwhelmed, constantly trying to expect what comes next. Stuck, frustrated, or unsure, you know you need support, but don’t know where to go. Maybe you are feeling deep sadness, alone, and lost. Or you look at yourself and say how did I get here? Whatever the starting point, there is a way forward. Today’s fast paced world leaves many feeling alone, and not ready to cope with what comes next. I would be honored to work with you to find your personal goals, and the freedom you seek. Let’s find a way forward together with respect, empathy, and no judgement.Please contact me with any questions you have, or

These days it seems everyone is dealing with trauma and overwhelming distress - whether childhood, complex, combat, generational, or just keeping up with the jones's, it is making our society sicker everyday as we forget how to care for one another and are forced into solitary corners of suffering. Those with the strongest natural supports and biological defenses will thrive, but more and more those natural supports and defenses are weakening, even for the most successful as the illness becomes pervasive.