Psychoanalytic Therapists in Mercer Island, WA
Jonathan Assouline at Align Mental Health PLLC
Counselor, LMHCA, MA, MPH
Verified Verified
Mercer Island, WA 98040 (Online Only)
My style is psychodynamic; more specifically modern psychoanalytic.
Life is a constant battle and we do what we can to power through every day. We can't control everything that comes our way but we can learn to control how to process our environment in a way that is more constructive and less overwhelming. Is stress permeating your days? Are the smallest things causing anxiety? Do you feel easily attacked, targeted, on the defensive? When something bad happens around you, do you usually believe you are partially to blame? Difficult jobs, heavy workload, relationship struggles, family issues, and more concerns can be eased with talking it out in a safe and judgment-free space.
My style is psychodynamic; more specifically modern psychoanalytic.
Life is a constant battle and we do what we can to power through every day. We can't control everything that comes our way but we can learn to control how to process our environment in a way that is more constructive and less overwhelming. Is stress permeating your days? Are the smallest things causing anxiety? Do you feel easily attacked, targeted, on the defensive? When something bad happens around you, do you usually believe you are partially to blame? Difficult jobs, heavy workload, relationship struggles, family issues, and more concerns can be eased with talking it out in a safe and judgment-free space.
Are you wondering if psychotherapy may help? Many, many clients have discovered that speaking to another about their stresses and symptoms, in a safe and non-judgemental place, alleviates their anxiety or depression. This is because it is easy to feel overwhelmed alone by the many difficult feelings and confusing thoughts and because another mind and heart can clear the way for deeper understanding, support and healing.
I encourage you to take the step to call.
Are you wondering if psychotherapy may help? Many, many clients have discovered that speaking to another about their stresses and symptoms, in a safe and non-judgemental place, alleviates their anxiety or depression. This is because it is easy to feel overwhelmed alone by the many difficult feelings and confusing thoughts and because another mind and heart can clear the way for deeper understanding, support and healing.
I encourage you to take the step to call.
Kaya Wynn
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MEd, MSW, LICSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mercer Island, WA 98040
Over time we develop patterns of behavior that may have once supported us through a difficult time, but these ways of being may be hurting our ability to connect with loved ones or form new connections. Through our work together, we will reflect on how your past experiences may influence who you are today and identify interventions to support you in connecting with who you want to become. In addition to working with individuals, I enjoy supporting people better engage in the important relationships in their lives; this may be within a couple, but can also be in a parent-child relationship.
Over time we develop patterns of behavior that may have once supported us through a difficult time, but these ways of being may be hurting our ability to connect with loved ones or form new connections. Through our work together, we will reflect on how your past experiences may influence who you are today and identify interventions to support you in connecting with who you want to become. In addition to working with individuals, I enjoy supporting people better engage in the important relationships in their lives; this may be within a couple, but can also be in a parent-child relationship.
Welcome to Ryan Lewis Counseling & Integrative Wellness Programs! If you are seeking a change in your life, but you continue to be controlled by limiting beliefs, emotional turmoil, or unproductive habits, our counseling and coaching programs are here to help support you. By offering both traditional psychotherapy and structured integrative wellness coaching, we can facilitate transformative healing experiences and teach sustainable wellness practices for best results. We can help you adopt a holistic approach to managing your mental health care by prioritizing your physical, emotional, relational, purposeful, and spiritual health.
Welcome to Ryan Lewis Counseling & Integrative Wellness Programs! If you are seeking a change in your life, but you continue to be controlled by limiting beliefs, emotional turmoil, or unproductive habits, our counseling and coaching programs are here to help support you. By offering both traditional psychotherapy and structured integrative wellness coaching, we can facilitate transformative healing experiences and teach sustainable wellness practices for best results. We can help you adopt a holistic approach to managing your mental health care by prioritizing your physical, emotional, relational, purposeful, and spiritual health.
Hello! Embarking on a course of therapy can feel incredibly vulnerable. The demands placed on your time, energy, trust and finances are significant. On top of that, many people come to therapy after having already experienced a variety of invalidating interactions when attempting to open up to others. For that reason, I am particularly sensitive to the importance of hearing your story with curiosity, empathy, open-mindedness and humility. Therapy works best when you are in the driver’s seat and my role is to support your agency by guiding you towards making the healthiest choices possible based on YOUR identity, values, and needs.
Hello! Embarking on a course of therapy can feel incredibly vulnerable. The demands placed on your time, energy, trust and finances are significant. On top of that, many people come to therapy after having already experienced a variety of invalidating interactions when attempting to open up to others. For that reason, I am particularly sensitive to the importance of hearing your story with curiosity, empathy, open-mindedness and humility. Therapy works best when you are in the driver’s seat and my role is to support your agency by guiding you towards making the healthiest choices possible based on YOUR identity, values, and needs.
It's no small thing to ask for help. At whatever pace feels comfortable we'll look at your situation and try to sort out what might be keeping you from the kind of life you want. Together we'll map out short and longer-term goals, developing tools to help you cope with things that right now might feel too big to handle. I strive to create a safe place to be curious about what things in your life are working and what things may need to change.
It's no small thing to ask for help. At whatever pace feels comfortable we'll look at your situation and try to sort out what might be keeping you from the kind of life you want. Together we'll map out short and longer-term goals, developing tools to help you cope with things that right now might feel too big to handle. I strive to create a safe place to be curious about what things in your life are working and what things may need to change.
Eric Evan Embrey
Counselor, MA, LMCH, CMHS, MHP
Verified Verified
Mercer Island, WA 98040 (Online Only)
I offer authentic, collaborative, compassionate and strengths-based telehealth counseling services for individuals and couples. Common challenges that I work with include identifying and reducing unhelpful patterns, difficultly with making positive changes happen, ongoing sadness, loss (e.g., job, partner), loneliness, excessive worry, adjusting to a new city, or simply trying to cope in an increasingly fast paced, anxiety producing and complex world. I am particularly well-known in the community for assisting young adults build and navigate independent living skills. My style is to listen and to engage with your goals in mind.
I offer authentic, collaborative, compassionate and strengths-based telehealth counseling services for individuals and couples. Common challenges that I work with include identifying and reducing unhelpful patterns, difficultly with making positive changes happen, ongoing sadness, loss (e.g., job, partner), loneliness, excessive worry, adjusting to a new city, or simply trying to cope in an increasingly fast paced, anxiety producing and complex world. I am particularly well-known in the community for assisting young adults build and navigate independent living skills. My style is to listen and to engage with your goals in mind.
Does it feel like something just is not quite right in your life? Like you are working so hard to maintain a "normal" life and you are burning out? I specialize in trauma and issues core to identity, specifically those who are deconstructing or reconstructing aspects of their sexuality, spirituality, gender, or ethnicity. I am certified in EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy) and practice from a client-centered, insight-oriented, psychodynamic approach with adults and adolescents. I am relationally focused and utilize a strengths-based lens to empower, increase resilience, and promote positive well-being.
Does it feel like something just is not quite right in your life? Like you are working so hard to maintain a "normal" life and you are burning out? I specialize in trauma and issues core to identity, specifically those who are deconstructing or reconstructing aspects of their sexuality, spirituality, gender, or ethnicity. I am certified in EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy) and practice from a client-centered, insight-oriented, psychodynamic approach with adults and adolescents. I am relationally focused and utilize a strengths-based lens to empower, increase resilience, and promote positive well-being.
Caitlyn Gilmore
Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate, MA, LMHCA, R-DMT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mercer Island, WA 98040 (Online Only)
DO YOU FIND YOURSELF THINKING... "I wish I hadn't reacted that way. I feel like I am giving too much of myself to others. I feel burnt out. I wish I had a stronger sense of self. I've heard about intergenerational trauma, but I'm not sure what that might look like." If any of those statements sounded familiar, then you're in the right place. I'm here to help you explore those thoughts and behaviors in a trauma-informed, creative, and individualized way. Let's get curious together.
DO YOU FIND YOURSELF THINKING... "I wish I hadn't reacted that way. I feel like I am giving too much of myself to others. I feel burnt out. I wish I had a stronger sense of self. I've heard about intergenerational trauma, but I'm not sure what that might look like." If any of those statements sounded familiar, then you're in the right place. I'm here to help you explore those thoughts and behaviors in a trauma-informed, creative, and individualized way. Let's get curious together.
Dr. Chanin James-Hardwick
Counselor, PhD, MA-MFT, LMHC, LPCC, C-IAYT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mercer Island, WA 98040 (Online Only)
Transition, trauma, and transformation are my specialties. Life transition, career transition, transition in relationships, racial trauma, the trauma of loss, sexual assault trauma, imposter syndrome, and personal transformation. Healing is complex and not linear. Using the mind, body, and soul connection I support you in finding healing, and a new sense of being. Healing is done in connection with others through embodied connection, awareness, and meaning or faith. Together through connection, you can bring healing into your life.
Transition, trauma, and transformation are my specialties. Life transition, career transition, transition in relationships, racial trauma, the trauma of loss, sexual assault trauma, imposter syndrome, and personal transformation. Healing is complex and not linear. Using the mind, body, and soul connection I support you in finding healing, and a new sense of being. Healing is done in connection with others through embodied connection, awareness, and meaning or faith. Together through connection, you can bring healing into your life.
Our emotional worlds are always speaking, yet we don't always understand its language. As therapist my goal is to bring a sensitive mind to the important work of listening with you to your honest experience, for the truths that want to be heard and have much to give. We will work towards easing your most difficult symptoms while, over time, bringing curiosity as to what goes on for you at a deeper level than perhaps you knew how to think about. I aim to support you in developing a better relationship to the painful places in you, and a deeper friendship with yourself that feels liberating, empowering, and enlivening.
Our emotional worlds are always speaking, yet we don't always understand its language. As therapist my goal is to bring a sensitive mind to the important work of listening with you to your honest experience, for the truths that want to be heard and have much to give. We will work towards easing your most difficult symptoms while, over time, bringing curiosity as to what goes on for you at a deeper level than perhaps you knew how to think about. I aim to support you in developing a better relationship to the painful places in you, and a deeper friendship with yourself that feels liberating, empowering, and enlivening.
I view my client’s struggles as I would the struggles of all humans. Our struggles come from something that happened to us yet has become our responsibility to change. Whether it be a defense mechanism, modeled behavior from childhood, or traumatic incidents (acute or prolonged), there is a point in time when we must accept the burden of control. I like to say that we have more control over our lives than we’d like to be responsible for. When something devastating happens to us (a prick to the finger or a shattered heart) how we manage that pain determines our level of suffering, thus our quality of life.
I view my client’s struggles as I would the struggles of all humans. Our struggles come from something that happened to us yet has become our responsibility to change. Whether it be a defense mechanism, modeled behavior from childhood, or traumatic incidents (acute or prolonged), there is a point in time when we must accept the burden of control. I like to say that we have more control over our lives than we’d like to be responsible for. When something devastating happens to us (a prick to the finger or a shattered heart) how we manage that pain determines our level of suffering, thus our quality of life.
Accepting clients in Oregon and Washington! I specialize in working with women 18 and older who suffer from a history of trauma, self-confidence issues, ADHD, depression, anxiety, anger issues, lack of motivation, feeling disconnected from their body, isolation/loneliness, brain fog …and more.
Accepting clients in Oregon and Washington! I specialize in working with women 18 and older who suffer from a history of trauma, self-confidence issues, ADHD, depression, anxiety, anger issues, lack of motivation, feeling disconnected from their body, isolation/loneliness, brain fog …and more.
Heather Huckett
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT, CST
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Mercer Island, WA 98040
My practice is built on empowerment, discretion, and a deep understanding of the uniqueness of the human experience. I believe in creating a safe, non-judgmental space where individuals and couples can explore their sexual and relational concerns. My approach integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness, solution focused therapy and sex-positive therapy to help clients navigate their experiences and foster healthier connections.
My practice is built on empowerment, discretion, and a deep understanding of the uniqueness of the human experience. I believe in creating a safe, non-judgmental space where individuals and couples can explore their sexual and relational concerns. My approach integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness, solution focused therapy and sex-positive therapy to help clients navigate their experiences and foster healthier connections.
Julie Hendrickson
Counselor, MA, LMHC, FIPA
Verified Verified
Mercer Island, WA 98040
Not accepting new clients
I am a member of the Northwest Family Development Center, Northwest Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI), Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study (NWAPS), and the GSBA.
It you're reading this then you're taking the first step to getting help with how you're living your life. I find that most people who seek therapy are struggling with some pain or conflict they cannot overcome with the skills and support currently present in their lives. Talking to a trained professional about your troubles can bring relief and help you to make changes. I work with individuals and couples to help them overcome obstacles in their lives such as unrealized potential, feelings of being overwhelmed or hopeless, relationship troubles, constant stress, and self-destructive behaviors.
I am a member of the Northwest Family Development Center, Northwest Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI), Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study (NWAPS), and the GSBA.
It you're reading this then you're taking the first step to getting help with how you're living your life. I find that most people who seek therapy are struggling with some pain or conflict they cannot overcome with the skills and support currently present in their lives. Talking to a trained professional about your troubles can bring relief and help you to make changes. I work with individuals and couples to help them overcome obstacles in their lives such as unrealized potential, feelings of being overwhelmed or hopeless, relationship troubles, constant stress, and self-destructive behaviors.
Jay French
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mercer Island, WA 98040 (Online Only)
Not accepting new clients
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.
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.
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My work incorporates elements of the psychoanalytic, existential, and feminist therapy traditions.
I work with all kinds of people, but I especially welcome queer, trans, Jewish, and autistic people. I also specialize in working with neurodivergent people, people with trauma, and people with BPD or related traits. My goal is to help you navigate hard times, and to assist you in your journey to a deeper understanding of yourself.
My work incorporates elements of the psychoanalytic, existential, and feminist therapy traditions.
I work with all kinds of people, but I especially welcome queer, trans, Jewish, and autistic people. I also specialize in working with neurodivergent people, people with trauma, and people with BPD or related traits. My goal is to help you navigate hard times, and to assist you in your journey to a deeper understanding of yourself.
Scientifically, change occurs when we develop new neural pathways. Humanly, change occurs when we experience. Nature helps to facilitate change within our brain as we embrace our innate biophilia. When we connect and identify with land, we re-own its vital and powerful energies, and the dynamism of the Earth is reflected within us.Through facilitated integration with nature, it is my objective to help reconnect you with the natural world. Along with nature-based activities, talk therapy is offered. However, sometimes the silence we experience in nature can be a great teacher. It is up to you determine what works best for you!
Scientifically, change occurs when we develop new neural pathways. Humanly, change occurs when we experience. Nature helps to facilitate change within our brain as we embrace our innate biophilia. When we connect and identify with land, we re-own its vital and powerful energies, and the dynamism of the Earth is reflected within us.Through facilitated integration with nature, it is my objective to help reconnect you with the natural world. Along with nature-based activities, talk therapy is offered. However, sometimes the silence we experience in nature can be a great teacher. It is up to you determine what works best for you!
Are you feeling bad about persistent patterns in your life, but struggle to understand or change them? Does it sometimes feel like you are can't get traction on making changes you want in your life? Therapy can help you learn more about yourself teach you new ways to interact and connect. By exploring the past and the present, therapy can uncover old patterns you are unconsciously repeating.
Are you feeling bad about persistent patterns in your life, but struggle to understand or change them? Does it sometimes feel like you are can't get traction on making changes you want in your life? Therapy can help you learn more about yourself teach you new ways to interact and connect. By exploring the past and the present, therapy can uncover old patterns you are unconsciously repeating.
I specialize in guiding people to understand their depths, expand their awareness, and bring more connection to their lives -- internally, and in relationship.
I specialize in guiding people to understand their depths, expand their awareness, and bring more connection to their lives -- internally, and in relationship.
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Psychoanalytic Therapists
Does psychoanalytic therapy work?
Psychoanalytic therapy derives from the work of Sigmund Freud. In this type of therapy, discovering buried thoughts and emotions from the unconscious will help a person work through their difficulties and negative behaviors. Research shows that psychoanalytic therapy can be highly effective, with patients reporting improvement in mood, quality of life, and overall well-being.
How long are people typically in psychoanalytic therapy?
Traditional psychoanalysis is in-depth and is conducted in five sessions every week. Today, modern psychoanalytic therapy is less intense and normally incorporates as few as one or two sessions a week. In some cases, positive change can occur quickly. However, if the condition, difficulty, or behavior is deep-seated, improvement may require many months or years of therapy.
Is psychoanalytic therapy suitable for young people?
Children and adolescents can benefit from this type of therapy. Many kids and teens are often unable to form and communicate their thoughts and emotions. Psychoanalytic therapy uses specific techniques such as dream analysis, symbolism, and free association or word association; all of which can be useful tools for less-communicative young people. Through this therapy, a patient will hopefully make connections between what they feel inside and how the world works outside.
Can psychoanalytic therapy be done online?
Modern-day psychoanalytic therapy is very different from traditional psychoanalysis. While an individual can sit face-to-face with the psychoanalyst for multiple sessions a week, they do not have to. Today, psychoanalytic therapy can be effectively conducted online or by phone. The key is that the individual confronts what is repressed and avoided, and this can be done whether in person or over online video.