Relational Therapists in Mill Creek, WA
Kendra Higa
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
Mill Creek, WA 98082 (Online Only)
In doing so, I emphasize client strengths, improving relational bonds, and developing effective coping skills.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and I specialize in working with individuals, adolescents, and parents at any stage in their parenting journey. I have experience with and especially enjoy helping people navigate life transitions, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. As a therapist, I feel honored to play a role in an individual's or family's life as they seek to make changes.
In doing so, I emphasize client strengths, improving relational bonds, and developing effective coping skills.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and I specialize in working with individuals, adolescents, and parents at any stage in their parenting journey. I have experience with and especially enjoy helping people navigate life transitions, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. As a therapist, I feel honored to play a role in an individual's or family's life as they seek to make changes.
As relational beings, the therapeutic relationship is most importance and I look forward to partnering with you on your journey.
I am accepting new clients and am opening availabilities on Saturday mornings and evening hours. I desire to create a safe space where you can come as you are without feeling judged, explore your true self, and shine a light on areas where you feel burdened. As a counseling intern and a follower of Christ, I am passionate about helping you gain freedom from lies and beliefs that weigh you down so that you can become the person you were created to be to live a full life. I work with all ages; teens, kids, and adults.
As relational beings, the therapeutic relationship is most importance and I look forward to partnering with you on your journey.
I am accepting new clients and am opening availabilities on Saturday mornings and evening hours. I desire to create a safe space where you can come as you are without feeling judged, explore your true self, and shine a light on areas where you feel burdened. As a counseling intern and a follower of Christ, I am passionate about helping you gain freedom from lies and beliefs that weigh you down so that you can become the person you were created to be to live a full life. I work with all ages; teens, kids, and adults.
As your therapist, my goal is to provide you with a warm and welcoming environment where you are free to explore the areas of your life you wish to improve for holistic healing - physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual. I offer a warm and empathetic environment as I use a person-centered approach that allows me to understand you through your own unique experiences and walk alongside you on this journey to achieve your personal goals. My primary focus is in child, individual, and couples/family counseling as well as working with neurodivergent populations using neurodiversity-affirming language and approach.
As your therapist, my goal is to provide you with a warm and welcoming environment where you are free to explore the areas of your life you wish to improve for holistic healing - physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual. I offer a warm and empathetic environment as I use a person-centered approach that allows me to understand you through your own unique experiences and walk alongside you on this journey to achieve your personal goals. My primary focus is in child, individual, and couples/family counseling as well as working with neurodivergent populations using neurodiversity-affirming language and approach.
Counseling is a deeply personal journey. I work to empower and guide clients toward their own unique solutions that can bring order and managability to life and to relationships.
Individuals will be challenged to discover their own unique areas of strength upon which to build skill in overcoming problems and issues that contribute to feeling "stuck." Couples will be challenged to identify individual and collective patterns that interfere with relational closeness, safety, and intimacy. Older children and teenagers will be encouraged to learn valuable skills to help them cope with life's struggles in an environment of safety and trust.
Counseling is a deeply personal journey. I work to empower and guide clients toward their own unique solutions that can bring order and managability to life and to relationships.
Individuals will be challenged to discover their own unique areas of strength upon which to build skill in overcoming problems and issues that contribute to feeling "stuck." Couples will be challenged to identify individual and collective patterns that interfere with relational closeness, safety, and intimacy. Older children and teenagers will be encouraged to learn valuable skills to help them cope with life's struggles in an environment of safety and trust.
Samantha Clapp
Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate, MA, LMHCA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mill Creek, WA 98012
My approach is person-centered and eclectic drawing from narrative, somatic, and relational psychodynamic theories.
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate with experience working with teens and adults. I understand that life is full of stress and challenges and that sometimes we find ourselves stuck and in need of extra support to navigate our lives. I believe therapy is a space in which people can learn about themselves, their emotions, and their processes to heal and grow.
My approach is person-centered and eclectic drawing from narrative, somatic, and relational psychodynamic theories.
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate with experience working with teens and adults. I understand that life is full of stress and challenges and that sometimes we find ourselves stuck and in need of extra support to navigate our lives. I believe therapy is a space in which people can learn about themselves, their emotions, and their processes to heal and grow.
Arabella Andros
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, LMFTA
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Mill Creek, WA 98012
I am accepting new clients! I understand that the journey of relationships and family life can be both rewarding and challenging. My practice is committed to supporting those who are navigating the complexities of their personal and relational lives. In today's fast-paced world, we all face a myriad of pressures—career demands, financial stress, communication breakdowns, and the balancing act of personal aspirations with relationship goals. These challenges can lead to feelings of frustration, anxiety, and disconnection. My goal is to provide a safe and compassionate space for you to explore these obstacles.
I am accepting new clients! I understand that the journey of relationships and family life can be both rewarding and challenging. My practice is committed to supporting those who are navigating the complexities of their personal and relational lives. In today's fast-paced world, we all face a myriad of pressures—career demands, financial stress, communication breakdowns, and the balancing act of personal aspirations with relationship goals. These challenges can lead to feelings of frustration, anxiety, and disconnection. My goal is to provide a safe and compassionate space for you to explore these obstacles.
Kate Sproul
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified Verified
9 Endorsed
Mill Creek, WA 98012
Waitlist for new clients
I specialize in working with those impacted by anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief and loss, changes in roles and relationships, perinatal adjustments, and relational codependency.
Hi, I'm Kate. I provide counseling to individuals and couples in the north Seattle area. My approach to therapy begins with relationship as I believe both harm and healing happen within the context of relationships. Perhaps you are tired of feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or depressed. Maybe you've experienced a significant loss that has shifted your roles and beliefs. You don't have to figure this out alone. My focus is to develop a trusting relationship with you and provide a safe environment where you can tell your story, feel accepted, and experience the wholeness and healing that comes out of that process.
I specialize in working with those impacted by anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief and loss, changes in roles and relationships, perinatal adjustments, and relational codependency.
Hi, I'm Kate. I provide counseling to individuals and couples in the north Seattle area. My approach to therapy begins with relationship as I believe both harm and healing happen within the context of relationships. Perhaps you are tired of feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or depressed. Maybe you've experienced a significant loss that has shifted your roles and beliefs. You don't have to figure this out alone. My focus is to develop a trusting relationship with you and provide a safe environment where you can tell your story, feel accepted, and experience the wholeness and healing that comes out of that process.
I hold a trauma- informed relational psychodynamic approach, meaning the relationship we build in therapy will cultivate a collaborative partnership, empowering you with greater awareness and agency.
I love working with adult individuals/couples struggling with the effects of betrayal trauma and problematic sexual behavior/ relational issues. You may feel overwhelmed by emotional pain and shame with little insight of how you got to this lonely and isolated place. I want you to connect with your story and compassionately understand how you came to be who you are in the hopes to restore balance. Certs./Trainings: Gottman & EFT trained -Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model Trained - Associate Couples Betrayal Recovery Therapist & CSAT Candidate- APSATS trainee APSATS- EMDR trained EMDRIA- .
I hold a trauma- informed relational psychodynamic approach, meaning the relationship we build in therapy will cultivate a collaborative partnership, empowering you with greater awareness and agency.
I love working with adult individuals/couples struggling with the effects of betrayal trauma and problematic sexual behavior/ relational issues. You may feel overwhelmed by emotional pain and shame with little insight of how you got to this lonely and isolated place. I want you to connect with your story and compassionately understand how you came to be who you are in the hopes to restore balance. Certs./Trainings: Gottman & EFT trained -Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model Trained - Associate Couples Betrayal Recovery Therapist & CSAT Candidate- APSATS trainee APSATS- EMDR trained EMDRIA- .
Autumn Gray
Pre-Licensed Professional, BS
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mill Creek, WA 98012 (Online Only)
My grounding is in Relational Cultural Therapy, which holds that disconnection and isolation are inherently harmful, and that growth occurs through and toward relationships.
Are you dealing with depression, anxiety, or going through difficult changes in life? Does it feel like you are working to feel safe in your own skin? I provide trauma-informed counseling for general mental health concerns and relationship concerns, within a fat liberatory and anti-racist framework. My specialties focus on holding a space that centers inclusivity and safety. Whatever your background, I am here to provide that space for you to explore your needs and goals in counseling as you find your way forward in life. Queer and trans folx, fat people, and anyone working to survive past or current trauma are welcome.
My grounding is in Relational Cultural Therapy, which holds that disconnection and isolation are inherently harmful, and that growth occurs through and toward relationships.
Are you dealing with depression, anxiety, or going through difficult changes in life? Does it feel like you are working to feel safe in your own skin? I provide trauma-informed counseling for general mental health concerns and relationship concerns, within a fat liberatory and anti-racist framework. My specialties focus on holding a space that centers inclusivity and safety. Whatever your background, I am here to provide that space for you to explore your needs and goals in counseling as you find your way forward in life. Queer and trans folx, fat people, and anyone working to survive past or current trauma are welcome.
I am a holistic, trauma-informed therapist and my focus is working with adolescents and adults on issues related to depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and neurodivergence (ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders). I also work with issues such as spiritual trauma and abuse, childhood emotional neglect and family systems. My therapeutic approach is client-centered, relational, and depth-based. I incorporate psychoanalytic depth work, existential psychotherapy, as well as somatic and mindfulness practices incorporating the body and strengthening a body-mind connection as it feels safe to do so.
I am a holistic, trauma-informed therapist and my focus is working with adolescents and adults on issues related to depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and neurodivergence (ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders). I also work with issues such as spiritual trauma and abuse, childhood emotional neglect and family systems. My therapeutic approach is client-centered, relational, and depth-based. I incorporate psychoanalytic depth work, existential psychotherapy, as well as somatic and mindfulness practices incorporating the body and strengthening a body-mind connection as it feels safe to do so.
Annie Gillis
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, LMFTA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mill Creek, WA 98012
As a relational therapist that treats individuals, couples, and families, I ensure a personalized, strength's based approach that caters to each client's unique background and needs. Whether you're dealing with relationship challenges, feeling overwhelmed by life transitions, or battling anxiety, I'm here to guide you through your journey. Together we will gain insights, challenge your unsupportive patterns, and explore your experiences: past, present, and future.
As a relational therapist that treats individuals, couples, and families, I ensure a personalized, strength's based approach that caters to each client's unique background and needs. Whether you're dealing with relationship challenges, feeling overwhelmed by life transitions, or battling anxiety, I'm here to guide you through your journey. Together we will gain insights, challenge your unsupportive patterns, and explore your experiences: past, present, and future.
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Why see an Aasect certified sex therapist? If you and your partner aren’t feeling like partners anymore. You struggle to get on the same page about important issues like parenting and sex. Every conversation ends in an argument leaving you even more disconnected than before. Negative experiences from the past are showing up in your current relationship causing shame, fear and distrust. You may have problems with low desire, painful sex, difficulty with orgasm, delayed or premature ejaculation, erectile difficulties, infidelity or loss of attraction. You or your partner may be considering ending the relationship.
Why see an Aasect certified sex therapist? If you and your partner aren’t feeling like partners anymore. You struggle to get on the same page about important issues like parenting and sex. Every conversation ends in an argument leaving you even more disconnected than before. Negative experiences from the past are showing up in your current relationship causing shame, fear and distrust. You may have problems with low desire, painful sex, difficulty with orgasm, delayed or premature ejaculation, erectile difficulties, infidelity or loss of attraction. You or your partner may be considering ending the relationship.
Suzanne M. Snyder, MA, LMHC
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified Verified
Mill Creek, WA 98012 (Online Only)
Therapy works. Whatever concerns have brought you here, you can make the changes necessary to find greater happiness and satisfaction in yourself and your relationships with others. This requires dedication, hard work and a willingness to explore behavioral patterns with the support of a skilled caring therapist. As we walk this path together, you will develop a greater understanding of self and acquire the tools needed to meet your goals. Resolving the issues that lie beneath the symptoms you are experiencing, will allow you to live the rewarding life you deserve.
Therapy works. Whatever concerns have brought you here, you can make the changes necessary to find greater happiness and satisfaction in yourself and your relationships with others. This requires dedication, hard work and a willingness to explore behavioral patterns with the support of a skilled caring therapist. As we walk this path together, you will develop a greater understanding of self and acquire the tools needed to meet your goals. Resolving the issues that lie beneath the symptoms you are experiencing, will allow you to live the rewarding life you deserve.
Tresa (Tess) Goodfellow
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
Mill Creek, WA 98012
Are you struggling in a significant relationship? Are you unsure of what step to take next? Whether you are going through a life transition, a loss, disappointment in relationship, or experiencing anxiety or depression, you have the resources within you to change your life! Therapy is a safe place where you can find solutions, discovering new possibilities for yourself and for your relationship. It helps you tap into the parts of you that give courage and strength to overcome personal struggle and to move through your fears.
Are you struggling in a significant relationship? Are you unsure of what step to take next? Whether you are going through a life transition, a loss, disappointment in relationship, or experiencing anxiety or depression, you have the resources within you to change your life! Therapy is a safe place where you can find solutions, discovering new possibilities for yourself and for your relationship. It helps you tap into the parts of you that give courage and strength to overcome personal struggle and to move through your fears.
Counseling is a deeply personal process, and it is a courageous step to engage those areas in your life that are asking for your presence. I am a Christian counselor who believes that every individual was created to be known, pursued, and cared for. I seek to support each individual by creating a safe space for the authentic self to thrive. Throughout the process, you can expect a warm, empathetic, and supportive approach as we navigate a path toward wholeness.
Counseling is a deeply personal process, and it is a courageous step to engage those areas in your life that are asking for your presence. I am a Christian counselor who believes that every individual was created to be known, pursued, and cared for. I seek to support each individual by creating a safe space for the authentic self to thrive. Throughout the process, you can expect a warm, empathetic, and supportive approach as we navigate a path toward wholeness.
Marta Bras
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, MS, LMHC
Verified Verified
Mill Creek, WA 98012 (Online Only)
Are you struggling to communicate effectively with your partner or loved ones? Is conflict management becoming a constant battle? Do you feel emotionally distant from those you care about? I’m here to help. With over 13 years of professional experience in relationship counseling, I specialize in helping couples, families, and individuals improve their relationships with themselves and others. My practice focuses on a variety of clients: •Couples (including multicultural and neurodiverse couples) •Blended families •New parents •Empty nesters •Families with teens or adult children •Individuals with relationship issues
Are you struggling to communicate effectively with your partner or loved ones? Is conflict management becoming a constant battle? Do you feel emotionally distant from those you care about? I’m here to help. With over 13 years of professional experience in relationship counseling, I specialize in helping couples, families, and individuals improve their relationships with themselves and others. My practice focuses on a variety of clients: •Couples (including multicultural and neurodiverse couples) •Blended families •New parents •Empty nesters •Families with teens or adult children •Individuals with relationship issues
Alyssa Highland
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPCS, LMHC, NCC
Verified Verified
7 Endorsed
Mill Creek, WA 98012 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
Wait list for new clients as of 11/7/24. ‘I’m broken.’ Life and society tell us this, whether from neurodivergence, religious injury, attachment wounds, chronic pain, or struggling with parenting. Feeling inadequate can lead to isolation, depression, anxiety, and dread that there's too much wrong to fix. It feels true. Yet, my clients are capable, creative, loving, intelligent, and motivated. We’re all failing and excelling at once, making it overwhelming to know how to move forward. Counseling offers the space and time to slow down, find direction, and live meaningfully amidst the chaos.
Wait list for new clients as of 11/7/24. ‘I’m broken.’ Life and society tell us this, whether from neurodivergence, religious injury, attachment wounds, chronic pain, or struggling with parenting. Feeling inadequate can lead to isolation, depression, anxiety, and dread that there's too much wrong to fix. It feels true. Yet, my clients are capable, creative, loving, intelligent, and motivated. We’re all failing and excelling at once, making it overwhelming to know how to move forward. Counseling offers the space and time to slow down, find direction, and live meaningfully amidst the chaos.
Kelly M Ellingson
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Mill Creek, WA 98012 (Online Only)
Experiences. They create meaning, create beliefs, create rules, created your views of self and other. Your lived experiences influence the choices you make, how you show up in your relationships, and how you interact with the world. Experiences can leave you exhausted, depleted, and void of hope. Like a wave that crashes over you, pulling you under, tumbling and tossing you beneath its power, leaving you frantic for the way up, searching for that breath of hope.
Experiences. They create meaning, create beliefs, create rules, created your views of self and other. Your lived experiences influence the choices you make, how you show up in your relationships, and how you interact with the world. Experiences can leave you exhausted, depleted, and void of hope. Like a wave that crashes over you, pulling you under, tumbling and tossing you beneath its power, leaving you frantic for the way up, searching for that breath of hope.
People were created for meaningful relationships with one another. Everyone has a unique story they want to share, and therapy provides space and openness to explore this journey. Due to our environment, culture, family background and life circumstances, we look at life through a lens that shapes our present thoughts and behaviors. The psychotherapeutic modalities I use in treatment are Solution Focused Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Experiential Therapy, Object Relations Therapy, and Structural and Strategic Family Therapy. Marriage and Family therapists look at the entire family system.
People were created for meaningful relationships with one another. Everyone has a unique story they want to share, and therapy provides space and openness to explore this journey. Due to our environment, culture, family background and life circumstances, we look at life through a lens that shapes our present thoughts and behaviors. The psychotherapeutic modalities I use in treatment are Solution Focused Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Experiential Therapy, Object Relations Therapy, and Structural and Strategic Family Therapy. Marriage and Family therapists look at the entire family system.
Katelyn Lindstrom
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, SUDP
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Mill Creek, WA 98012 (Online Only)
I believe that individuals, couples and families come to therapy with unique strengths and tools that can be identified and built upon in session. Acknowledging the relationships, communities, and cultures that impact your life is essential for making lasting change. By looking at the big picture, including your internal and interpersonal worlds, we can address that issues that brought you to therapy and make lasting change in your life.
I believe that individuals, couples and families come to therapy with unique strengths and tools that can be identified and built upon in session. Acknowledging the relationships, communities, and cultures that impact your life is essential for making lasting change. By looking at the big picture, including your internal and interpersonal worlds, we can address that issues that brought you to therapy and make lasting change in your life.
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Relational Therapists
How does relational therapy work?
Relational therapy was developed by psychologist Jean Miller, whose ideas stressed that having strong connections with others encourages better health and well-being when compared with a lonely existence. Conversely, poor interpersonal relationships do not foster growth and learning. Relational therapy also encourages trust in others and patience with others, along with better communication and less conflict.
Is relational therapy evidence-based?
Relational therapy is not well-studied, and it may not be as effective in treating certain mental health conditions when compared with evidence-based treatments like cognitive behavioral or acceptance and commitment therapy. However, relational therapy uses techniques found in cognitive behavioral therapy as well as psychodynamic therapy, which are both well-studied with empirical research.
How long are people typically in relational therapy?
Clients may see improvement after a few weeks or months of therapy. Like cognitive behavioral therapy, relational therapy can reduce symptoms within 10 to 20 weeks, at 45 to 50 minutes once a week. But like any type of therapy, improvement depends on the person and the severity of the problem.
Does relational therapy work?
While no therapy type will work for everyone, some evidence suggests that this therapy can be effective. Relational therapy can help a person manage problematic relationships as well as the mental health conditions that accompany difficult relationships like depression or anxiety. This therapy type may offer benefits that are hard to measure but can be just as valuable—including feelings of higher self-worth or healthier connections with others.