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Open to new clients. My ideal client is an emerging adult who is ready to start on the path towards living their best, healthiest, and most authentic life. I work with clients from every background, but I am especially passionate about serving the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities. Many of my clients aspire to learn techniques to manage depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. I enjoy aiding clients on their journey towards authentic self-expression, higher self-esteem, powerful communication skills, and utilizing boundaries, especially for clients with marginalized identities.
Open to new clients. My ideal client is an emerging adult who is ready to start on the path towards living their best, healthiest, and most authentic life. I work with clients from every background, but I am especially passionate about serving the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities. Many of my clients aspire to learn techniques to manage depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. I enjoy aiding clients on their journey towards authentic self-expression, higher self-esteem, powerful communication skills, and utilizing boundaries, especially for clients with marginalized identities.
Let me help you explore your connection to the personal and professional, the romance and friendship, physical and spiritual aspects for your life. This leads down an existential path driven by your exploration into your suffering and how to be with it. In my work, I am analytical, patient and kind to discovering strengths and stability. Let's discover what you know consciously and unconsciously.
Let me help you explore your connection to the personal and professional, the romance and friendship, physical and spiritual aspects for your life. This leads down an existential path driven by your exploration into your suffering and how to be with it. In my work, I am analytical, patient and kind to discovering strengths and stability. Let's discover what you know consciously and unconsciously.
Online Therapists
Navigating an increasingly complex and demanding world can leave many of us feeling overwhelmed, anxious, disordered and depressed. We carry within our hearts a deep yearning for soulful purpose, inner tranquility and intimate connection but often feel we are just surviving. My greatest passion is to help people find their power; to teach them to creatively work with their inner and outer lives; and to aid them in detaching from toxic relationships and patterns, drawing supportive boundaries and expressing themselves and their gifts within the world.
Navigating an increasingly complex and demanding world can leave many of us feeling overwhelmed, anxious, disordered and depressed. We carry within our hearts a deep yearning for soulful purpose, inner tranquility and intimate connection but often feel we are just surviving. My greatest passion is to help people find their power; to teach them to creatively work with their inner and outer lives; and to aid them in detaching from toxic relationships and patterns, drawing supportive boundaries and expressing themselves and their gifts within the world.
New Mind Therapy, Karen King
Counselor, MS, LMHC
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Bellingham, WA 98225 (Online Only)
Accepting Online Only WA clients: The most potent skill I want to offer to you is the ability to both witness and also experience fully whatever is arising within you with kindness and curiosity. Holding this paradox gently appears to be the way to move through difficulty with softness and be open to the wisdom of the challenge. I help adults as going through natural life transitions and finding themselves struggling to make meaning of their difficulties. Changes in our relationships, health and roles in family are some of the things that can be very challenging to accept and contend with, and I can be your trusted guide.
Accepting Online Only WA clients: The most potent skill I want to offer to you is the ability to both witness and also experience fully whatever is arising within you with kindness and curiosity. Holding this paradox gently appears to be the way to move through difficulty with softness and be open to the wisdom of the challenge. I help adults as going through natural life transitions and finding themselves struggling to make meaning of their difficulties. Changes in our relationships, health and roles in family are some of the things that can be very challenging to accept and contend with, and I can be your trusted guide.
Leslie Fleming
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Edmonds, WA 98020
Waitlist for new clients
I offer a unique, holistic approach to transformational healing and growth through a weaving of shamanism, psychotherapy, and coaching. I am direct, compassionate, and intuitive in working with clients, offering deep integrity, fortitude, and over 3 decades of shamanic practice supporting journeys of healing, personal mastery, and authenticity. The transformational work of embodying who you truly are and why you are here is a beautiful, challenging journey of embracing and integrating all of who you are with deep compassion and fierce love. A journey I invite you to take and am honored to support.
I offer a unique, holistic approach to transformational healing and growth through a weaving of shamanism, psychotherapy, and coaching. I am direct, compassionate, and intuitive in working with clients, offering deep integrity, fortitude, and over 3 decades of shamanic practice supporting journeys of healing, personal mastery, and authenticity. The transformational work of embodying who you truly are and why you are here is a beautiful, challenging journey of embracing and integrating all of who you are with deep compassion and fierce love. A journey I invite you to take and am honored to support.
I have immediate openings. Working with parents of teens is my area of specialty. I also have a great deal of experience working effectively with parents with younger children. I am passionate about working with parents. I work from the premise that relationships are the most important thing we do and that all parents want to be the best they can be. Teenagers face big challenges and need their parens to understand and support them through this important, vulnerable time in a way that helps them learn and grow. They need the skills to think for themselves, make good choices, and act responsibility to be able to face their future.
I have immediate openings. Working with parents of teens is my area of specialty. I also have a great deal of experience working effectively with parents with younger children. I am passionate about working with parents. I work from the premise that relationships are the most important thing we do and that all parents want to be the best they can be. Teenagers face big challenges and need their parens to understand and support them through this important, vulnerable time in a way that helps them learn and grow. They need the skills to think for themselves, make good choices, and act responsibility to be able to face their future.
Healing happens through experience, and having a consistent, non-judgmental ear can help you see things in a new light. Together we may talk, move, create and explore your feelings. I will guide you through your depths so that you can reconnect to the source, get to know yourself, and come to terms with the past. Maybe you've hit a wall with talk therapy. Perhaps you want to be more present, bolster your own practice, or stop engaging in patterns that cause you pain. I approach you as a human being and help you grow into a fuller version of yourself.
Healing happens through experience, and having a consistent, non-judgmental ear can help you see things in a new light. Together we may talk, move, create and explore your feelings. I will guide you through your depths so that you can reconnect to the source, get to know yourself, and come to terms with the past. Maybe you've hit a wall with talk therapy. Perhaps you want to be more present, bolster your own practice, or stop engaging in patterns that cause you pain. I approach you as a human being and help you grow into a fuller version of yourself.
Janet McKay
Counselor, MS, LMHC, CCTP, NCC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Longview, WA 98632 (Online Only)
My company is Care Counseling Services PLLC. I was a Licensed Practical Nurse (LP/VN) for over 25 years, specializing in mental health since 2003. I earned a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice and later obtained a Master's Degree in Mental Health Counseling. My post-graduate education is grounded in the study of mental health issues and how they correlate with body issues, such as pain, and chronic or terminal diseases. I base my practice on the belief that the wisdom for growth and healing lies within us, and the issues and difficulties we encounter are not roadblocks but directional signs and teachers.
My company is Care Counseling Services PLLC. I was a Licensed Practical Nurse (LP/VN) for over 25 years, specializing in mental health since 2003. I earned a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice and later obtained a Master's Degree in Mental Health Counseling. My post-graduate education is grounded in the study of mental health issues and how they correlate with body issues, such as pain, and chronic or terminal diseases. I base my practice on the belief that the wisdom for growth and healing lies within us, and the issues and difficulties we encounter are not roadblocks but directional signs and teachers.
Whole Beings Counseling & Consultation LLC
Counselor, MA, SUDP, LMHCA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98109
Welcome to counseling; to be helpful lets regain access to inner wisdom for self advocacy through review of your strength base building practices by use of expressive arts therapy (life has been your stage), explore dreams (Adlerian therapies), explore play& traumas to connect with your inner child/teen or find your inner parent, track sensations with the mind, body and spirit for grounding purposes in our sessions. Welcome and thank you for adding me to your search!
Welcome to counseling; to be helpful lets regain access to inner wisdom for self advocacy through review of your strength base building practices by use of expressive arts therapy (life has been your stage), explore dreams (Adlerian therapies), explore play& traumas to connect with your inner child/teen or find your inner parent, track sensations with the mind, body and spirit for grounding purposes in our sessions. Welcome and thank you for adding me to your search!
Nadene Reichert
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate, LMFT
Verified Verified
Issaquah, WA 98029 (Online Only)
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Depression Therapists
What is the goal of therapy for depression?
Therapy for depression has several major goals. One is to relieve the mental pain of depression, which distorts feeling and thinking so that sufferers cannot see beyond their current state of mind or envision feeling better. Another is to give people the mental tools to recognize and correct the kinds of distorted thinking that turn a problem into a catastrophe and lead to despair. Therapy also teaches people how to process negative emotions in constructive ways, so they have more control over their own emotional reactivity. And it helps people regain the ability to see themselves positively, the motivation to do things, and the capacity for pleasure.
What happens in therapy for depression?
Perhaps most important, no matter the type of therapy, patients form an alliance with the therapist; that connection is therapeutic in itself, plus it becomes an instrument of change. Patients learn to identify and to challenge their own erroneous beliefs and thoughts that amplify the effects of negative experiences. They learn to identify situations in which they are especially vulnerable. And they learn new patterns of thinking and behaving. They may be given “homework” assignments in which they practice their developing skills. In addition, good therapists regularly monitor patients to assess whether and how much the condition is improving.
What therapy types help with depression?
Several types of short-term therapy have been found effective, each targeting one or more areas of dysfunction. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps clients challenge their negative thoughts and beliefs, learn new behavioral strategies, and curb reactivity to distressing situations. Behavioral activation (BA) is a form of therapy often used in conjunction with CBT; it focuses on engagement in rewarding activity as a pathway to changing negative feelings and disturbed mood. Another widely used approach is interpersonal therapy (IPT), which targets the social difficulties that both give rise to and get exacerbated by depression. Therapists may combine approaches as needed.
Can therapy for depression be done online?
Studies have found that online therapy can be highly effective for treating depression, although it may be more challenging to build a good therapist-patient alliance on screen than in person—at least at first. However, online therapy can offer considerable advantages. Accessibility and convenience are tops among them. Some people actually find it easier to talk about problems online than in person. While online therapy typically limits visibility of facial expression and body gestures that give important nonverbal cues to a patient’s state of mind, it can give therapists a glimpse into a patient’s world and life, providing information that can be highly useful in guiding therapy.
How effective is therapy for depression?
Many studies show that therapy is highly effective provided that patients complete the prescribed course of therapy, commonly 16 to 20 sessions. Over the long term, it is more effective than medication and the effects are more enduring. As a result, psychotherapy has the power not just to relieve current suffering but to prevent future episodes of the disorder. Therapy reverses the dysfunction in neural circuitry that disposes individuals to a negative view of themselves, the world, and their future and they acquire coping techniques, problem-solving skills, and understanding of their own vulnerabilities that are useful over the course of a lifetime.