Anxiety Therapists in Vancouver, WA

Depression, worry, anxiety, and fear can be crippling experiences. If you feel overwhelmed by these phenomena, I want to help you overcome these barriers. I believe that reflecting on life’s past and present relationships can offer insight into helping you redefine current and future relationships, experiences, and self. Re-evaluating beliefs and held attitudes can help you achieve your goals, create new experiences, and make informed choices that forge a more satisfying and fulfilling life. The digital age snuck in on us and provided with no room to breathe. As your therapist, I hope to help you work through this and gain clarity.

Are worried and ruminating anxious thoughts keeping you up at night? Are you feeling a lack of motivation to do the things you once enjoyed? Feeling centered in these moments might feel challenging, but please know you're not alone in this struggle against anxiety and/or depression. There is a path forward, and enduring this forever isn't your only option. We'll tackle healing using a holistic approach, pairing your story with the appropriate supportive treatments.

Life can be beautiful and it can be overwhelming at times. Transitions in life can rock our confidence, sense of meaning, and relationships. If you have a hard time communicating with others, difficulty getting and staying organized, or get stuck in self destructive patterns, let's talk. If you worry about things more than you wish you would, or feel overwhelmed by your compassion and empathy, let's talk . Together we can deepen your understanding of self, navigate acceptance and change, and cultivate some ways to find more balance in your heart and mind, more freedom from guilt and shame, and more trust in your inner wisdom.

It is essential to have a counselor that you feel comfortable with and is your "best fit" counselor. I provide a warm, authentic and non-judgmental environment where you can face challenges and work through difficulties while receiving genuine support. My approach to counseling is collaborative, compassionate, identity-affirming, culturally informed, relational and strengths based. I believe in giving you the time and attention you deserve and offer high quality care in a compassionate, supportive and culturally responsive environment to help you gain insight and live a healthier and happier life.

My focus is on supporting adults experiencing a variety of challenges, including depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, C/PTSD, grief, shame, boundary issues, adjustment difficulties, and relationship conflicts. I enjoy offering a range of evidence-based interventions tailored to the needs of each individual providing a holistic, person-centered approach that allows me to support clients individually and within their family systems. These interventions include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment Theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and mindfulness practices.

Are the choices of others negatively affecting you? Are you losing your temper and isolating? Have you lost hope in the future or finding a solution? If you have said yes to any of those questions, you don't have to go through it alone. As your therapist, I make every effort to try and help you discover more effective ways of thinking, behaving, and coping with what has brought you to therapy. There are different paths you could take to freedom from your situation, together let's try and find the best path for you!

I believe that there is tremendous opportunity and potential for physical, emotional, spiritual, and relational healing and growth that can be achieved through counseling. Many struggle with depression, anxiety, self-doubt, trauma, self-image distortion, spiritual issues, communication difficulties, and lack of tools necessary to live in this ever-changing world. My role as a counselor is to come alongside and assist individuals, families, and groups that are motivated, to change at least one aspect of their thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.

Katie is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who has been practicing since 2017. She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a Masters degree in Child and Adolescent Psychology: Prevention and Treatment. The program focused on implementing evidence-based practices such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and various parenting interventions. Katie combines her education in these evidence-based practices with client-centered treatment to ensure both success and engagement for her clients.

Staci Jenkins is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who has been practicing since 2015. She guides her clients through the process of healing and change in order that they may lower unnecessary suffering and live in line with their long-term goals and values. Her main areas of focus include depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, social phobia, panic, agoraphobia, PTSD, relational trauma and characterological wounding, grief and loss, women's issues, life stressors, anger management, substance and alcohol misuse and behavior change. She provides both individual and group therapy to individuals aged 18-65+.

New! I now provide Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy! Welcome Mindful Path Counseling, virtual therapy anywhere in Washington! I provide a safe space for you to meet painful issues and gently dismantle their power over your life. If you want to restructure and redefine relationships that are no longer working for you, I can help. If you think self-defeating thought patterns and underlying belief systems might be opening the door to unwanted situations in your life, I can help you rewrite that story. I would be honored to walk through this journey with you. Email me today and start living your best life. I can’t wait to meet you!

Accepting Washington and California Telehealth Clients. Seeking help is not easy! But you've already taken the first step right here. My passion is to help individuals process the things that are causing them pain, distress, sadness, and/or anxiety. To help battle those feelings of being stuck, lost or empty. To address the negative thoughts/feelings that are not allowing you to live the life you want. To help you reconnect with the things in life that bring you true happiness. You don't have to do it alone! Some of us just need a little extra help; someone to talk to, someone to vent to, someone that listens without judgement.

I’m a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate at A Better Way Counseling. This is a second career for me. I have spent the last 18 years in the world of public education with a master's degree in Special Education. The majority of my career has been spent supporting families and their children through the education system with the resources they need to succeed. I have worked with children ages 3-21 with a wide variety of disabilities such as autism, ADHD, visual impairments, dyslexia, communication disorders, anxiety, depression, and more.

Healing is possible. There have been times in my own life when it felt impossible to experience the life I was meant to live, the joy we are meant to experience, spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical health. If you are there right now, or you feel like you are chained to your past and patterns that keep you from moving forward into hope, peace, and joy, you can overcome. I would love to partner with you on your journey forward.

As a semiretired Psychologist, I do not have an office and visit my client(s) in their home or office anywhere in Clark county. I am married to a Marriage and Family Therapist and understand the difficulties that couples have even with our level of knowledge. I help each member of the couple rise above the conflict and participate in healing their relationship by encouraging personal responsibility and self-disclosure and by getting in touch with the goodness in each person and the love they are missing.

After receiving my master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Louisville and obtaining a certification on executive leadership strategy for violence and abuse prevention from the University of Pennsylvania, I moved to Vancouver in June 2021. I spent ten years working in various nonprofits and community organizations’ before going to graduate school. My professional background involves working with both teens and adults on their mental health challenges. My areas of expertise include working heavily with trauma, sexual assault, domestic violence, grief, chronic illness and LGBTQ+ issues.

I treat mood disorders, depression, anxiety, Anger, OCD, trauma and addictions with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Image Transformation Therapy (ImTT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) I integrate faith in therapy and consider myself a Christian Counselor. I respect those that would not like faith to be a part of treatment, and I will not impose my faith or values upon you.

When life feels presents us with stress, whether it be from anxiety, depression, or trauma, it is not uncommon to feel overwhelmed and a sense that our lives have become unmanageable. My greatest satisfaction comes with assisting individuals in recognizing their power to grow and thrive. I assist my clients, who include adolescents and adults, in finding ways to change their relationship to thoughts and emotions and develop a stronger sense of self, establishing core values, and creating an action plan linked to goals based on those values.

Nicole Ford is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington state with over 6 years of experience within the mental health field. Nicole provides individual counseling to help establish a healthy relationship with body and mind. Nicole specializes in anxiety, mood disorders, eating disorders, life transitions, and trauma. Nicole's methods of treatment pull from a variety of evidence-based practices such as solution-focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

I firmly believe that there is power in lending an ear and meeting someone where they are at through providing empathy and support. With that support change is possible, and clients can work towards seeing the growth an healing they desire. I would be honored to provide that ear to listen and support you as we work together to reach your goals and achieve the change you wish to see in your life. I primarily work with individuals 13+ who are dealing with depression, anxiety, relationship issues, divorce/separation support, communication & self-esteem issues and men's issues. Se habla espanol, por favor contactarme para mas detalles.