Teletherapy for Washington
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Jamie Welch
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98125 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
Updated 8/1/24: My clients have come to me experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, and many other presenting concerns. In therapy I strive to understand and clarify my clients' goals and help them work toward building insight around their concerns. You don't have to know exactly what your goals might be, and during our work you can always add or change goals. This is your treatment and my hope is that you take an active role in determining the direction and depth of the work that we do together. My hope is that we can end every session feeling that we have made progress.
Updated 8/1/24: My clients have come to me experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, and many other presenting concerns. In therapy I strive to understand and clarify my clients' goals and help them work toward building insight around their concerns. You don't have to know exactly what your goals might be, and during our work you can always add or change goals. This is your treatment and my hope is that you take an active role in determining the direction and depth of the work that we do together. My hope is that we can end every session feeling that we have made progress.
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Shadow Play Therapy PLLC
Counselor, MA, LMHCA
Verified Verified
Tacoma, WA 98408 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
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.
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.
![Photo of Evoë Thorne, MS, LMHC, NCC, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/1f46d6fc-5547-4e45-ad4e-279260c16498/1/320x400.jpeg)
Are you experiencing emotional pain, discomfort, or uncertainty around your sexuality? If you are questioning gender or sexual orientation, trying to figure out dating, wishing you could have more or better sex, struggling to relate to a partner, reclaiming your body after childbirth, healing from sexual trauma, exploring kinks, opening your relationship, or adapting to the changes of aging, I can help you navigate these challenges and build skills for improved health, pleasure, and connection. Visit my website to schedule a free 15 minute consultation.
Are you experiencing emotional pain, discomfort, or uncertainty around your sexuality? If you are questioning gender or sexual orientation, trying to figure out dating, wishing you could have more or better sex, struggling to relate to a partner, reclaiming your body after childbirth, healing from sexual trauma, exploring kinks, opening your relationship, or adapting to the changes of aging, I can help you navigate these challenges and build skills for improved health, pleasure, and connection. Visit my website to schedule a free 15 minute consultation.
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Tasha Trembath
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFTA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Covington, WA 98042
I have immediate availability! Are you a parent who feels at a loss for how to help their child? I offer emotional regulation skills for the child, and effective parenting skills for the parent. Are you ethically non-monogamous? Are you wanting to open your relationship? Do you need extra support navigating polyamory? I offer years of experience and knowledge to help you navigate this sometimes tricky relationship dynamic. Are you in the LGBTQIA+ community? Are you struggling with issues of self-worth or internalized oppression? I strive to help you discover your value and work on helping you love exactly you.
I have immediate availability! Are you a parent who feels at a loss for how to help their child? I offer emotional regulation skills for the child, and effective parenting skills for the parent. Are you ethically non-monogamous? Are you wanting to open your relationship? Do you need extra support navigating polyamory? I offer years of experience and knowledge to help you navigate this sometimes tricky relationship dynamic. Are you in the LGBTQIA+ community? Are you struggling with issues of self-worth or internalized oppression? I strive to help you discover your value and work on helping you love exactly you.
![Photo of Julia Robins, MA, LMHC, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/b4988bff-b0fb-4cb7-8331-ecbfd1d407dd/3/320x400.jpeg)
Do you have difficulty trusting your experiences and navigating how the world perceives and treats you? Are you struggling to feel comfortable in your body? Many of us learn to think and behave in unsustainable ways in order to stay safe in an unaccepting and marginalizing world. If you are struggling to break free from patterns that helped you survive in the past but are keeping you from thriving in the now, you're in the right place. I help LGBTQ+ individuals, couples and women build self-compassion and body-awareness to better understand how trauma is holding them back.
Do you have difficulty trusting your experiences and navigating how the world perceives and treats you? Are you struggling to feel comfortable in your body? Many of us learn to think and behave in unsustainable ways in order to stay safe in an unaccepting and marginalizing world. If you are struggling to break free from patterns that helped you survive in the past but are keeping you from thriving in the now, you're in the right place. I help LGBTQ+ individuals, couples and women build self-compassion and body-awareness to better understand how trauma is holding them back.
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You've achieved incredible success, but beneath the surface, you feel unseen and unheard. The truth is, 75% of High Performers share a secret: moderate to severe trauma, including loss, poverty, or abuse. People see your wins, but not the struggle with the fear of failure, isolation, exhaustion, and the need to perform or else...who are you? Like you, I've had to work a lot on myself, alone. The unfortunate paradox is the more you know, the harder it is to find someone to truly help. I get that frustration. With my unique approach, you will feel empowered to cultivate healthy systems and make conscious choices towards healing.
You've achieved incredible success, but beneath the surface, you feel unseen and unheard. The truth is, 75% of High Performers share a secret: moderate to severe trauma, including loss, poverty, or abuse. People see your wins, but not the struggle with the fear of failure, isolation, exhaustion, and the need to perform or else...who are you? Like you, I've had to work a lot on myself, alone. The unfortunate paradox is the more you know, the harder it is to find someone to truly help. I get that frustration. With my unique approach, you will feel empowered to cultivate healthy systems and make conscious choices towards healing.
![Photo of Katie Willott, MA, LMHC, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/5cc32eb9-ac8a-4ed9-98ec-c672c5e61cde/1/320x400.jpeg)
You are feeling overwhelmed and disconnected. You want to feel grounded and to reconnect with the things that matter most, with time dedicated to the activities you enjoy and positive relationships. This is a safe place where you can explore your story, past, present, and future. Therapy can give you access to new tools for communication, opportunities to examine your values and to design a map for your journey towards authentic living. Together we can help you face your past trauma and begin work on self-compassion and self-care techniques to aid you in navigating the bumpy road of life and the uncertainties of our current world.
You are feeling overwhelmed and disconnected. You want to feel grounded and to reconnect with the things that matter most, with time dedicated to the activities you enjoy and positive relationships. This is a safe place where you can explore your story, past, present, and future. Therapy can give you access to new tools for communication, opportunities to examine your values and to design a map for your journey towards authentic living. Together we can help you face your past trauma and begin work on self-compassion and self-care techniques to aid you in navigating the bumpy road of life and the uncertainties of our current world.
![Photo of Aaren Connors, MA, LMHCA, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/aa861382-1ae1-49c4-8914-14bf2ea9419c/3/320x400.jpeg)
I enjoy helping others find meaningful, authentic ways of connecting in their relationships and communities. Those I work with tend to feel a lack of connection or authenticity in their life. I believe that therapy is a collaborative process in which we get to recontextualize our experiences through truthful and empowering reframes. This includes curiosity in how your identity and lived experience has shaped your worldview. I am professionally and personally passionate about geek and gaming culture and am comfortable weaving this into therapy when appropriate. Additionally, I work with a lot of young adults in the tech industry.
I enjoy helping others find meaningful, authentic ways of connecting in their relationships and communities. Those I work with tend to feel a lack of connection or authenticity in their life. I believe that therapy is a collaborative process in which we get to recontextualize our experiences through truthful and empowering reframes. This includes curiosity in how your identity and lived experience has shaped your worldview. I am professionally and personally passionate about geek and gaming culture and am comfortable weaving this into therapy when appropriate. Additionally, I work with a lot of young adults in the tech industry.
![Photo of B Stepp, MS, CN, LMHC, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/47595c1c-c3c2-4a90-8577-cb9248e7c2b9/1/320x400.jpeg)
I support people to come home to life and liberation in their bodies. I believe that we heal through the body and that the body is the most direct route towards feeling more alive, more connected, and like your contribution to this world really matters. It is my hope that our work will leave you feeling more free, alive, whole, and capable of having authentic connections with yourself, your body, and others. Through our body-based somatic work together, you will identify what truly matters to you and gain practicable skills that will help to align your actions with your vision for your life.
I support people to come home to life and liberation in their bodies. I believe that we heal through the body and that the body is the most direct route towards feeling more alive, more connected, and like your contribution to this world really matters. It is my hope that our work will leave you feeling more free, alive, whole, and capable of having authentic connections with yourself, your body, and others. Through our body-based somatic work together, you will identify what truly matters to you and gain practicable skills that will help to align your actions with your vision for your life.
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My counseling clinic name is Pain Alternatives because my early practice was primarily in structural medicine. I became interested in mental wellness after years of seeing the inextricable connectedness of mental and physical pain. In my current practice, I use a time-limited dynamic psychotherapy model, and medication prescription and management wherever clinically appropriate. You can come for medication management alone, for counseling alone, or for a combination of medication prescription and management with counseling sessions.
My counseling clinic name is Pain Alternatives because my early practice was primarily in structural medicine. I became interested in mental wellness after years of seeing the inextricable connectedness of mental and physical pain. In my current practice, I use a time-limited dynamic psychotherapy model, and medication prescription and management wherever clinically appropriate. You can come for medication management alone, for counseling alone, or for a combination of medication prescription and management with counseling sessions.
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Fennec Clyde Oak
Mental Health Counselor, MA, LMHCA, MHP
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Olympia, WA 98501 (Online Only)
No one is broken. What does it mean to be you? What are your heart’s secret longings? What are the heavy parts you carry in your body and the hopes that you have yet to speak aloud? Healing is not linear. Let us explore the winding path that is you: in the memories of your past, in your experience of the present, and in the possibilities of the future. I am a transgender-identified therapist who specializes in work with LGBTQ+ people and their loved ones. In addition, I work with trauma survivors, people who have experienced othering, and people in life transitions.
No one is broken. What does it mean to be you? What are your heart’s secret longings? What are the heavy parts you carry in your body and the hopes that you have yet to speak aloud? Healing is not linear. Let us explore the winding path that is you: in the memories of your past, in your experience of the present, and in the possibilities of the future. I am a transgender-identified therapist who specializes in work with LGBTQ+ people and their loved ones. In addition, I work with trauma survivors, people who have experienced othering, and people in life transitions.
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Laura May Bruco
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
Verified Verified
Seattle, WA 98115 (Online Only)
You are an adult at a crossroads in your life and are looking for more intensive therapy than someone to talk to. You have experienced mis-attunements and/or trauma in your early life and have struggled to untangle the coping mechanisms that no longer work for you. Perhaps you don't know yourself or even know how to know yourself. Perhaps you just keep ending up in relationships that repeat past patterns no matter how hard you try not to. The idea of spending years in weekly therapy to get anywhere feels like too little. You need dynamic, change-oriented therapy that makes a difference quickly and offers more than just talking.
You are an adult at a crossroads in your life and are looking for more intensive therapy than someone to talk to. You have experienced mis-attunements and/or trauma in your early life and have struggled to untangle the coping mechanisms that no longer work for you. Perhaps you don't know yourself or even know how to know yourself. Perhaps you just keep ending up in relationships that repeat past patterns no matter how hard you try not to. The idea of spending years in weekly therapy to get anywhere feels like too little. You need dynamic, change-oriented therapy that makes a difference quickly and offers more than just talking.
![Photo of Justus Pascual, MA, LMHC, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/a8be0907-1f14-4bba-a9e1-ee410a00db51/3/320x400.jpeg)
I work with clients managing depression, anxiety, symptoms of trauma, and relationship or attachment issues. I have also specialized in working with trans and queer clients as well as BIPOC clients. My approach understands that past emotional harm can negatively condition our brains and that a safe, caring relationship can help rewire our neural pathways. I focus on developing a trusting and honest relationship with my clients, offering them curiosity and compassion. Instead of suppressing, avoiding, or living life around your feelings, you will develop the self-trust and skills to value and care for them and be transformed.
I work with clients managing depression, anxiety, symptoms of trauma, and relationship or attachment issues. I have also specialized in working with trans and queer clients as well as BIPOC clients. My approach understands that past emotional harm can negatively condition our brains and that a safe, caring relationship can help rewire our neural pathways. I focus on developing a trusting and honest relationship with my clients, offering them curiosity and compassion. Instead of suppressing, avoiding, or living life around your feelings, you will develop the self-trust and skills to value and care for them and be transformed.
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Nova Rivera
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98119 (Online Only)
Are you currently facing difficulties? Are you looking for support in processing a difficult or painful time in your past? Searching for general therapeutic support? I am available to provide the support you seek at any stage in your journey. I am passionate about providing my services to a diverse clientele including individuals of various racial/ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities. I believe that all clients have their strengths and are resilient. Part of my role is to encourage you to see your strengths as well. Maybe that doesn't come easy to you and that is okay! Let's practice together.
Are you currently facing difficulties? Are you looking for support in processing a difficult or painful time in your past? Searching for general therapeutic support? I am available to provide the support you seek at any stage in your journey. I am passionate about providing my services to a diverse clientele including individuals of various racial/ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities. I believe that all clients have their strengths and are resilient. Part of my role is to encourage you to see your strengths as well. Maybe that doesn't come easy to you and that is okay! Let's practice together.
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Prism Counseling Brainspotting Intensives Seattle
Counselor, MS, LMHC, MHP
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98104 (Online Only)
We all have the capacity for healing and personal empowerment but life can get in the way! You want to detach from painful past experiences, start liking yourself again, and start really living your truth. Your relationships keep feeling hallow and disconnected. Worry about rejection or safety feels normal. You're barely keeping up with things, let alone trying to add in a therapy appointment each week! But you can feel it. You just can't keep avoiding these simmering feelings anymore because they keep coming back, they just keep coming back. I'm glad you are here, you're in the right place.
We all have the capacity for healing and personal empowerment but life can get in the way! You want to detach from painful past experiences, start liking yourself again, and start really living your truth. Your relationships keep feeling hallow and disconnected. Worry about rejection or safety feels normal. You're barely keeping up with things, let alone trying to add in a therapy appointment each week! But you can feel it. You just can't keep avoiding these simmering feelings anymore because they keep coming back, they just keep coming back. I'm glad you are here, you're in the right place.
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Eden Shore
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LSWAIC
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Seattle, WA 98118 (Online Only)
I am currently accepting new telehealth clients across all of Washington. It can be really difficult here and now to live a life that allows you to thrive. I offer support for people struggling, people who want to feel better, who want to grow. I am a good fit for people who want to shift their relationships with themselves, with loved ones, with standards that don’t fit. I love supporting young adults in their life travel. l am trans and non-binary, and I have a special place in my practice for LGBTQ+ people of all kinds, especially people on the trans and gender diverse spectrum, and people exploring their relationship to gender.
I am currently accepting new telehealth clients across all of Washington. It can be really difficult here and now to live a life that allows you to thrive. I offer support for people struggling, people who want to feel better, who want to grow. I am a good fit for people who want to shift their relationships with themselves, with loved ones, with standards that don’t fit. I love supporting young adults in their life travel. l am trans and non-binary, and I have a special place in my practice for LGBTQ+ people of all kinds, especially people on the trans and gender diverse spectrum, and people exploring their relationship to gender.
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Trans-Formation Therapy w/Dr. Jeni Wahlig, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Auburn, WA 98092 (Online Only)
You are on a journey of becoming!… Becoming your most authentic, happiest, next-level self. And it’s not easy. In fact, it can be confusing, frustrating, painful… even downright terrifying. Still, here you are- called forward onto this courageous path, perhaps knowing WHERE you want to go, but not always knowing how to get there or what will happen along the way. Living authentically, pursuing your dreams, changing your life... is no small matter. And while no one but you can take this journey, you don’t have to go it alone. It would be my honor and privilege to walk alongside you.
You are on a journey of becoming!… Becoming your most authentic, happiest, next-level self. And it’s not easy. In fact, it can be confusing, frustrating, painful… even downright terrifying. Still, here you are- called forward onto this courageous path, perhaps knowing WHERE you want to go, but not always knowing how to get there or what will happen along the way. Living authentically, pursuing your dreams, changing your life... is no small matter. And while no one but you can take this journey, you don’t have to go it alone. It would be my honor and privilege to walk alongside you.
![Photo of Denise Coger Gaido Healing Pllc, MSW, LSWAIC , Clinical Social Work/Therapist](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/906e748a-4764-47b7-869f-ae5807acade0/1/320x400.jpeg)
Denise Coger Gaido Healing Pllc
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LSWAIC
Verified Verified
Mount Vernon, WA 98274 (Online Only)
Do you struggle with work/life balance, managing your stress levels, experiencing difficult emotions, or communicating with your loved ones? Imagine working with a therapist you feel can empathize with, consider, validate and normalize the unique cultural experiences or spiritual values you have. As an asian therapist who utilizes spirituality as a modality, my practice is rooted in values of empowerment, empathy, and authenticity. I work with neurodivergent, spiritual, LGBTQIA+, depressed and anxious individuals who are seeking guidance/support. Let's raise your vibration and create the reality you want!
Do you struggle with work/life balance, managing your stress levels, experiencing difficult emotions, or communicating with your loved ones? Imagine working with a therapist you feel can empathize with, consider, validate and normalize the unique cultural experiences or spiritual values you have. As an asian therapist who utilizes spirituality as a modality, my practice is rooted in values of empowerment, empathy, and authenticity. I work with neurodivergent, spiritual, LGBTQIA+, depressed and anxious individuals who are seeking guidance/support. Let's raise your vibration and create the reality you want!
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Cthulhu Counseling & Wellness, PLLC
Counselor, MA, LMHC, MHP, ATR, C-DBT
Verified Verified
Everett, WA 98201
Waitlist for new clients
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Compassionate care in less than compassionate times calls for those who seek healing to step forward through fear and enter bravely into their path of wellness. I walk with clients in a completely different way than "traditional therapy," while still maintaining the spirit of the profession. I am able to navigate a wide myriad of issues with people from all backgrounds, religions and identities. I continue to work in an Indigenous community setting where I have spent my entire career humbly experiencing the impact of all l serve.
com for services online or in person in Washington and online for Idaho.
Compassionate care in less than compassionate times calls for those who seek healing to step forward through fear and enter bravely into their path of wellness. I walk with clients in a completely different way than "traditional therapy," while still maintaining the spirit of the profession. I am able to navigate a wide myriad of issues with people from all backgrounds, religions and identities. I continue to work in an Indigenous community setting where I have spent my entire career humbly experiencing the impact of all l serve.
![Photo of Cecille Alexander, LMHC, ATR-P, Counselor](https://photos.psychologytoday.com/73672c1e-d198-460c-801d-4e8e1dc5a2d3/1/320x400.jpeg)
I believe in honoring your intersecting identities and how they contextualize your experience. As a multicultural/mixed Asian American (Korean/Filipino/white), highly sensitive, queer femme, the question of how to navigate life in the duality has perpetually challenged and inspired me throughout my life, delivering me to this work. I'm passionate about working with clients of marginalized gender, sexuality, and racial identities who are exploring their truths related to culture, race, generation, and queerness. I hope that together we can explore the important intersection of personal transformation and social change.
I believe in honoring your intersecting identities and how they contextualize your experience. As a multicultural/mixed Asian American (Korean/Filipino/white), highly sensitive, queer femme, the question of how to navigate life in the duality has perpetually challenged and inspired me throughout my life, delivering me to this work. I'm passionate about working with clients of marginalized gender, sexuality, and racial identities who are exploring their truths related to culture, race, generation, and queerness. I hope that together we can explore the important intersection of personal transformation and social change.
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Online Therapists
Is online therapy as effective as in-person?
Numerous studies suggest that online therapy can be as effective as in-person therapy. However, further research is needed to determine if online therapy provides the same benefits across all client populations. Individuals with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, or those who may benefit from in-person check-ins, like those with eating disorders, may not experience the same level of benefit from online therapy. Nonetheless, the success of online therapy, much like in-person therapy, often hinges on the quality of the therapeutic relationship between the therapist and the client rather than the specific modality of therapy used.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of therapy conducted online?
One of the main advantages of online therapy is its convenience for both clients and therapists. It also allows clients who require specialized therapy to access a wider range of professionals than they could with only in-person sessions. Additionally, online therapy may be a more affordable option in some cases and often offers the same insurance benefits as in-person therapy. However, online therapy may not be suitable for everyone, especially those who value face-to-face interaction with a therapist. Therapists may find it more challenging to assess clients accurately in an online setting due to reduced nonverbal cues on camera. There is also the increased risk that disruptions caused by external factors, such as technology malfunctions, can hinder the therapy session. For these reasons, many therapists offer a "hybrid" therapeutic approach, alternating between seeing clients in-person and online.
Is online therapy suitable for children and adolescents?
Just like with adults, the accessibility and convenience of online therapy can greatly benefit children and adolescents. In fact, children and adolescents may be more accustomed to navigating online platforms than older adults, making online sessions feel more natural for them. Teens might also be interested in using additional online tools, such as therapist-recommended apps, as an adjunct to online therapy sessions. Apps for developing CBT skills, practicing mindfulness exercises, or tracking thoughts and moods can be helpful for teens receiving therapy. However, it's important to note that not all therapeutic modalities are well-suited to online therapy, especially those used with younger children. For example, play therapy, which helps younger children express their emotions, often requires in-person sessions to be fully effective.
Can I receive prescriptions and medication management with online therapy?
The ability for psychiatrists to prescribe medications through online therapy varies based on the medication and the states where the medical professional and client are located. While many prescribing regulations were relaxed during the COVID-19 pandemic, some states still enforce rules, especially concerning controlled substances, which may mandate an in-person visit before prescribing. Generally, however, medical professionals can prescribe non-controlled substances through online therapy sessions just as they do during in-person sessions.