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Externship in EFT |
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Additional EFT Training |
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Certified EFT Therapist |
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Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor |
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Sue Anderson LSW |
(206) 522-5470 |
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Shelley Bartels MA, LMHC |
(206) 271-9371 |
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Jessica Beattie LMFT |
(206) 743-9250 |
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Holly Blue MA, LMFTA |
(360) 915-2497 |
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Debbie Butler MS, LMFT |
(206) 669-1513 |
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Kimberly Castelo MS, LMFT |
(206) 954-9102 |
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Kim Dean JD, MA, LMFTA |
(206) 503-8452 |
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I believe that the quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives. As a marriage and family therapist, I work with individuals and couples to create thriving and vibrant relationships with themselves and the important people in their lives. I bring years of experience working with couples and families and have a deep understanding of the complexity of adult relationships. My work is grounded in attachment theory which establishes that we are relational beings wired for connection and belonging. I am passionate about guiding individuals and couples toward relationship health, healing, and decision making, and when inevitable toward intentional uncoupling. I bring ten years experience as a family law attorney and mediator to my therapeutic work. I help clients gain clarity about their relationship. I work with individuals and couples to revitalize a relationship that has become stale or disconnected by rebuilding emotional and physical intimacy. I am highly skilled in working with couples who are in the midst of a crisis and are on the brink of divorce. I offer healing, insight, reflection, rebuilding, and relationship skills. You are welcome to schedule a 30-minute consultation to see if we are a good fit at mettarel.com. |
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Peggie Dickens MA, LMHC |
(206) 795-2336 |
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Shanna Donhauser LICSW |
(360) 813-8587 |
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I specialize in working with couples with young children. Many couples seek therapy after acute stress (medical/birth trauma), or after years of chronic stress (birth of a sibling). But I believe couples counseling is for everyone and every parent. That's because couples counseling with EFT is about connection, intimacy, and discovering yourself in your relationship. The work you will do in couples counseling will be transformative. Secure attachment doesn't just happen. It happens because we work on it. “Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” Fred Rogers |
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Donna Ellis MA, LMHC |
(206) 275-0764 |
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Tina Ensminger BSN, MA, LMFT |
(206) 650-0254 |
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Marlon Familton MA, LMHC |
(425) 417-4700 |
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Marlon Familton launched Bellevue Family Counseling, LLC in 2008 after graduating from Bastyr University (LIOS) with an MA in Applied Behavioral Science. He specializes in working with adults on relationship issues, driven by the belief that the desire to feel safe and secure in a loving relationship is one of our primary purposes in life. Marlon, author of Fix Your Partner in 10 Easy Steps or Less, supports couples who want to create a more happy and secure relationship as well as individuals working to overcome life's challenges, using the latest effective types of therapies for the best results. |
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Robert Fontana MA, LMFT |
206-651-5058 |
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I help individuals, couples, and families to rediscover hope, find healing, and achieve a renewed joy in living! I do this by integrating best therapeutic practices with clients’ personal strengths, including their faith, to address the multitude of issues, past and present, that are causing pain, strained relationships, and despair. I am especially interested in helping couples who are struggling with loving one another. As an EFT trained-therapist, I help these couples break out of the negative patterns that lead to resentment and division, and create new, positive ways of interacting that strengthen unity, love, and intimacy. |
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Janel Fox MA, LMHC |
(206) 251-3280 |
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Joel Freedman MA, LMHC |
(206) 327-3351 |
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Paddy Freeman MA, LMHC |
(206) 707-2752 |
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Kim Gilliland MA, LMFT |
(425) 922-1644 |
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I believe in the power of couples therapy, and using the EFT model in particular. I understand how painful it can be to experience ongoing conflict or distance in our most important relationships. Sometimes we need a new way of looking at thingswithin us and between ourselves and our partnerto understand what's going on. With this new understanding, we can start to make the changes that will lead to a closer, more connected relationship. Oftentimes, couples wait a long time before seeking help. It can be scary not knowing what to expect, and wondering if it will really help. By this time, they have experienced a lot of pain, and have established negative ways of interacting as a way to cope with the stress. Don't wait! Help is availablejust take the first step. Call or email me today and we can talk about how I can help. |
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Kathryn Gingerich-Richards MA, LMHC |
(425) 260-8491 |
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Are you struggling with disagreements and fights that never seem to get resolved? I'll help you repair patterns that lead to frustration, defensiveness, and disconnection. I work collaboratively with couples to weave together a new relationship of trust, respect, and clarity of purpose. Together we can discover a path forward towards a nurturing, healthy relationshipone that rekindles the spark that brought you together in the first place. As a couples therapist, I’m honored to witness profound shifts in acceptance and connection, and an overall sense of well-being and health. I look forward to talking to you about your relationship. I offer a free 20-minute phone consultation. |
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Anna Goeke MA, LMFT |
(425) 576-1804 |
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Bob Goettle MA, LMHC |
(206) 372-8400 |
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Bob is certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples and is a licensed counselor who has been working in the field of mental health and counseling for 29 years. He has devoted the last 15 to work with couples and enjoys this work very much. Please feel free to ring him if you would like to talk about how EFT may benefit you. |
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Pasha Plum Grant MSW, LICSW |
(425) 312-2512 |
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Shellie Gravitt MA, LMFT |
(206) 724-4694 |
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Dorsey Green Ph.D. |
(206) 324-1484 |
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Marsha Hahn MA, LICSW |
(425) 309-1050 |
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It takes courage to reach out for help if your relationship is suffering. The benefits of engaging in couple therapy can be rich and rewarding. Emotionally Focused Therapy works from the understanding that the quality of our connection to our life partner is essential to our sense of well-being. I work with couples to help identify negative patterns that have developed and to build and deepen connection and understanding between partners. Please call me for a 20-minute phone consultation at no charge to see if we might work well together. |
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John Hammack MA, LMHC |
(425) 870-5142 |
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Jenny Hermanson MS, LMFT |
(425) 503-6918 |
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Roy Hodgson MA, MA, LMFT, LMHC |
(206) 284-2276 |
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Roy is an individual, couple, and family therapist who provides a supportive, thoughtful, and encouraging place for you. He is experienced in the medical, educational, and mental health fields and holds two master's degrees. Roy is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a supervisor and trainer of other therapists in the state of Washington. Roy works with divorced and blended families, and with clients who may be depressed, worried, or sad, having family problems, dealing with sexuality issues, or faced with creating a new family and couple. He respectfully treats single parents, families, and ethnic and sexual minorities. Free 20-minute phone consultation. |
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Bill Hovis MA, LMHCA |
(425) 405-5597 |
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I believe we are all created for connection in relationship, and that all relationships have the potential to bring great joy and great struggle. I believe in the importance of the therapeutic relationship between us, and that addressing the concerns that bring you to therapy can be a process that brings healing, transformation, and growth. My approach to counseling varies but is primarily informed by attachment and a relational psychodynamic perspective. EFT is a novel adaptation of attachment theory that helps restore the bonds of connection in our most important relationship, the one we share with our significant other. My hope is to help each and every couple I meet with to experience a more fulfilling relationship based upon strengthening the bond between them. Thanks. |
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Laurie B. Hovis MA, LMHC |
(425) 390-4504 |
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I believe that the process of healing begins through authentic and vulnerable connection with another. My counseling orientation is informed by attachment theory and the relational psychodynamic therapeutic model, which looks at patterns of relating from early life up to the present. Additionally, working with Emotionally Focused Therapy provides an opportunity for couples to experience attachment and deeper emotional intimacy in their relationship. I hold Chemical Dependency Professional-Trainee certification from the state of Washington. |
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Cora Lombardi MA, LMFT |
(425) 681-2036 |
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Joseph Losi MA, LMFT |
(206) 595-2577 |
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As a fully Certified EFT couples therapist and a Level 2 EFT individual therapist, my goal in therapy is to help couples, men and women cultivate a greater awareness, acceptance and regulation of emotion, thought and behavior. I assist clients in becoming fully aware of core emotions and the disconnecting behaviors that result when they are unrecognized and unshared. We will work together to help you develop the ability to communicate in ways that will foster increased connection and intimacy with all of your relationships. In this process, you can gain a more meaningful understanding of how you interact with your partner or spouse, and other close people in your life. In gentle and powerful ways my clients come to understand how it is that they have become distant from once cherished loved ones—and how to grow a safer, more accepting and secure connection to yourself and to those with whom you are in relationship. |
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Meriha Mantle MSW, LICSW |
(206) 300-9436 |
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Bob Matthews MA |
(206) 285-0171 |
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I work together with my wife, Karin Matthews, as a co-therapy team to help couples bring more connection and life to their relationships. Karin and I are two very different people: female/male, extrovert/introvert, expressive/reserved, with different careers and cultural backgrounds. Working together as a team allows us to offer you the benefit of our combined backgrounds, personalities, and perspectives. We find that our own diversity meshes well with the diversity within the couples that we see and helps us make sense of what both partners of a couple are experiencing. If you’re having a hard time with conflict, or are feeling more distant and disconnected than you’d like, we can work with you to help you understand how you’ve come to be stuck where you are and to find new ways to navigate your differences with compassion and respect for yourselves and each other. |
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Karin Matthews MA |
(206) 285-0171 |
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According to Sue Johnson, strong loving relationships are increasingly correlated with individual physical and psychological health. I support clients in discovering how they contribute to their relationship dynamic. Once they understand how they cocreate their dance, I help them explore new ways of managing their emotions in connection with each other. My husband and I work as a team to help couples grow together. As former high-tech and legal professionals, we understand how work demands can affect relationships. As parents, we get how children are a source of both joy and stress. As an intercultural couple, we recognize the challenges in bridging different world views. |
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Mindy McGovern MA, LMFTA |
(206) 321-8696 |
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I help couples get underneath cycles of criticism, stonewalling, and distress so that they can find intimacy and connection and a way forward. I also specialize in working with blended families and parenting conflicts. My work is attachment traumainformed, and it is greatly influenced by the couple-oriented work of Sue Johnson and Emotionally Focused Therapy. I am currently certifying as a sex therapist and invite couples and individuals working through sexual dysfunction to seek me out. I believe in creating a non-judgmental, safe place for couples to resolve distress and discover intimacy. I welcome clients of all sexual orientations and gender identities. |
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Meg McLaughlin MA, LMHC |
(206) 361-2667 |
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I work in partnership with people to identify ways problems have affected their livesand strategize ways to help them regain control over their lives. I work collaboratively examining challenges/problems, particularly looking to uncover life experiences that contradict problemscontradictions that may provide ways for people to create preferred ways to live with those challenges. Perhaps the best statement that reflects my philosophy of practice is from Michael White: "The problem is the problem; you are not the problem." |
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Janet Mead Leamon MA, LMFT |
(206) 397-3002 |
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Susan Mowrey MA, LMHC |
(206) 473-2700 |
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Counseling can help you get unstuck, set goals, reduce anxiety and depression, take action to feel better, and help you have more control of your life. With a compassionate and supportive approach, I help people find real solutions to important issues in life, work, and relationships. I help people identify negative emotions and limiting beliefs and replace them with healthy coping skills and positive strategies to change their lives. Through integrating current research in neurobiology and attachment, I help couples acknowledge, respect, and understand each other better. I help couples break negative patterns that undermine their relationships and find real tools for improving their communication and connection. Education and understanding of each partner's emotional regulation is an important part of the process. Conflict is a normal part of couple communication. Every couple has both a positive and negative communication cycle. Conflict intimacy is learned and an important part of growing together. When couples understand how their emotions, needs, and behaviors affect each other in the communication cycle, they learn how to maintain secure attachment and foster positive relationships. |
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Jody Myers MA, LMHC |
(206) 437-5623 |
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Kristin Nielsen MA, LMFT |
(425) 210-0381 |
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Every person, couple, and family struggles from time to time. Sometimes it is hard to get through these rough patches alone. Having a compassionate and supportive individual attending to your concerns provides a safe environment to create positive change. As a marriage and family therapist who uses emotionally focused therapy, I am curious about interactions that are keeping you stuck in the uncomfortable and enthusiastic about conversations that begin to create understanding and new patterns of connection. I focus on many aspects of being human including relationship issues, depression, anxiety, grief/loss, life events, transitions and specialize in sexual health and intimacy. I also utilize narrative therapy, trauma-focused therapy, tantric and mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. I am a Certified Integrated Intimacy Professional (CIIP). |
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Kristin O'Hara MA, LMFTA |
(206) 457-3518 |
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Rachel Orleck PsyD |
(206) 745-3526 |
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You and your partner are struggling right now, and maybe have been for a long time. Life's transitions such as retirement, marriage, or birth of a new child can make staying connected with your partner quite difficult at times. Or other challenges in your relationship can leave you with difficulty trusting and feeling alone or like roommates. You both are tired of being stressed, tired of all the yelling, tired of being tired. Going to therapy can be scary, but you won't be alone. With me, you and your partner will cry, laugh, and work hard together! My practice is in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle at Meaningful Journey Counseling, and I focus on couples counseling and relationship issues for individuals. I hold a Master’s degree and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. My training in EFT and interpersonal process therapies influences my approach to working with both couples and individuals in a present-focused and validating manner. Please contact me for a complimentary 1520 minute phone consultation to see if we'd be a good fit. |
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Angela Osborne MA, LMFT |
(253) 878-0365 |
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Ada Pang MS, LMFT |
(206) 457-3518 |
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You know the best thing you can give to your children is a healthy marriage, and yet getting along with your partner is one of the hardest things to do? I help couples feel close and connected in their relationship, so it's a win-win situation for everyone. Just because you've been fighting like clockwork or living like roommates does not mean it has to stay that way. If you only have one shot at life, make it count. Let's do this together. Give me a call today. |
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Chris Paredes MA, LMHCA |
206-717-5002 |
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When your relationships struggle, your entire life can be a struggle. At times it can seem that even though you desire rewarding and fulfilling relationships, countless obstacles prevent this from happening. We can all find ourselves stuck in this place at times, unable to change personal situations or navigate difficulties in relationships. I provide evidence-based care using EFT to help couples connect rather than fight. Working with individuals, I help navigate depression, anxiety, grief, loss, and life transitions. I am particularly drawn to working with individuals in addiction recovery, as well as those impacted by other people's addictions. I provide a free 20-minute phone consultation for prospective clients. |
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Susan Raab-Cohen Ph.D. |
(206) 443-9810 |
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Please note that my practice is full, and I am no longer accepting new couples. Since 1984, I have been a licensed psychologist practicing in the Pike Place Market area. I see individuals and couples for depression, anxiety, life transitions, and interpersonal problems. My career changed about four years ago when I first heard Sue Johnson speak. She described the yearning that all people have to feel safely attached, to feel secure in the arms of the person they love. She described EFT and showed videos of the work. Her lecture changed my career. I have taken both levels of training and hope to become certified as an EFT therapist. I have been challenged, excited and inspired by the EFT philosophy, practice and approach. It’s neither simplistic nor easy. But it is tender, nonjudgmental, and optimistic. When EFT works, important moments happen…and those moments can lead to lasting change. |
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Michelle Rogers LMHC, MA |
857-203-0086 |
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Relationships with a significant other are one of the most important and satisfying relationships you will ever have. The impact of of this relationship can affect your physical and emotional health. Because relationships are dynamic, even those that begin in healthy connection can deteriorate over time. I offer help in coming alongside you to strengthen the many facets of your relationship and help you learn to connect, not just communicate or problem-solve. I am a licensed mental health counselor in the state of Washington. I hold dual master's degrees in mental health, and in marriage and family therapy from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. I have a bachelor's of science degree in exercise science with a minor in psychology from the University of Southern California. I have had the opportunity to work in a variety of therapy settings including medical, educational, athletic, faith-based, and clinical. I work with individuals and couples. Additionally, I mentor individuals, facilitate group sessions, and lead public speaking engagements. As a provider, I am passionate about the well-being and growth of every client with whom I work. |
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Lia Schaefer LICSW |
(206) 928-6363 |
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All couples have cycles that bring them together or further apart. I will help you and your partner learn about your unique cycle, find ways to de-escalate conflict, and help you express deeper feelings and needs often covered up by conflict. The goal is for you both to be able to acknowledge and discuss these with greater awareness and compassion, creating an opportunity for a deeper bond. I look forward to learning more about you. |
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Joe Shaub MA, LMFT |
(206) 587-0417 |
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I have been a marriage and family therapist and a mediator for 28 years. The focus of my therapy practice is Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, as well as individual counseling for those struggling in their intimate relationships. Too many therapists have only been trained to work with individuals and just add couples work to the services they offer…because they can. Yet, without a firm grounding in how people act and react in their intimate relationships, the therapist will get lost in endless efforts at problem-solving and assigning homework that seems to go nowhere (or worse, makes people even more distant and dispirited). EFT provides a salubrious lens through which struggling partners can view their painful cycle of conflict or disconnection. It guides us to a way out of that cycle. Albert Einstein said that we can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created the problem in the first place. EFT provides a new, different way of thinking. This work is a revelation and I would find it a privilege to join you in this journey of discovery and forging peace and closeness where you might have thought that they could no longer be found. I invite you to learn more about me and my approach on my website and in my book (available on Amazon): Divorce (or Not): A Guide – Part II – How to Choose and Use a Couple Therapist. | |||
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John Sherrodd MA, LMHC |
(206) 295-8772 |
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I provide couples and individual Emotion Focused Therapy helping clients who are often dealing with anxiety, depression and struggling with relationships. I provide a free initial consultation and would be happy to see if I might be the right fit to work with you. My therapy practice is both in-person (Seattle) and online (serving all of Washington state). I also provide life coaching services to anyone online and in-person in Seattle. The focus of my work ranges from business development services to executive, relationship and individual coaching. People often come to me looking for help with career transitions or improvements, improving relationships, dealing with workplace conflicts, job struggles, desiring to improve family interactions, developing their character, setting and achieving goals and executive or organizational development to name just a few areas. |
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Wendy Smith MA, LMHC |
(206) 965-8749 |
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I work with all kinds of couples, and I particularly love working with couples where illness or disability is a relationship issue. I am in my mid-40s and was raised in New York. I graduated from Antioch University Seattle in 2009, after a career change, and am engaged in ongoing advanced training and supervision in Emotionally Focused Therapy. |
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Claire Spurlock-Cohen MBA, MA, LMFTA |
(206) 715-2385 |
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Each of us is profoundly influenced by our love relationships and how our families impacted us. These relationships shape how we respond to the complexities and challenges of life. Negotiating difficulties can sometimes leave us feeling lonely, frustrated, overwhelmed, and in conflict with loved ones. I work with individuals, couples, and families to create and strengthen secure bonds in your significant relationships. Strong and secure relationships increase confidence, emotional security, and emotional well-being in the face of life's stressors. My practice focus includes relational difficulties, depression, anxiety, grief/loss, PTSD, chronic illness, and more. In addition, I enjoy working with individuals, couples, and families who are impacted by ASD. Having completed advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy, I utilize EFT and an attachment framework to support my clients. I am currently pursuing ICEEFT certification as an EFT therapist. |
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Maria-Teresa Subercaseaux LMFT |
(206) 527-2266 x326 |
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I am a bilingual (Spanish-English) psychotherapist who helps couples and individuals improve their communication and develop their potential, to grow as personally and in relationships. Through EFT I have found the framework to enable my clients to see where their relationship is trapped without blaming one person. We focus on how 'my behavior influences how you react, which at the same time influences how I respond to your response.' I can help you adjust to major life changes (acculturation process, medical illness, separation, empty nest, PTSD, depression, anxiety, and more) and strengthen your ability to cope with adversity and regain peace. I am interested in the psychological, biological, social, and spiritual well-being of the person. I am originally from Chile, where I studied and provided therapy for 4 years. I earned my master’s degree in marriage and family therapy and a certificate in medical family therapy at Seattle Pacific University. |
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Lea Sullivan MA, LMHC |
(253) 363-0337 |
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Suzy Thompson MA, LMCH |
(360) 908-1665 |
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Heather Varnau MA, LMHC |
(360) 878-5693 |
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Sheri Vernon MA, LMHC |
(206) 624-7696 |
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Dominique Walmsley PhD, LMHC |
(206) 909-1097 |
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Wanda Welch Bresnick MSW | (206) 548-0409 |
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Edan Zebooloon MA, LMHC |
(206) 841-0137 |
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I am passionate about using Emotionally Focused Therapy in my work with individuals, couples, and families because of how I have found it to help clients get in touch with and powerfully express the deeper feelings and needs behind what has kept them stuck with themselves and others. |