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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.

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

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.

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 relationship—one 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Trained in the advanced core skills of Emotionally Focused Therapy, Joseph's approach is rooted in assisting clients to become fully aware of unrecognized, unshared, connective primary emotions and reactive, disconnecting secondary emotions. He helps couples, men, and women cultivate greater awareness and acceptance of emotion. With empathic support he will help you develop the ability to communicate primary and secondary emotion in powerful ways that will foster increased intimacy with partners, spouses, and others.

Joseph is also an active member of King County Collaborative Law. He is experienced in helping individuals negotiate the difficult task of divorce.

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.

I work in partnership with people to identify ways problems have affected their lives—and strategize ways to help them regain control over their lives. I work collaboratively examining challenges/problems, particularly looking to uncover life experiences that contradict problems—contradictions 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."

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.