Jan Santora, MA

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Profession(s): Psychotherapy, Counseling, Social Work
License Status:  I'm a licensed professional.
License Type:  licensed mental health counselor
License Number:  LH00010966

My Approach to Helping

I offer psychotherapy and spiritual counseling to individuals, couples, groups and adult family members with particular respect to transition. I also offer consulting for writing memoir and and life story. I believe that identification, acknowledgement and release of blocked energy transforms emotional experience and becomes a path to authentic personal and spiritual relationship. Therapy is essentially about moving energy. For example, coping skills may be developed in childhood to survive family of origin and cultural projection, and then as we age, pain results from using skills which no longer work and continue to mask the authentic self. Therapy may be about depathologizing, self-forgiveness and developing new coping skills while keeping parts of the original coping skill which still work. I see this as practical spirituality and may use systems, cognitive, developmental, psychodynamic, family-of-origin, ThetaHealing, Sedona Method, Laws of Attraction and/or other therapeutic elements in the process of healing. Therapy is based on individual need, and so may include exploring confilct resolution as well as development of focusing and self-esteem skills. These theories are also effective in work with couples and adult family members. Two office locations in Washington State: Unity Counseling (Seattle Unity Church) 200 8th Avenue N Seattle, WA 98109 206.233.1021, ext.131 www.seattleunity.org/counseling 772 Camano Ave Camano Center Langley, WA 98260 (Whidbey Island) 360.221.4313

More Info About My Practice

I offer psychotherapy and spiritual counseling to individuals, couples and groups regarding work, aging, health, finances, relationships and experiencing the Self. I facilitate many kinds of life transitions including such specialties as adoption reunion counseling, distance parenting with noncustodial mothers and fathers, and adult families and couples in crisis. I believe that life is change and that skills can be learned to provide peaceful passage through it's continuous, often painful or exhilarating, cycle of beginnings and endings. I have been in private practice since 1994, am a speaker and author, and facilitate the enduring Mothering Ourselves groups for adult daughters. Please see website at www.seattleunity.org/counseling for more information. Two office locations: Unity Counseling 200 8th Ave N Seattle, WA 98109 206.233.1021, ext 131 772 Camano Ave Camano Center Langley, WA 98260 (Whidbey Island) 360.221.4313
 

Services I Provide

  • Individual Therapy & Counseling
  • Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
  • Group Therapy
  • Mediation
  • Coaching
  • Consultation
  • Distance or Phone Therapy
 

Ages I Work With

  • Teens
  • Adults
  • Elders
 

Languages I Speak

  • English
 

Groups I Work With

  • adult individuals, COUPLES, support & therapy groups, adult family members, distance parenting, noncustodial mothers, writers, adoption reunion, adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, women, men,
 

Therapy Approaches I Use

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
  • Art Therapy
  • Body-Mind Psychotherapy
  • Body Talk System
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy /REBT
  • Creative Art Therapy
  • Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy
  • Dreamwork & Dream Analysis
  • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
  • Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
  • Emotional Freedom Technique
  • Existential Psychotherapy
  • Energy Psychology
  • Family Systems Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Focusing
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Gottman Method
  • Holistic Psychotherapy
  • Humanistic Psychology
  • Imago Relationship Therapy
  • Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
  • Mindfulness Based Approaches
  • Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Person Centered / Rogerian
  • Positive Psychotherapy
  • Process Oriented Psychology
  • Psychodrama
  • Psychodynamic
  • Regression Therapy
  • Self Relations
  • Self Psychology
  • Shamanic Journeying / Psychoshamanic
  • Solution Focused Therapy
  • Somatic Psychotherapy
  • Thought Field Therapy
  • Transpersonal Psychotherapy
  • Voice Dialogue
 
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Locations & Maps
Office 1: 
200 8th Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109 United States
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Office 2: 
772 Camano Ave Suite 101
Langley, WA 98249 United States
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Concerns & Issues I Help With

  • Abortion / Post Abortion Issues
  • Academic Concerns
  • Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
  • Adoption / Reunion Issues
  • Anger
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment Issues
  • Bereavement
  • Blended Family Issues
  • Career Choice
  • Caregiver Issues/Stress
  • Chronic Pain
  • Codependency / Dependency
  • Communication Problems
  • Control Issues
  • Creative Blocks
  • Depression
  • Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
  • Eating & Food Issues
  • Emptiness
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Emotional Overwhelm
  • End-of-life Adjustment
  • Family Problems
  • Family of Origin Issues
  • Forgiveness
  • Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, & Transgender Issues
  • Grief & Loss
  • Infidelity / Affair Recovery
  • Isolation (Emotional & Social)
  • Life Purpose/Meaning/Inner-Guidance
  • Men's Issues
  • Midlife Transition
  • Multicultural Concerns
  • Parenting
  • Phobias / Fears
  • Post Traumatic Stress
  • Relationships & Marriage
  • Reproduction, Pregnancy, & Birthing
  • Religion
  • Self-Care
  • Self-Confidence
  • Self-Criticism
  • Self-Doubt
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Love
  • Sensitivity to Criticism
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Shame
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Trauma
  • Trust Issues
  • Values Clarification
  • Women's Issues
  • Workplace Issues
  • Worthlessness
  • Other - not listed here