My approach focuses on identifying and healing subconscious patterns and protective responses shaped by trauma and early life experiences. I help clients reconnect with their sense of safety and self-trust.

I am currently seeing older children (10 and up), adolescents, and adults for therapy. I am currently not accepting couples for therapy. I believe all individuals have strengths and the capacity to meet their full potential. My main approach is to provide a safe and secure environment for clients to process feelings and learn to manage emotions and behaviors. I incorporate play, art, sandtray, and symbolism to aid in the therapeutic process. My therapy dog, Daisy, is present one day a week and is used for animal-assisted therapy. Please feel free to email me to discuss getting started with therapy. I provide a variety of counseling techniques such as play therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, parenting strategies, family counseling, and sandtray therapy. I frequently provide help with anxiety and mood management. I am a Registered Play Therapist and have 15 years of experience.

Kelly has a Master of Arts in Counseling from Western Seminary. Her coursework included training in marriage and family counseling, multicultural counseling, integrative issues, and more. Kelly has completed Level 2 of the Gottman Method Couples Therapy training. She also integrates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic approaches, and solution-focused methods into the therapeutic process, while drawing on your strengths, values, and goals. Kelly brings over 25 years of experience serving young adults, retired and aging adults, families, and couples in both ministry and civic settings. She considers it a deep privilege to be invited into an individual’s or couple’s journey, no matter the season of life, and she is committed to helping you process your experiences with thoughtful collaboration and respectful curiosity. With a deep appreciation for cultural diversity, she strives to create a welcoming and inclusive space where your unique background and perspectives are honored. Kelly has been married for over 20 years and is the proud mom of two teenagers. She loves spending time with her family, traveling, sharing deep conversations over a great cup of coffee, and soaking in the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

Supporting adults in understanding ADHD, improving executive functioning skills, managing overwhelm, and building on personal strengths.

I would like to help you to discover freedom from self-limiting patterns that lead to stress, conflict, andor withdrawal from life. My approach supports you in being less identified with habitual ways of thinking and feeling that can keep you stuck in patterns that no longer work for you. You can learn to be less reactive and more compassionate with yourself and others. You can move beyond conceptual knowledge into direct experiential understanding of life. This mindfulness-based understanding can lead you to deep and lasting positive change. In a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, I offer a highly personalized approach tailored to your individual needs. My integrative mindbody approach is based on honesty, respect, and compassion. I am interested in learning about your strengths, goals, feelings and needs. I see strengths as the gateway to development and positive change.

We seek therapy in order to decrease suffering. My commitment is to aide you in achieving this goal. Where we focus-- whether that's on your current experience, on your early attachment to caregivers, or on developing effective coping skills-- depends on what you feel is most important. This is one of the things we address in our first consultation. Often we carry the solutions to our problems within ourselves. My work is to elicit these solutions. I approach this by seeking to increase both your and my awareness. Our awareness of where things in your life come from, what purpose they're trying to serve, what your values are, what works for you and what doesn't work so well. Therapy is deeply collaborative. It requires your sense of being safe and free from judgment as much as it does my compassion and training. It can be one of the most creative works in a person's life, in which they take an active and effective hand in making that life. I look forward to working with you.

Do you sometimes feel like you’re your own worst enemy? Struggling to find compassion and patience for yourself, and maybe others too? Perhaps you’re navigating neurodivergence in an unwelcoming world, facing disconnection in your romantic (or platonic) relationships, or trying to get to know who “you” really are and find meaning in your life. It can feel overwhelming and, at times, impossible to know how to respond to challenges and changes in and around you. With therapy, you don’t have to figure it out alone. You can be seen, heard, and understood without judgement and with authenticity. Through collaborative therapeutic approaches and adaptable techniques, I look forward to witnessing your journey toward wellness and supporting your autonomy and growth. Your well-being and autonomy are my first and foremost priorities. I believe all individuals deserve empathy, understanding, and the opportunity to pursue growth and healing. You are the expert in your own experiences, and I will treat you as such. I use a variety of techniques and styles in my therapeutic work with clients, following an “eclectic” approach that I am continually tuning to best meet the needs of each individual or relationship I work with. Some of the foundational therapeutic frameworks I use include feminist, psychodynamic, narrative, and somatic work. I always encourage my clients to share feedback about what they feel works best for them in sessions, so we can collaborate on the healing process as equals.

Therapy should feel accessible, practical, and useful. I believe you are the expert on your own experience and have the capacity to create meaningful change. My role is to understand your perspective, build on your strengths, and help you develop practical strategies for managing thoughts, emotions, relationships, and everyday challenges. I use an individualized, collaborative approach drawing from CBT, trauma-informed therapy, attachment-based therapy, and supportive psychotherapy. Together, we identify patterns that may be keeping you stuck, increase insight and emotional regulation, and develop skills that help you feel more grounded, confident, and capable.

Maybe you’ve been holding everything together on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck on the inside. You may be navigating ADHD, a major life transition, relationship challenges, or the exhaustion that comes from constantly putting other people’s needs before your own. You might understand what you “should” do, but still find yourself overthinking, people-pleasing, or struggling to follow through. I believe therapy should feel like a place where you can finally exhale. I offer a warm, compassionate, and collaborative space where you can be honest without judgment and feel genuinely understood. Together, we’ll slow things down, make sense of the patterns that keep you stuck, and identify practical ways to create change that feels sustainable—not overwhelming. I’ll help you develop greater self-awareness, strengthen boundaries, quiet self-criticism, and build a more supportive relationship with yourself. When helpful, I integrate EMDR and parts work to gently explore experiences and patterns that may still be influencing how you feel and respond today. You don’t have to have everything figured out before reaching out. We can start wherever you are and work together toward feeling more grounded, confident, and at ease in your life.

You are looking for help. Help reconnecting with a partner who seems disinterested and dissatisfied. My passion is helping couples like you rediscover the joy of a close and intimate relationship. Not just physical intimacy, but intimacy that comes from a deep, emotional connection. You fell in love for a reason, but something seems to have gotten in the way. It's not random. After ten years, I've discovered there is a pattern to the conflict in relationships. When disconnection arises, you attempt to move closer, to regain the connection you lost. But because you're in distress, it usually comes out frustrated and critical. Your partner interprets this bid for connection as an attack, and typically becomes defensive and withdraws. When you see this defensiveness, it feels like you're totally shut out and blamed, and you become more frustrated. On and on it goes, until you're both too exhausted and just give up. You may be afraid to hope that change is possible, but I assure you it is. A better life awaits you, a life of fulfillment and excitement, of intimacy and connection. Rediscovering a vibrant relationship is not easy, and it's usually not fast, but it is possible. Reach out to me today so we can begin our journey together.