Cristina Isabel Slaney, MA, LMHCA

Cristina Isabel Slaney, MA, LMHCA
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Cristina Isabel Slaney, MA, LMHCA

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Professions: Psychotherapist, Counselor
License Status: I'm a therapist practicing under supervision.
Primary Credential: Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate - MC61667713
Supervisor: Abby Wong Heffter, LMHC #LH60163758
Telephone: 775-264-2083

Billing and Insurance:

I am an in-network provider for:

  • BlueCross/BlueShield
  • LifeWise
  • Premera
Session Fees: I am accepting new clients. I currently offer online sessions only with in-person sessions coming soon in the Seattle area. I would love to hear from you. If you\'re interested in working together, please reach out--I offer a free 20 minute initial phone consultation through the form on my website at ecologyofthehuman.comget-started. Individual Session Cost: $150 per session Couples Session Cost: $250 per session As part of my commitment to equity in mental health, I offer a sliding scale. Please contact me if you want to learn more.
Sliding Scale Available
Weekend Availability
Evening Availability

Therapy in:

108 S. Jackson Street Seattle

Seattle, Washington, 98104

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What's My Approach to Therapy?

Being a person is hard. When you\'ve spent your whole life in survival mode, living a life you love is even harder. When your soul feels like it is perpetually bleeding, it feels impossible to just be and enjoy your one short life. Emotional wounds from our past have a way of wreaking havoc on our lives and bodies in the present. It puts a deep shadow over all of life. Now, you feel like a victim of your own body and a liability to your relationships. You’re afraid that if people really got to know you, no one would be able to accept you. Believe me, you are not alone. I've been there, and I know how scary and difficult it can be to change and enter into the unknown. You are in good company. I  am a creative with a curious spirit, a passion for learning, and a heart for supporting and developing people.  In my therapeutic practice, I am dynamic and collaborative. Together we will create space to deepen your connection to your inner world, give meaning to past experiences, transform thinking patterns, and explore new styles of being and relating. I am dedicated to being a strong, consistent, warm, and honest sojourner on your journey toward a freer and more satisfying way of living and being. I am a depth psychotherapist, and my approach is informed by Jungian, psychodynamic, and existential theories. In session, I utilize somatic and trauma-informed practices, and I work from a critical social theory and social justice framework. In our work together, we will begin to heal your imagination for what holistic flourishing looks like in your life and build confidence to make movement in your journey. I would love to be that safe space to partner with you on this most tender and essential journey. Feel free to book a free 15-20 minute phone consultation, and let's see if we are a good fit.

My Practice & Services

My therapeutic approach is to work with our relationship in the here and now, in the space between us. I will partner to support and guide you with gentle curiosity and empathic attunement to help you explore your fear, anxiety, desires, dreams, and existential dread that are keeping you from living the life you want and becoming the person you are made to be. The relationship we build will allow us to explore and bring awareness to adaptive patterns that are now contributing to dis-ease and begin to re-integrate your mind, body, and emotions through the reparative experiences between us that you can carry into the rest of your life. You can begin to face your fears and limitations and have more agency in choosing what it is you want for yourself.

Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With

I work with high achieving women who experienced trauma, abuse, and neglect in childhood, who are now left on their own to deal with the unfair debris. My hope would be to partner with you to help you get relief in the places you feel stuck and to help you find better ways to love yourself, to inhabit your authentic, creative self, and to feel nourishing connection with others. As a multicultural and multi-ethnic person, I will also work navigating an intergenerational, racial, and cross-cultural landscape. For me, the work of therapy is to create good enough safety where you can tell your story of harm and loss. In our work together, we will begin to heal your imagination for what holistic flourishing looks like in your life and build confidence to make movement in your journey. I would love to be that safe space to partner with you on this most tender and essential journey.

Client Age Groups I Work With

  • Adults
  • Elders

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish

Groups I Work With

  • I work with high achieving women who struggle with the impacts of trauma, neglect, and abuse on their bodies, identity, and relationships, with a focus on familial issues, chronic pain, autoimmune diseases, and finding life purpose. I specialize in anxiety, depression, and complex childhood trauma, including sexual abuse, intergenerational trauma, spiritual abuse, racial identity, and multicultural issues.

Industries & Communities Served

  • Entertainment Industry
  • First Responder/Medical Professionals
  • Self-Employed and Freelance Professionals
  • LGBTQ+
  • BIPOC

Client Challenges & Concerns I Address

  • Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues
  • Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment Issues
  • Chronic Pain
  • Codependency / Dependency
  • Creative Blocks
  • Depression
  • Dissociation
  • Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
  • Domestic Violence
  • Family of Origin Issues
  • Family Problems
  • Fear
  • Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
  • Habits
  • Health / Illness / Medical Issues
  • Identity Issues
  • Immigration issues
  • Inattention, Impulsivity, and Hyperactivity (ADHD)
  • Incest
  • Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
  • Midlife Crisis / Midlife Transition
  • Multicultural Concerns
  • Perfectionism
  • Racism
  • Religious Issues
  • Self-Actualization
  • Self-Care
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Esteem
  • Sexual Assault / Abuse
  • Shame
  • Sleep Issues
  • Social Anxiety / Phobia
  • Somatization
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Women's Issues
  • Workplace Issues

Therapeutic Approaches & Evidence-Based Methods

  • Adlerian Psychology / Psychotherapy
  • Art Therapy
  • Body-Mind Psychotherapy
  • Breathwork
  • Coaching
  • Contemplative Psychotherapy
  • Ecotherapy / Nature Therapy
  • Existential Psychotherapy
  • Expressive Arts Therapy
  • Family Attachment Narrative Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Holistic Psychotherapy
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)
  • Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
  • Mindfulness-Based Interventions
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Relational Psychotherapy
  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
  • Spiritual Counselling

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