Find a Therapist in Woodinville, WA

In a world that can feel overwhelming and uncertain, trying to navigate your own struggles on top of everything else can be exhausting. Maybe you’re facing a major life transition, wrestling with big existential questions, trying to cope with the state of the world, or in need of a supportive space to help life feel more manageable. Whatever you’re carrying, you don’t have to figure it out alone. Together, we’ll create space for you to process your experience, explore what truly matters to you, and reconnect with yourself. You deserve to feel at home in your mind and body, grounded in who you are, and free to live the life you want. My approach is relational and collaborative, blending somatic practices to strengthen the mind-body connection. Compassion guides my work, and I deeply value the therapeutic relationship. Together, we’ll move beyond getting stuck in your head toward a more embodied experience, deepen self-trust, authentic growth, lasting shifts, and greater self-acceptance. Above all, my goal is to help you embrace your authentic self. I encourage you to bring your true self to our sessions, share what feels comfortable, and engage in authentic conversations. Seeking therapy takes courage. I’d be honored to connect with you. I offer online therapy in Washington State, and a free 20-minute consultation to answer any questions.

I bring all of my skills, experience & self to whatever issue you are dealing with. It really is the confluence of the mind and the heart (intelligence and empathy) that I think helps us identify what needs to be healed or heard, and then to actually hear it & heal it.

Feeling overwhelmed, stressed and stuck? Looking for changes in your life through therapy? I am an Art Therapist/Psychotherapist offering art therapy and counseling services to children, teens, adults and families in Bellevue, WA. Through art therapy or talk-therapy, I can guide you toward improving the problem areas of your life and bringing back happiness, conflict free family life with your children and spouse, and good problem solving skills without anger, sadness and stress.

Are you feeling that things are bleak and hopeless? Are you struggling with the reminders of difficult experiences in your past? Or maybe you are living with a chronic illness that has lowered your quality of life. We all feel the pull not only to survive but to thrive in our lives. Depression, anxiety, trauma, illness, and pain can limit our ability to reach our goals or even make it difficult to get through the day. These limitations are not a personal failing. Sometimes, it takes a trained professional to help us overcome or manage these personal challenges. Together, I believe we can work towards making positive changes in your life, relationships, and self.

At Belove Counseling we appreciate that we all have basic needs that we are trying to fulfill. At times, the methods we choose to get those needs met are no longer useful or can have detrimental outcomes to ourselves and our relationships. My approach to therapy begins with a mindful focus on self. The basic needs that provide the foundation for motivation include the ability to love and be loved, the connection with others, learning to recognize your competence and personal power, and to act with freedom and autonomy. Ultimately, we all strive to be emotionally fulfilled and joyous. Together, we will take a journey inward and curiously explore the obstacles and barriers which keep you stuck in unhealthy patterns.

In some way or another, we are all trying to find our way home again. To that place of being where we feel deeply peaceful, vibrantly alive, and connected in kinship and love. We feel a deep longing for this place yet struggle to make sense of how to close the gap between here and there. Unresolved trauma, troublesome childhood environments, and a host of other factors may be causing us never-ending stress and hardship. We have tried to fix things yet we have failed and bit by bit, we lose faith that we can realize our heart’s calling. The chaos and unrest in our lives take their toll day by day and we feel stuck and hopeless. We each have a vast set of inner resources and a natural capacity for healing, if only we are able to tap into them and foster their growth. Together we’ll work together to identify and practice activities that help you feel calm, confident and in control. We'll use somatic-based, mindfulness practices to become aware of the signs of unresolved trauma and guide the body, heart and mind to resolution. I'll support and coach you as you move beyond self-limiting patterns and embody the self you’re yearning to become. I bring playfulness, curiosity, acceptance, and empathy to my work and value the wisdom within each of my clients. I tailor my services using an evidence-based client feedback tool to help us find what works best while also being efficient with time and resources. I believe we are all deserving of love - especially in the places where society has told us we should be ashamed. If you want to get to a better place yet are struggling to find a way there, please reach out.

I am a psychotherapist in the Ballard area and work primarily with adults in individual therapy. I hold a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and my approach is based on relational therapy and attachment-based, psychodynamic, and trauma-informed theories. My aim as a therapist is to help you come to the realization of being accepted as you are—fully, without judgment or restriction—and to feel truly seen, heard, and understood. Maybe you’ve noticed old relational patterns, shaped in childhood, repeating in your adult life, leaving you feeling disconnected, anxious, or stuck. You may want healing from wounds formed in past relationships and a new way of relating to yourself and others. You want to feel more genuine, confident, and free to live the life you truly desire. If our wounds are formed in relationships, they can be healed within them. Together, we’ll explore your story with compassion, uncover patterns, and begin healing what has kept you from the life you want. I provide in-person sessions and telehealth (when appropriate).

People who work with me describe me as warm, engaging, calm, insightful, consistent, playful, and clear. I notice patterns quickly and empower my clients to understand their own strengths and wisdom. This helps them shift whatever needs to shift, on their terms. I pull on many different disciplines and training modalities and do what Jung said is ideal, I "meet soul to soul" with whoever comes to me for support and like to make the experience as smooth and easy as possible. This is precious work to be trusted with and I am honored by that.

Functioning isn't the same as fulfilled. From the outside, your life probably looks fine — maybe even impressive. But somewhere along the way, holding it together became the only way you knew how to be, and you're tired. Strategies like overthinking, overextending, and pushing through made sense once. They kept you safe, connected, or helped you succeed. But now the part of you that learned to be fine is overriding the part of you that actually wants to be known. I work with clients who can see their patterns but still feel stuck.

I work with men and women and families who are inclined to speak of their lives just as they live it and not necessarily from the position of a diagnosis. You might say I work with the crazy parts of sane people. Sometimes what we name things changes what they are and sometimes a diagnosis is useful and necessary, but in either case, across all styles of therapy, experience rather than information heals. In therapy, it is the relationship--the capacity of the relationship to transform, that does the healing.