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\"\"I received my Bachelors in Communication from\u00a0Seattle Pacific University<\/a>. After several years of administration, international travel and nonprofit fundraising work, I shifted directions and ventured into the world of psychology. This venture led me to earn a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from\u00a0The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology<\/a>. I got my clinical feet wet at\u00a0Compass Health Children\u2019s Extended Care, working with kids and adolescents and then later joined the staff at The Seattle School as a Practicum Facilitator, training (and learning alongside) first year counseling students in couples, family and individual therapeutic intervention. I opened a private practice in 2005. \u00a0Since then, I have participated in numerous\u00a0training\u2019s \u2013 including parenting my own children! \u2013 and have gained significant clinical awareness and learning\u00a0in psychotherapy, psychology, neurobiology, and the human experience. I have directed extensive time and attention toward applying psychodynamic \/ psychoanalytic thinking and techniques and trauma-informed care into my work with patients and continue to seek out opportunities to grow and learn in this realm. Four formative trainings include: Clinical Theory and Practice\u00a0through Wellspring Family Services where I learned\u00a0the fundamentals and origins of classical psychoanalysis; PACT\u00a0(Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) which integrates attachment, neurobiology and affect\/arousal regulation into work with couples; Lifespan Integration, which is a body-based treatment that helps integrate and heal past trauma and abuse; and EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which is a trauma-focused treatment that helps reprocess trauma, PTSD and complex trauma. Much of my current philosophy\u00a0as a therapist is informed by my clinical mentors, colleagues, as well as being a mother and a partner, and my own personal work as a patient in therapy. All of this rich work has also inspired my passion in\u00a0offering clinical supervision. I have the joy of working with Counseling Associates as well as licensed Clinicians who want to deepen their clinical work.\u00a0\u00a0I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LH60067824<\/a>) and an Approved Clinical Supervisor in the State of Washington, and hold memberships with\u00a0Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study<\/a> (NWAPS), American Psychological Association – Division 39<\/a> (APA), and The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis<\/a> (IARPP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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