I am a licensed Seattle therapist offering skillful psychotherapy and counseling with warmth, gentleness, humor, and an interactive, down to earth style. I work with adult and adolescent individuals, couples, and groups dealing with a wide range of concerns. There are many reasons to enlist the help of a counselor. If you have found your way here, I imagine you may be struggling with some part of yourself or with someone in your life.
You might be looking for hope and support for problems that seem overwhelming. You may have the sense that you are not living the life you want to live, and wish to step more powerfully into yourself. Or you may be on a path of learning and self discovery. This process is about igniting what works, what is strong and beautiful in us, as much as it is about resolving old hurt and compassionately holding the difficulties of life.
The powerful shifts that therapy can facilitate create greater room for happiness, authenticity and a deeper sense of purpose and meaning.
You might be looking for hope and support for problems that seem overwhelming. You may have the sense that you are not living the life you want to live, and wish to step more powerfully into yourself. Or you may be on a path of learning and self discovery. This process is about igniting what works, what is strong and beautiful in us, as much as it is about resolving old hurt and compassionately holding the difficulties of life.
The powerful shifts that therapy can facilitate create greater room for happiness, authenticity and a deeper sense of purpose and meaning.
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I am a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner with a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University.
I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, women's studies, and poetics from Sarah Lawrence College.
I have been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 2003.
I have a background as a Massage Practitioner and began doing integrative (body-mind) work with clients in this practice in 1997.
I have worked with clients in a variety of mental health and social service settings including many years as a counselor helping adolescents, couples, families, and adults sort through the many issues around sexuality, family planning, grief and loss, and major life transitions.
I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, women's studies, and poetics from Sarah Lawrence College.
I have been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 2003.
I have a background as a Massage Practitioner and began doing integrative (body-mind) work with clients in this practice in 1997.
I have worked with clients in a variety of mental health and social service settings including many years as a counselor helping adolescents, couples, families, and adults sort through the many issues around sexuality, family planning, grief and loss, and major life transitions.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
My holistic therapeutic approach blends traditional psychodynamic work with body-oriented psychotherapy, Buddhist mindfulness practices, and the development of an authentic, safe and supportive therapeutic relationship.
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
My holistic therapeutic approach blends traditional psychodynamic work with body-oriented psychotherapy, Buddhist mindfulness practices, and the development of an authentic, safe and supportive therapeutic relationship.
Hakomi is a cutting edge form of somatic psychotherapy drawn from western psychology models, Buddhist mindfulness practices, attachment theory, and advancements in neurobiology.
Hakomi is practical and experiential, deeply gentle and profound.
It is an elegant method of gaining awareness about conscious or unconscious material that may be inhibiting your aliveness, growth or wellbeing.
It offers an opportunity to understand how this core material shows up- as habitual patterns in your body, heart, and mind.
Hakomi is practical and experiential, deeply gentle and profound.
It is an elegant method of gaining awareness about conscious or unconscious material that may be inhibiting your aliveness, growth or wellbeing.
It offers an opportunity to understand how this core material shows up- as habitual patterns in your body, heart, and mind.
I've worked with several therapists, personally and professionally, and I was so relieved to find Anya.
Because I've done extensive personal work, it was important to me to find a therapist who could work WITH me and not ABOVE me.
Anya has provided me an amazing reflection of myself so that I can see myself clearly and feel empowered to make changes or celebrate my successes.
She is an excellent listener and I truly feel seen in each session.
Even when I am out in the world, living my life, the work I do with Anya is still present and her total acceptance, non-judgmental guidance, and playfulness are integrated into my life.
Because I've done extensive personal work, it was important to me to find a therapist who could work WITH me and not ABOVE me.
Anya has provided me an amazing reflection of myself so that I can see myself clearly and feel empowered to make changes or celebrate my successes.
She is an excellent listener and I truly feel seen in each session.
Even when I am out in the world, living my life, the work I do with Anya is still present and her total acceptance, non-judgmental guidance, and playfulness are integrated into my life.
There's a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you, in all time, this expression is unique.
And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.
Individual therapy offers time that is just for you, to explore and connect with the deeper layers of yourself within the container of the therapy relationship.
Together we have the opportunity to study how you have been living your life, to explore the parts that are not working as well as they could, and to create new possibilities.
And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.
Individual therapy offers time that is just for you, to explore and connect with the deeper layers of yourself within the container of the therapy relationship.
Together we have the opportunity to study how you have been living your life, to explore the parts that are not working as well as they could, and to create new possibilities.
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