Who We Are

Licensed Social Work Associate Independent Clinical
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Aja serves a diverse population including individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds. She is passionate about working with people experiencing stress from life transitions, including expecting and new mothers, large families, Muslims, veterans, multicultural couples, and families touched by the foster case system and adoption. Aja has personal experience adopting from foster care and understands the difficulties and joy involved in the process. Aja has 10 years of experience receiving various training to support work with individuals experiencing PTSD, military personnel, unhoused individuals, and military sexual assault survivors. As an active member of the Muslim community she has a unique and personal perspective from which to support Muslim individuals and families. Aja uses a mixed modality approach, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and person-centered care. 

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CLINICAL INTERN
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Ashlee enjoys seeing a wide variety of clients. She has a heart for recovery communities and those facing life transitions, honoring all that it requires to persevere against great odds. She brings a welcoming energy to her work with teenagers and young adults and prides herself on being a safe place to explore what it means to be exactly who you are. Additionally, Ashlee has a special interest in working with eating disorder clients and approaches this work through radical acceptance, openness to body neutrality, and a health at every size (HAES) philosophy.

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Mental Health Counselor
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While serving in the military, Amanda uncovered a talent and desire for helping people as she was exposed to a vast array of life stressors in those serving around her. She followed this calling and now specializes in working with struggling veterans, those going through life transitions, and women issues. She is also passionate about working with autism, anxiety, self-esteem, conflict resolution, and relationship issues. Amanda desires to work with anyone ready to start or continue “the work” of personal growth and change. She is ready with a warm and accepting environment to help you heal and empower you to make better decisions aligned with the life that you are trying to build.

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MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR ASSOCIATE
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Andi works with people across various demographics, including older adults, teenagers, members of the queer community, and veterans – a group particularly close to their heart. Areas of interest encompass a wide variety of mental health concerns including trauma, grief, chronic and terminal illnesses, depression, anxiety, neurodivergence (including autism and ADHD), and the unique challenges faced by individuals in the LGBTQ+ community. Andi takes an integrated eclectic approach incorporating strength-based and solution-focused modalities while drawing from Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and foundations of existential philosophies. 

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CLINICAL INTERN
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Angela takes an integrated approach, consisting of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), feminist therapy, and narrative therapy. Angela works with a variety of populations including individuals, couples, and families. Among the range of mental health concerns served, Angela feels a particular draw to working with those who have experienced adverse childhood experiences, PTSD, abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, anxiety, and mood disorders.

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATE
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Angelica aims to provide culturally-aligned and trauma-informed care through a social justice framework that allows her clients to feel understood, safe, hopeful, and empowered. She is equipped to help unpack how clients experience the weight of social injustice, systemic racism, or intergenerational trauma. Utilizing client-centered, evidence and strength-based, narrative, and trauma-informed practices, Angelica guides her clients not just to alleviate symptoms but to create self-care routines and coping skills habitually, which allows them to sustain meaningful lives. 

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CLINICAL INTERN
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Cassidy has training in individual therapy for multiple mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, and relationship distress. She is also drawn to helping couples with pre-marital concerns and relationship distress. Cassidy is most interested in utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, and person-centered therapy with her clients. Cassidy strives to create a safe space where clients can lighten the load on their shoulders. With an approach that is both straight-forward and empathetic, she collaborates with clients to identify and achieve their goals, and provide guidance in the healing process. She intentionally invites feedback from her clients about how they are experiencing the therapeutic process in order to strengthen the therapeutic relationship. 

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATE
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Christian Chan is earning a Masters in Couples and Family Therapy from Seattle University. Christian has training experiences in individual, family, and group counseling, and has previously worked with the Neurodiverse community and preschool age children. Christian is an intern at Twin Lakes Counseling and provides individual, couples, and family therapy. The primary counseling techniques Christian uses with clients include mindfulness practices, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Structural Family Therapy.  

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MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR ASSOCIATE
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Daniel is honored to hear the stories of others and come alongside them in darker, discouraging, confusing, or seemingly impossible times. He offers his clients a strusting and safe environment in which to explore and discover the complexitites of their worlds. Clients will find Daniel to be a kind, warm, good humored, and patient listener, motivated to guide each one through the journey towards growth, change, and understanding.

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MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR ASSOCIATE
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Dominique knows that life can bring unbearable pain and she knows how important and rare it is to find someone to listen, support, encourage, and challenge without judgement. Individual, couple, and family clients find a safe space filled with assistance, honesty, and groundedness as she helps them reach their own version of self-actualization. Dominque is honored by her clients' bravery in sharing their stories, their willingness to trust her guidance, and their time and commitment to the process.

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATE
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Edmond has experience providing individual, family, and group therapy, helping clients with anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and addiction. He uses a variety of counseling techniques, including Solution Focused Therapy (SFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. Edmond has experience providing therapy since 2020, including outpatient mental health counseling (in-person and telehealth), community outreach, case management, and collaborating with his clients other health care providers to best serve them.

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Clinical Intern
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Hailee is particularly drawn to working with individuals, couples, and families facing mental health concerns including but not limited to anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and life transitions such as new jobs, relationships, and other significant changes. She is committed to helping relational populations, including parent-child dynamics and couples, by providing a consistent and supportive atmosphere. As a systems-focused therapist, Hailee takes a holistic approach to her work, empowering clients to come to their own conclusions on decisions that best suit their lives. With techniques grounded in solution-focused, DBT, and strengths-based therapies, Hailee hopes to mirror the strengths of her clients, helping them to create clear paths forward and experience a new found sense of relief.

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Mental Health Counselor
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Holly provides her clients with an authentic, direct, and nurturing demeanor. She is there to help identify strengths and gifts that already exist and work with you to help reduce or manage distressing patterns that you would like to see change. She is particularly interested in working with individuals and couples experiencing difficult and transitional seasons of life, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Complex-PTSD, depression and anxiety.  Holly is experienced in supporting single parents on their journey, clergy, and values being able to serve the military and first responder communities. She most often uses modalities such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, psychoanalytic therapy and solution-focused therapy. She is happy to integrate Christian Counseling into therapy for clients who request it.

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Clinical Intern
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Jaymen finds the most success in counseling individuals who embrace the queerness of themselves and the world around us. Trauma, depression, anxiety, gender identity and self-expression are some of the presenting issues that Jaymen enjoys working with. Whether it be through individual, couple, or family work, Jaymen finds satisfaction in helping each person shine and step into their authentic self. Jaymen has training in trauma, substance abuse, career counseling, and group, family, and couple’s therapy. They utilize mindfulness meditations and wisdom, polyvagal and cognitive exploration of the bio-psyche, emotional exploration, cognitive restructuring, and more. Jaymen would like to incorporate animals into their practice one day and encourages those with animals to keep them nearby– whether it be for comfort or a second opinion.

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Mental Health Counselor
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Jenna knows everyone experiences life and this world in a unique way, and sometimes our experiences are more overwhelming, complicated, and difficult than others for a number of reasons. Jenna wants to come alongside those struggling with life and relationships to offer insights and tools that will help them feel empowered. While she enjoys working with a variety of ages and issues, Jenna has specialized in adults struggling with self-esteem, depression, anxiety, or ADHD, as well as those of mixed ethnicities, people of color, refugees, and the Muslim community as they work through oppression, a complex family of origin experience, and much more. With Jenna you will find a warm and experienced professional invested in hearing and understanding your life experiences and goals and prepared to help you experience and interact with the world in a more confident, compassionate, and powerful way. 

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Licensed Social Work Associate Independent Clinical
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Jordann provides therapy to individuals across a variety of ages and backgrounds. She works with clients navigating a wide range of mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, relationship distress, life transitions, and existential questions related to purpose and identity. Jordann also works with individuals living with neurodivergence, such as ADHD. Jordann’s therapeutic approach is client-centered, holistic, strengths-based, collaborative and trauma-informed. By blending techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), parts work, Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), her approach is adaptable and tailored to meet the unique needs of each client.

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATE
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Julia loves the opportunity to hear her clients' stories and perspectives as she collaborates with them to explore ways of living a life they imagine for themselves. She sees individuals of all ages, families, and couples seeking help with a wide range of concerns such as depression, anxiety, struggling relationships, life transitions, and more. Julia is also passionate about working with teenagers, those working through spiritual or existential questions, and anyone who is particularly nervous about beginning therapy. Her comfortable, caring, grounded, and conversational personality and techniques put her clients at ease so they can do the transformative work they are there to do.

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATE
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Kalisi places a strong emphasis on empathy, collaboration, and cultural sensitivity. He believes in providing a secure and nonjudgmental environment where individuals and families can share their stories. By tailoring his approach to suit each client’s distinct needs and values, he fosters an atmosphere of trust and personal growth. He is committed to nurturing resilience and enhancing mental and emotional well-being within the context of relationships.

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATE
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As a systemically oriented therapist, Kim views each client’s life story through a biopsychosocial lens. This allows her to honor the unique physical, mental, relational, and spiritual experiences of each client. Kim enjoys working with couples, families, and individuals of all ages and stages of life. She takes a special interest in: life transitions, blended families, couples, women's issues, parenting, grief & loss, medical family therapy, and military families. She also offers faith-based counseling for clients who seek to integrate their spirituality and their therapeutic process.

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATE
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Leah serves couples, families, and individuals struggling with a variety of mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, life transitions, multicultural struggles, and family conflict. While Leah hopes to reach individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, she specializes in working with children, mothers, and people of color to provide a safe, non-judgmental space to normalize seeking and receiving mental health support. She hopes to fill the gap in care for populations who tend to get left behind.

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CLINICAL INTERN
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Maggie collaborates with clients to identify the struggles they are facing and develop a treatment plan centered around the client’s unique needs and circumstances. She is transparent about her work and remains open-minded when planning treatment. As a provider, Maggie gravitates towards emotionally focused techniques as well as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills for coping with stress, anxiety, and tensions within the body. Her end goal is to assist the client in establishing a satisfying quality of life and equip them with tools and skills that can be used to cope both presently and when future struggles arise. She is particularly interested in working with individuals who experience depression, anxiety, ADHD, and mania.

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ADVANCED Social work associate
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Maria works with individuals, couples and families who struggle with interpersonal conflicts. She is inclusive of those who are marginalized and are experiencing distress with themselves, others, or the environment. Her strengths are represented by her education and training surrounding diversity, systems theory, psychotherapy, treatment planning, and care coordination. Maria is understanding of societal barriers and the needs clients may face when presented with uncontrollable situations. She empowers those in therapy to reach their ultimate self-actualization by addressing the steps to get there. She will adapt her clinical approach and practice to match the client’s priority and presenting problems.

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CLINICAL Intern
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Maria works with clients facing a variety of concerns, including anxiety, depression, adjustment issues, and feelings of meaninglessness. Maria is also passionate about working with immigrant individuals and families, particularly those struggling with acculturation, culture shock, and the challenges of adapting to a new life in a different culture. Maria works closely with her clients to understand their unique perspectives and the significance they attach to their experiences. She aims to see things from their point of view and deeply appreciate how they interpret their own lives.

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATE
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Marisa is fascinated with the process of life, how we can move through it with grit, vulnerability, and authenticity even when we are feeling threatened, angry, or uncomfortable. She believes we do not grow through challenges alone, but also through companionship which often comes from unexpected places. Marisa helps her clients explore the impact of relationships, culture, and the many systems we live in and through therapeutic dialogue centers her clients' experience and emotions as guides for the process of therapy. Clients experience Marisa's warmth and sincerity as she collaborates with them, first meeting them wholly where they are at, to build concrete skills alongside their existing strengths to navigate difficulty. 

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Mental Health Counselor
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Meghan deeply enjoys providing her clients with an empathetic and non-judgmental ear, offering insights and guidance as a professional. She works with individuals of all ages working with a variety of mental health concerns such as anxiety, stress, depression, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Meghan works with her clients collaboratively to learn about their life experiences, uniques circumstances, strengths, and their minds. Her goal is for her clients to feel empowered to live their best, healthiest, most functioning life - whatever that looks like for them. 

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CLINICAL INTERN
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Melanie is passionate about supporting clients through life transitions, relationship challenges, neurodivergence, loss and grief, career dissatisfaction, and attachment wounds. She creates a space where clients can feel safe, supported, and free to be their authentic selves. With Melanie, clients can expect to find a curiosity-driven clinician who seeks to understand their lived experiences to the best of her ability. She believes that the client is the expert of their life, and that she is a privileged companion accompanying and supporting them towards their goals. Melanie views her therapeutic space (whether virtual or physical) as an environment that gently and warmly holds each client’s vulnerable moments, where safety can be built through shared trust and connection. Melanie fosters connection through engaged and empathetic listening, transparency and opportunity for self-autonomy, along with dashes of appropriate humor to balance the highs and lows of the client’s therapeutic journey.

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CLINICAL INTERN
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Shelby enjoys working with people from all backgrounds with various presentations and ages, and a strong desire to serve children and young adults struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and low self-esteem. Her clinical approach is person-centered and holistic, incorporating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing.

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Marriage & Family Therapist
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Sinead brings with her a deep respect for an individual's story, an adventurous spirit, and a desire to learn and explore with her clients. Her warm and gentle personality encourages those she speaks with to be themselves throughout the therapeutic process. Sinead works with individuals, couples, and families in an effort to understand their current environment and experiences while exploring new perspectives. She believes this collaborative approach ultimately can lead to an empowered sense of self. 

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Mental Health Counselor
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Talia believes everyone is the expert on their own life and feels privileged when given the opportunity to be a guide for someone during their life. In therapy, she seeks to find the underlying imbalance in a client's life that she finds exists in the challenges or dysfunctions being experienced. Talia specializes in working with non-monogamous relationships, individuals who have participated in the erotic trade industry, and the kink and queer communities. She also specializes in working with substance use disorders, relationship dynamics and patterns within alternative relationships, anxiety, depression, trauma and ADHD. Talia is outgoing and passionate about therapy and looks forward to sharing a space free of judgement with you in which she can gain your trust and encourage you to share and process your experiences of life with her. 

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MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR
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Victoria works with adult and older adolescent individuals and couples struggling with a variety of concerns such as depression, anxiety, body image/dysmorphia, relationship/family distress, and personality disorders. She has a specific appreciation for working with those populations to process and work through past traumas. Victoria believes that everyone comes into their present situations based on what they have gone through, and that to understand ourselves we must recognize how our past experiences have shaped us. Beneficial to her work with trauma and disordered eating, Victoria has knowledge in nutritional psychology and formal training in EMDR, currently awaiting certification. 

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CLINICAL SUPERVISOR
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Anthony’s style is supportive and empathetic, and based on respect for you and the choice you have made to seek therapy. He will often provide observations and alternatives, but recognize that you are ultimately in charge of the process and will support you in making the best possible decisions for yourself. Most importantly, he believes that therapy is an interactive relationship and will also help you develop your own strengths and resources to resolve your unique situation and bring more satisfaction into your life.

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CLINICAL SUPERVISOR
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Cherie aims to provide her clients a calm place of respite from the noise of everyday live by offering a secure space free of judgement, comparison. She believes her client is the expert of their own life and she the student. Cherie works with individuals of all religions, races, genders, and identities who experience issues stemming from crisis, trauma, depression, anxiety, life transitions, chronic illness, or attachment/relationship issues. She strives to integrate her optimistic, compassionate, and down-to-earth personality with evidence-based therapeutic approaches to empower, bring hope, and encourage healing. 

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CLINICAL DIRECTOR
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Danielle has always possessed a curiosity for what motivates people and what contributes to their sense of fulfillment in life. This curiosity informs her holistic, thematic, and integrative approach to therapy as she listens intently and takes care to ask the right questions at the right time. Danielle specializes in working with those facing relationship challenges, sex and intimacy issues, eating disorders, anxiety, and ADHD. The welcoming, kind, and judgement-free space that Danielle cultivates with her clients along with her direct and solution-focused therapy allows her clients to move through the therapeutic process fully and authentically knowing they have a strong guide by their side.  

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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
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Megan spent over a decade working with families and individuals impacted by intimate partner violence and training new therapists in working with relational trauma. Megan, who identifies as queer, is committed to providing a safe, affirming space for clients to bring their whole selves. Megan sees children, individuals, and families across the lifespan and is especially passionate about supporting folks navigating grief and loss, relational trauma, identity exploration, anxiety, depression, life transitions, and relationship distress. She is particularly energized by working with LGBTQ+ individuals and their families, blended and chosen families, and those who are seeking to live more fully into their authentic selves. 

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Visiting Clinical Director
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Sarah is currently acting as the Clinical Director at Twin Lakes Counseling until September. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Certified Synergetic Play Therapist, and AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Sarah is passionate about creating spaces where neurodivergent children and adults can not just survive, but thrive.She brings over a decade of experience providing therapy and clinical supervision in a variety of professional settings to TLC and believes passionately in its mission to provide quality, accessible care to the community.

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Clinical Supervisor
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Sharayah knows that life can bring hurtful and overwhelming experiences. It is natural for our bodies to disengage in these moments particularly if we do not feel we have the resources or support needed to move forward. Chronic stress and burnout are very in our world today, but they are not personal failures; rather, they can represent our bodies' attempts to protect us, and learning about and practicing self-compassion can offer real help. No matter who she is working with, Sharayah wants to help individuals to feel well-connected and more like themselves by building things into their lives that sustain, fuel, and give back. Her holistic, individualized, and open approach to therapy helps individuals develop new ways of relating and interacting with their worlds, other people, and themselves.

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CLINICAL SUPERVISOR
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Trisha Leonard is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who specializes in providing acute care for those experiencing a behavioral health crisis. She has primarily worked in hospital settings, in both emergency departments and inpatient units. Trisha is experienced with Motivational Interviewing, brief therapeutic interventions via Dialectical Behavioral and Cognitive Behavioral techniques, as well as mindfulness practices and guided meditations. As part of her work in acute/crisis management, she has served people of all ages, and demographics, and has experience working with a wide array of behavioral health conditions. Additionally, she has experience working with people navigating co-occurring behavioral health and substance use disorders. 

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NURSE PRACTITIONER
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Karin brings to clients the opportunity to explore whether or not incorporating medication would be helpful in their therapeutic journey. She works with clients as a teammate and enjoys working on the best care plan possible for each of her clients. She believes that when those involved in the client's care plan come together as a team - the client, providers, and those close to the client - life-changing and long-lasting results can be achieved.

Karin deeply enjoys providing care to all clients seeking her help and specializes in care across the lifespan whether it be a 3-year-old child with ADHD or a 103-year-old adult suffering from depression. She also specializes in LGBTQ health, gender-affirming treatments, family- and systems-based interventions, trauma-informed care, multimodal treatments (pharmacotherapy + psychotherapy), and interdisciplinary collaborative care. 

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FOUNDER & Owner
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Laura grew up in Federal Way, Washington. Her whole life, she found herself in new places, amidst new cultures, surrounded by new people. Each had stories unique to themselves, and through these experiences, she cultivated her passion for learning, growing, and exploring. Since graduating from Southern Connecticut State University in 2010, she has been working with individuals and families as a marriage and family therapist to discover freedom and resolution in the midst of struggles. Now, with her cross-cultural expertise, a deeply personal understanding of spirituality, and years of experience as a community-based researcher, Laura not only gets to do what she loves as a therapist, she also gets to build her dream team of incredible therapists. Together, they are able to reach further than she ever could alone and serve even more people in her home town.

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TLC is expanding and hiring the very best mental health therapists and associates for our team.

If you are a licensed mental health practitioner or associate interested in bringing your talents and skills to Federal Way, Washington, apply for our open positions here: https://twinlakescounseling.bamboohr.com/jobs