Who We Are

Mental Health Counselor
Pronouns: She/Her

Alexi approaches counseling from a nonjudgmental stance and works to gently yet directly weave individualized interventions into sessions. She believes in her clients' inner wisdom and supports them in doing the same. She walks alongside her clients with compassion and deep respect for their vulnerability. Her work is grounded in the truth that her clients are already whole and already enough. She knows that sometimes, experiences in the past or present can leave people feeling unworthy, lost, or stuck. Alexi works from the idea that the words a person says to themselves - about themselves - have a profound effect on the way they move through these experiences. Alexi supports her clients in shifting this narrative to enable them to move forward.

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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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CLINICAL INTERN
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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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CLINICAL INTERN
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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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Annarose believes that everyone deserves access to support for health and wellbeing through the provision of comprehensive and culturally competent services. She comes to the counseling profession after many years working in the field of social and health services. Her experience includes work in crisis response, domestic violence, food justice, legal system, and supportive housing environments. She looks forward to working with those across the spectrum of identity intersection, and is especially interested in working with clients experiencing anxiety, life transitions, trauma, stress, self-esteem and relational issues. 

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CLINICAL INTERN
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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
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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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CLINICAL INTERN
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Deepak's clients can expect a warm and empathetic atmosphere where their strengths and aspirations are acknowledged and deeply valued.  Deepak is committed to a holistic approach, considering spiritual, psychological, and physical wellness. He brings a wealth of experience fostering growth and healing for various individuals. Through active listening and collaboration, he aims to create a safe space where clients feel heard, understood, and empowered to make impactful changes.

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CLINICAL INTERN
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Having spent her life in the in-between of two different cultures, Devrim understands the feeling of “other” and “not enough” that many people may experience due to an ever-evolving and complex society. After taking a sociology class during her undergraduate work, she gained an affinity for studying how people will group, connect, and distinguish themselves. Her career thus far has consisted of community service roles, focusing on advocacy and the arts. With over 20+ years in service and having the privilege of traveling extensively, her dedication to her communities has only strengthened. Today she is excited to be pursuing a graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Antioch University in Seattle, WA.

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MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR
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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 AND FAMILY THERAPIST
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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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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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CLINICAL INTERN
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When you step into a session with Jessica, you can expect an atmosphere filled with golden retriever energy—bubbly, enthusiastic, and genuinely excited to support you in your healing journey. Her goal is to create a comfortable and welcoming environment. With a gentle directness, her aim is to guide you to your own growth. Sessions tend to be future-oriented, and she will work to ensure you feel seen, heard, and empowered. By the end of your time together, her hope is that you walk away with the confidence to say, "I can do this.”

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST
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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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CLINICAL INTERN
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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 AND FAMILY THERAPIST
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Kimberly empathetically collaborates with her clients throughout their therapeutic journey, meeting them where they are in their unique circumstances. Authenticity, social justice, acceptance, and curiosity from a warm and non-judgmental stance are all values that infuse her therapeutic practice. Kimberly takes a special interest in blended families, couples, parenting, grief & loss, medical family therapy, military families, perinatal women, and life transitions. Kimberly also offers faith-based counseling for clients who seek to integrate their spirituality and their therapeutic journey.

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CLINICAL INTERN
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Kristen works with adults and children dealing with anxiety, depression, and life transitions, with a particular interest in women’s issues and faith-related concerns. She is dedicated to collaborating with and supporting her clients as they explore, heal, and grow. She draws from various theories while remaining rooted in a client-centered approach.

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CLINICAL INTERN
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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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mental health counselor
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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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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 and family therapist
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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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marriage and family therapist
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Megan is honored to be able to help others through therapy, particularly in today's climate with increased stressors. She works with individuals, couples, and families seeking care for themselves and their relationships. Her patience, understanding, and collaborative nature creates an environment that promotes authenticity and respects vulnerability. Whether struggling with issues such as anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship conflict, self-esteem, or low motivation, Megan wants to offer encouragement and insight that will help her clients find more joy and purpose within their lives.

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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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Payal works with a variety of mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, interpersonal partner violence, complex trauma, transition to adulthood, and families experiencing divorce. Payal sources interventions from many therapeutic models to fit the unique needs of the client system. She often finds herself drawn to Narrative Therapy, trauma-informed techniques, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. With a certificate in Youth Mental Health, crisis intervention training, and current pursuits in Gottman training, Payal brings a diverse set of skills to the therapeutic space. Individuals often describe Payal as positive, encouraging, and direct, with an affinity for using the perfect analogy.

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MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR
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Rachel believes you are so incredibly brave for seeking help and is honored to sit with you as you face the painful, difficult parts of your life. As she does so she makes use of already existing strengths while defering to her clients as the expert on themselves. Rachel offers her clients a safe space where they can speak freely and without fear of judgement. In this space she collaborates with her client to work to improve their quality of life. 

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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 INTERN
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In a session, clients can expect a holistic and collaborative approach. Xelian strives to create a safe and welcoming environment where clients are empowered to bring their authentic selves into counseling. Xelian acknowledges that life is complicated, messy, may feel unmanageable, and that endless external layers often add to this struggle. Xelian works with clients to untangle these factors, finding ways to manage, resolve, and/or navigate life alongside their personal considerations.

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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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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