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The Best Known Seattle Therapist
  

I don't want to mislead you, but if you are looking for an authentic, talented Seattle counselor or therapist, don't expect therapy from the two best known Seattle psychotherapists.  They are fictional therapists, Frasier and Niles Crane, of the Frasier™ television series.

The average person on the street has no idea how to find a counselor or therapist, how to obtain therapy for mental health or chemical dependency problems, or how to find group therapy.

Outstanding Seattle therapists, counselors, and or social workers  are often unknown to the general public and even to other health care professionals.  Because of confidentiality issues, a therapist can't advertise his or her successes.  Former clients often are reluctant to admit to having a problem serious enough to require therapy.  So, former clients seldom tell others about their therapist--even though therapy was very helpful and successful--and they are seldom a source of word of mouth advertising for their therapist.

By contrast, Niles and Frasier Crane are easily the best known Seattle therapists.  After all, they are on television reruns every day!  However, the Crane brothers are not positive role models for the profession.  They are great entertainers -- not therapists.  They are monumental egos, self-centered and obsessed with impressing others with their sophistication and good taste. The Frasier Show is one of my favorites, but it focuses on the brothers' personal lives and relationships, rather than their therapeutic relationship with clients.

Frasier™ is an award-winning television series set in Seattle. Frasier’s apartment has a daytime view of Seattle's downtown skyscrapers and a nighttime view of our beautiful city lights. Seattle natives will notice that the Frasier show has moved the space needle downtown and placed it on the waterfront in the middle of the skyscrapers.

Seattle therapist, Frazier Crane, in the radio broadcasting booth    

Kelsey Grammer plays the part of Frasier, a Seattle therapist and radio talk show host who tries to resolve listener problems on the air.  Frequently impatient and snippy when talking to his radio callers, his behavior would be totally inappropriate for a therapist. (But it's a comedy, folks!)


Roz Doyle (played by Peri Gilpin) is his sarcastic radio producer.  While Frasier talks with callers, Roz is in the glassed-off control room busily screening calls and working the controls--often making faces and caustic comments to Frasier or applying her makeup.

 

A sarcastic Roz talks on the phone

  Seattle therapist, Niles Crane, (on the left) has coffee with Frazer

The Two Seattle Therapists: Frasier's brother, Niles, (on the left, played by David Hyde Pierce) is also a psychologist.


Much of the program's action takes place at the coffee shop or at Frasier's apartment where Frasier's father, Martin, (played by John Mahoney, and his health-care helper, Daphne Moon, (played by Jane Leeves) add additional elements to the mix.

Frazer, Daphne, and Niles

Everyone in the world, (except Daphne who seemed to be completely oblivious) knows that Niles is secretly in love with Daphne.  After many seasons, they finally get together and are married.

The Seattle Therapists' father, Martin Crane, with his dog Eddie 


Martin is a down-to-earth retired policeman.  It's difficult to imagine how such an nice man could have fathered two such pompous snobs.  Martin's dog, Eddie, (played by Moose) is a silent witness whose expressions and actions provide comic relief--and is a constant irritant to Frasier.

  WELCOME TO SEATTLE
Frasier's Seattle is a Target, Too
by Matt Briggs in The Stranger, Seattle weekly  magazine, Vol 11 No. 1, Sep 20 - Sep 26 2001

   

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The photos on this page are from a Windows™ CD-ROM, "The Frasier Companion," produced in 1995 by Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc.  "Frasier" is a Trademark of Paramount Pictures Corporation.  The photos are part of a collection on the CD-ROM which is made available for reproduction.


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