Designed to help consumers seeking counseling or group therapy to find the right counselor, therapist, social worker or psychotherapist in the downtown city center of Seattle King County Washington.

Downtown--city center
Seattle, Washington
(WA) 98101, 98104, 98121

Counselors by Location

Kimberly Peterson, MA, LMHC   (206) 240-5833
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Ahimsa Counseling Services
600 First Avenue, Suite 531, Seattle, WA 98104-2229.
Niche Specialty©: Buddhist Existential Psychotherapy.
Location: Pioneer Building, corner of First & James, next to the home of Seattle Underground tours.
General Practice Areas:  I provide individual and couples counseling for adults seeking deep transformation and greater heart connections. If you suffer from anxiety, depression, relationship issues, loneliness, grief & loss, phase of life transitions, a dysfunctional family of origin, chronic conflict and/or emotional and spiritual emptiness my services may be of great value to you. I have a preference for Buddhist / Existential psychological theory, and offer a unique form of couples counseling that focuses on the Buddhist Eightfold Path. I am trained in a variety of methods to help you feel more at ease in the world. Let’s find the way that works best for you.  [ to counselor - therapist website ]

Doris Bartel, MSW, LICSW   (206) 683-2742   Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
600 - 1st Avenue, Suite 236, Seattle, Washington 98104-2262
Niche Specialty©: Counseling the adult man or woman or adolescent boy or girl who has been sexually abused.  
Location: Pioneer Square in Seattle, Washington
General Practice Areas: I have over 10 years experience in the mental health field, working with individuals, couples and families. I specialize in psychotherapy with adult and adolescent survivors of sexual abuse. I also have a special expertise and interest in those experiencing grief and loss issues (particularly of a child and including chronic illness), depression, anxiety, and relationship issues. I am also a child mental health specialist and help families addressing issues of divorce, grief and loss, chronic illness or relationship conflict.  My approach is eclectic, meaning I draw from many theories rather than one.  However, I primarily draw from Systems theory and focus on clients strengths to work through current issues. This approach also notices how our family history may impact our present day to day lives. In noticing these patterns we will explore the behaviors and actions that have been working for you and strengthen these skills while trying to ease out of ineffective behaviors that have been limiting your true abilities.  The treatment I provide is individualized to the person or family I am working with. The pace of change will vary according to the individual and the relationships involved and there is no right or wrong way, only a journey in finding your own unique path.  Free consultation available by phone or office visit.  Sliding scale fees available.  [ Send an email to Doris Bartel ]

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Sue Bates, MA, LMHC   (206) 441-7101   Licensed Mental Health Counselor
1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 919 Seattle, Washington 98101
Niche Specialty©: Eating Disorders: Adults who are doubting themselves in  work, relationships or life choices.
Location: across from Macy's.
General Practice Areas: Work with eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating.  In 30 years of counseling experience, I have developed an eclectic approach which is very practical.  You can easily move forward and reach your goals and make the changes you want in your life, your work and your relationships.  Counseling for stress, overcoming self-doubt, learning to speak up and ask for what you want and to listen to and trust yourself.  My couples counseling is based on Imago Relationship Therapy by Harville Hendricks (Oprah's favorite couple's therapist) and John Gottman.  Sliding scale available. Individual adults, couples and groups.  [ Send an email to Sue Bates ]
 

Donovan Bigelow, JD, LLM, MA  (206) 940-6732   Attorney, Registered Counselor
600 First Avenue, Suite 524, Seattle, Washington 98104-2229
Niche Specialty©: dream interpretation
Location: The Pioneer Building
General Practice Areas: Psychoanalytic therapy working with individual adults and couples to understand and resolve depression, stress, and anxiety. Marriage and family conflict resolution including difficult children and adolescents. Sexuality and body image, love and intimate relationships, balancing work and personal life, and managing emotions effectively. The focus is on strengthening the will/ego and recognizing the unconscious patterns that interfere with personal and professional functioning. Difficulties are often tied to family of origin issues and the relational dynamics have become internalized. Our goal is to initiate a new developmental process that corrects early failures and leads to increased autonomy, a conscious and aesthetic self-creation, and the creation of meaning.  Sports psychology: working with athletes to overcome blocks to motivation or training and competition focus, and achieving peak sports performance.  Dream Interpretation: understanding the hidden latent meaning beneath the surface content can give you access to long hidden memories, desires, and fears.  Brought to consciousness, dreams offer the key to self awareness and the starting point for fundamental change.  [ Email Donovan Bigelow ]  [ to counselor - therapist website ]
 

Rebecca Bloom, MPS, LMHC, ATR   (206) 380-6297   Licensed Mental Health Counselor
600 - 1st Avenue, Suite 236, Seattle, WA 98104-2216
Niche Specialty©: The adult man or woman dealing with overcoming depression
Location: in the Pioneer Building at the corner of 1st and James - across the street from Magic Mouse Toys.
General Practice Areas: I work with adults and with children, specializing in anxiety, depression, life transitions (career changes and divorce), and gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender issues.  Through an open dialogue about how your life has unfolded, we will identify repeating patterns that have informed your life choices.  By addressing what has and hasn't worked for you, we are able to find new ways of being that support the life you want to live.  I am a clinical art therapist. The focus of my work is to help you address life issues through art therapy.  I help you find the helpful and knowing artist that lives within you--within all of us.  Through a blending of creativity, education, compassion and encouragement, you will come to feel more grounded in your life.  As you grow and change, you will have your artwork to look back on and recognize the path of your progress.   [ to counselor - therapist website ]

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Ms. Michael Susanne Butler, MA, LMHC  (206) 624-1300  
Licensed Mental Health Counselor 
600 - 1st Avenue, Suite 215, Seattle, WA 98104-2238
Niche Specialty©:  Anxiety about relationships and intimacy--fear of losing oneself and the opposite, being too separate and not knowing how to set boundaries.
Location: Pioneer Square in the beautiful Pioneer Building next to the Underground Tours and the Pergola.
General Practice Areas: Individuals and couples.  Parenting consultations.  I commonly work with issues of anxiety, depression, childhood trauma and abuse, life transitions and sexual orientation.  I have worked with clients on issues of grief and loss, particularly complicated grief that is difficult to resolve, and difficulties with intimacy including fear of closeness, assertiveness in relationships (basically being able to stay in touch with self and be intimate with others).  I deal with issues of identity including sexual orientation.  I have worked with couples dealing with infidelity and general relationship difficulties.  I have also worked with gay and lesbian parents around parenting roles.  I practice a psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy which I feel is particularly suited for those wishing to do in depth work involving issues of personal growth and achieving their potential. I also have recently trained in psychosocial aspects of having multiple sclerosis and will be taking referrals for those who struggle with this illness as well as their families.
  

Mr. Atta Dawahare, MA, LMHC   (206) 992-2097   Licensed Mental Health Counselor
206 - 1st Avenue S., Suite 390, Seattle, WA 98104-2504
Location: in the Grand Central Building by the Occidental Square in the Pioneer Square district, one block north of Elliott Bay Bookstore.
General Practice Areas: individual adults, adolescents and couples.  Counseling for relationship problems, boundary issues, power issues, divorce, separation, sexual issues, sexual identity, gender issues, life fulfillment, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), multi-race and mixed race issues, dealing with parents and parenting skills, and depression counseling.  [ Email Atta Dawahare ]   [ to counselor - therapist website ] 
  

Anne Ihnen, MA, LMHC  (206) 748-9640   Licensed Mental Health Counselor
600 First Ave., Suite 425, Seattle WA 98104-2229
Niche Specialty©: Integrating Mindfulness Practices and Psychotherapy
Location: Seattle-Pioneer Square
General Practice Areas: Gentle, supportive psychotherapy that recognizes each person's unique strengths and gifts in addition to the issues that brought them to therapy.  I work with people dealing with life changes, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, low self-esteem, feelings of meaninglessness and spiritual issues.  I won't give you the answers, but I can help you find the answers within yourself.
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Adrian Jarreau, MA, LMHC (206) 725-6920   Licensed Mental Health Counselor
219 - 1st Avenue S., Suite 405, Seattle, WA 98104
Niche Specialty©: Developing trust and safety in relationships
Location: Seattle--Pioneer Square area
General Practice Areas: Depression counseling, overwhelming sadness, relationship problems, low self esteem, motivation problems or procrastination, excessive stress, excessive anger, fearfulness and panic attacks, obsessive compulsive problems, life changes that are painful or difficult to handle such as a mid life crisis, getting into or out of relationship, being unemployed or looking for work. Individual counseling, couples counseling and marriage counseling.  [ to counselor - therapist website ]
    

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Justine Joslyn, MA, RC   (206) 697-6206   Registered Counselor
600 - 1st Avenue, Suite 622, Seattle, WA 98104-2231
Niche Specialty©: Couples and marriage counseling using treatments shown to be effective.
Location: Pioneer Square, 1st and James.
General Practice Areas: Anxiety and depression counseling for couples, children, teens and individual adults.  Relationship problems, concerns over distancing or conflict with spouse/partner, family or people in workplace.  Therapeutic recovery from childhood abuse and neglect, domestic violence, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and interpersonal or complex trauma. Issues related to feeling stuck or overwhelmed, problems with identifying and achieving goals, treatments for the misuse of work, food, alcohol, drugs, sex/porn/relationships, to manage stress. Help with finding the spiritual lessons that come out of painful events, forgiving and expanding compassion for self and others, letting go of less effective ways of coping and moving on.  Clarifying and pursuing the necessary steps toward creating a more fulfilling life.  Therapeutic approaches include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based treatments, humanistic, narrative and spiritual/existential approaches that are tailored to your unique background and preferences.  Saturday and weekday appointment times, VISA/MC/Discover accepted.
        

Randy Marinez, MS, LMHC  (206) 343-5561   Licensed Mental Health Counselor 
811 First Ave, Suite 540, Seattle, Washington 98104-1428
Niche Specialty©: male survivors of sexual victimization.
Location: just north of Pioneer Square in Seattle
General Areas of Practice: Childhood sexual abuse, incest, rape, prison rape.  Gay and lesbian life issues (coming-out, dealing with cultural oppression, personal discrimination, family-of-origin issues, history of hate crimes against them as well as relational issues and internalized homophobia). Sex and sexuality issues as well as sexual addiction and sexual anorexia, HIV, AIDS and safer sex issues.  General men's issues--individuals with relationship issues or isolation issues, persons healing from childhood trauma or abuses or family-of-origin issues. Working with people who are overly guarded to learn how to experience more intimacy and vulnerability, and people who are shut down and out of touch with their emotions. Support for reaching goals and moving through the shame and fear in going after those goals. Spirituality, faith and existential issues. Working with people in transition, grief and loss issues, end of life and death and dying issues. Working with men as well as working with people of color and other cultures in my practice.  Individual adults and both heterosexual and gay/lesbian couples.

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Kimberly O'Brien, MA, RC   (206) 579-1926   Registered Counselor
600 First Avenue, Suite 205-A, Seattle, WA 98104-2259
Niche Specialty: post abortion counseling
Location: Pioneer Building, corner of First & James, next to the home of Seattle Underground tours.
General Practice Areas:  I work with individuals and couples who are looking to explore specific issues or pursue ongoing personal growth.  Areas of focus are stress reduction counseling; gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues; and pregnancy decision-making including post-abortion counseling.  I also have experience working with anxiety counseling, depression counseling, relationship problems, sexuality or identity issues, grief and loss counseling, family of origin health concerns, life transitions, work changes or challenges and spirituality.  I have over five years of experience counseling women who have experienced an abortion and are dealing with on-going feelings, in particular complicated feelings of grief and loss.  My compassionate counseling style provides you with the support and guidance to find healing within yourself.  Primarily, we will focus on what is happening for you in the present time, although often discussion of related past experiences can help us understand a current situation.  [ to counselor - therapist website ]
    

Erin Rogich, MA, LMHC   (206) 903-3133   Licensed Mental Health Counselor
219 First Avenue S., Suite 405C, Seattle, WA 98104-2551
Niche Specialty©: Therapy for the woman seeking to create new possibilities in relationships, career, family, parenting, personal or physical health.
Location: on first avenue, just south of Pioneer Square
General Practice Areas:  I have provided adult, child and family psychotherapy for over seven years in school-based, private, inpatient and outpatient settings.  My clinical focus is on depression counseling, anxiety counseling, trauma, anger-management, relationship problems and skills, communication, and life-changes.  I work with individuals, couples and families seeking to replace feelings of frustration, helplessness, fear, isolation and sadness with feelings of clarity, understanding, respect, love, and hope for new possibilities in their lives.  My therapeutic approach is strength-based, client-centered and supportive.  I help clients identify patterns of thinking and behaving that keep them from achieving their "highest self" by replacing "obstacles," or limiting thoughts and behaviors, with new approaches and ways of "being in the world."  I believe that an authentic, open and trusting relationship is the basis upon which genuine growth and change can occur in therapy.
   

Lisa Weinberg, MA, RC   (206) 898-0515  Registered Counselor
600 - 1st Avenue, Suite 329, Seattle, WA 98104-2246
Location: Pioneer Building at corner of First and James, next to the Seattle Underground Tour and the Pergola.
General Practice Areas:  I work with people who are feeling stuck or at a crossroads in their lives, supporting them to explore the feelings and beliefs that contribute to their experience of current life circumstances. Using a mindfulness-based approach (i.e. paying attention in a non-judgmental way to what is going on for you in the present), we work together to expand your awareness and understanding of your experience, which can provide you with a greater sense of possibilities. My background and interest includes work with women and men who seek depression counseling, anxiety counseling, loss and grief counseling, eating disorders counseling, and counseling regarding career and life transitions.  [ to counselor - therapist website ]   [ Email Lisa Weinberg ]
      

Christine Wylde, MA, LMHC  (206) 321-2887
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
600 First Avenue, Suite 430-A, Seattle, WA. 98104-2269
Niche Specialty©: Couples counseling for gay and straight couples.
Location: in the Historic Pioneer Building (where the Seattle Underground Tours start) near the Pergola at First and James.
General Practice Areas: For over 15 years I have done individual counseling, couple counseling and marriage counseling.  I counsel both gay and straight couples.  I teach couples how to increase positive communication, enhance emotional and sexual intimacy, foster mutual respect and deepen commitment.  I draw on the work of Passionate Marriage author David Schnarch and the couple's researcher, John Gottman.  With individuals I practice a new research based form of psychotherapy known as Positive Psychology.  Using this model we work collaboratively to identify your strengths and talents and use them to meet your current life challenges.  Also, you'll learn skills to increase your positive thoughts and manage negative emotions.  Together we can work on any needed anxiety counseling, depression counseling, grief and loss counseling or work issues.  As a result of our work together most clients emerge with a much stronger and positive sense of self.  I encourage you to call me today to schedule your free consultation visit.   [ Email Christine Wylde ]  [ to counselor - therapist website ]  

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[Downtown Seattle is roughly bounded by SR-519 on the south, Elliot Bay on the west, Stewart Street Way on the north, and 12th Avenue on the east.]

For Consumers of Mental Health and Addiction Services: Advice, Assessment, Counseling,  Information, Resource, Service and Treatment in Downtown Seattle Washington 98101, 98104, 98121.

With the therapist locator service, counselors can be located by name, geographic area, or niche specialty.  The counseling specialty areas include: addictions, anxiety and worry, career work & money, children and adolescents, communication, couples counseling, marriage counseling, creativity problems, depression, divorce, family, gays, lesbians & transsexuals, health problems, men's issues, mental health (chronic problems),  relationships, sexual issues, transitions (life changes), trauma (when awful things happen), women's issues, and other issues not covered elsewhere.

                

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