About Us
Passion. Experience. Diligence.
Founders
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Gloria received her Master’s Degree in Counseling, specializing in Marriage and Family Therapy, from Saint Mary’s University in 1995. Since that time she has worked with a variety of issues concerning adults, children, marital issues, families, and support groups. Gloria is a professional member and trained Parent Facilitator of SENG (Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted) and a Lifespan Integration therapist.
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Creativity, Giftedness and Twice-Exceptional dynamics in the Child, Adult, and Family: How they relate to mental health: facilitating a process where each client uses their own strengths and creativity to solve the problems at hand. Providing parenting support, individual and family therapy addressing common gifted and twice-exceptional challenges such as anxiety, existential depression, perfectionism, executive functioning difficulties, rigidity of thought, emotional regulation challenges, sensory processing issues, under achievement, social anxiety and multipotentiality.
Trauma Therapy: Working with people with a range of traumatic experiences using Lifespan Integration therapy. Transformational healing of memories that block current progress and well-being
Couples Therapy: Working with partners to recover a sense of intimacy and connection in their relationships. Addressing and creating healthy patterns of emotional attachment.
Addiction Issues: Supporting people in recovery as well as educating and supporting their family members. Working with the client to connect them with community support groups and other tools to build healthy boundaries and self-care.
Additional Work: In addition to her private counseling practice, Gloria presents at the national SENG conferences, trains teachers, school psychologists and other professionals on the social and emotional components of giftedness, presents parenting workshops and groups as a SENG certified facilitator and has developed a twice-exceptional parent support group in conjunction with Wally’s Play Groups.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS)
Lifespan Integration Trained
Washington State Approved Supervisor
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Anne has specialized in supporting the whole gifted and twice-exceptional family since earning a Master’s of Science degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Seattle Pacific University in 2001. Anne brings a wide range of life experience to her therapy practice given her prior roles as a corporate manager, a small business owner, a stay at home mother to a highly gifted 2e child, her East Coast background and her deep commitment to leading spiritual practices in her faith community. Anne graduated from Dartmouth College with a BS in Comparative Religion, and she is a professional member and trained Parent Facilitator of SENG (Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted).
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Gifted and Twice-Exceptional: Parenting support, individual and family therapy addressing common gifted and 2e challenges such as anxiety, perfectionism, executive functioning, emotional regulation, sensory processing, under achievement, existential angst, social challenges and multipotentiality.
Relationship Issues: Supporting, growing and healing relationships including couples, families, parenting, international couples and families, or working through any challenging relationship as an individual.
Life Transitions: Acceptance, grief and loss, releasing and moving forward during major life transitions such as marriage, divorce, birth of first child, major medical issues, death of a loved one, major moves, job changes, etc.
Spirituality: As a person of faith, Anne specializes in supporting people of any faith in spiritual formation practices, incorporating faith into daily living and reconciling faith practices with current modern life.
Additional Work: In addition to her private counseling practice, Anne presents at the national SENG conference every year, trains teachers, school psychologists and other professionals on the social and emotional components of giftedness, presents parenting workshops and groups as a SENG certified facilitator and has developed a twice-exceptional parent support group in conjunction with Wally's Play Groups.
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AAMFT Professional Member
Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS)
SENG Community Group Facilitator
Washington State Approved Supervisor
Therapists
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Charlie received her Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Seattle Pacific University in 2017. She enjoys working with folks of all ages utilizing their unique stories, interests and passions, and strengths to grow in understanding, awareness, and self-love. She loves using play, special interests, and systems of personal meaning making - including her own personal enjoyment of board games - to practice skills and achieve goals. She also enjoys working with folks in the LGBTQIA2S+, Autistic, and ADHD communities using anti-racist and affirming frameworks.
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Gifted and Twice Exceptional Children: Supporting the unique social and emotional needs of young children.
Therapeutic Gaming: Using tabletop, role-playing, and other games to cultivate personal and social skills.
Systems of Meaning-Making: Working with tools for self-awareness, personal development, and spirituality.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Individual, group, and family integration of DBT skills, including emotion regulation and distress tolerance, for growth and development.
LGBTQ Issues: Working with diverse expressions of gender and sexual identity, and the challenges that are particular to those who hold these identities.
Parent Support: Helping parents deepen their understanding of and develop skills to support their unique families.
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AAMFT Professional Member
Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT)
Washington State Approved Supervisor
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Lauren received her Master’s Degree in Couples and Family Therapy from Seattle University in 2022. She enjoys working with children 3-12 years old and their families, couples, and adults experiencing anxiety and depression, healing from trauma, parenting concerns, grief and loss, and life transitions. Lauren values honoring the uniqueness and inherent strengths of each client. Lauren approaches therapy with curiosity, creativity, and compassion. Her vision is to empower clients to draw upon their resilience to write their next chapter as one full of hope and life-giving relationships. She values a neurodiversity affirmative, anti-racist, anti-discrimination and social justice lens.
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Gifted and 2/e: Using a holistic and systemic approach to support the unique social, emotional, and psychological needs of the gifted population. Lauren facilitates individual, parent, and family therapy sessions as needed to support the gifted/2e client.
Play therapy and creative expression: Using play to meet children (3-12) on their terms to allow for processing and healing in developmentally appropriate and creative ways. Lauren has additional training in Child-Centered Play Therapy and is pursuing a long-term goal to become a Registered Play Therapist.
Trauma-informed care: Utilizing evidence-based mind-body and narrative therapy approaches to support clients in lessening the impact of traumatic triggers and narratives to recover a sense of agency, integration, and hopefulness.
Relationship Challenges: Helping partners create communication patterns that result in a sense of safety, trust, and connection using emotionally-focused couples therapy and Gottman principles.
Self-Esteem and Identity Development: Deconstructing and re-authoring negative beliefs from a place of personal agency while recognizing how societal systems have impacted our sense of self.
Life Transitions: Supporting clients through many life-cycle transitions, such as welcoming a new baby, grief and loss of a loved one or pet, breakups and divorce, starting a new job, moving away from home, going to college, etc.
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Alison graduated with a Master’s Degree in Professional Mental Health Counseling from Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling in 2017. Over the years since then she has focused her practice on working with teens to help them navigate anxiety, depression, trauma as well as the stressors that come from moving through life’s transitions. Alison’s philosophy is centered on the belief that the stories we tell ourselves about the world, our lives, and ourselves can dramatically impact our outlook on the future. Her approach is informed by that philosophy and centers helping her clients understand and rewrite their narrative to achieve their goals.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Helping to identify unhelpful patterns that are fueling anxiety and depression in order to develop more positive thought, feeling, and behavior patterns overall.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: Aiding clients in the development of skills to increase distress tolerance, emotional regulation, positive interpersonal communication, and mindfulness around thoughts and feelings to create a life they are excited to live.
Trauma Support: Utilizing evidence based practices of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, as well as narrative therapy approaches to help reduce the power negative experiences can have on daily functioning.
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Tyler received his Master’s Degree In Couples and Family Therapy from Seattle University in 2022. He enjoys working with people of all ages. As a clinician, he finds humor, exploration of personal narratives, and giving clients specific tools they need to manage challenges in life to be his greatest strengths and joys in practice. Tyler approaches therapy with a firm belief in the ability for humans to change and grow at any point in life, the interconnectedness between seemingly disconnected things and people, and the wonderfully freeing and powerful process that psychotherapy, and other forms of intimate human connection are.
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Gifted and twice exceptional children and families: Supporting and helping alter family dynamics in a way to better understand and accommodate needs of all members in the family
Narrative Therapy: Helping clients come to see their challenges in life as opportunities to continue or rewrite internal stories of themselves, and how certain, often negative stories inside of us have the power to turn life into a rigid, unpleasant experience.
Challenging Relationships/Couple Dynamics: Working with clients to better understand and change things in their relationships throughout life’s ebbs and flows. Having the hard conversations and confronting new realities in an adaptive way for those feeling stuck in life.
Coaches
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Julie offers neurodivergent affirming, inclusive, anti-diet parent coaching for families raising 2e children. She has over twenty years of professional experience as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Parent Coach, and Advocate for the Preservation of Childhood. Julie earned a Master of Science Degree in Human Nutrition from Bastyr University and holds Certifications as a Parent Coach, Trauma Informed Specialist, and Positive Discipline Parenting Educator. She is honored to guide parents on their journey of self-discovery toward a personal, values-based parenting style. Julie helps families come together so that life is more enjoyable, and both minds and bodies are nourished. As she guides her own twice exceptional teens, Julie also brings years of lived experience to her coaching practice. She loves dogs, wandering in forests, is pretty good at puzzles, and appreciates a good pun.
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Childhood and Family Nutrition: While there is no single family feeding and eating plan that works for all families, there is an authentic style that can work for yours. Work with Julie to ensure dietary needs are met while individual needs are honored.
Responsive Feeding (Emotionally Aware Feeding)
Holistic assessment of dietary needs to support growth, development, and vitality.
Intuitive Eating and Feeding
Meal Planning for food allergies and intolerances, Vegetarian/Vegan, Gluten Free, Dairy Free Lifestyles
Julie does not provide Medical Nutrition Therapy for complex medical diagnoses, eating disorders, or adult nutrition care. She does not bill insurance for nutrition services.
Parent Coaching with Compassion and Experiential Learning: Parent coaching collaborations that prioritize connection between caregivers, children, and the greater community. Support to empower families to become competent, well-informed consumers and advocates in education and medical settings. Julie offers engaging experiential activities to enhance the coaching and learning experience.
Co-Parenting/Separation/Divorce planning for the 2e family: Through child development and trauma informed lenses, create clear and sustainable action plans for families navigating dynamic changes. Create continuity of care across households, using creative problem solving and evidence-based communication strategies.
Clinical Interns
Jackson Lucy
Jackson is a psychology graduate student in Seattle University's Existential Phenomenology program. Although the words seem daunting, they simply mean that Jackson takes the experience of his clients with total sincerity and seriousness. He believes that the child's world-view is equally as rich and worthy of exploration as any adult's. For him, the starting point of successful therapy is found in a strong client/therapist connection; creating safe spaces in which his clients can not only be completely themselves, but be proud of it as well. Whether this means playing games, having some laughs, or genuinely serious discussion, Jackson works with his clients to co-create catalysts of change and growth. More than anything, the validity of his client's experience and the way this helps them make meaning of the world is always paramount.
Abigail Morrow
Abby is currently in the Masters’ in Psychology program at Seattle University, completing her supervised clinical hours in pursuit of becoming a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. This program’s Existential-Phenomenological orientation informs her focus on co-creating a therapeutic relationship that feels genuine, safe, and empowering to the client. Abby enjoys working with children ages 6-13. Her previous experience as a paraeducator in the Seattle Public Schools informs a holistic understanding of the child’s well-being; in therapy, at home, at school, and in new or challenging environments. She values creating a compassionate and neurodiversity-affirming therapeutic practice that seeks to empower the client’s voice and create an understanding of the client’s worldview while incorporating fun and play. She will graduate and go on to pursue the first steps toward licensure in the summer of 2025.