Mental Health Counselor
Hi, I’m Claire, an integrative, trauma-informed therapist at our Edmonds clinic. My practice blends my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with 20+ years of whole-health coaching, grounded in an earlier Master’s in Health Promotion. I completed a year-long training program in Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry, exploring how early life impacts current nervous system patterns. I walk alongside you to navigate shared human terrain: grief, depression, anxiety, languishing, and meaning. Together, we can zoom out to see the mind and body as one connected ecosystem. Whatever brings you here, we begin with what matters to you.
My work is rooted in the counseling relationship and the healing power of being a compassionate witness to one’s own suffering. Together, we make space for what wants to be understood, including emotions, memories, and somatic responses. I welcome dreams, metaphor, creativity, and spirituality as direct pathways to the unconscious and your own innate wisdom.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
― Albert Camus
I believe therapy can help us remember what’s been with us all along: light, curiosity, compassion, creativity, and our own deep knowing. Even in difficult seasons, these parts of us remain. We’ll stay curious together and follow what matters to you.