our team at West wing - Olympia

 Hi! I’m Jen (she/her). I’ve lived in the beautiful Pacific Northwest/Olympia area for 29 years. I ventured to Washington State to complete my bachelor’s degree. Thereafter, I began providing community support access and mental health counseling and completed my MA in Counseling Psychology.

I enjoy spending time with my family, camping, hiking, being active, reading, cooking, baking, gardening, and volunteering in the community. I love the work that I am privileged to provide with youth and adults.

I am a fully Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years of experience working as a therapist in a variety of settings and a wide range of concerns such as depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting support, school issues, emotional and physical trauma, grief, life transitions, familial conflict, and special needs.  

I am committed to affirmatively supporting youth and adults in the LGBTQIA+ community to aid wellbeing.  

I work to foster a trusting therapeutic relationship in a caring and safe environment so that clients may feel at ease to identify, explore, and express thoughts and feelings, and gain insight to their own strengths and struggles. I see my role as a therapist as a guide; to uplift clients in finding resources and support, to build skills and confidence in their lives to thrive, while strengthening bonds of familial, peer, and all interpersonal, desired relationships, as well as personal individual goals.

My approach is informed by humanistic, person-centered, strength-based perspectives. I draw from a variety of resources including but not limited to DBT, Active Parenting for Stepfamilies,

Solution Focused, CBT, Mindfulness, Expressive Arts, Jungian, and Somatic.

I am neurodivergent allied, disability allied, Queer Community allied, racial justice allied, and body positivity allied.

 My name is Lauren (she/her) and I am a fully licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I have made my home in the Olympia area for the past 14 years, am a mother to three boys, and am an alum of Evergreen and Saint Martin’s University. One of the reasons I love therapy is that it makes room for us to accept the full range of human experience with care and dignity. My approach to therapy is to regard clients as experts in their own experience—I believe in nurturing a non-judgemental practice supportive of authentic expression and creativity. 

I spent several years as a community mental health counselor working with adolescents, families, and adults, with a focus on supporting clients experiencing traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, substance use, relationship issues, and grief. As a family systems therapist, I work with individuals as well as couples, families, and children, and am competent working in queer and polyamorous systems. I am trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) which aims to integrate and reduce distress around traumatic experiences. Other modalities I use in my practice include CBT, expressive arts, somatic, and narrative therapies. 

I have experience both professionally and personally supporting families and individuals with neurodevelopmental differences, such as ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder and can address co-occurring mental health concerns and provide support with parenting strategies. For children elementary school age or younger I work with both the caregiver and child. I am currently providing hybrid services, with remote and in-person availability.

 Hi there, I'm Anne! A clinical social worker licensed in Washington with over five years of experience. I am a disabled veteran spouse and mom. I've worked as a Case Manager for several years, so I have extensive experience in mental health. I'm a Therapist committed to helping individuals learn how to build and maintain a healthier mental health lifestyle. I'm experienced in assisting clients struggling with Stress, Anxiety, Self-esteem, Depression, Coping with life changes, and Compassion fatigue.  My mantra is everyone should be treated with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.   I look forward to working with you.

I am Cristal Java, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Therapy helps us lean into the emotions we have been avoiding and become more whole as we learn to see ourselves through a more loving lens.

I work to create individualized compassionate spaces for each client to heal and be seen. I use somatic experiencing, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Solution Focused Narrative Therapy, Eco-therapy, Self-Compassion, Expressive (art/music), and Play Therapy. I am passionate about attachment work.

I can help with stress, depression, anxiety, PTSD, life transitions, grief, disordered eating, and complex/discrete trauma. Workplace issues and traumas are a particular area of focus.

I am a continual work in progress. I love learning and am endlessly curious. I am an optimist.  I am a mother, a mixed-race person, and an ally.

I work in person and via telehealth. 

 My name is Teri and my approach to therapy is evidence based, person centered, and trauma informed. A lifelong resident of Washington, I am currently addicted to caffeine. Of course, I blame the weather for this! I cohabitate with other humans; however, an assortment of dogs, horses, cats, and chickens currently outnumber us. I head for the ocean when I get the chance.

I embrace recovery from trauma, depression, and co dependence. I have worked treating addictions for twenty years and have been treating folks recovering from trauma, depression, and anxiety for the past six years.

I have a family systems approach and I enjoy working with kids, adults, families, and couples.