The purpose of counseling is to reclaim personal power, heal wounds, find balance, and deeply understand oneself. Individual and couples counseling require you to be vulnerable, and you can expect that your vulnerability is held with the utmost respect, compassion, and empathy by your practitioner. Although being vulnerable can feel overwhelming and scary, the therapeutic arena helps you to feel safe to do so. In this environment, you will have the opportunity to explore your multifaceted, unique, complicated self; make sense of your past; and feel more confident in your future.

Nutrition counseling looks at multiple lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, sleep, and relaxation practices to determine how to best address your concerns. Taking this multi-faceted approach, nutrition counseling can help you discover how to improve your overall health and wellness. Nutrition counseling can be used to address a range of concerns that may include: improving physical and mental health, addressing chronic digestive concerns, increasing energy levels, better sleep quality, lowering inflammation, and healing your relationship with food and body image.

Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) are board certified and licensed to diagnose, prescribe and treat most illnesses according to Western diagnostic methods. We work alongside oncologists, cardiologists, neurologists, and other specialists to ensure holistic care of patient conditions and reduction of associated symptoms. The ND toolbox often includes herbal medicines, supplements, pharmaceuticals, many physical medicines, and more. We are trained to order and interpret lab work, and treat or refer as needed.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy involves moving your eyes a specific way while you process traumatic memories. While other therapies focus on directly altering the emotions, thoughts and responses resulting from traumatic experiences, EMDR focuses directly on the memory, and is intended to change the way that the memory is stored in the brain, reducing and eliminating problematic symptoms. During EMDR, an accelerated learning process is stimulated, which incorporate the use of eye movements and other forms of rhythmic left-right (bilateral) stimulation (e.g., tones or taps). While briefly focusing on the trauma memory and simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation, the vividness and emotion of the memory are reduced.

Group therapy is a powerful therapeutic intervention that combines an individual's healing journey with that of others. Group therapy is often held as a part of a series (6 weeks, 8 weeks, etc.) and during those weeks group members develop familiarity with other members of the group, become comfortable exploring group themes and topics, and build a tool kit of knowledge and perspectives related to the topic of the group. Each group experience will look unique depending on the topic, however you can always expect to feel safe yet challenged in a group setting. Group therapy is about the collective and how we each bring inherent value and perspective to contribute to the greater whole.

Acupuncture points are found along 12 meridians or channels and other pathways on the body. Acupuncture is relatively painless for most individuals, and many say they enjoy the sensations that are achieved through stimulation of the needles, as well as an invigorating lift or gentle restfulness that often follows. These points can be stimulated with specialized tools, acupressure balls, or simply by pressing gently with their own hands. Additionally, sound tools, such as tuning forks, can be applied to acupuncture points to generate energy modification particular to the location. Acupuncture and acupressure are often used in the treatment of insomnia, anxiety, digestive complaints, menopausal symptoms, fatigue, muscle pain or tension, headaches, and many more complex physiologic conditions.

Reiki practitioners use their hands to deliver and shift energy in your body, improving the flow and balance of your energy to support healing. Mikao Usui developed reiki in the early 1900s, deriving the term from the Japanese words rei, meaning “universal,” and ki, which refers to the vital life force energy that flows through all living things. Reiki aids in healing by helping people become energetically balanced — physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Benefits: foster tissue and bone healing after injury or surgery, stimulate your body’s immune system, promote natural self-healing, relieve pain and tension, relieve stored trauma and emotions in the body.

Sound healing supports the nervous system in processing stress and finding restorative balance, wellness and wholeness using tuning forks on and around the physical and energy body. Sound healing heralds from a long line of well-established knowledge systems within many different cultures and traditions. Some perspectives on sound believe that everything is vibration and embodies a different frequency. A founding idea of sound healing is that our physical, emotional, and mental symptoms are underscored by energy fields, therefore if we can affect the energy fields through resonance and entrainment with sound, we can see a shift in our physical, emotional, and spiritual state of being.

Tuina and Cupping are physical therapeutics taught and practiced by most Acupuncturists in the State of Washington. Tuina is a type of Eastern Medicine therapy whereby the channels are stimulated with specific techniques of the hands, similar to deep tissue work. Cupping is a type of suction that is used to draw in the skin and can manipulate the energies by either placing them along a particular point or "sore spot" in the case of muscle tension, or can be run along an acupuncture meridian to help move energies along the channels. Why one might choose Tuina or Cupping includes neck or shoulder tension, tightened muscles in particular areas resulting from tension, low back pain, digestive complaints, and many other illnesses or medical complaints.