Accepting New Clients (updated Mar 18)

Seattle Individual, Couples, Child & Family Therapy

We are committed to delivering superior mental health services to individuals, couples, children and families through a blend of integrated care, rigorous standards, and cutting-edge treatments to empower our clients to lead their most fulfilling lives. We imagine a future where we’re a beacon for a broad community, enhancing mental wellness, and forging stronger connections.

Meet Our Therapists

Finding the right therapist is all about finding a comfortable, easy connection. The best way to get a feel for that is to schedule a no-cost consultation. It’s easy, and we love hearing from folks who are about to make positive changes in their lives.

Intern Therapists

Learn about discounted therapy options offered by our Graduate Intern Therapists

Didem Koc

Intern Therapist

Lindsay Powers

Intern Therapist

Types of Therapy We Offer in Seattle

We’re all in this together. During this incredibly difficult time, Anchor Light is offering both online sessions through Zoom® and in office therapy sessions. Please use the consultation form to schedule a complimentary consultation to learn about your options.

Couples Therapy

Strategies for finding love, staying in love, and loving your life

People choose to connect with a therapist for many different reasons but what they all have in common is that they have the intention of living a richer, more meaningful life.

LGBTQ+ Couples Counseling

An atmosphere free from homophobia, cisexism, prejudice, fear, and ignorance.

We offer an inclusive and safe space for those that may have felt judged or misunderstood in other therapeutic relationships. promoting the recognition of sexuality (in the countless forms of expression) as a natural and healthy part of the human experience.

Marriage Counseling

Help with conflict resolution, improve intimacy, deepen your emotional connection

Anchor Light Therapy helps both soon-to-be married and already married partners in Seattle take little steps to maintain and improve their relationship, communication, and connection with one another.

Gottman Method Therapy

Increased intimacy, affection, and respect

ALTC’s Gottman Couples therapists use proven assessment techniques and intervention strategies based on the Gottman Method.

Hypnotherapy

A rapid and effective pathway to personal change and growth

Through the use of trance states, together with specific protocols, anyone can quickly realize the roots of behaviors and feelings.

Talk Therapy

A safe place to discuss feelings and make positive changes

We integrate various talk therapy styles to support couples in reducing conflict, deepening friendship, improving communication, and resolving blocks to emotional and physical intimacy. 

EMDR Therapy

A safe and measured environment conducive to dealing with trauma.

EMDR stands for “Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing” and is an approach to treating trauma and its symptoms that utilizes phasing.

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Create change by focusing on the link between thoughts, behaviors, and emotions

An essential element to CBT is forward action — engaging in new behavior both in in order to create a pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions that truly serves one’s values and goals.

Parent Coaching

We provide judgment-free guidance to help you become a better parent and establish a deeper relationship with your child.

Parenting can be an overwhelming task and responsibility. Not all parents go into parenting with effective tools or a positive mindset, and that’s where parent coaching can help.

Issues We Help With

We can help with virtually any condition, stress, or issue that you’re facing. 

Anxiety & Stress

Understanding the source of your anxiety and begin to heal

From mindfulness and meditation to cognitive behavioral therapy and more, we can help you learn how to move through difficult days with strength and reason.

Work Stress

Create boundaries between your work-life and personal-life

How has the pandemic and recession changed your job or your career? With the right tools and mindset, you can rediscover your purpose, regain your direction, and find solid ground in this challenging economy.

Trauma & PTSD

Understand and recover from emotional and physical trauma

Therapeutic interventions such as EMDR, Hypnotherapy, Individual Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and working with a trauma-informed therapist can help you heal from the symptoms of traumatic stress and move forward in your life.

Grief and Loss

Navigate grief using proven treatment plans with experienced therapists

Loss comes with very personal and intense emotions. No matter what you’re grieving—a loved one, a marriage, your health or sense of normalcy—we can help you move through it and regain your energy and your spirit.

Depression

Get to the root of depression and pave a path forward

We create a specialized treatment plan for each client than can combine several types of therapeutic treatments like talk trauma-focused talk therapy, hypnotherapy, EMDR, CBT and more.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Overcome obsessions and compulsions, whether genetic or learned

One of the most effective therapeutic treatments is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) which aims to change patterns, beliefs and behaviors. 

ADD/ADHD

Improve planning, establish good habits, become more organized

Untreated ADHD/ADD can follow us into adulthood and can affect our overall focus, attention to detail, work performance, house work and the way we connect with others.

Phobias

Overcome both specific & complex phobias

Phobia treatment therapy can be extremely effective by helping you to retrain your mind and learn tools for coping for dealing with and seeing your fear in a new way.

We’re living in unprecedented times

On one hand, we have opportunities and abundance unlike any generation before us—but on the other hand, we’re faced with big upheaval and a lot of uncertainty. And then you factor in the challenging relationships, work and money stress, and a restless anxiety about the past, present, and future. If you’re exhausted, depressed, angry, afraid, unmotivated, and uninspired, that’s because you’re a thinking, feeling human in a difficult world. But that which makes you alive and sensitive can also restore balance, and bring hope and well-being back into your daily life.

At Anchor Light Therapy Collective, we’re known for employing both modern and traditional therapeutic modalities. We partner with you to find an approach that fits your personality and your situation.