Hi, My name is Alyssa ✨

I received my training at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology—a relational, psychoanalytic training program, where I completed a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. I also studied for 3 years at the Seattle School of Body Psychotherapy.  There I began learning somatic healing interventions through experiential learning and direct instruction that truly honor the functional integration and unity of body, emotion, psyche, behavior, and spirit. I did a clinical internship with Compass Mental Health in the San Juan Islands (WA) where I worked with both adolescents and adults experiencing PTSD, addiction, anxiety, and depression. I am currently a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate in the state of Washington. My license number is MC61460408.

Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, I was an educator in both public and private school settings and I continue to be a facilitator for “Turning the Wheel”, a non-profit  which serves youth by offering integral life skills and social emotional learning through an inclusive, playful, movement and arts based teaching modality.

Additionally, I am deeply passionate about summer camp culture. I have worked at summer camps for well over a decade, either directly with children or serving in a leadership role. I currently serve as a mental health coordinator for a local camp in the San Juan archipelago.

When I am not working with clients, I love being in the outdoors. You can find me searching for sea glass or hiking among the old growth Cedar trees. I also love baking and find an excuse to put sprinkles on just about anything. My happiest moments usually involve rose tea and time spent in rocking chairs. I love to dance, go to live music, and celebrate the little things, like on-time ferries. On a rare occasion, you might find me on stage as I pursue a lifelong desire to act in community theater. I have big dreams and I have tender days. I'm a lot of things. I wear lots of hats. Most importantly though, I think it's important that you know I'm human - just like you. I am a real, human person who is in a constant state of growing, learning, and transformation.

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting, over and over, announcing your place in the family of things”

— Mary Oliver