Relationships therapists

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Kelly Allred is a licensed psychologist in Seattle who works with teens, adults and older adults. She treats anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, ADHD, sleep problems, chronic pain and illness, relationship concerns and everyday life stress, and also helps with grief, substance use and bipolar disorder. She sees each client as the authority on their own experience and builds treatment around their values and background, setting clear goals together and checking in regularly to make sure therapy stays useful. She has extensive training in CBT, DBT, ACT and mindfulness, and also uses exposure and response prevention. She has immediate openings and sees clients in person in Seattle and online.

Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MA, LMHC

Marcus Berley is a licensed mental health counselor based in Redmond, licensed in Washington and Rhode Island, with 14 years in practice. Divorce is the center of his work. Most of his clients are men from their late 30s to their 60s who are weighing a divorce, going through one or still sorting it out years later, including those ending long marriages, and many are fathers. He also sees women, and adults facing other difficult transitions, ADHD or autism. His style is warm, practical and direct, with honest feedback and sessions kept focused on what matters to the client. He draws on Internal Family Systems, psychodynamic and family systems thinking, and works online.

Counselor, MDiv, MA/EdS, LMHCA

Chris Koch is a licensed mental health counselor associate in Seattle who also holds a Master of Divinity. He works with adults, teens, couples, older adults and adult families on depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, ADHD, low self-esteem and stress. His focus is on finding what lies underneath the presenting problem, helping clients move away from avoidance and self-contempt toward compassionate self-awareness, better coping and new skills. In premarital and couples counseling he treats the relationship itself as the client, aiming to steady it under stress and build emotional closeness. He is trauma-informed and emotionally focused, also using IFS, REBT and Christian counseling. He sees clients in person in Seattle and online.

Family Associate, LMFTA, MS

Elizabeth Bryant is a licensed marriage and family therapist associate in Bellevue with three years in practice. She works with adults, older adults, couples and families who feel lost or discouraged after shifts in their relationships, identity, body, circumstances or beliefs. She helps with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, self-esteem, stress, postpartum concerns and LGBTQ+ issues. She specializes in relational and couples work and trained with the Couples Institute. Her approach is compassionate and nonjudgmental, built on trust and on understanding the patterns that shape a person's life, with methods including emotionally focused, attachment-based, IFS, narrative and Imago therapy. She sees clients in her Bellevue office and online.

Counselor, LMHCA

Stephanie Angione is a licensed mental health counselor associate in Kirkland who practices with Self Space. She works with teens, adults, older adults, couples and families going through depression, anxiety, trauma, grief or chronic pain, and with relationship problems around communication, intimacy and conflict. She also offers psychedelic integration support. She believes deeply in the healing power of connection and offers trauma-informed, compassionate guidance aimed at recovering parts of the self that were pushed aside and making room for more joy. Her methods include attachment-based, emotionally focused, Gottman Method, IFS, Jungian and psychodynamic therapy, and she welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. She sees clients online.

Mental Health Counselor, LMHC

Kate Oliver is a licensed mental health counselor in North Bend who works with preteens, teens, adults and couples. She helps people who feel worn out after a long stretch of difficulty, whose worries have grown harder to manage, or who have lost their sense of self in a new role such as motherhood, adolescence or a career change. She also supports clients with grief, anxiety, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, stress, eating disorders, postpartum concerns and LGBTQ+ issues. She offers practical tools alongside attentive listening, weaving in ACT, DBT and RO-DBT, narrative, solution-focused, play therapy and other methods as needed. She sees clients in person in North Bend and online.

Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MA, LPCC

Fred Kiesel is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Edina, Minnesota, with three years in practice. He provides individual, couples and group therapy, with particular interest in relationship dynamics, including polyamorous partnerships, and in personal growth. He sees children, teens, adults, older adults, couples and families for anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, self-esteem, substance use and eating concerns. His integrative style blends psychodynamic therapy, CBT, ACT and solution-focused work, and he has substantial experience with DBT. With couples he focuses on communication and the challenges partners face together. He meets clients in person in Edina and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW

Kathleen Sprole is a licensed independent clinical social worker in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, with 18 years in practice. She works with teens, adults and older adults on trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions and relationship concerns, and she also treats eating disorders and body image, OCD, substance use, bipolar disorder, self-harm and borderline personality, welcoming LGBTQ+ clients. She believes people have inner strengths they can lose sight of, and her aim is to help clients reconnect with them, develop practical new strategies and become more resilient. She draws on ACT, DBT, accelerated resolution therapy, Adlerian, attachment-based, compassion-focused and gestalt approaches. She sees clients in person and online.

Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MA, ATR-BC, LPCC

Rafael Cohen is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and board-certified art therapist in St. Paul, Minnesota, with 19 years in practice. He works with adults and older adults facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties and life transitions, as well as bipolar disorder, chronic illness and cancer, and he welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. Some of the people he sees feel empty even after reaching what they wanted, while others keep undermining their own goals. His work is psychoanalytic and psychodynamic, attending to the whole person rather than a single symptom or diagnosis, and it is also shaped by existential and feminist thinking. He sees clients in person in St. Paul and online.