Resources & Updates
Designed to provide a little knowledge before therapy, this section is your introduction to the therapeutic process. I hope this helps to understand what to expect during our sessions and help you feel comfortable getting professional help!
Childhood Trauma and Psychotherapy: How to Heal the Past
Childhood trauma can have a devastating impact on people's lives. Do traumatic events from your childhood still haunt you today? If you have child traumatic stress that still bothers you, there might be a way to fix it. Some people choose to go to therapy to heal the...
The Top things to ask yourself before child and adolescent counseling
For most kids, having a good relationship with their parents is critical to their health and well-being. Yet many adolescents have significant problems communicating with their parents and are often burdened with the responsibility of taking care of themselves while...
Couples Counseling Seattle
Do you feel alone in your relationship? Has the intimacy in your relationship changed? Have miscommunications and changing priorities led to increased anxiety and conflicts with your partner? Have family or career responsibilities changes lead to disagreements and...
Online Marriage Counseling: How To Heal When You Can’t Talk in Person
Online marriage counseling is an excellent option for couples who are facing difficult circumstances. Therapy online offers the same advice and healing that in-person therapists do, but they are more flexible with their schedules. You can do Online marriage counseling...
Infant Development Part 1 | Prenatal & Postnatal Development
Infant Development Part 1 | Prenatal & Postnatal Development The most interesting thing in the last 20 years in the field of psychology has been the explosion of the neurosciences and and neurology and the expansion of technologies designed to scan the human...
Fusion Merger Part 1 – Bad Love and Good Love
Part 1 – Bad Love and Good Love For thousands of years poets have explored the meaning of love. It does not seem like they have made much headway in helping people really understand what is going on when someone says, “I love you.” This article is about love. Dr. Judy...
The Hundred Minute Hour
Why do therapists almost universally use a 50-minute hour to see patients? Because Freud said so, that's why. It may seem strange now that, since Freud has often come under critical scrutiny over the last several decades, most therapists hold rather strictly and...
Dream Interpretation: The Royal Road to the Unconscious – Interview with Amy Cope
Donovan Bigelow is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), whose work focuses on Freud’s theories of Dream Interpretation. I met him in his office, in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Building, for a 50-minute session in which we discussed dream interpretation and dream...