Therapy that honors your body & your story

At Fiddlehead Therapy, I offer individual therapy for adults re/connecting with their bodies, pleasure, gender, sexuality; navigating life transitions; and dealing with the challenges of being human in a world that doesn’t always make space for all of who you are.

My practice centers people who have been marginalized by gender and sexuality norms, weight stigma and ableism, including women, queer, trans and nonbinary clients.

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People often come to me when they’re

  • Feeling anxious, down, or overwhelmed

  • Healing from trauma or difficult childhood experiences

  • Exploring or repairing their relationship with their body, food, movement, pleasure, sex, illness

  • Moving through grief, loss, or big life transitions

  • Navigating family-building, perinatal or reproductive health

  • Raising resilient kids and breaking cycles

  • Discovering neurodivergence, processing, sensory and attention differences

  • Processing gender, sexuality, relationship identities

  • Feeling the weight of the current political & social climate and wanting to process, resist, and stay grounded

  • Interested in fat liberation parenting

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My approach to therapy

Therapy with me is non-judgmental and grounded in compassion. We move at your pace and respect all your parts and your identities to help you feel more connected and resourced.

I draw from attachment, somatic, and trauma-informed perspectives and am fat-positive, sex-positive, kink and polyamory friendly.

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  • Somatic approaches bring the body into the healing process knowing the body carries the impact of stress, trauma, and daily life. Many of us have learned to ignore the body’s cues, push through, or disconnect from physical sensations in order to survive. Somatic work gently helps you to notice what your body is communicating, learn to trust those signals, and build a felt sense of safety and connection.

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps your nervous system integrate traumatic experiences that remain stuck, allowing your body to recognize what is true in the present. It includes resourcing to support regulation and grounding — before and throughout the deeper processing work. Using gentle bilateral stimulation such as eye movements, tapping, or sound, EMDR helps you connect what you know is true in your head with what you feel in your body.

  • Parts work offers a compassionate way to get to know the different parts of you — the ones that protect, perform, critique, avoid, or carry pain — and how they developed to help you survive or meet a need. Through curiosity and care, we help those parts take a rest or move from the driver’s seat to a comfortable seat on the bus, guided by your wise, adult self.

  • An attachment lens honors that our early relationships shape how we connect, explore, and cope with distress throughout life — and that healing happens in relationship, too. Together, we discover these patterns, building the capacity to feel seen, secure, and cared for in relationship with yourself and others. For those in caregiving or parenting roles, we seek to make sense of your child’s attachment needs, explore what feels challenging about being their secure base or safe haven, and find your way toward being a “good enough” parent with warmth and self-compassion.

  • As a Fat Positive therapist, I recognize the impact of weight stigma and anti-fat bias and know that the size of your body is not a problem. I understand that the desire for thinness is strong and my clients sometimes feel ambivalent about weight loss. While I believe in body autonomy, I do not recommend or endorse intentional weight loss. Working with a fat-positive therapist who is also fat, can be a powerful place to explore internalized anti-fat bias; process experiences of weight stigma, discrimination, and medical trauma; and explore and celebrate fat joy.

  • I am sex-positive, kink-friendly, affirming of polyamorous and consensual non-monogamous relationships, and also have experience working with sex workers. Many of my clients are exploring sexuality, relationship style, and/or working on healing their relationships with their bodies, pleasure, sex.

  • Creativity can be a powerful part of embodied healing. Together we might explore how creativity shows up in your life — through art, movement, writing, play, or imagination — and use creative exercises in therapy to help you express, experiment, and connect in new ways.

  • When helpful, I also draw from structured therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Therapy. We can use them as tools, practice, and ways to experiment with new ways of responding — always within a compassionate, relational, individualized framework.

Logistics

  • The therapy hour is about 50-55 minutes of face to face time. I find therapy to be most effective when we’re meeting weekly. Moving to biweekly therapy can be supportive after we’ve made significant progress toward your goals.

  • I offer therapy with a sliding scale fee structure with ranges of $200-$250, $150-$200, $100-$150, and $50-$100. This allows me to sustainably accommodate clients with different financial means and levels of privilege.

  • I am not contracted with insurance companies. The benefit of not relying on insurance is we can prioritize your needs and goals versus the requirements of a mental health insurance system that can be harmful.

    However I also recognize that for many, utilizing insurance is a financial necessity. You may have "out-of-network" benefits as part of your insurance plan, which may reimburse you for part of my fee. I am happy to provide a superbill for you to submit to insurance after discussing the information that then gets shared with insurance.

  • You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical care will cost.

    Under the “No Surprises” law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill for medical items and services.

    • You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency items or services. This includes related costs like medical tests, prescription drugs, equipment, and hospital fees.

    • Make sure your health care provider gives you a Good Faith Estimate in writing at least 1 business day before your medical service or item. You can also ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule an item or service.

    • If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill.

    • Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.

    For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises or call 1-877-696-6775.

    The Fiddlehead Therapy Good Faith Estimate can also be downloaded.

Locations

 

In-Person in Mountlake Terrace, WA

at the Terrace View Counseling Collaborative
21907 64th Ave W, Suite 330
Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043

The office is two minutes off of I-5 just over the King / Snohomish county line in Mountlake Terrace. Convenient to Seattle, Shoreline, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Everett, Bothell, Kenmore, Lake Forest Park. Free parking and ADA accessible building. You can read more about the office and accessibility at the Terrace View Counseling Collaborative website.

Online Therapy in Washington State

Connecting with a therapist from your own home can make therapy more accessible.

You will always join the same zoom room: https://zoom.fiddleheadtherapy.com (Meeting ID: 716 460 0652). You’ll enter the zoom waiting room and I’ll admit you to the meeting at the appointment time.

More information about telehealth with Fiddlehead Therapy.

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Have questions or ready to begin?

Finding the right therapist matters. Let’s see if we’re a good fit — you can schedule a free introductory call to ask questions, share what you’re looking for, and get a feel for how we might work together.

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