Donna James, PhD
In practice since 1984
In my practice, I see individuals and couples age 18 and older. The therapy focuses on strengthening the client’s capacities for healthy relationships with self and others, and for engagement with work and play through life phases. This attention to individual development throughout life is true for my work with individuals and couples. In the later modality I help guide each person toward maximizing her/his own best self within the context of the relationship, working toward increased intimacy. That work contributes to the development of the couple as a sanctuary.
We learn our ideas about ourselves, others, and our interactions with others in our earliest relationships. That set of lenses continues to lead our thoughts, emotions, and actions into adulthood, even as we expand those ideas as we move out into the world. The consulting room offers a safe but also challenging place to understand how lifelong patterns still influence current adult life.
We begin by exploring the current encounters, situations, feelings, and relationships that are not working that bring each client into therapy. The work requires diving into feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that arise as the work progresses and offers options for new ways of living. Each therapeutic relationship is unique and evolves over time to serve the healing and psychological growth of the individual.
To learn more about my practice and inquire about whether I am accepting new clients at this time contact me directly below.
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Location
838 NE 83rd Street
Seattle, WA, 98115 -
Contact
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I See Clients
In Person and Online
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In Practice Since
1984
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Clients I Work With
Adults
Elders
Couples -
Therapeutic Orientation
Depth Psychotherapy
Existential
Humanistic
Psychoanalytic
Psychodynamic
Transpersonal -
Certified Specialties
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Gestalt Psychotherapy with Polster Trainings, Santa Barbara, CA -
Client Concerns I Work With
Acute or Chronic Illness/Pain
Aging
Anxiety
Depression
End of Life/Death & Dying
Grief & Loss
Life Transitions
Multicultural Marriages
Relationship Issues
Sexuality
Spirituality
Trauma -
Insurance
Premera Blue Cross
Lifewise
Regence Blue Shield
Out of NetworkI do not accept Medicare
