Online Relationship and Marriage Counseling in Lake Forest Park, Washington WA
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Alan Brandis, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist
Having worked with hundreds of couples over the last 40 years, I have developed a set of beliefs or ideas which, if adopted, help to ensure that a relationship will last. One of the most important is: Arguing helps nothing, so don't do it.
I like to say that I never met the person who started the fight! When two people argue, each of them believes that he or she is merely reacting to something the other one did or said. Neither one believes that they started the fight; but it started somehow, didn't it?
It is better to be close than it is to be “right.”
Blaming each other for the argument is counterproductive. So is trying to change the other person's opinion. Most couples who argue, argue about whose perception is "correct," whose way of doing something is the "right" way, and so on. The only possible outcome of these arguments is that someone will be "right" and someone will be "wrong." Do you know anyone who enjoys being wrong? Most people will fight tooth and nail to avoid being "wrong."
Commitment is the Foundation of the Therapy
Commitment implies that you are in the relationship "come Hell or high water," barring certain behaviors your partner might do such as having an affair (although I have seen a number of relationships recover from those, too). Unless each partner believes that the other one is committed, they will not feel safe to take risks in facing, addressing and working out the real, underlying issues that affect the relationship.
36 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA
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Ian Hagemann, MSW
Counselor/Therapist, MSW, SWAA 60977729
When working with couples or groups in sexual and/or romantic relationships, I specialize in non-monogamous, polyamorous, and other open relationships. I believe in enthusiastic consent, healthy boundaries, and mutual respect. I also
7 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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XaHara A. MeGod
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LCPC, R-DMT, CPT
Relationships carry our deepest hopes and oldest wounds. I help partners and couples communicate with honesty, repair ruptures, and understand how their bodies and histories show up in conflict or withdrawal. My style is warm, culturally aware, and LGBTQ+-affirming. Whether rebuilding trust or deepening intimacy, you’ll find a non-blaming path forward.
8 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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Samantha Kingma
Marriage and Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Even the strongest relationships can experience disconnection sometimes. I help couples who are committed to caring for one another, but who need extra help addressing communication issues and emotional connection. I will work with you to find the patterns in your life that may be causing problems and then collaborate with you to find new options and restorative solutions. You don’t have to walk through this pain alone, and I’d be honored to support you as you move toward healing. Visit my website or fill out the contact form to schedule a free phone consultation, and we can chat about what you’re looking for and whether I might be the right fit for you.
13 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA
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Weston Pew
Licensed Professional Counselor, LMHC, LCPC
Trauma, attachment issues, and old patterns can create emotional disconnection and unresolved conflict in relationships, leaving couples feeling lost or distant. Choosing to seek therapy is a powerful commitment to healing, growth, and change. My approach to couples therapy involves three phases: Assessment, Exploration, and Embodiment. In the Assessment phase, we understand the current state of your relationship and uncover root causes. The Exploration phase dives deeper into past wounds, patterns, and beliefs to unlock new insights, while the Embodiment phase focuses on integrating changes into your daily lives for lasting transformation. My integrative approach addresses the mind, body, heart, and soul, helping you heal, rebuild trust, deepen intimacy, and create a stronger, more fulfilling connection. Ready to begin your healing journey? Book a free consultation today.
14 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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Good Human Work
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPC, CSAC
Being in a relationship is one of the hardest things we do. It's normal to have struggles, argue, and even fall "out of love". Recapturing the love you once had takes effort and intentionality. Over the years, we've helped many couples reconnect, repair hurts, and make it better than ever!
14 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA
Relationships
Alignwell Modern Therapy
Counselor/Therapist
Lindsay and Jane both work with individuals and couples who want to improve communication, navigate conflict, and strengthen emotional connection. Therapy focuses on understanding patterns in relationships and developing healthier ways of relating to one another. Our couples' therapists are highly trained and use the PACT and EFT models.
20 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA
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Annie Kurz
Counselor/Therapist, M.A., M.B.A., LMHC
Ms. Kurz has been working with couples for 15 years. Typically she meets with the individual who reached out with a full session, then a separate session for the spouse and then she brings the couple in together. Some couples make significant progress in 10-12 sessions, but others continue to seek on-going support. She is well-read and practiced in Gottman Institute literature and research (John and Julie Gottman) and attended their weekend retreat years prior. Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Couple's Therapy is also a structure she follows whereby each member of the couple learn how to listen and to share so that the other hears and understands.
20 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA
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Tacoma Wellness Collective
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Every relationship hits seasons that feel harder than expected. The distance that grows quietly over time. The same argument that never quite resolves. The sense that you're living parallel lives instead of a shared one.
Struggling in a relationship doesn't mean it's broken. It often means something needs attention that hasn't had space to be heard yet.
TWC's own Yvonne Roberto works with couples and individuals navigating relationship challenges — communication patterns, trust, intimacy, conflict, and the kind of disconnection that builds slowly and hurts deeply. Yvonne brings warmth, clinical skill, and a genuine belief that relationships can heal when both people are willing to do the work.
If your relationship feels stuck, strained, or like it's lost something you want back — this is a place to start.
If this resonates, we'd love to support you.
13 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA
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Mr. Robert Hirsch
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, LCSW
I have helped hundreds of couples. It is clear to me that it is not sufficient to simply want to love someone, each partner must be committed to growing and understanding themselves so that their dysfunctional patterns of communicating and living don't continue to sabotage the relationship. I help partners see themselves more clearly and find the motivation and strength to endure the difficulty of rebuilding trust and opening their hearts fully again to their partner.
36 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA
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Nicole Waters (Flowing Waters Counseling)
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC
Relationships can be one of the most rewarding—and challenging—parts of life. I help couples improve communication, rebuild trust, and deepen emotional connection. Through a supportive and collaborative process, we’ll work to heal old patterns and create a more connected, fulfilling partnership.
7 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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Larry Nussbaum, LIFE JOURNEY CENTEER
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, LSCSW, LISCW
My graduate school specialty was "Services to Families and Children." Since then I have worked many years in marriage counseling, couple counseling, and with the delicate balance that needs to happen to keep a relationship vital and healthy. My work is based on a "Family Systems" approach that includes many different theories because relationships can be very complicated.
46 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA
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Dr. Shelby Kittinger
Psychologist, PsyD
I help couples identify and shift entrenched relational patterns that create disconnection and pain. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy, I guide partners toward understanding one another’s needs, rebuilding safety, and cultivating intimacy grounded in trust and emotional responsiveness.
10 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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Vanessa Hooper
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC, PMH-C
I work with couples across many relationship structures, monogamous, ethically non-
monogamous, polyamorous, and cross-cultural pairings on communication, trust, and
connection. Using discernment counseling when needed, I help you get clarity on where the relationship stands and where you want it to go.
6 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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Humanistic Therapy NW
Therapist, LCSW, LICSW, ACSW, CSWA
We offer relationship and marriage counseling grounded in the Gottman Method to help partners improve communication, rebuild trust, and navigate conflict more effectively. Therapy focuses on strengthening emotional connection, increasing understanding, and building skills that support lasting, healthy relationships.
17 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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Eric Olsen
Life Coach, PTSD, Trauma Triage, BSc Social Sciences, DoD Career Councilor, SARC, DAPA, Pre Licensed Human Intelligence / Psychology, Life Coach. | Professional Support: LSSBB, PgM, Bluestone PMP,
We help you find balance and clarity in your relationship or marriage working through all issues and concerns in the relationship.
17 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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Ross Kellogg, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Individual, Marriage, and Family Therapist (LMFT)
I have extensive training and experience in providing by Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy for partners at any stage of their relationship.
12 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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Melanie Carey
Counselor/Therapist, LMHCA
Relationships often bring both deep connection and deep activation. Even in loving partnerships, it is common for couples to find themselves stuck in repeating patterns of conflict, distance, miscommunication, or emotional disconnection that can feel difficult to shift on their own.
In therapy, we slow down these patterns and begin to understand what is happening beneath the surface of interaction. From a psychodynamic and attachment-based perspective, we explore how each partner’s early relational experiences, protective strategies, and emotional needs are shaping the dynamic in the present.
Rather than focusing only on communication skills or surface-level conflict resolution, this work supports a deeper understanding of the emotional cycles that keep couples stuck — including pursuit and withdrawal patterns, sensitivity to rejection, shutdown responses, and unmet needs for safety, closeness, and autonomy.
Using a trauma-informed and Focusing-Oriented approach, we also pay attention to the body-based experience of relationship moments. The “felt sense” can reveal important information about what is happening internally during conflict or disconnection, often before it can be fully put into words. Learning to notice and stay with these internal signals can create more choice, regulation, and empathy in real time.
Therapy supports partners in developing the capacity to stay present with themselves and each other, even in moments of discomfort. This includes increasing emotional awareness, strengthening repair after conflict, and building more secure and responsive connection patterns over time.
Carey Counseling offers support for individuals navigating relational challenges as well as partners in both traditional and non-traditional relationship structures, including polyamorous and consensual non-monogamous relationships.
This work is especially supportive for couples who feel stuck in repetitive cycles, emotionally disconnected, or unsure how to reconnect after rupture — and who are seeking a deeper, more embodied way of understanding and transforming their relationship patterns.
2 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
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Dr. Stephanie Vaughn
Psychologist, Psy.D., DBT-LBC™
When it comes to relationships, there’s more than one side to the story. Therapists experienced in working with couples know the struggles that go on behind closed doors. Whether it’s communication problems, sexual issues, infidelity, or something else, you can bet we have a therapist who can help. Looking for pre-marital counseling or just want to make sure you stay as happy as you are now? We can do that too.
16 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA
Relationships
Yukiko K Hartman
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MS, LPCC, LMHC
Why are relationships so sweet some time and so difficult other time? It's because we have emotional connection with our loved ones. In fact, building close relationship and maintaining it require a lot of awareness of what's happening in you and your partner, and between two of you. Also, knowing how to maintain emotional connection and how to repair the connection quickly when it's broken is the key for you to keep your important relationship going. In my therapy, we will look into your relationship to see what is not working and how it has affected you and your partner. I will introduce to you many elements of healthy relationship and have you learn new skills and behaviors. Relationship issues are often complicated and take time before you see the improvement. So, you may need to commit to therapy, but I believe it is worth your time and effort if you think your relationship is important for you.
15 Years Experience
Online in Lake Forest Park, WA (Online Only)
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Lake Forest Park, Washington Statistics
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Lake Forest Park, Washington average 17 years of experience and charge around $201 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Relationship and Marriage Counseling (100%), Anxiety or Fears (82%), and Depression (73%).
Average years in practice
17 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$201
Gender ID
| 55% |
Female |
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| 40% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 57% |
In Person and Online |
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| 43% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 82% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 73% | Depression |
| 56% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 55% | Loss or Grief |
| 53% | Stress |
| 51% | Self Esteem |