Online Trauma and PTSD therapists in Olympia, Washington WA
Find experienced online trauma and PTSD therapists in Olympia who provide testing, evidence-based treatment for trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related challenges such as anxiety, depression, and stress. Compare detailed therapist profiles and connect with a provider that’s right for you.
Carolyne Mburu-Gerena
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP-BC
Trauma and PTSD can impact how you think, feel, and relate to others long after the original experience has passed. I work with individuals who have experienced childhood trauma, relationship trauma, violence, or other overwhelming life events, helping them process painful memories in a safe and supportive space. Using evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches, my goal is to help clients reduce symptoms, rebuild a sense of safety, and move toward healing, resilience, and a more empowered life.
6 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Jed Jacobson
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC
PTSD and trauma symptoms often emerge when the mind and body stay stuck in survival mode long after the threat has passed. My therapeutic approach creates a calm, attuned space to explore these patterns and develop new pathways of regulation and meaning. Together we work toward restoring balance, resilience, and a felt sense of wholeness.
5 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Melanie Carey
Counselor/Therapist, LMHCA
Trauma and PTSD can affect how you experience safety, connection, memory, and your own body. Symptoms may include anxiety, hypervigilance, emotional numbing, intrusive thoughts, dissociation, or difficulty feeling grounded in the present moment.
In therapy, trauma is approached with care, pacing, and respect for your nervous system. We do not force disclosure or overwhelm the system with intensity. Instead, we focus on creating safety, stability, and choice in the therapeutic process.
From a psychodynamic and trauma-informed perspective, we also explore how past experiences continue to shape present emotional responses, relational patterns, and internal beliefs. Healing involves not only understanding these patterns, but gently updating the nervous system’s sense of what is safe now.
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy supports this process by helping you track the “felt sense” — the subtle body-based experience of emotion and memory — in a way that allows trauma to be approached without reactivation or overwhelm.
Over time, clients often experience greater regulation, emotional resilience, and a renewed sense of connection to themselves and their lives.
2 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Gregory B Milbourne, PsyD
Psychologist, Certified IFS level 3 psychologist
Few of us make it through life without bearing scars from accidents and injuries
23 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Tacoma Wellness Collective
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Trauma isn't always a single dramatic event. Sometimes it's what happened once. Sometimes it's what happened over and over, so gradually it started to feel normal. Sometimes it's what didn't happen — the safety, the attunement, the protection that should have been there and wasn't.
Whatever the origin, trauma lives in the body. It shapes how we move through the world, how we respond to threat, how close we let people get. It can look like hypervigilance, numbness, difficulty trusting, or a nervous system that never fully settles.
At TWC, we work with adults carrying the weight of past experiences that are still showing up in present life. Our therapists approach trauma with care, clinical skill, and deep respect for the pace each person needs. We don't push. We don't rush. We build safety first — because that's where healing begins.
You survived it. You don't have to keep living inside it.
When you're ready, we're here.
13 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA
Dr. Dominique Wilson
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Seeking help can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to figure it out alone. I take the time to truly understand you and your symptoms. Together, we will explore your options, make necessary adjustments, and check in regularly to ensure your treatment aligns with your goals.
At Relief Mental Health, you are more than a diagnosis, and medication management is more than just a prescription. It would be a privilege to walk beside you and work together to help you feel better with care that is steady, supportive, and designed entirely around you.
If you are ready to take the next step, please let me know how I can best support you.
11 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA
Danielle Farabaugh
Psychologist, Psy.D.
My approach to treating trauma and PTSD is grounded in evidence-based therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and trauma-focused interventions, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE). I provide a safe and supportive environment where clients can process traumatic experiences at their own pace while learning skills to reduce distress and re-establish a sense of safety and control. Through structured, collaborative work, clients learn to reframe unhelpful beliefs, manage triggers, and build resilience, promoting healing and recovery from the impact of trauma.
19 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
RelaxingOne.com Ned David Bratspis, PC
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Self compassion is the learn-able and very gradual path toward accepting and caring for the wounds of trauma.
35 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Celeste Tomasulo
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
When we think of trauma, we typically think of Big “T” traumas: accidents, assaults, and overt physical danger. There are also Little “t” traumas which are chronic and ongoing moments where we’ve felt unsafe, unprotected, or in a constant state of survival (fight, flight, freeze, fawn). The brain interprets trauma from both real and perceived events. Trauma is not the event that happened, it's the internal reaction your body has in response. Using a trauma informed approach, I guide you through resourcing your body to address stored and unresolved trauma in a safe and grounded environment. This helps the body to reprocess these events and heal the parts holding onto these distressing memories and emotions.
5 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA
Bobby Newell
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, SEP
I specialize in working with individuals who have experienced trauma or are navigating symptoms of PTSD. Trauma can impact how you think, feel, and respond—often showing up as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, numbness, or feeling constantly on edge. Together, we focus on helping your nervous system feel safer, processing past experiences at a pace that feels manageable, and building tools to support regulation in everyday life. My approach integrates evidence-based therapies with mind-body techniques, helping you move out of survival mode and toward a place of greater stability, connection, and control.
27 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA
Karen Baumstark, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Ph.D., CMHIMP, CTACC
None of us can escape some level of trauma; inevitably, it will be a part of life. How much it affects us, however, depends on many factors including the nervous system we were born with, our outer resources, and how much relational support we receive to help us recover from the trauma. Many people do not have access to adequate resources to help them recover from trauma (and this is very subjective and personal, varying from person to person), and the trauma continues to affect them in (sometimes subtle, but still) impactful ways. If certain factors come together, PTSD may develop out of trauma. Often clients feel like they have failed because they can't completely "get over" their PTSD reactions. I have often reminded clients that PTSD is "the gift that keeps on giving". It can be very hard, perhaps impossible, to completely eradicate PTSD reactions, because the reaction is not just of the mind, it is of the whole body. My approach to helping clients with trauma and PTSD involves looking at it holistically and working to understand how the trauma changed you, your reaction across many facets of your life (thoughts, feelings, habits, behaviors, self-care or lack thereof, expectations, how you view the world), and then working on replacing what is harmful with what is helpful. The goal isn't to completely get rid of the PTSD symptoms (which is likely impossible) but rather to dramatically reduce its effect on you, so you can live your best life, and so an occasional symptom breaking through will not derail you.
36 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA
Emily Rowe
Psychologist, Psy.D.
I specialize in working with individuals who have experienced various forms of trauma, including childhood abuse, sexual trauma, religious trauma, and complex PTSD. Trauma can leave you feeling stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed, but healing is possible. Using evidence-based therapies like CBT, DBT, and ACT, I help clients process painful memories, reduce distress, and build resilience. Together, we’ll work on managing the impact of trauma and reclaiming a sense of safety and control in your life.
7 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA
Dr. Adam Shafer (Chicago, IL)
Psychologist, Psy. D., M.A.
When the foundation of trust shaken (if not feeling broken) through experiences of trauma, the approach to restoring one's life must always be one of sensitivity, patience, and compassion. Without this, there will always be a risk that it will never feel safe enough to heal.
17 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA
Matthew Wolfe
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, MHP
Trauma work can look many different ways and requires some specific understanding of the nervous system, attachment processes, and survival mechanisms. Once we have a good grounding we will be able to integrate the experiences you've gone through, diffusing their emotional activation, and addressing the longer term/subtle impacts that might still be disrupting your relationship to self and other.
13 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Gina Adorno
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, CADC I
I support clients navigating trauma and PTSD, including relational, developmental, and acute trauma experiences. Therapy focuses on increasing safety, reducing reactivity, and processing experiences at a tolerable pace. Approaches are grounded, collaborative, and centered on restoring a sense of control and stability.
6 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Rooted In Psychotherapy
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Psychotherapist, LMHC, NBCC, Advanced Level Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, RYT-200
Somatic Experiencing® (SE) works with both the body and mind. Rather than just talking about your experience, we slow down and feel into it together—with care, compassion, and curiosity. This approach helps your nervous system shift gently over time toward greater regulation and healing. Learn more about SE International here: https://traumahealing.org/se-101/.
6 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Nicole Waters (Flowing Waters Counseling)
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC
Trauma can leave lasting emotional and physical effects that make it hard to feel safe or at peace, even long after the event. I offer a trauma-informed approach to help you process painful memories while focusing on safety, grounding, and rebuilding a sense of trust in yourself and others. Healing doesn't mean forgetting—it means reclaiming your strength and sense of safety.
7 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Dr. Shelby Kittinger
Psychologist, PsyD
As a trauma specialist, I provide a trauma-informed, relational space that honors both the emotional and physiological impact of trauma. Together, we attend to attachment wounds, defensive patterns, and body-based responses to foster integration, safety, and resilience.
10 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
San Francisco Counseling Collective
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC, LMFT, LCSW
At San Francisco Counseling Collective ("SFCC"), trauma-informed therapy focuses on safety, stabilization, and gradual processing of traumatic experiences. We use evidence-based methods to reduce reactivity, strengthen regulation, and foster post-traumatic growth at a pace guided by the client.
9 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA
Dr. Kimberly E. Johnson
Psychologist, PsyD, HSPP, APIT
I have worked with clients who have been traumatized as a child, teenager, adult or older adult. Trauma can occur due to emotional, physical, sexual or psychological assault. Everyone experiences and manages their trauma exposure in their own unique way. Sometimes we are not even aware of events that have happened to us or have spent a lifetime trying not to remember. Regardless, that experience can impact how we think about and treat ourselves and others. Depending on the severity and duration of that trauma, it is not uncommon for it to affect our ability to work, parent, maintain relationships, function and even tolerate being around others. I work with clients who have experienced physical and psychological abuse, sexual abuse or exploitation, combat or military trauma, racism, discrimination and marginalization, sexism and violence. Everyone's story is unique and I work to help that individual process those experiences at a pace that they can manage to reclaim the life they deserve.
19 Years Experience
Online in Olympia, WA (Online Only)
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Olympia, Washington Statistics
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Olympia, Washington average 15 years of experience and charge around $203 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Trauma and PTSD (100%), Anxiety or Fears (89%), and Depression (74%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$203
Gender ID
| 64% |
Female |
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| 31% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 51% |
Online Only |
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| 49% |
In Person and Online |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 89% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 74% | Depression |
| 60% | Stress |
| 55% | Self Esteem |
| 53% | Loss or Grief |
| 44% | Social Anxiety |