Contemplative Psychotherapy Therapists in Tri-Cities, WA

The exploration of personal meaning and connection is the foundation of learning and potential throughout all stages of our lives. Facing the obstacles of our lives and meeting their challenges can strengthen us. Unlock your potential and feel better; find your way through loss, and learn self compassion.

We know that feeling understood matters just as much as clinical skill. We take care in matching clients with therapists who not only have strong training, but who also bring lived experience that helps them truly “get” what you’re going through. Our therapists work in a way that is both clinical and deeply human—offering evidence-based support while honoring identity, context, and real-life experience. We focus on creating a relationship where you feel safe, respected, and supported, so therapy feels meaningful, not mechanical.

I have been a psychologist in trauma work for many years, thus I can tailor my approach to meet your needs. Different ages and developmental stages throughout the life span require differing approaches. People generally wait to start therapy until their symptoms are really bothersome. I am currently accepting new patients, with no waiting list.

We Are Drawn To Our Natural Rhythms As someone who has had their own continuous journey with sleep, restfulness and dreams—I’m not leading you anywhere into the depths of the night that I haven’t been. I come with a satchel full of useful tools and a humble curiosity about what it means to rest well, and try again. I work best with clients who are looking to cultivate a better understanding with themselves with curiosity, compassion, and creativity. In our work together my biggest intention to assist you in building your own, personalized roadmap to rest. Through my scientific, theraputic, and land-based training, I also know that sleep, stress, rest, and dreams change seasonally. I do my best to tailor our work together to fit the changing seasons in our lives—both internal and external.

Something in you knows that what you're carrying runs deeper than the presenting problem. Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, capable, and outwardly composed-yet internally they live with anxiety, depression, chronic tension or pain, relentless self-criticism, or a sense that something essential is blocked, muted, or just out of reach. These struggles may surface in mood, in the body, in behavior, or in relationships-including sexuality and intimacy-but they are rarely contained to any one area. They tend to reflect deeper emotional and relational patterns formed early in life, often before language, that continue to shape how a person approaches closeness, vulnerability, agency, pleasure, and self-expression. My work centers on how early experience shapes the capacity for self-regulation, desire, connection, and meaning throughout life-and particularly on how people come to know what they need and want, how they learn to express or inhibit those impulses, and what happens when these capacities become conflicted, constricted, or difficult to sustain. I integrate psychoanalytic hypnotherapy, somatic awareness, and clinical sexology within a reflective, depth-oriented process. Hypnosis functions as a central clinical tool-creating conditions for deeper internal contact with emotional, bodily, and unconscious experience that can be difficult to reach through conversation alone. The aim is not only relief from symptoms, but the development of a more coherent and compassionate relationship with one's inner life: sensations, emotions, impulses, and desires. This work is oriented toward lasting psychological change-and toward greater freedom in how one relates to oneself, one's body, and one's capacity for connection, authenticity, and vitality. It is best suited to those ready to move beyond symptom management toward something more fundamental.

The Tri-Cities — Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland in southeastern Washington — form a fast-growing metro shaped by the Hanford nuclear site's cleanup workforce, agricultural and food-processing industries, and a large and growing Latino community. Mental health needs range from the occupational stress of Hanford's technical workforce to farmworker family pressures and the gaps in Spanish-language care that come with rapid demographic change. Local providers and telehealth carry most of the load, as the metro sits a long drive from Washington's larger therapy markets.

Gender ID

	45%	Female
	33%	Male
	11%	Gender Fluid
	11%	Non-Binary

Session Type

	77%	Online Only
	23%	In Person and Online

Top Specialties

92%	Anxiety or Fears
85%	Depression
62%	Relationship and Marriage Counseling
54%	Life Coaching
54%	Loss or Grief
54%	Stress
46%	Men’s Issues

Ages Served

100%	Adult
62%	Young Adult
46%	Senior
31%	Teen

Client Focus

54%	Women
46%	Men
38%	LGBTQ+
31%	Buddhist
23%	Jewish

Contemplative Psychotherapy therapists in Tri-Cities, WA

RelaxingOne.com Ned David Bratspis, PC

Humanistic Therapy NW

Nancy Hayes-Gary, Psy.D.

The Art of Rest

Dr. Stéphanie Gamache, PhD