Anxiety therapists in Seattle, Washington WA
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Anxiety
Andrew D. Sapp
Psychologist, PhD
I have been counseling people with anxiety and fears for decades. I typically use a variety of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to treat anxiety. Anxiety is one of the most treatable mental health issues and I'm confident I can help you better manage your anxiety.
20 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
DL, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PLLC
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, CCTP
I have extensive experience working with clients struggling with anxiety, phobias and fears in residential treatment facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities and outpatient mental health settings. I also serve as Clinical Director for a co-occurring disorder treatment center.
17 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Dr. Annette Tardif
Psychologist, PhD, MA
Tardif Psychology specializes in:
Persistent/chronic physical pain, eg. hypermobility/HSD/hEDS, migraines, cancer, pelvic pain
Times of hormone changes, eg. postpartum, perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause
Caretaking, eg. a loved one has a chronic illness
Burnout, ongoing stress, eg. school, work
Persistent/chronic mental health pain, eg. trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD
8 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Morgan Desai
Pre-Licensed Professional, LMFTA
Anxiety can feel isolating, overwhelming, and exhausting with even the smallest of tasks feeling like too much. Maybe you feel stuck moving through the same cycles of worry and self-double, not feeling sure about how to move forward. Maybe its impacting your professional life and your relationships. Maybe your coping skills just aren't working like they used to.
You're not alone and you don't have to figure it out on your own. This is a space where we can collaborate to explore possible triggers, process past experiences, disrupt negative thought patterns, and build more effective, positive coping skills.
1 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Denise Bike
Psychologist, PhD
The pressure to be perfect. The looping thoughts. Never feeling like you're enough. With Dr. Bike you can design an in-depth intensive to support your on the path of releasing the weight of perfectionism, overthinking, and people-pleasing. A space where your inner world matters as much as your outer achievements.
13 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Michelle Borowitz
Psychologist, PhD
When your brain feels like it just won't turn off, it can be hard to make decisions, feel present in the moment, or even fall asleep at night. Therapy with me can help you turn down the volume on the thoughts cluttering your mind, take action without overthinking, and find a sense of calm and peace. I use mindfulness tools to help clients feel present in the here and now, which helps them reduce worries about the future. When it comes to anxiety or fears about specific situations, I work with clients to develop a plan including exposure and acceptance strategies to increase comfort when appropriate and reduce the mental energy fear is taking in your brain. Over time, you will find your perspective shifting and an increased sense of calm rather than a constant storm.
12 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Ciera Coyan
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I regularly work with people experiencing chronic anxiety. I believe psychological anxiety stems from a fundamental separation with ourselves. I work with my clients on reconnecting with their deepest self as well as their bodies. From there, clients can gain the self-trust to know that they will be able to face whatever challenges come. They don't need all the answers or plans that anxiety tells them they need: they have themselves as an anchor instead.
5 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Matthew Wolfe
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, MHP
Anxiety and fear connect to so many various roots but ultimately reconnecting with your trust and confidence in yourself is a good grounding to build new responses to triggers.
13 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Dawnn R. Meiers
Psychologist, Psy.D.
These are difficult times, and it's natural to feel anxious or scared. In fact, fear has a biological purpose; it kept our ancestors alive and alert to threats of harm. However, our anxiety can become stuck on overdrive. In psychotherapy, we'll practice noticing and naming fear as it shows up in daily life, learn to discern when action (versus self-compassion, mindful awareness, or acceptance) is needed, and experiment with skillful responses.
19 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Dr. Danielle Watkins at Sound Wellness Counseling PLLC
Counselor/Therapist, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, NCC, PMH-C
When treating anxiety or fears with clients, we collaborate to help you understand, manage, and reduce excessive worry, panic, phobias, and stress-related symptoms. These concerns could be related to generalized anxiety, social anxiety, specific phobias, panic attacks, and trauma-related fears. Using evidence-based approaches like cognitive-behavioral techniques, exposure strategies, relaxation training, and mindfulness, we help you identify triggers, challenge unhelpful thought patterns, build coping skills, and gradually face feared situations with confidence. The goal is to empower you to regain a sense of control, improve daily functioning, and enhance overall emotional well-being.
18 Years Experience
In-Person in Seattle, WA 98115
Online in Seattle, WA Washington
Anxiety
Dr. Janelle Louis
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, ND, PMHNP-BC
Oftentimes, anxiety or fears can be signals from the body and mind that something needs support; it isn't a personal failure. I address anxiety from both a root-cause and emotional perspective, helping you identify triggers (e.g., thyroid dysfunction, childhood trauma, poor blood sugar control, self-image, etc.), balance the nervous system, and build confidence in daily life. Our sessions will blend what we know works (evidence-based care) with compassion, and we'll tailor our approach to your unique needs.
10 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Brandon Zahl
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC
Anxiety can run your life, but it doesn't have to. Together, we'll work on ways to tap into the security and strength of your body. We'll understand the anxious stories and find ways to bring supportive, soothing energy to calm those parts down. We'll listen to your body for any signs of unresolved trauma or relational wounding and work gently with the body to heal.
6 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Liza Hadden
Counselor/Therapist, MS
Anxiety affects all of us at some point in our lives. Together we identify what's coming up for you and how to address it moving forward. I have additional training in adult ADHD and the unique challenges it poses relating to anxiety. Additionally, I have advanced training in women's health (specifically PMS, PMDD, perimenopause, menopause, perinatal & postpartum) and nutritional mental health. I am passionate about supporting women at all stages of life, in addition to partnerships and families.
7 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Teona Amble
Psychologist, Ph.D., LP
Are you feeling overwhelmed by stress? Are you struggling with fear over covid-19? Do you have difficulty turning worries off in your mind? You are not alone. Anxiety and fears can get in the way of your life. I am here to support you in managing your worries and calming down your fears. We will work on relaxation tools, coping statements, and exposure exercises to help you take back more control in your life.
15 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Melanie Carey
Counselor/Therapist, LMHCA
Anxiety can feel like a constant hum in the background — overthinking, tension in the body, difficulty relaxing, or a sense that something is always “not quite right.” For many clients, anxiety is not just mental, but deeply physical and relational, shaped by past experiences, attachment patterns, and nervous system conditioning.
In therapy, we don’t just work to reduce symptoms — we listen to what the anxiety is trying to communicate. Often, anxiety carries important information about unmet needs, protective patterns, or past experiences that have never fully settled in the body.
Using a trauma-informed, psychodynamic approach integrated with Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, we slow down enough to notice what is happening beneath the surface. This includes learning to track the “felt sense” in the body, where anxiety often shows up before it becomes thoughts or behaviors.
As clients develop this deeper awareness, anxiety often begins to shift — not through force or control, but through understanding, grounding, and nervous system regulation. The goal is not to eliminate anxiety entirely, but to change your relationship to it so that it no longer feels overwhelming or in charge of your life.
This work is especially supportive for highly sensitive individuals, creatives, and those who have tried traditional talk therapy but still feel anxious or stuck.
Together, we create space for more ease, clarity, and internal safety to emerge over time.
2 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Salome Valencia-Bohne
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, LSWAIC
I treat Anxiety with a combination of behavioral interventions (CBT, DBT, ACT) as well as narrative therapy. Mindfulness is also very effective when treating anxiety.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Seattle, WA 98105
Online in Seattle, WA Washington
Anxiety
Nicole Waters (Flowing Waters Counseling)
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC
Anxiety can leave you feeling tense, restless, or constantly on edge. I’ll help you slow down, identify the sources of your worry, and develop healthy ways to calm both mind and body. Together, we’ll focus on building inner peace, emotional resilience, and confidence in your ability to handle whatever life brings.
7 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Jayson L. Mystkowski
Psychologist, Ph.D., ABPP
While Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) is highly effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders (e.g., Panic Disorder, Social Phobia, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder), clinicians do see some “return of fear,” or partial relapse, in some patients due to a variety of factors. Over the past two decades, treatment researchers, with whom Dr. Jayson Mystkowski had the pleasure of working with at UCLA for over 10 years, have studied “return of fear” and discovered some key variables that may optimize the effects of learning during CBT for anxiety disorders (Craske et al., 2008).
First, evidence suggests that focusing on tolerating fear versus eliminating fear yields better clinical outcomes in the long term. Namely, teaching clients that fear and anxiety are normal feelings, rather than attempting to “down-regulate” such feelings all the time, is more realistic and seems to engender “hardier” clients. Second, helping clients to generate an expectancy that “scary things will not happen,” is very powerful. To do this, it is important for clinicians to create more complex exposure exercises (i.e., tasks in which a client confronts a stimulus of which they are afraid), using multiple feared stimuli instead of one at a time. Then, the lack of a feared outcome becomes particularly surprising and memorable for a client and fear reduction is more potent. Third, increasing the accessibility and retrievability of non-fear memories learned during treatment are powerful factors in mitigating against a return of fear. Craske and colleagues demonstrated that exposure to variations of a feared stimulus, using a random schedule across multiple contexts or situations, is more effective than exposure to the same stimulus, on a predictable schedule, in an unchanging environment. The former paradigm, it is argued, creates stronger non-fear memories that are easier for a client to access when subsequently confronting feared objects or situations outside of the therapy context, than the later scenario.
In sum, clinicians have long been aware that some fear or anxiety returns following very successful CBT treatment. As mentioned above, there are some clear, empirically supported ways to modify the therapy we provide to further help clients generalize the gains made in therapy sessions to the real world.
22 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Sumer Statler Aeed
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist
Fear while a fundamental human healthy response, often in our culture and times become instead something that becomes a stopper instead of a warning system in our lives. Learning to manage and use your central nervous system in ways that serve you, to respond instead of react, allow you to reduce and manage fears and allows them to go back to being a warning system instead of driving your life. We select and try on for you from a combination of CBT, somatic work, breathwork and Central Nervous System work and others. This allows you to have a unique system for you to manage fear and return to a balance of how your body's system is meant to be.
27 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Anxiety
Edmund LaBarbara
Psychologist, PsyD
I specialize in assisting clients who are dealing with severe anxiety and related disorders. During our initial sessions, we will thoroughly explore these challenges and work together to create a personalized plan. Many of my clients notice a significant reduction in their symptoms within the first month, which often leads to lasting improvements in their overall well-being.
8 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA Washington (Online Only)
Seattle's tech economy — driven by Amazon, Microsoft, and a dense startup ecosystem — has made burnout, imposter syndrome, and the social costs of rapid wealth inequality prominent themes in local therapy. The "Seattle Freeze" — a widely noted phenomenon of difficulty forming close friendships — means therapists here frequently address loneliness, social anxiety, and the challenge of building genuine community in an outwardly welcoming but emotionally reserved city. Seattle's progressive culture sustains strong demand for LGBTQ+-affirming therapists, neurodiversity specialists, and practitioners working with race, identity, and social justice themes. UW Medicine and Swedish Medical Center provide institutional mental health resources alongside one of the most therapist-dense cities in the Pacific Northwest.
Anxiety therapists in Seattle, Washington Statistics
Anxiety therapists in Seattle, Washington average 16 years of experience and charge around $203 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (77%), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) (37%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (31%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$203
Accept insurance
41%
Offer sliding scale
37%
Gender ID
| 64% |
Female |
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| 32% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 51% |
In Person and Online |
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| 49% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 77% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 37% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 31% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 28% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 27% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 26% | Behavioral Therapy |
| 26% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
Ages Served
| 98% | Adult |
| 69% | Young Adult |
| 49% | Senior |
| 41% | Teen |
| 18% | Children |
Client Focus
| 55% | Women |
| 40% | LGBTQ+ |
| 37% | Men |
| 24% | Military / Veterans |
| 23% | Black / African American |