Trauma and PTSD therapists in Seattle, WA
Find experienced trauma and PTSD therapists in Seattle, Washington 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.
PTSD/Trauma
Aaron Kapin
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, SEP, LMT
From the perspective of Somatic Experiencing, trauma isn't the thing that happened 15 years ago (or last week), it's the ongoing effects that that incident continues to have on your body.
We can work together to figure out how your body is still reacting to that incident, and work to help your body 'catch up' to the present moment. If you're safer now than you were then, there are ways we can help your body 'complete' the threat response from so long ago, and land in the comparative safety of the present moment.
I can't treat PTSD, so if you've been diagnosed with PTSD you should still work with a licensed mental health professional, even as you work with me. What I can do is support your body in turning down the volume on that threatened feeling that has been coming up since the trauma-inducing events.
11 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Roxanne Luna
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP-BC
Trauma can have lasting effects on emotional, physical, and psychological well-being. I help clients process traumatic experiences, reduce symptoms, and develop healthy coping skills to support healing and recovery.
1 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Dr. Megie Shean
Psychologist, PsyD
I have spent my career supporting those after trauma - including combat Veterans, sexual assault survivors, and women following birth trauma. I understand trauma's impact on your ability to engage in life and work to TREAT trauma, which is possible. You can get back to trusting others, feeling safe in your world, making decisions, and engaging fully in your days.
7 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
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 Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Ryan Shannon
Counselor/Therapist, LMHCA, MA, MS
Trauma can continue affecting you long after the danger has passed. You may experience intrusive memories, nightmares, avoidance, emotional numbness, shame, irritability, difficulty trusting others, or a constant sense that something bad is about to happen. Past experiences may also influence your relationships, self-worth, and the way you respond to conflict or vulnerability.
My approach is both insight-oriented and structured. Drawing from Adlerian and psychodynamic therapy, we may explore how traumatic experiences shaped the beliefs you developed about yourself, other people, and the world. Understanding these connections can help you recognize when old survival responses are still influencing your present life.
I use evidence-based approaches including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, or EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, or CPT, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT. EMDR may help reduce the emotional intensity of distressing memories. CPT and CBT can help you identify and challenge beliefs related to guilt, blame, safety, trust, control, and self-worth.
We may also use mindfulness, grounding, and emotional regulation strategies to help you manage distress and remain connected to the present. Treatment is paced carefully, and you will not be expected to discuss painful experiences in more detail than you are ready to tolerate.
My goal is not to erase what happened. It is to help the past feel less present, reduce the power traumatic experiences have over your choices, and help you regain a greater sense of safety, connection, and control.
1 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Dr. Michael Drane
Therapist, LMHC
I will use evidenced-based methods to help you access and resolve your trauma.
10 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Teona Amble
Psychologist, Ph.D., LP
I've had the pleasure of supporting men, women, boys, and girls on their trauma recovery journeys for over 15 years! I support clients with complex trauma, polytrauma, and diverse traumatic experiences such as childhood abuse and neglect, sexual trauma, domestic violence, relationship trauma, medical trauma, military trauma, and life-threatening accidents and events. Let's help you to understand the impact of what happened to you and develop a plan for managing your trauma reactions. I empower you to heal and to move from just surviving to thriving. We're in this together, one step at a time, meeting you at your pace while also challenging you to recover and grow!
15 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Dr. Janelle Louis
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, ND, PMHNP-BC
If you've experienced trauma and PTSD, I'll help you make sense of your experiences without being overwhelmed by them. Using trauma-informed approaches, I'll work with you to help calm the nervous system, process painful memories, and build resilience. Healing is possible, and I'd be honored to walk alongside you on this journey.
10 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Tiffany Cason
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP-BC
Trauma can continue to affect your thoughts, emotions, and relationships long after the event has passed. I provide trauma-informed care that helps patients process difficult experiences, reduce symptoms of PTSD, and move toward healing at a pace that feels safe and supportive.
1 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Dr. Danielle Watkins at Sound Wellness Counseling PLLC
Counselor/Therapist, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, NCC, PMH-C
When specializing in trauma and PTSD treatment, I focus on supporting individuals who have experienced deeply distressing or life-threatening events, helping them process and heal from the lasting emotional, psychological, and physical effects. This work addresses symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety, hypervigilance, and avoidance, while providing a safe and structured space to explore traumatic experiences. Using evidence-based approaches like trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) and grounding techniques, counseling helps clients regain a sense of safety, process difficult memories, and rebuild resilience. The goal is to empower individuals to reclaim control, restore emotional balance, and move toward healing and post-traumatic growth.
18 Years Experience
In-Person in Seattle, WA 98115
Online in Seattle, WA
PTSD/Trauma
Weston Pew
Licensed Professional Counselor, LMHC, LCPC
Trauma can deeply affect every aspect of your life, leaving you feeling disconnected, on edge, or numb. It robs you of trust in yourself and creates a sense of fear or stagnation, cutting you off from your life force. Trauma recovery is about retrieval, integration, and circulation, reversing the "frozen" energy back into a vibrant, life-affirming force. My holistic, integrative approach to trauma recovery includes Narrative Therapy to reshape your story, Internal Family Systems (IFS) to engage with parts of yourself affected by trauma, Somatic Inquiry to connect mind and body, and Spiritual/Existential Inquiry to explore the deeper meanings of your experiences. Together, we will work to reclaim your identity, heal internal conflicts, release physical tension, and foster resilience, helping you navigate trauma and emerge stronger, more connected, and ready for post-traumatic growth. Begin your journey of healing by booking a free consultation today.
14 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
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 Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
DL, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PLLC
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, CCTP
I am a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional.
17 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Bonfire Healing - Bonnie Deopp, MS, LMHC, CN
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, CN, EMDR certified, Clinical Supervisor
Welcome, We're so glad you’re here! Bonfire Healing provides outpatient telehealth therapy with focus on complex mental health issues and developmental trauma along with co-occurring eating issues, addictions, chronic health conditions, nuerodiversity, and maladaptive behaviors. Our mission is to promote health equity through increasing access to evidence-based trauma treatment while utilizing insurance benefits so that this care is both high quality and affordable to more people. We take a consent based relational approach and we are in this together. We combine evidenced based modalities to heal the impacts on your nervous system and bring back regulation that decreases the impacts of past, current, or recent trauma experiences and childhood adversities.
15 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Vanessa Hooper
Counselor/Therapist, LMHC, PMH-C
Trauma changes how your body and brain respond to the present, not just how you remember the past. As an EMDR-trained clinician specializing in complex childhood and relational trauma, I help you process what happened and reclaim a sense of safety in your own life.
6 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Hannah Muetzelfeld
Psychologist, PhD
I specialize in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), an evidence-based treatment for PTSD and trauma-related symptoms. CPT helps individuals process and reframe unhelpful beliefs related to their trauma, allowing them to regain a sense of safety, trust, and control in their lives. I work collaboratively with clients to adaptively apply this modality to each unique case.
12 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
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 Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Finley Anderson
Therapist, LMFT
Together we’ll create enough safety to begin exploring what you’ve been carrying, how it shaped you, and what it might mean to live with more freedom from it.
3 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Sumer Statler Aeed
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist
Trauma is the experience not just of what happened to us, but by how our bodies, neurology, and hearts respond to what happened to us. Traumas of 'small t' and traumas of 'big T' both create adaptions to our true selves that can lead in our being 'stuck' in ways that don't serve us, that may create more trauma, or disconnection from our true selves and to our relationships with others. We have multiple ways of healing trauma, including complex traumas, including Flash Therapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), clinical hypnosis, somatic work, art therapy and more. Coming back to your true self, perhaps for the first time, is not a journey to be missed.
27 Years Experience
Online in Seattle, WA (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Jeremy Grisham
Therapist, EdD, LMHC, MHP
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12 Years Experience
In-Person in Seattle, WA
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.
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Seattle, WA Statistics
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Seattle, WA average 15 years of experience and charge around $203 per session. 99% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (70%), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) (38%), and Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (37%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$203
Accept insurance
46%
Offer sliding scale
40%
Gender ID
| 62% |
Female |
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| 32% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 50% |
Online Only |
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| 49% |
In Person and Online |
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| 1% |
In Person Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 70% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 38% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 37% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 32% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 30% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 28% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 27% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 68% | Young Adult |
| 49% | Senior |
| 40% | Teen |
| 17% | Children |
Client Focus
| 57% | Women |
| 47% | LGBTQ+ |
| 39% | Men |
| 27% | Military / Veterans |
| 26% | Black / African American |