Meet Alex
Whether you want to examine your relationship to archetypes, investigate the mundane beauty in doing the dishes, or delve into how you relate to another being: bring all of it - it is welcome and deserving of your attention. I make no guarantees concerning outcomes or results. I’m here to accompany your journey in the unknown, supporting your process in the sacred and the profane.
For me, “psychotherapy has to do with…people playing together.”* My therapeutic approach is grounded in practicality, metaphor, and complementarity. I specialize in working with couples and adults who are curious (or especially not curious) about their landscape and human-ing through it. My therapeutic approach is based on a foundation of curiosity and bringing presence to what is alive and available in the therapeutic dynamic.
Using a direct, relational approach, I pull from a variety of modalities. These include influences from Depth psychology, Buddhist psychotherapy, existential and somatic theory. I am a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute with a Master’s in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology, and I also hold a Master’s of Science from New York University in Construction Management. I am a licensed Marriage and Family Associate in Washington state (License # MG61378048 : NPI # 1952019275) and my supervisor is Leslie Jensen, CST, MS, LMFT (LF61342187).
Backyard
I had no time to haul out all
the dead stuff so it hung,
limp or dry, wherever the
wind swung it
over or down or across. All summer
it stayed that way, untrimmed, and
thickened. The paths grew
damp and uncomfortable and mossy
until nobody could get through
but a mouse or a shadow.
Blackberries,
ferns, leaves, litter
totally without direction
management supervision.
The birds loved it.
- Mary Oliver