Psychotherapist and Holistic Trauma Therapist
(she/her/ella)
Being a person is hard. When in survival mode, living a life you love can feel out of reach. When your soul feels like it’s perpetually bleeding, it feels impossible to just BE and enjoy life. Emotional wounds from our past have a way of wreaking havoc on our lives and bodies in the present. It puts a deep shadow over all of life. Now, you feel like a victim to your own body and a liability to your relationships. You’re afraid if people really got to know you, no one would accept you. You are not alone. I've been there and I know how scary and difficult it can be to change and enter into the unknown. You are in good company.
I am a holistic and relational trauma therapist. My path to becoming a therapist began in landscape architecture, where I learned the importance of context and studied how environments shape the ways we are formed: how we live, feel, and grow. Today, that perspective informs the way I approach trauma therapy. Therapy can be a place to understand the context of our lives and cultivate new ways of living and being. In our work together, we can explore the patterns that no longer serve you, build on your existing strengths, and make room for new possibilities at a pace that respects your needs.
I work collaboratively with adults, especially women, stuck in survival mode, struggling with self-trust, chronic stress, who lose themselves in relationships and feel exhausted and disconnected from who they are. I help people build a relationship with themselves after chronic experiences of trauma. I support them to heal patterns of self-abandonment by rebuilding self-trust, regulating overwhelming emotions, and practicing new ways of relating so they can create healthier relationships. My goal is to help clients move beyond survival so they can live with greater authenticity, peace, connection, and freedom.
As a multicultural and multi-ethnic person, I will also work navigating an intergenerational, racial, ancestral, and cross-cultural landscape. Together, we can create a path of healing that honors your story and create an ecology of life that supports your body and wellbeing.
Supervised by Abby Wong-Heffter, LMHC #60163758.
Areas of Focus
Anxiety
Childhood Sexual Abuse
Chronic Pain/Illness
Chronic Stress Management and Burnout
Creative Recovery
Cultural and Systemic Oppression
Depression
Emotional Regulation / Nervous System Support
Grief & Loss
Identity
Immigrant and Multicultural Issues
Intergenerational Trauma
PTSD / C-PTSD
Race & Cultural Identity
Relationships & Attachment
Religious Trauma
Sexual Trauma
Somatics / Embodiment
Spirituality
Stress
Third Culture and Mixed Identity Experience
Trauma & Abuse
Vitality / Aliveness
Fees
50-minute psychotherapy session — $150
50-minute intake session — $200
Limited sliding scale available, please reach out for a reduced rate.
Insurance
I am in network with:
Blue Cross
Lifewise
Premera
Location
I offer virtual therapy as well as nature-based Walk and Talk Ecotherapy in Seattle.
Scheduling Information
I look forward to connecting with you. You can reach me by:
Email: isabel@ecologyofthehuman.com
Phone: (727) 967-8726
Website: ecologyofthehuman.com
“A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).”