Paula MacCormac, LMHC, PMH-C
Psychotherapist, Perinatal Mental Health Professional, KAP Certified Provider
(she/her)
You might be here because something feels harder than it should. Maybe you're an immigrant or adult Third Culture Kid who's spent years adjusting between cultures and never fully settled. Maybe you're pregnant, postpartum, or in early parenthood and nobody prepared you for it. Maybe you're a multiracial or global majority woman tired of explaining your experience before you can even work through it. Or maybe therapy has felt more like a worksheet than real support.
I work with adults on identity, belonging, relationships, grief, life transitions, and feeling disconnected from themselves. Some of you come specifically for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, looking for a different way into places other interventions haven’t been able to reach. Others come for perinatal support, or because you're ready to understand what keeps getting in the way, whether that's love, family, work, or your relationship with yourself.
In talk therapy, I draw on IFS, attachment theory, and emotion-focused work, and I meet you where you are rather than default to one method. In ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, I hold space for insight that doesn't always come through conversation alone. integrate what comes up in session using the same relational approach I bring to talk therapy, so the work connects back to your life.
I want you to leave sessions more in touch with your own strengths, clarity, and self-trust.
A lot of what led me here is personal. I moved to the United States at eighteen and learned firsthand how disorienting it is to adapt to a new culture while holding onto who you are. As a multiracial Filipina immigrant, adult Third Culture Kid, and bilingual person, I understand the work of figuring out identity and belonging after living between worlds. Those experiences shape how I understand suffering and how I show up with clients, before any training does.
I hold a certification in perinatal mental health, from wanting to support people through fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and the transition into parenthood with real depth. I also trained in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, wanting another real option for healing, not just another modality on a list. Nearly fifteen years in, my practice combines lived experience, clinical training, and a belief that relief often needs more than one approach.
If any of this resonates, reach out. I’d be glad to talk it through.
Areas of Focus
Adult TCKs (Third Culture Kids)
Anxiety
Belonging, and cultural dislocation
Fertility
Grief & Loss
Identity
Life Transitions
Multicultural and intergenerational family dynamics
Parenting
Perinatal Mental Health / Postpartum
Race & Cultural Identity
Relationships & Attachment
Fees
$160-200 / session.
Paula is also a Lotus Therapy Fund provider through the Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC). AMHC aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities in the US and Canada. This program offers 8 free therapy sessions to folks who qualify and on a seasonal basis. Please visit the links above to learn more.
Insurance
I am in network with:
Aetna
Lifewise
Premera
United
Location
Telehealth Tuesday-Thursday, with in-person sessions in Pioneer Square on Fridays.
Scheduling Information
I look forward to connecting with you. You can reach me by:
Email: paula@serenitycounselingnw.com
Phone: (206) 759-8069
Website: https://serenitycounselingnw.com/