Joey Pickering, MA LMHC

I am a licensed mental health counselor in Washington state. I received my masters degree through Antioch University in Seattle. I've gathered nearly twenty years of experience working with adults & teens (plus their families) in capacities ranging from: private practice therapy, teaching, summer camp programming, crisis response, school-based counseling, community mental health, and helped to design & train competent gender care programming within a large regional health center. I'm a verified counselor with Psychology Today, Therapy Den, and Goodtherapy.org.

I tend to use a mixture of modalities that look at our behaviors in relation to the meanings we assign events (whether helpful or hurtful); my background being in Adlerian/Individual Psychology. ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) is present in most sessions. I find it resonates with many clients in its ability to learn to observe our distressing thoughts rather than identify with them as truth. Utilizing the ACT Matrix we can solidify your core values then create a workable framework to put those into practice in your daily life. I tend to prefer a coaching style in order to hold accountability for goals and Play Therapy to keep the childlike curiosity alive in all of us!. Sometimes we are too close to see our own stuck points, but a therapist has the ability to help pull back the lens for a broader view. This can help identify these patterns to better understand their usefulness or make change.

Joey Pickering, MA LMHC

Mental health support. Monday through Wednesday; by appointment only.

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info@jpickeringLMHC.com
206-550-3830 Seattle, WA