“A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning."
— Carl Rogers
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 painful/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. 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. I practice within a queer/sex/body affirming care model and can provide letters for gender affirming surgeries, too.
Joey Pickering, MA LMHC
Mental health support. Monday through Wednesday; by appointment only.
Contact
info@jpickeringLMHC.com
206-550-3830 Seattle, WA