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Joe ragland, LMHCA (HE/him)

“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.” - Bernadette Devlin

  What letter grade would you give how things are going for you right now? How do you measure the quality of your relationships, the distance between you and burnout, or how full your heart feels? Because emotions, self-perception, and personal interactions are abstract, they can seem difficult to access or change. Furthermore, creating lasting change usually requires a level of motivation, honesty, and energy not for the faint of heart. Are you currently in enough discomfort that some change is being called for, or has your curiosity been so piqued and activated that creating a little inner turmoil and investigation seems like it will produce something better? Cool. Let’s get to work!

My approach to therapy

 I work with adolescents (13+) and adults, both in-person and virtually. Using both formal (Trauma Informed CBT, Mindfulness, IFS, Narrative, Feminist/Liberation, Somatic, and Solution-Focused Therapies) and informal modalities, one of my focal priorities is cultivating care that personally works for you. Health, as multifaceted as it is (i.e. physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, economic, social, environmental, political, etc.), can require establishing clear, attainable goals within realistic timelines, which are great first steps to creating structure and building momentum. My goal as a therapist is to help make some of the above-mentioned intangibles tangible, the intimidating approachable, and co-author what progress looks and feels like so that we can get moving.  

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Areas of focus

Education and training

  • Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Antioch University, Seattle

  • Bachelor of Arts in English Lit. and Drama, University of Washington

  • +25 years bartending and listening 


Credentials

  • Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate (#MC70033839)

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