Individual Therapy in Seattle & Across Washington

I’ve worked in mental health for more than 20 years, across private practice, medical settings, and community mental health. Over that time, I’ve learned what to listen for, what questions tend to matter, and how to help people make sense of what isn’t working.

My work has included psychotherapy, clinical assessment, collaboration with medical teams, and evaluating mental health concerns related to work functioning, including assessment and documentation for FMLA and medical leave.

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Approach

My approach is integrative, drawing from several therapy models that include:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

CBT looks at how thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and situations influence one another. It can help identify patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, avoidance, and other symptoms.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

ACT helps you develop a flexible relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions instead of getting caught up in trying to control or avoid them. It also helps clarify what matters to you and how to act in ways that are more consistent with it.

Coherence Therapy

Coherence Therapy is an experiential approach that brings unconscious emotional learning into awareness where it can be understood and changed. Rather than focusing primarily on coping with symptoms, it seeks cessation of symptoms.

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing helps you explore your own reasons for change and helps you work through uncertainty or ambivalence about making that change.

Mindfulness-Based Therapy

Mindfulness involves paying attention to what is happening in the present moment without judgment. In therapy, it can help you become more aware of thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations without immediately reacting to them.

About

Jason Lavalle, LICSW

I have worked in mental health and human services since 2005 and have been in private practice since 2015.

Before private practice, I worked in community mental health throughout Seattle and later with University of Washington Medicine providing behavioral health assessment and counseling. Those experiences reinforced something I have found to be consistently true: people rarely fit neatly into categories.

People come to therapy for different reasons. Sometimes they know exactly what they want help with. Other times, they know something is difficult but don't yet understand what is happening or why. Over time, I have come to understand that an important part of therapy is having a place to freely work through your thoughts and emotions, and to put into words what may have been outside of your awareness.

I don't assume that I know what someone needs before we have had a chance to fully explore and discover what is happening. My approach builds from that process, with change emerging from what we come to understand along the way.

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$200 50 minute individual therapy session

Insurance

Premera, UnitedHealthcare, Lyra, and select Blue plans. If your plan includes out-of-network mental health benefits, I can provide a superbill.

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