Way To Go Counseling

You probably know what's bothering you. Most people who reach out to a therapist already do. You also probably know, at some level, that talking to someone might help. The hard part isn't figuring that out. The hard part is actually reaching out — sitting in the discomfort of saying the thing out loud, trusting that it might go somewhere good when so much of what you've already tried hasn't.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm Blake Hauser, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State. I run a telehealth practice across the state, paneled with most major insurers. I work with adults and adolescents 12 and up, individually and with couples and families. The things people come in with are usually some mix of anxiety, depression, relationship issues, perfectionism, grief, anger, attachment patterns, parenting, communication, existential distress, or just a kind of background unease that doesn't have a clean name yet. I'm comfortable with higher-acuity material when it shows up.

I don't think therapy is mostly about technique or modality. It's about the relationship — and we all know that relationships change us, often for the worse. My goal is to make this one good. 

Most of what looks like a problem is a person doing the best they can with the version of reality they've inherited — built out of relationships, upbringing, and the things you came to think were just how it is. A lot of how we move through life is automatic, and it's automatic because we don't have names yet for what's running underneath it. You can't make a different choice about something you can't see. So a lot of what we do together is just looking — slowly, with as much honesty as you can stand — at what's actually there. The more of it that gets named, the more of your life becomes something you get to choose, instead of something happening to you.

That's what I'm here for.

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