Whole Valley Therapy is a queer-centered practice that provides therapy from an intersectional feminist lens. This is who we are and what we do.
Whether you are an intern, an associate, or an independently licensed clinician, we want you to be nourished. We want you to feel alive, grounded and able to show up as you (whatever that looks like!) both at work and in your personal life.
This means providing you with a workplace that honors your intersectionalities and challenges you to see yourself as a person first, and a provider secondarily. We offer feminist supervision that focuses on what parts of yourself you do and don’t bring into the room (and why!), and how your identities interact with those of your clients and supervisors. We invite you to develop authentic, meaningful clinical connections, and confront your internalized ideas of what makes a therapist “good.”
What We Do
We draw folks Seattle to Renton to Marysville and everywhere in between. We have a hybrid remote/in-office set up during non-pandemic times and are fully remote right now during the pandemic. We practice from a trauma-informed, social justice and anti-racist foundation, specifically welcoming clients of all backgrounds, races/ethnicities, genders, sexualities, abilities, and identities. We are dedicated to meeting the unique needs of those who, due to experience or identity, are outside the norm.
Who we Serve
On the client side, we meet the needs of exceptional folks who don’t fit the mold.
They’re the outliers for one reason or another—often times having been labeled as too smart, too sensitive, too different from others, too capable, too rational or too emotional. Whatever the reason, these are folks who are traditionally overlooked in private practice mental health based on their identity and/or abilities. While Whole Valley Therapy welcomes clients from all backgrounds, we are a queer-centered practice, with special attention to trans/non-binary identities. We pride ourselves on depth knowledge of our niches and know we’re providing something different (and more effective!) than the standard therapy fare for these folks. We aren’t interested in cookie cutter approaches.
How we work
As a business, we’re leading with generosity and abundance.
We want to ensure you have a manageable schedule that works for your life, receive pay that reflects your talent, and exist within an ethics of care so you can feel good about yourself and the work you’re doing. We’ve intentionally created opportunities for self-care stipends, continuing education stipends, and ongoing trainings. We are constantly trying to expand our benefits and offer you better support. We want you to be an embodied whole person. We want you to do good work, and be well.
Who we Hire
On the provider side, we’re as quirky as we are serious about doing good work. We are good at what we do, yet not afraid to ask questions or learn what we don’t know. We’ve taken traditional and non-traditional pathways to this work and value the ways in which we each do and don’t reflect the communities we serve. We have done (and continue to do!) our own work, and are therefore able to bring exceptional awareness and insight to our client interactions. We care deeply. We process information in different ways. We hold a multitude of roles and identities, some of which we share with each other and some of which we don’t. We are actively working to become a safe(r) space to grow and heal for Black and Indigenous clinicians and clients.
We’re excited to meet you.
If you have questions about our practice, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Be sure to check out our open positions for clinicians (associate and fully licensed) and interns!