Local Practitioners & Community Resources
Finding the Right Support
We believe community care is stronger when we know where to turn and who we can turn to.
Below is a growing collection of local practitioners, therapists, bodyworkers, educators, and community resources. We are continually gathering trusted people and services to make it easier to find the kind of support you may be looking for.
Explore the different areas below, and follow the links to learn more about each practitioner or connect with them directly.
🧠 Deep Brain Reorienting
Joanne Lagasse, RCSW — Lagasse Counselling
Clinical Social Worker • EMDR Practitioner • Deep Brain Reorienting Practitioner
Joanne is a Registered Clinical Social Worker based in Edmonton, Alberta. Her practice supports adults navigating trauma, complex PTSD, anxiety, substance use, neurodivergence, and life challenges. She incorporates EMDR, Deep Brain Reorienting, and other trauma-informed approaches, with an emphasis on meeting people where they are and supporting their goals.
Email: info@joannelagasse.com
Website: www.joannelagasse.com
Andrea Foster, BA, MA, RP — Blue Shores Counselling
Registered Psychotherapist • Trauma-Informed Therapist
Andrea is a Registered Psychotherapist based in Ontario, offering in-person and online therapy through Blue Shores Counselling. Her trauma-informed practice incorporates Deep Brain Reorienting, EMDR, neurofeedback, and equine-assisted psychotherapy, with a focus on helping clients feel more grounded, regulated, and connected.
Email: andrea.blueshores@gmail.com
Website: www.blueshorescounselling.com
Lauren Gaudet, BA, MSW, RSW — Held Humanity Counselling & Social Services
Registered Social Worker • Counsellor • Clinic Director
Lauren offers counselling for adults through Held Humanity Counselling and Social Services, with practices in Alberta and British Columbia and online sessions available. Her work integrates mind-body approaches with trauma-informed and evidence-based therapies, supporting people with concerns including trauma, grief, emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Email: lauren@heldhumanitycounselling.com
Website: www.heldhumanitycounselling.com
🌿 Somatic, Body-Based & Embodied Support
Lise Flora Waugh — Bodywork With Lise
Bodyworker • Yoga Therapist • McLoughlin Scar Tissue Release Technique Practitioner
Lise offers bodywork and yoga therapy for humans, as well as education in the McLoughlin Scar Tissue Release Technique. She is also an international educator for the practice on horses.
Email: bodyworkwith.lise@gmail.com
Website: www.bodyworkwithlise.com
Book: PocketSuite booking page
Laura M. Ridenour, M.A., SEP
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Laura offers somatic support through her practice as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. About me: I bring a sociological and interactive framework to my writing, group teaching, and 1:1 sessions touch and table work with Somatic Experiencing sessions - business and life leadership coaching using Generative Somatics
- women's nervous systems and interactive women's gatherings
- mother cycle and matriarchal circle facilitator (4th Trimester and beyond)
Here's my SEI pracitioner listing. https://portal.traumahealing.org/s/searchdirectory?id=a2FVv0000008sOD
Website: www.lauramridenour.com
Booking: Book time with me
Jana Hendricks, PhD, MA, LMT — The Resonant Body
Somatic Bodyworker & Educator
Jana is a somatic bodyworker and educator based in Seattle. Working 1:1 with clients in their homes as well as through local workshops and national and international webinars. I support clients in building awareness, deepening connection, and developing practical tools for navigating stress, relationships, and everyday life. My practice centers on autonomic nervous system regulation and relational connection.
Email: jana@the-resonant-body.com
Elizabeth Ruff — Soma Body Therapy
Body Therapy
I offer Soma Structural Integration bodywork, fascial and somatic based 200 & 300 hr yoga teacher trainings, online yoga and movement classes, and Somatic BodyMind coaching via telehealth
Email: elizabeth@modernyogatribe.com
Resonance Path— Tai Chi School, Social Alchemy Labs & More
Resonance Path Institute
A Bellingham-based community offering embodied and relational practices for self-awareness, healing, creativity, and connection. Their offerings include Resonant Facilitation, Feelingwork, Living Song, Tai Chi, and community-based programs rooted in embodied awareness and interconnectedness.
Email: www.resonancepath.com
💛 Mental Health, Counseling & Relational Support
Andie Tijerina — Rainshine Therapy PLLC
Therapist. I apply somatic therapy and internal family systems/parts work therapy for individual adults (ages 18 and above). For individuals with chronic pain, unexplained medical conditions, and PTSD, I apply Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET). My Psychology Today page has more info about my services and how to contact me.
Email: andie@rainshinetherapy.com
Phone: 360-392-5870
Learn more: Psychology Today
Georgia Faye Grammer, MA, M.Ed., LMFT
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist • Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist
Georgia offers mental health support with a focus that includes Internal Family Systems. I am an LMFT, Certified IFS therapist and Psychedelic-Assisted therapist in Bellingham. I work with adult individuals, couples and families.
Email: georgia@boundlessheartcounseling.com
Phone: 206-313-8522
Website: www.boundlessheartcounseling.com
Book: Boundless Heart Counseling
Chris White — Compassionate Way Counseling
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. I provide individual and family therapy to clients via virtual and in-person sessions. I focus on anxiety disorders, but do work with a variety of issues, including family issues, stress management, relationship concerns, and distress related to career stagnation.
Phone: 360-306-5797
Website: www.compassionatewaycounseling.com
Sarah Wright, MA, LMHC
Mental Health Therapy & Supervision
Email: info@sarahkwright.com
Phone: 206-466-7389
Elizabeth Watt, Psy.D.
Licensed Psychologist • Certified Sex Therapist. My practice is devoted to sex therapy and working with a variety of issues around sex and relationships. Some of the more common things I work with are desire differences, anxiety with sex, questioning sexual identity, processing past sexual trauma, the impacts of religious upbringing on sexuality, the navigation of non-monogamy and polyamory, sexual pain, erectile issues, and the impact of major life events on intimacy.
Email: drelizabethwatt@gmail.com
Ryan Douglas, LICSW
Bellingham, WA · 360-325-2490 · Ryan@RyanDouglasLICSW.com
Individual therapy for adults ages 18–55, with a focus on queer and transgender individuals and those who support them, as well as middle-aged women. Specialties include chronic trauma (c-PTSD), religious trauma, and life transitions.
Approaches: EMDR, DBT, CBT
Insurance: Premera Blue Cross, Kaiser, First Choice, UnitedHealthcare, Regence (through June 2027)
Anji Citron, MSW, LICSW
Psychotherapy | Individuals, Couples & Families
Anji Citron is a psychotherapist with more than 40 years of experience and over 20 years working with an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approach. She works with adults, couples, and families throughout Washington State via telehealth, supporting people through life transitions, grief and loss, trauma, parenting at every stage, and relationship challenges. Anji also offers parent support and education and works with couples and families who want to navigate conflict, repair relationships, and deepen connection.
Washington State | Telehealth
Email: ac@anjicitron.com | Phone: (360) 676-2443
Email is the best way to reach Anji quickly.
🌱 Holistic Health & Wellness
Leah Vong
IHP, INHC, OTR • Integrative Healing Practitioner • Holistic Health & Wellness Coach
Leah brings together her background as an occupational therapist with integrative and holistic approaches to health and wellbeing.
Email: leah@leahvong.com
Website: leahvong.com
Dr. Deborah Zucker— Vital Medicine
Midlife Transformation Guide for Women | Naturopathic Physician, Therapist, & Coach
Deborah guides midlife women through the profound transition of this season of life—a threshold that invites greater intention, courage, and self-trust. Through physician-guided 1:1 coaching, women’s circles, and retreats, she supports transformational journeys toward renewed vitality, clarity, alignment, and possibility.
Email: deborah@vitalmedicine.com
Website: https://vitalmedicine.com/
Phone: (360) 389-2182
🔊 Sound, Meditation & Vibrational Support
Everett Allen — Sound Therapy of the Pacific Northwest
Sound Therapy. What is Sound Therapy? Singing bowls can be used for meditation, healing, clearing spaces, and to open chakras. When these centers are balanced, one’s life becomes more balanced both physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Email: yogaforallages@hotmail.com
Phone: 512-426-9568
Website: www.soundtherapyofthepnw.com
🌸 Systemic Family Constellation Work
Laura J. Widman — SomaSoul
Systemic Constellations Facilitator
Laura facilitates systemic constellation work through SomaSoul.
Email: laurajgw@gmail.com
Phone: 360-224-9278
Website: www.laurajwidman.com
🌿 Embodiment, Grief & Community Gatherings
Kelsey Maloney — Fire and Moss Embodiment
Embodiment Labs • Workshops • Grief Rituals • Storytelling
Kelsey offers embodiment labs and workshops, grief rituals, and storytelling events and workshops.
Email: kelsey@fireandmoss.com
Website: www.fireandmoss.com
Micaela & Jen — Deeper Currents
Community & one-on-one support for grief
We co-facilitate in-person and online grief support circles, Community Grief Lodges and co-create 1:1 grief rituals for members of our community.
Email: deepercurrentspnw@gmail.com
Website: https://www.deepercurrentspnw.com/
💊 Psychiatric & Medication Support
Jennifer O'Hare — Psych Northwest
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, DNP, PMHNP, BSN
I provide psychiatric telehealth for adults (18+) in Washington State. My approach is calm, structured, and collaborative—focused on diagnostic clarity and practical, sustainable plans. Services include comprehensive diagnostic evaluations and thoughtful prescribing with an emphasis on optimizing and simplifying medications when appropriate. I also offer integrative options, including targeted lab ordering and monitoring, evidence-based supplement guidance, and pharmacogenetic testing.
Email: info@psychnorthwest.com
Phone: 206-823-1243
Website: www.psychnorthwest.com
🌼 Massage & Therapeutic Touch
Anneka Deacon
Massage Therapist
Email: anneka.c.d@gmail.com
Website: anneka.massagetherapy.com
Jodi Samson
Massage Therapist, Craniosacral Therapist
I strive to meet people where they are in a curious & caring way. Over 20 years experience with further study in biodynamic craniosacral therapy, Yoga/Ayurveda/Vedic Astrology, Buddhist practice & study, organic farming, and almost 10 years experience as a mother.
Email: jodi.samson2015@gmail.com
Website: www.stilllifemassage.com
🐝 Growing the Hive
This list is a living resource. As our community grows, so will this collection of practitioners, services, classes, and organizations.
If you are a local practitioner or know of a resource that would be a good fit for our community, we welcome you to reach out and introduce yourself.
Our intention is not to create a single place for every kind of care, but to help make the pathways between people a little easier to find.