Anna Colwell, MA, LMHCA

My Work

My work is rooted in us finding out how you got here. Who you are today has been informed by all of your life experiences and relationships, for better or worse. We do all we can to push forward and brush aside what nags at us in the back corners of our minds, but we must look at what we are living with to find out who we are. I am assuming you come to this work wanting relief of some kind from something. This will require honesty, sometimes brutally so. We will work together to manage symptoms you are living with, and I am most interested in why they are there to begin with. I incorporate yin yoga into sessions when needed. By doing so, we will be able to both teach your body how to regulate its nervous system again while exploring what caused the disregulation. This work can be hard, but so is living with the ache of unprocessed pain. As I say, the only way out is back in.

My Belief

Something you should know about me is that I have a lovingly competitive nature when it comes to trauma. I truly believe that the bad thing does not get to win. Whatever it is. Whatever happened. It does not get to steal your light, take up all the space, and dictate who you are for the rest of your life. I believe therapeutic work is the work of facing the darkness that brought us and proving to ourselves that not only are we still here, but we can choose where we are going. In this way, therapy offers a very unique form of conversation to explore how and why we relate to people the way we do. In this exploration, and over time, we become more of who we are and who we are meant to be.

My Background

I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate (MC61447819) and received my master’s degree in Counseling Psychology.  Throughout my educational career, I have taken every chance possible to weave mind and body together in the adventure of being alive. At the University of Washington, I graduated cum laude with my BA in psychology and a minor in dance. I received my MACP from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology with a focus on somatic treatments for trauma. Alongside my graduate program, I became a certified yoga teacher (200 YTT) from 8 Limbs Yoga Studios to further weave together body, mind, and spirit in the journey of healing. I love learning and continuously studying that which calls my highest self forward. It is with this energy I bring my work to you.

My Self

This is my calling. This is not simply a job to me. It is my purpose. A purpose I discovered by embarking on the journey you have been called to. Whatever brought you to reading this, whatever called you to search out some much needed self-care, it called me too. It continues to call me, and I continue to answer. I have made it to the other side of a thing or two, and I continue to be a human. I am here to share with you what I know of the world and consciousness. Sometimes I too will be tired. The world is a tiring place. I am not here to pretend to be perfect. I am here to be a human with you, figuring out not only this wild world, but your own world, one step at a time.
Full disclosure, the human condition can be terrible. It is a heavy weight to live with having known real grief, horror, and shame. Even the surface runs deep when it can be so tiresome to live amongst the million pieces of stress that bombard us on a daily basis. Even with all of this, the world can be stunningly beautiful. While there are many things we cannot change, there are many we can, most of all ourselves. Changing our relationship to that which we cannot change is where we find beauty. If nature and the cosmos can hold it all and move forward, so can we.

Contact

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