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Insights that will change you and your family. Therapy to heal, rediscover yourself, and foster healthy relationships.
 

Danielle Gonzales

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

 
 

Insights to Foster Healthy Relationships & Reconnect to Inherent Wisdom

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about me

Hello, I’m Danielle

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist offering therapy for children, families, & women. I believe healing happens in relationship—and that there are many ways of knowing and finding our way back to ourselves & each other.

My approach makes room for insight and practical support alongside the wisdom held in the body, intuition, play, imagination, relationship, and the living world. I draw from Internal Family Systems or parts work, somatic and attachment-based practices, play therapy, Deep ecology, and interpersonal neurobiology, with an animist & earth-rooted approach to healing.

At the heart of my work is a belief that we are not meant to heal in isolation. Healing can involve deepening relationships with ourselves and one another, while also expanding our sense of connection, belonging, and support within the larger living world

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services and specialties

Who i help

I offer play therapy and parent coaching for children & integrative psychotherapy for women across the life span.

 
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Parent Support
Parent Support

All parents face hurdles throughout the many stages of their child’s lives, and it can be challenging to know how to best respond. Parent Support can help you regain joy and playfulness in parenting with empathetic guidance and concrete strategies.

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Children and Play Therapy
Children and Play Therapy

Children often face challenges that they cannot express and process with words. Play therapy aids children in learning healthy ways to cope with, understand, and express their world.

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Young Adult Women
Young Adult Women

Young adults face many changes, unexpected events, new experiences, and uncertainties. I help young adult women by offering a safe space to gain insights, express their worlds, and uncover their true Selves.

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Adult Women
Adult Women

Women are often balancing several roles and feel high stress. I provide a safe and accepting space to aid in uncovering your true Self, managing unhealthy relationships, resolving past hurts, and finding stability inside the many changes that womanhood brings.

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“Your body is an ongoing source of great resilience, resource, and wisdom.”

—Resmaa Menakem 

 
 

how to begin

I’m ready to listen

The most important part of effective therapy is the quality of our relationship. I offer a complimentary 20-minute phone consultation so you can learn more about my approach and I can learn about what you are looking for in therapy.

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a blog and resources

Wisdom

 
Insights
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How imagination heals across the lifespan
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Discovering Intution with Parts Work
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Play Therapy FAQ
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Now offering telehealth (similar to Skype or FaceTime through a secure platform) for new and current clients! #telehealth #accesscare #covid19support #virtualtherapy #youdonthavetodoitalone #insightfultherapynw #washingtonstatetherapist #westseattlet
It’s all about connection and space for ALL the feelings. #permissiontofeel #covidcopingskills #parentingcovid #mentalhealth #westseattletherapist #connection #washingtonstatetherapist #playtherapist #childmentalhealth #emotions
Breathe Deeply. Parents you have permission to not to have it ALL figured it out. Permission to feel all the feelings. This is not a normal situation, permission to release the pressure and breathe. #parentingcovid19 #parentingcovid #permisssion #men
𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 is so important right now. A major theme of my week both with clients and personally has been 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Regulating through and in the midst of fear, panic, & worry, Regulating and reconnecting with a sense o
Connection is key. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 interaction is a moment in the relationship. Each 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 is an opportunity to 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭. Which one will you add into your rituals of connection? #connection #relationship #ritualsofconnection #attachment #par
This simple act of 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 tension can be relieving. We often do not realize how much our 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 and 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 are holding & clenching onto throughout the day. ⁣ ⁣ This is a quick and simple practice to release it. It can be don
Ever wonder about the toys in Playroom? Why they are chosen? What purpose do they serve in the process? ⁣ ⁣ Gary Landreth provides a wonderful explanation: ⁣ ⁣ “The toys and materials are the medium in which children in play therapy 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦?
Okay, here is another set of examples of Asking vs. Telling for older children and teens. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ This language change allows for building a sense of respect and capability, facilitates problem solving, allows for reflection, and 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵?
This small change in language is so powerful. It is easy to get into the habit of telling and more telling. ⁣ ⁣ In the short-term telling may feel quicker and in the long-term telling can rob both you and your child of moments to build a sense of bei
Every interaction presents an opportunity to 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵 & 𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩. In the everyday busyness of life it is easy to get into the habit of REACTING with a question, solution, judgement, positive twist, or with our big emotions. As opposed
Encouragement changes how the brain works and therefore changes behavior. Rudolf Dreikurs highlights that "a 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥." It is easy to see misbehavior as being nothing more t
Safety is key to healing & cultivating connection. Our brains & body are constantly looking for cues of safety and cues of danger in our relationships, environment, and internally— which is mostly an unconscious process. ⁣ ⁣ When we sen
*swipe over & sound on* Here are a few tool ideas to use in the Sand Tray for 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯! ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ An important tool that is not shown here is our hands and arms. Each tool can be utilized for regulation & during the process of buil
Check it out! —Clicking, reading, and eye strain! Most of us have found ourselves lost in that vast sea of information known as the internet searching for quality information that is both helpful and trustworthy.. . . I have curated a short lis
Encouraging your child (and any other important people in your life) helps to foster a sense of capableness, confidence, and most importantly builds and strengthens the relationship! Encouragement is an observation and focuses on effort/process. What
School is starting soon! With all the preparing, anticipation, and transition into the school year you may notice a rise in anxiety and stress for both you and your child. Here are some common symptoms. Check out my website to see ways I help with an

 

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