Numa Therapy
Trauma-informed individual and couples therapy: partnering with clients to explore the many aspects of identity in a safe, attuned space.
Have you ever felt that the voice in your head won’t stop criticizing you or second-guessing you?
Do you wish to take a break from running after productivity and perfectionism but feel guilty when you do?
Are you feeling like you don’t quite fit in with your religious community anymore but aren’t sure where you belong?
Are you dating or hoping to date but keep coming across barriers that keep you feeling stuck or disconnected from others?
Are you in a new relationship and feeling like you aren’t recognizing the ways you are relating?
Do feelings of shame and lack of self-trust feel like barriers to connection with others?
Do you want to understand the impact of your religious background on your sexuality but feeling overwhelmed with where to start?
Do you desire to feel more free in your gender, sexual, cultural identity?
Hello! My name is Blaire and perhaps like you, I have wondered every single one of these things at one point in my life or another. I think my quirks and growth areas and my doubts and fears and questions are what connects me to others personally and professionally.
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and I come to therapy with a desire to create space for individuals, couples and groups in Washington state and the Seattle area to connect to themselves and to others in a meaningful way. I work with people from a variety of backgrounds who want to feel more free in their lives, and specifically people who come from religious backgrounds.
I am passionate about the power of story in our understanding of ourselves and others as well as the power of mind, body connection in healing.
As Rumi said so beautifully: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
Areas of Interest:
LGBTQ+ Issues
Shame and Grief
Impacts of Christian Nationalism
Impacts of Purity Culture
Impacts of White Supremacist Culture
Religious and Spiritual Trauma
Inner Child and Reparenting work
Attachment Issues
Couples Therapy
LGBTQ+ Couples Counseling
Numa Therapy Services
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Individual Mental Health Therapy
Experiencing anxiety, sleeplessness, depressed mood, a feeling of “stuckness”? In therapy we can address these categories and move toward increased peace, agency, hope and lightness.
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Couples Therapy
Premarital therapy, relationship or marriage therapy for work on communication, conflict, sex, intimacy, and more.
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Group Therapy/Processing
I have facilitated groups around mindfulness, burnout, identity processing, shame, relationships and more for students and community members.
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Queer Couples and Partner Therapy
Navigating a queer relationship and need some support? Want to deepen your understanding of one another and satisfaction in the relationship?
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LGBTQ+ Mental Health Therapy
Therapy is intentionally inclusive for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. I provide an affirming space and can tailor to the unique needs of the LGBTQ+ community.
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Spiritual and Religious Identity or Trauma
Therapy can be a safe place to address categories of hope, joy, fear, shame, stress, and a variety of complex feelings that may be deeply intertwined with your spiritual beliefs and I offer a safe space to process these things
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Understanding the Impacts of Purity Culture
Research has shown how that that purity culture is a phenomenon that harms women in at least the categories of sexual and bodily autonomy, gender expression, pleasure and sexual agency. (Nataraja et al., 2022). This is a culture we can explore in our work together.
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. License LF61569883
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BS Industrial Engineering, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University
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Gottman Level One Training
Prepare Enrich Training (premarital counseling)
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Lifespan Integration Level One Training (Trauma Training)
Deconstruction of Purity Culture through lens of race and sex including somatic and trauma informed practices, Jenny McGrath, MACP, LMHC
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Seattle Pacific University, MFT 6600 Psychopathology, Winter 2024