About Blaire
Hello! I was born and raised in Southern California and made my way to the PNW in 2019 to attend graduate school. After spending some time in both the religious non-profit world and the engineering world, I found my place here in what feels like the intersection of both- family systems therapy!
I am a white, queer, cis-gender, spiritual woman. I bring these identities into the room and I hope to offer informed, humble, curiosity about the identities that I do not hold with clients.
I love enjoying a meal with friends, exploring Seattle neighborhoods, getting out in nature, coffee and a good poem.
Headshots on this website were taken by Megan Klein Photography
Therapeutic lens:
I hold a trauma informed and culturally attuned lens in therapy. In line with narrative theory, I believe that the client is the expert of their own story. In line with somatic therapy, I believe in the power of tuning into the body for information and for healing.
Story-based, integrated approach:
I come from a narrative theoretical perspective with a commitment to an integrated approach to therapy. This means that I may draw upon EFT (emotion focused therapy), IFS (integrated family systems), somatic therapy, and other modalities in sessions with clients.
Systemic framework:
I strive to hold a systemic framework when helping clients evaluate the problems they may be facing in their lives. How are the identities you hold supported, impacted, harmed, etc. by socially constructed “norms”, on a small and large scale?
My Therapeutic approach
Integrating mind, body and spirit
Pneuma /'numa/.
“breath, spirit, soul”
Why Numa Therapy?
Pneuma is a greek word that refers to air in motion or “breath of life”. Pneuma is genderless and refers to a spirit or a life force within us and outside of us.
Early psychologists talked a lot about the spirit or the soul, in fact the greek word psyche literally means “soul”.
Sometimes we are mysteries to ourselves. This is normal. At the same time, we are also experts of ourselves, as no one can speak to our life and story in the way that we uniquely can. This dichotomy can be extremely stressful at times. This can be particularly stressful when we exist in a time and place and culture that demands we fit into nice neat boxes (black and white) instead of the in between, gray area. If we’re being honest, the gray area is the place in which we exist most of the time.
Okay, so what does this mean for therapy? In therapy I will often remind clients of the both/and. I will bring clinical knowledge of evidence-based treatments alongside my curiosity about your unique strengths to support you.
I see the therapeutic space as a space to explore our internal and external worlds. This exploration can bring immense relief as we find words to help explain our experience. It can also bring to light areas that need specific treatment or attention.
My hope is that therapy is a place where mind, body and soul can meet to offer hope, relief, understanding, empathy and connection.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
- Mary Oliver