I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor seeing clients virtually in WA State.  If you are reading this webpage, you are probably seeking to change, or come to terms with, something in your life. I have designed this website to help you decide if I might be a good facilitator for that work. This page contains information about my services. For information about me and my therapeutic approach, please see the About page.

Counseling Services

  • mental health counseling services (sometimes called “therapy” or “psychotherapy”) for individual adults
  • couples counseling for couples in conflict, couples seeking to address specific relationship problems, and couples wishing to enhance their relationships, as well as couples dealing with trauma histories, ADHD, Autism, disability or illness
  • grief counseling, trauma counseling, and treatment for people suffering from anxiety, depression and/or low-self esteem/shame, as well as for those working through identity issues, life transitions, or a variety of other problems
  • counseling for people adjusting to, or coming to terms with, physical disability, sensory disability, chronic illness, life-threatening illness, or terminal illness

If, after reading this website, you think I might be a good match for you, please use the contact information to get in touch. I look forward to hearing from you. – Wendy E. Smith, MA, LMHC

The therapist’s job is to help the client remove what blocks his or her natural growth.

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Wendy Smith Counseling, PLLC is located in Seattle in WA State.  Wendy is a Seattle counselor and therapist offering counseling services for couples and individual adults throughout WA State, including for people coming to terms with physical disability, sensory disability, chronic illness, life-threatening illness, or terminal illness.  Wendy is an attachment-based, experiential therapist.  With individuals, Wendy uses Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFIT), existential therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, grief counseling, trauma counseling, Internal Family Systems Therapy, and Janina Fisher’s attachment-based approach to using the structural dissociation model to “overcome internal self-alienation”.  As a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, Wendy counsels couples primarily using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFCT).  She is also experienced with working with couples with trauma histories as well as with what Orlov has called “the ADHD Effect on Marriage”.  She is training in the Myhill-Jakal method for counseling neurodiverse couples where one couple is on the Autism Spectrum.

Wendy works with clients with such conditions as: chronic pain, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, HIV, AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Crohn’s Disease, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme Disease, Cerebral Palsy, Cystic Fibrosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Parkinson’s Disease, Epilepsy, spinal cord injury, paralysis, amputation, stroke-related symptoms, Post-Polio Syndrome, ALS, dizziness, visual impairments, Macular Degeneration, Retinitis Pigmentosa, blindness, and other disabilities and illnesses. She can help crime victims, accident victims, and Veterans who acquired disabilities through war.