Areas of Experience & Interest:
Identity Formation
Life Transition
Queer Identity
Queer and Non-traditional Relationships
Intimacy
Communication
Internalized Oppression
Relationship with body
Somatic Work
Wellness in Activism
Acute Trauma Care
Long-term Trauma Work
Loneliness and Isolation
Self-worth
Purpose and Existential concerns
Clinical Concerns:
Anxiety
Depression
Disassociation
Complex Trauma
Neurodivergence
Populations:
Individuals
Carissa Singh, MA, LMHCA
(she/her/they/them)
Mental Health Counselor
Currently accepting in-person clients.
About Me
I hold a deep regard and compassion for each individual and the ways in which they have learned to survive. I see therapy as a radical, transcendent, and intersubjective experience. My role is to work collaboratively with you to uncover the wounds that keep you from living fully into your existence. This can materialize as finally working through traumatic experiences, choosing to undergo life transitions, building generative and fulfilling relationships and living more fully into your authenticity.
I see the process of therapy as being deeply integrative, and healing as occurring on cognitive, emotional, embodied and social levels. I am informed by different modalities that allow for access to each of these levels, including existential, humanistic, relational, somatic, narrative, transpersonal and psychodynamic. As we move toward healing, we work to bring these parts of you into integration while expanding your potential to move with agency over yourself and your environment. In these types of healing I implicate an understanding of interpersonal neurobiology in interventions that help to bring you holistically into the work, including guided somatic exercises and inner child work, as well as helping you build intentional rituals for wellness into your daily life. At times, when tools are needed to help cope with an immediate experience or issue, we can utilize skills-based methods such as CBT or DBT in tandem with depth work.
In addition to being a healer I identify as being an activist, an antagonist, and a queer, multiracial woman living with chronic illness. I believe these identities cannot be separated from my experience of the world, and thus my practice. I will work with you to identify how your own life is informed by your experiences of adversity stemming your developmental and current environment. I see the process of therapy as being deeply liberatory. Working to unlearn patterns that no longer serve you, you learn more about your core self and needs, and begin to courageously move forward with putting these into action.
Education and Training
I received my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Social Behavior at The University of California, Irvine where my research and teaching focused on humanistic psychology. This included integrating resilience models with a focus on existential courage. I have 5 years of experience in the mental health field, including in residential treatment, homeless services, crisis care and inpatient psychiatric care. I am currently a supervised Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate (LMHCA #MC61083757) and I hold an MA in Existential Phenomenological Psychology from Seattle University. This training emphasizes a holistic approach to you as a person, with a focus on how you make meaning, your embodiment, and the relation that occurs between us. My degree also includes graduate level training in the lenses of trauma based-therapy and liberatory methods of psychology. I completed a year long clinical internship at MEND Seattle, a social justice based clinic where I received further training in intersectional feminist mental health care. In addition to this, I uphold a commitment to my own growth as a practitioner and an individual through ongoing training, supervision, and spending time in contemplative practices.
Fees & Contact Info
Individual Therapy – 50 Minute Sessions – $145
Relationship Therapy – 60 Minute Sessions – $185
(my full fee also includes 3% credit card processing fees)
I offer limited sliding scale spots available dependent on client's circumstances and current caseload.
I am not in network with insurance providers; however, I can provide you with invoices at the end of session that you can send to your insurance company to determine if they may provide reimbursement.
My list of “Areas of Experience” is not exhaustive and these terms mean many different things to different individuals. If something in my bio speaks to you, the best way to know if we will be a good fit is to reach out for a free 20-minute consultation via email. I look forward to connecting with you.
p: 425-312-3414
e: carissa@mosaiccounselingcollective.com
Location
1666 E Olive Way Seattle, 98102