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Bio for Denise Sterchi, LICSW
Denise Sterchi, LICSW
7817 - 12th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98115
phone: (206) 276-6063
fax: (206) 844-1944
email: denisesterchi@nwlink.com
License, Certification, or Registration:
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker #LW000
Client Population:
Adults
Appointments:
Mondays and Fridays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Payment Options:
My rate is $110.00 per hour, or $150 for an extended session. I am a preferred provider for many insurance plans, including Medicare. Even if I am out of your insurance network, I will handle the billing for you.
Therapy Styles:
My intention for my work is to create a space for conversations that are warm and collaborative, and that are respectful of your individual values, goals, and preferences. I hope to create a safe space where we can laugh, cry and explore together. I am active and involved in our conversations, searching for questions that might help you come to new understandings of yourself, others, and your deepest purposes for life.
I have studied many different approaches to psychotherapy, and I feel that my role is to understand what type of apporach might help you make the changes that you desire--rather than trying to make you fit into my theories! I have a profound belief in the goodness of most people. As one of my famous teachers wrote, "I believe that the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem."
With that proviso, I am influenced most strongly by an approach called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and I am certified by the EMDR International Association as having completed advanced training and supervision in EMDR. During EMDR, we address all levels of a problem: the thoughts and beliefs about yourself, your feelings, and the bodily experience of painful past events--both "Big T" traumas that you experienced as life-threatening, or the "little t" traumas" that result in emotional pain and self-doubt. Probably because we work holistically at all these levels (thoughts, feelings, and body), research has shown EMDR to be a powerful tool--often more powerful than traditional "talk therapy" alone--for resolvling emotional difficulties. It can even help you get over fears of driving or being in cars after an auto accident!
Areas of Expertise:
I am a certified therapist in EMDR. I have a general psychotherapy practice serving those confronting depression, anxiety, PTSD and panic attacks. Often these problems are the effects of childhood physical, emotional or sexual abuse, childhood neglect, traumatic injury, or exposure to war or natural disaster. EMDR is effective in helping us heal from these earlier experiences. I also specialize in helping women and men facing the emotional difficulties of pregnancy and the post-partum or post-adoption period, and those experiencing the emotional trauma of infertility.
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I am also influenced by my personal interests in spiritual experiences of nature, in the practice of yoga. in the pursuit of beauty through gardening, and in the love of hiking and backpacking. |
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