Psychotherapy for the feelings, the relationships, and the losses that are hard to carry alone.
Telehealth for adults across Washington State, based in North Seattle
Folks come to therapy for many reasons, and often for more than one at once.
Relationships
It might be that the same arguments keep coming up in your marriage. Or you react more strongly than you'd like with the people closest to you, and afterward you're not quite sure what happened. Maybe relationships start intensely and finish suddenly or painfully, and you can't see why the same thing keeps happening.
Grief
It might be that someone you love has died, and the world has carried on in a way that doesn't yet make sense to you. Or grief has stayed longer than you expected, and you're tired of feeling that you should be over it by now.
Trauma
It might be that something happened, recently or long ago, that still seems to live in you. It might show up as feeling on edge, shutting down, or reacting in ways that feel out of proportion, even when part of you knows it’s not happening in the moment again.
And sometimes it's harder to name: a sense that you don't quite know who you are, or that something keeps getting in the way of the life and relationships you want.
Whatever brings you here, what matters in therapy is understanding what is actually going on for you.
What the work is like
Therapy with me is a conversation in which I will invite you to pay close attention to what happens in your relationships, including the one between us, as well as to what you feel and when you feel it, and to the ways the past keeps turning up in the present. Over time, that attention can make things that felt chaotic or inevitable easier to understand.
Therapy takes time; some people may feel worse before they begin to feel better, and sometimes it may leave you feeling challenged or conflicted. In the long term, I hope to help you understand you, so that you can care for you and build meaningful, reciprocal relationships. The discovery of self is also joyous: we often think we need to change or hide from our own “badness,” and those parts of ourselves are often camouflaging our best selves.
About me
I'm Mykel Ziolo, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. I trained over many years in the UK and the US, including specialist training through the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute at McLean Hospital. I grew up in Australia and have lived in Chile, England, Spain, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada, and I'm comfortable working with clients for whom English is a second language.
All sessions are via telehealth, so I can work with adults anywhere in Washington State. I offer a free half-hour consultation, a chance to talk about what has brought you to therapy and whether we might be a good fit.
Contact Me
mykelziolo@pm.me
(425) 842-1580