People are broken. They live by mending. Grace is the glue.
-Eugene O’Neill
Mental health counseling is a space where mending can happen.
Counseling is a space where we can grow deeper roots of compassionate self-awareness and resilience,
where we can explore our stories and be curious about the places we are stuck in our lives,
where we can work through grief and trauma,
where we can receive grace and grow in a gracious way of living with ourselves and others.
I would be privileged to walk with you on that journey
My name is Chris Koch and I am a licensed mental health counselor associate in the state of Washington. As a trauma informed, emotionally focused therapist, my goal is to explore your story with you in a gracious way with the goal of increasing your ability to work through troubling thoughts, emotions, and experiences.
I will seek to help you get to the ‘thing beneath the thing’ of what you are experiencing and struggling with, so that you can move from minimizing, avoidance, and self contempt towards self-awareness, recovery, greater coping, balance in life, and development of new skills and understandings.
“I have learned that sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that.”
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Offerings
50 minute sessions with teens and adults where you can be curious about your story and work toward greater hope and change.
50 and 75 minute sessions that are safe places to work through conflict, grow in intimacy, and learn new patterns of connection.
Groups meet for 6-8 weeks to learn together and support each other through challenges. We do not have to walk alone.
Trainings, seminars, resources, and consultations on the intersection of mental and spiritual health needs for churches and organizations.