Eastside Insight, PLLC

11/15/2025

When our pursuit of the ideal career path becomes all-encompassing, it is not uncommon to lose sight of the most important part of professional development—the individual. It gives me great joy then to share “The Career Identity Course,” the latest course from Sparrow Professional Development and Counseling Center, which aims to reconstitute personal values back into the fold of finding career satisfaction.

To reach aspects of a person’s life that are not diagnosable, and yet directly connected to one’s essential needs, it means finding programs that break free from the narrow confines of treatment-focused and insurance-centric modes of traditional counseling. And which is why SPARROW is truly an auteur in this space; modeling not only what a values system looks like in a business, but by providing content distilled from the synergistic knowledge of university-educator-meets-private-practitioner. Set at your own pace, this hands-on, multimedia-based 5-10 week learning course, adeptly integrates the “best of” in terms of career assessments into a purpose-driven framework that has been structured as a “quest” for a deeper understanding of self, and wherein the goal is not to become the perfect professional, but to re-center success through personal alignment to your life.

The link in this post will take you to the web page for the course, where you can learn more:

THE CAREER IDENTITY COURSE — an online personal development & career clarity course for ages 18-30. Self-discovery, coaching, professional direction. Sparrow Counseling PNW.

10/09/2024

Seattle Children’s Hospital has opened up the first Urgent Care for Mental Health in Washington. The greatest need right now in this field is more resources for children, and so this is definitely a step in the right direction. Please forward and share this resource with healthcare colleagues, teachers, parents, and youth.

Lastly, it has been an honor to witness the perserverance of Chanel Ryssel, LICSW to help get this program off the ground with her Urgent Care team at Seattle Children’s.

Thank you for your service and dedication!

https://komonews.com/news/helping-kids-in-crisis/seattle-childrens-hospital-opens-first-mental-health-urgent-care-clinic-washington-dr-jeff-sperring-childrens-magnuson-clinic-families-resources-services-crisis

10/09/2024

Seattle Children’s Hospital has opened up the first Urgent Care for Mental Health in Washington. The greatest need right now in this field is more resources for children, and so this is definitely a step in the right direction. Please forward and share this resource with healthcare colleagues, teachers, parents, and youth.

Lastly, it has been an honor to witness the perserverance of Chanel Ryssel, LICSW to help get this program off the ground with her Urgent Care team at Seattle Children’s.

Thank you for your service and dedication!

Seattle Children's Hospital is offering a new resource for children experiencing mental or behavioral health issues, a new urgent care clinic.

02/07/2024

“I believe healing begins with being heard. Real wellness is grounded by insight into one’s personal story, and how the language, habits, and our personal reactions influence our well-being and internal state.”

Yep, she’s pretty stellar, and so is her experience in trauma, evidence-based practices, allyship, and solution-focused therapy from a feminist, person-in-the-environment perspective.

To learn more or book a free consult, please go to: https://eastsideinsight.com/about-chanel

10/28/2023

The adage ‘people remember how you made them feel more than what you said’ is well supported by studies of how our brains process information. Our thoughts and beliefs can keep us intact in our own identities, but to deeply connect with another person, beyond identity, means to not merely think about them, but to feel them. It means being in close proximity to others, leaning into individual stories, live conservations, face-to-face interactions, while all the while being tuned-in to the person before you and snoozing your own mind’s chatter of what you think you know.

When put this way, it is easy to see why so much of our communication and connection is frayed, because it takes tremendous effort and skill to engage at the core level of relationship. It means then we must be selective in terms of our output—too much connection and inability to step away and we burn up. While at the same time if we fall prey to complacent surface level practices of relationship, with ourselves, each other, communities, and the world, then we burn those around us. Balance is aspirational and seldom experienced, and yet life itself will cease to exist if there are no practices for the nearly impossible—Persistence and Trying is what unites the human race.

This image, ‘Love Armor,’ has been created for my clients (and permission to post given by my clients). My hope is that it registers where it matters. The heart of being seen. It reflects my wanting to provide protection, while also facing the reality that there is no protection that I can give. It is normal to hope your therapist can help, and probably a pretty hard take away when you learn that in certain instances, the only thing your therapist can do is bear witness to your suffering. If there was a Love Armor though, that was more than metaphysical, I would surely shield you beneath it. The best I can give you though is the promise that I will not look away. And when the levee breaks, to validate your tears with my own.