Spectrum Counseling

07/25/2025

Take A Break is hosting a clothing, plant, and puzzle exchange this Sunday 7/27 from 11am-2pm at 2625 W Bruneau Place #112 in Kennewick - totally free! What an awesome place for community building. 🌈

07/06/2025

I wanted to quickly share something neat I did this year: I wrote two chapters about play therapy with trans clients and was published in a textbook! I haven't had a chance to read the other chapters yet but I'm very excited to get my copy and read everyone's writing. Hopefully this will support clinicians (and their clients) in the therapeutic work they do! Thank you, Kurt Oster and Dr. Margot Wilson, for including me in your very needed publication!

If you'd like to purchase the textbook or pitch it to your favorite higher learning institutions, here's a link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1998522164
I believe there will be CE possibilities for an at-home book study if you're looking for those, too.

(For full disclosure, I am not paid for sold copies or to write this - just excited to share!)






















Washington State Association for Play Therapy

05/25/2025

Upcoming local community events!

Pride Month is just a week away!! 🌈

Check out all the fun special Pride events planned around town this June. ✨💕

What are you most most excited about? Tell us what Pride means to you. 🏳️‍🌈

04/28/2025

04/06/2025

Perseverance Counseling Tri Cities Wa and I will be at this event to represent Therapists @ Pride - hope to see you there!! We'd love for you to swing in and decorate your very own Autism Creature :)

More info about Therapists @ Pride: https://www.kadesharp.com/therapistsatpride

03/29/2025

A wonderful event for our community this weekend hosted at Hot Mess Burgers & Fries and the surrounding area!

Join us this Sunday at the Trans Day of Visibility Celebration!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Please message the page if you’d like to volunteer!

Gender nonconformity and transgender individuals are a consistent historical fact. Trans rights are human rights. Regardless of gender identity or expression, everyone deserves to live safely and without fear of discrimination.

Sunday, March 30, 12-4pm
212 W Kennewick Ave, Kennewick WA

03/26/2025

Thank you all! I'm honored to be nominated and chosen for this award 💖 This work is near and dear to my heart and it's so exciting to see others get passionate about providing care to my community members too.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kade Sharp, PhD, LISW, CMHS, CST, RPT-S™, on receiving the WA4PT Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award! Kade’s dedication to inclusivity and their commitment to serving diverse populations through the field of play therapy has been consistently inspiring. This well-deserved recognition highlights their ongoing impact in fostering a more inclusive environment in the therapeutic community!

03/06/2025

Upcoming community offering :) Did you know Aikido has mental health benefits too? "Aikido training has positive benefits on both physiological and psychological measures, including flexibility, scoliosis, balance stability, mindfulness, anger control, and/or ego-orientation" (Szabolcs et al., 2017)

In collaboration with Beartooth Aikido, PFLAG BF is proud to host a FREE in-person safety workshop for the q***r community. Attendance is free; however, space is limited, please register following the link below and ensure you have signed the release form.

Safety 101 is:
An introduction to managing physical and emotional conflict using the principles of Aikido.

Aikido is:
A Japanese martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba (O’Sensei) in the early 20th century. Its underlying tenets are: protect the world around you, protect your partners, protect yourself.

What to expect:
Relaxation techniques for stressful situations
Getting used to people inside your bubble
How not to get hit
Rolling for beginners

Please:
Wear loose fitting clothing (e.g. T-Shirt or sweatshirt & sweatpants)
Minimal protruding jewelry. Mistakes happen during practice and we don’t want anyone to get scratched or injured.
Bring your preferred form of hydration.
No shoes on the mats. Socks or bare feet are acceptable.
Please complete the online Release Form before the day of the seminar, https://www.beartoothaikido.com/baWPress/safety-101-seminar/
(The link is also in our Bio.)

Arrive early so the seminar can begin on-time

07/02/2024

Exciting news for our local PFLAG chapter!

03/17/2023

This conference is coming up soon! It looks like there will be content for parents, families and professionals.

It’s time! Register today for the 2023 Autism in Black®️ Virtual Conference.

We are one of the few if not the only Black Autistic led conference. Black neurodivergent led conference. We talk about our lived experiences in addition to our professional experience.

I invite you to join us for 2 full days of powerful discussions about Autism and the Black community. We are going to empower all attendees by providing them with the resources to help better serve their families and their communities.

Link to get more details and register www.autisminblack.org/conference2023

03/14/2023

06/29/2022

Sometimes this information can help families see each other (and themselves) in a new light.

Research shows that neurodivergence is hereditary.

A recent study found that the heritability of autism is over 80%... and another study on the heritability of ADHD found that it can go as high as 91%!! (I will link both articles in comments)

This means that if a child has an autism and/or ADHD diagnosis, chances are very high that at least one parent is autistic and/or ADHD as well.

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