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Be YOU not them ~ Four Winds Therapy provides mental health therapy with expertise, insight, and compassion.

Four Winds Therapy offers variety of therapists and modalities for helping our fellow humans to awaken their highest potential.

03/11/2026

Nature heals 💚

03/08/2026

Everything changes. 10 years ago I left my position at Washington County Mental Health. The amount I learned working within systems is invaluable. As I continue to grow Four Winds Therapy, I recognize that it’s in the decades of work experience within government, schools, and community services that wisdom really exists.

If you or someone you know is seeking support for their mental health and/or personal growth we have therapists available now. And if you are or know an associate or fully licensed therapist in need of work or supervision for WA licensure please reach out, we are open to hiring a few more talented people.

So grateful to recognize that sharing my experiential knowledge in practice and in supervision is an important part of healing the systems themselves. And no more commute! 🌀🪷🌀

03/02/2026

The youth I know are feeling hopeless toward a future dominated by AI. They are gratefully able to explain things to me in a way that makes sense. By 2027 close to 50% of white collar entry level jobs will be lost to AI. Young people are worried that the future is doomed. So why bother trying for a career or really anything?

I am able to explain to them that maybe humanity is frequently not about what we know, but what we feel - our humanity may require us to tap into a more intuitive language of the heart and the mind. It’s like the difference between the brain and the mind. I understand the expansion of awareness possible within the mind, and it’s nothing about machine intelligence - it’s about human consciousness that can only be human. Awareness is human. Feelings are human. This intuitive human knowing of feeling and awareness surpasses words. And damnit, it matters.

I also think it may have something to do with the language of the earth itself but I’m not quite fluent in earthling.
We all must do what we can to honor what makes us uniquely human. Do that which surpasses the language of the brain and taps into the mind and the heart.
How we can align our minds and our hearts to the earth may come to matter more in the future.

Maybe some of what we as humans are able to do in attuning to other humans may come to matter more.

Anyway, we have openings for new clients.
(Written by a human for humans)

03/01/2026

March arrives like water clearing.

Not because anything was solved.
Not because the story made sense.
But because something beneath the surface
stopped fighting itself.

We are shaped by the gaze of others long before we know we are.
Their projections settle into us.
Their judgments become sediment.
Over time, we call that accumulation “me.”

And then we defend it.
Or we collapse inside it.

When something painful happens,
the psyche rushes to author a narrative.
It prefers meaning to mystery.
It would rather be wrong than uncertain.

But what if the story you are telling
is simply the mind’s attempt to create coherence
around something that is still moving?

Water does not argue with its own turbidity.
It does not shame itself for being unclear.
It settles.
And in settling, clarity reveals itself.

To loosen the separate self
is not to disappear —
it is to soften the rigid edges of identity.

Not “I am this.”
Not “I am that.”
But simply —
this is what is here.

When the mud settles,
we see that awareness was never damaged.
Only obscured.

Therapy, at its depth,
is not about fixing the self.
It is about witnessing the sediment
without becoming it.

Allowing projections to fall away.
Allowing old narratives to loosen.
Allowing what is essential
to surface on its own.

If you are in a season of clouded water,
there is nothing wrong with you.

Clarity is not forced.
It is remembered.

I will sit with you until the water clears.

02/26/2026

Men need mental health care more than ever these days. Four Winds Therapy has openings with an excellent male therapist who understands and relates to the male experience. Get in touch with us to schedule today 🌟

02/22/2026

Staying the path

02/20/2026

Crossing from desire to non attachment is the hardest thing to do. How do we transform our clinging? How do we release attachment? We cannot rid ourselves of cravings and desire, instead we have to learn to work with and transform these mind states with more skill. I am ever grateful for the teachers, traditions, and places where these types of skills are taught, practiced, and modeled. I come away from a recent stumbling into a new spiritual experience asking new questions. What is the difference between attachment and devotion? What happens if we relinquish attachment and lean into boundless love? It’s again (for me) something about resting in the between spaces. We bounce off the binary vicissitudes like pinballs and have to learn not to go toward the extremes, to practice allowing things to be, to unfold as they are, not as we want them to be. Not grasping, clinging or forcing - just allowing - just being. Sometimes it’s really hard to relinquish attachment but maybe this type of letting go is love.

01/29/2026

We offer depth psychotherapy–including psychedelic integration for individuals seeking meaningful, lasting change rather than isolated peak experiences. Unlike standard facilitation models, our work is led by licensed psychotherapists with decades of experience in trauma-informed care, relational healing, and transformative practices. Psychedelic experiences are held within a structured therapeutic container that prioritizes psychological safety, nervous system regulation, and integration over time.

Our approach supports integration across a range of psychedelic medicines, recognizing that insight alone is not enough—what matters is how experiences are metabolized into embodied change, relational repair, and sustainable shifts in daily life. By anchoring psychedelic work within ongoing psychotherapy, we engage the deeper layers that often emerge, including developmental trauma, attachment patterns, grief, spiritual emergence, and identity transformation.

Integration is not an adjunct to the experience—it is the intervention itself. Our role is to provide skilled clinical accompaniment before, during, and after altered states, ensuring that what unfolds is met with attunement, ethical care, and the depth required for real transformation.

01/11/2026

Held a little vigil for myself last night and after live dead air with downtown Deb allowing for transformative dancing and tears - things got weir-d and I suddenly strangely felt called to my damn paperwork! Thinking about Bobby being a hard worker and the inspiration I got from seeing him play. Seeing him transform over all the years. I don’t need to say how many times I saw him, the truth is I don’t know because I lost count. At age 14 I saw my first show with Bobby Weir, the last at age 52. I had a friend who died about 10 years ago who knew Bobby personally and would sometimes find me and drag me to the front row (thanks S - you are so missed right now). As a former seller of vintage I sold Bobby shorts (what deadheads call cut off jeans shorts) on dead and co tour’s shakedown street. Bobby’s daughters came to see us on shakedown in Boulder and bought some vintage. That really meant the world to me. A bit later, I started and named my psychotherapy practice after a dead song’s lyrics because I believe that the four winds are actually calling us safely home to ourselves if we can learn to listen. Bobby would frequently say “there’s work to be done” to those around him, so the calling to do my work last night makes sense. Let’s get back to work on embodying some of the messages that exist in the songs and in the original subculture (and thanks to Dr. Adams for her sociological analysis that I strangely participated in long before pursuing academics myself). I have learned at a very deep level that it’s the songs that heal us. And we know the music will never stop. May the collective grief of the deadheads become the love this broken country and damaged earth desperately needs right now. May you find yourself in the spirit of a wolf by a silver stream 🐺

01/10/2026

Recent visit to the southernmost point of the US.
Water heals and allows for more love.
I am grateful for the questions:
How do we teach people empathy, compassion and kindness? How do we instill hope, love and integrity? How do we help others to put down the technology and connect with ancient technologies of the natural world? How do we help people to regulate their nervous systems so they can feel safe in their bodies? How can we quiet our minds in the midst of a decaying democracy?
We have some ideas! Reach out if you or someone you know would benefit from some deeper healing at one of our individual or group earth medicine therapy sessions

01/08/2026

A quote first read to me by a favorite teacher Wes Nisker at sunrise on a vipassana retreat over 20 years ago. May we all be the type of sitting up mud that recognizes our interconnectedness and holds empathy for all beings.

“God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"
"See all l've made," said God, "the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars."
And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.
Lucky me, lucky mud.
I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.
Nice going, God.
Nobody but you could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have.
I feel very unimportant compared to You.
The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around.
I got so much, and most mud got so little.
Thank you for the honor!
Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep.
What memories for mud to have!
What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!
I loved everything I saw!
Good night.
I will go to heaven now.
I can hardly wait...”

- Kurt Vonnegut

11/28/2025

Broke some dishes while cooking Thanksgiving dinner….. remembering that we can also hold gratitude for our own brokenness because awareness of everything containing itself is what makes us understand on a deeper level what it actually means to be whole. So much beauty in rearranging our patterns and releasing our expectations about how things are supposed to be. We can accept things as they are. We can accept ourselves just as we are. These broken plates will become a part of something else now, their purpose is transformed. They are still beautiful and so are you.

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San Juan Island
Seattle, WA

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Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 9pm
Wednesday	8am - 9pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 2pm
Saturday	9am - 2pm
Sunday	9am - 2pm

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+15033675962

Website

http://www.fourwindstherapy.org/

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