Rene, LSWAIC, MSW, MeD
Hi I am Rene and I use they/them pronouns. I come to therapy with an attachment-focused, relational lens, with an “all behaviors make sense” respect for the ways we seek safety and make sense of life. I especially love to connect with people of all ages whose inner worlds or communication patterns tend to fall outside of conventional therapy.
My roots in mental health are with people experiencing active trauma or crisis, with a focus on children and adolescents and the adults who support them. I’ve worked with folks moving through multiple systems and settings—educational, legal, residential, hospital, and community-based. My approach blends practical tools with experiential and creative methods. I draw from Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) and arts-based practices; Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Structural Dissociation frameworks; narrative and psychodynamic methods; and somatic, emotion-focused approaches like AEDP that value the human relationship between client and therapist as the ground for working through difficult experiences.
Play, at any age, is one of my favorite tools. With younger kids, I often use CCPT techniques to strengthen self-control and trust through symbolic communication. With adults or people who think in more cognitive or conceptual ways, play shows up differently—through metaphor and parts work, cultural stories or narrative frameworks, or with what I’ve come to think of as information play, which can include psychoeducation and, in a borrowed favorite phrase: stimming the sense-making.
Specialities:
Attachment disruptions
Anger and aggression in children and adolescents
PDA and neurodivergence
OCD and intrusive patterns
DID/OSDD and multiplicity
Religious ruptures
Diverse gender and queer experiences
Collaborative art and play with groups of all ages
I’m Best For People Who:
communicate through humor, detachment, or intensity
have found therapy to be too neat, too slow, or not built for their shape of mind
prefer experiential work over directive or manualized approaches (caveat: we can worksheet if you like to worksheet!)
are queer, trans, curious, or otherwise questioning prescriptive social models
Supervision: Practicing under the supervision of Mackenzie Dunham, LICSW
Session Types: In-Person and Telehealth Sessions
Insurance and Rates
Sliding Scale Info: case by case
Insurance Nathan takes: Aetna, CHPW, Cigna, Coordinated Care, Kaiser, Moda, Molina, Premera, Providence PPO, Optum, Regence BCBS, RGA, UMR, UnitedHealth Care (commercial -not medicaid)
