The goal of Paradigm Counseling of Puget Sound is to provide quality therapeutic care to patients from an Psychodynamic and Emotional Regualtiory orientation. This means therapy is less about advice and more about discovering what derails progress in patients efforts to feel and function successfully. 

My name is Bent Meyer. My office is located in Kirkland. 

 provide counseling in the following areas: 

• The goal of Paradigm Counseling of Puget Sound is to provide quality therapeutic care to patients from an Psychodynamic and Emotional Regulatory orientation. This means therapy is less about advice and more about discovering what derails progress in patients efforts to feel and function successfully. 
• Crisis/Trauma: sexual, physical, emotional abuse
• Mood: depression and anxiety related
• Identity
• Boundary: control excess or lack of
• Life transitions
• Personal Growth
• Relational issues
• Spiritual
• Couples Counseling:
• pre-marital
• Intimacy as understood as more than sex
• Communications difficulties
• Conflict issues
• Sexual issues
• Domestic Violence prevention - Develop skills to control emotional out burst and conflict resolution without the employment of power and control.
• Adult survivors of childhood abuse.

Relationship to Self:

"Who am I?" This question often painfully surfaces during long periods of depression, powerlessness, helplessness or despair. The search of the real self seems to lead into empty spaces, or severe self-contempt. 

Relationships with others: 

Exploring and experiencing the real you that has been hidden  in confusion. It is a journey you do not do alone, but in the presence of one who is experienced to journey with you toward an outcome of finding the real you.

The journey is one where you receive benefit through experiencing relationship and exploring your internal world in the context of safety. The journey is experienced differently, since you are not alone. 

Relationships:

Relationships are  fundamental to human growth. Without them, growth is stunted.. All of us form attachments, some to things like substitutes for real relationships, some to surrogate fantasies rather than real relationships. Each of these occurs because of relationship fractures, trauma, early childhood neglect, social abuses, or physical injury. Therapy is designed to help patients through

I expect and encourage you to obtain knowledge of the procedures, goals, and possible side-effects of counseling. I expect the experience to be one where you receive the maximum benefit. Counseling may be tremendously beneficial for some individuals while, at the same time, there are some risks. The risks may include the experience of intense and unwanted feelings, including: sadness, anger, fear, guilt, or anxiety. It is important to remember that these feelings may be natural. They are an important part of the counseling process. Other risks of counseling may include: recalling of feelings, experiences, and alterations of an individual's ability or desire to deal effectively and harmoniously with others in relationships.

In counseling, major life decisions are sometimes made, including: decisions involving separation within families, development of other types of relationships, changing employment settings, and changing lifestyles. These decisions are a legitimate outcome of the counseling experience as a result of an individual's calling into question many of their beliefs and values. As your therapist, I will be available to explore any of your assumptions, problems, or possible negative side effects of our work together. 

 My fee is $130.00 for a 50 minute session out of network

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Current Insurance contracts:

• Aetna
• Cigna
• Blue Cross Blue Shield 
• First Choice Health  
• Kaiser PPO
• Lifewise
• Premera
• Regence 

If covered by the above insurance providers, all you pay is the designated the police deductible, then what ever the  co-pay fee designation in your policy might be.

Call your insurance provider for information related to coverage and fees.