No - our services are not the same as ABA, and we do not provide or endorse ABA.

However, we may still address behaviors in sessions (as determined by our clients). Our services are client led, and we treat all behavior as communication. We assume positive intent with our clients and that they are communicating their needs in the best way they know how. We then work with them to identify the need that is at the root of their communication, and to find ways that feel better for them to express/communicate that need.

No - While we support the validity of self diagnosis and are happy to explore this identity with you (and integrate it into your care), we cannot provide “official” diagnoses.

No - None of our providers are able to prescribe or manage medications. While they can support you through the process of seeking medication and incorporate it into your care, they cannot prescribe or alter your medications.

We are not a crisis center, and we cannot provide crisis support after hours.

If you are a client who needs crisis support, we are happy to be a part of your care team, but are not able to fill the role of after hours crisis support.

You can find out more about the level of support we can provide here

In the broader therapy world, these acronyms have to do with the specific licensing that each clinician operates under within the state.

At our practice, you’ll find that the distinction of each clinician won’t alter the type or quality of care you are recieving. All of our clinicians provide regular, ongoing therapy sessions in a variety of modalities. If you’re new to therapy and just “looking for someone who can talk to” or “a typical therapist,” we do that (just in a very affirming and client led way)!

Our clinicians all come from a Social Work background (that’s where you get the “SW” from). This means that in addition to regular therapy, our clinicians are able to support clients outside of sessions as appropriate. Maybe you need support with an IEP or 504 at school? Our clinicians can attend those meetings. Maybe it would be helpful for your clinician to talk to your child’s teacher, your OT, an SLP? We can support with that. With their social work backgrounds, our clinicians are all happy (and impassioned) to advocate on behalf of their clients.

The last distinction in these acronyms come from where a clinician is in their liscensing journey. Independently liscensed clinicians have completed all the state requirements, and are able to practice under their own liscense, hold all liability associated with providing services, and do not need to be supervised. Associates are clinicians who have graduated a college program (like UW Masters of Social Work) and are liscensed to provide care, but must be regularly supervised by a liscensed clinician. They are working to meet a set number of client and supervision hours before they become independently liscensed. You can think of it like a mentorship program. And last, our interns are Masters of Social Work students. They are able to provide care to clients provided that they are regularly supervised by an independent clinician. After graduating, they bump up to associates.

At Holistic Child and Family, every clinician (besides LE) is supervised regularly by Marie. This means they regularly get advice and consultation about ways they can best support clients. While each clinician’s style will be different all of us here hold the same core principals that guide our practice (ie - clients know themselves and we’re not here to be prescriptive).

Our address is 4500 9th Ave NE. We use the parking garage that is above the Trader Joe’s. You can enter the garage/parking lot just off the corner of 47th and 9th.

Check out these photo instructions or these video directions for getting from the parking garage up to our offices.