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Linda Smith & Northwest Mental Health Alliance: EMDR Therapy & Consultation

EMDR therapy and EMDRIA-certified consultation for therapists and individuals seeking trauma-informed, attachment-focused care.

Serving clients across Washington State and offering professional EMDR consultation for clinicians.

09/07/2026

Apparently our office has expanded its walk-in policy. 😂

Today’s visitor: one extremely distinguished heron, casually strolling past the window like he had a 12:00 appointment.

No intake paperwork.
No insurance card.
No copay.

Just vibes. 🪶

Honestly, between the therapy dog, the office cats, and now the local wildlife, Northwest Mental Health Alliance is becoming less of a counseling practice and more of a very emotionally supportive nature preserve.

09/04/2026

If you’ve ever felt 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱, 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿, 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗼𝗿 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝘅 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼, meet Holly.

𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗕𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗶𝘀𝗲 is a supervised graduate therapist at Northwest Mental Health Alliance and an EMDR-trained therapist.

She especially enjoys working with q***r and trans clients, neurodivergent people, artists and creatives, trauma survivors, people navigating religious or spiritual deconstruction, identity, grief, perfectionism, shame, sexuality, and alternative relationship structures.

Holly’s style is relational, collaborative, creative, and engaged. Therapy with her can include talking, humor, imagery, writing, art, movement, metaphor, and whatever else helps you actually access what’s going on underneath the surface.

𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 $𝟯𝟱–$𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱.

In-person in Mill Creek or telehealth throughout Washington.

👉 Meet Holly and learn about affordable therapy: https://www.nwmha.org/holly

09/04/2026

Meet Maria Radek, BA, one of our supervised graduate therapists at Northwest Mental Health Alliance.

Maria works with children, teens, young adults, and adults, with a special interest in trauma, neurodivergence, emotional regulation, disabilities, and family stress.

She brings warmth, humor, and a deep understanding of how early experiences can shape the way we see ourselves and move through the world.

Maria is also EMDR trained and offers both in-person therapy in Mill Creek and telehealth throughout Washington.

Sessions are $35–$100 on a sliding scale. You choose what you can afford.

If therapy has felt financially out of reach, this may be a good time to start.

👉 Learn more about Maria and our affordable therapy program: https://www.nwmha.org/maria-radek

08/28/2026

We’ve been working toward this for MONTHS… and today is a big day. ❤️

Today, Northwest Mental Health Alliance has our Washington State Department of Health inspection as part of the process of becoming a licensed Behavioral Health Agency (BHA).

This has meant months of applications, policies, procedures, paperwork, compliance requirements, facility prep, more paperwork, and approximately 47 moments of wondering why we voluntarily chose administrative suffering as a hobby. 😂

But there is a very important reason we’re doing it.

Becoming a BHA will allow us to dramatically expand who we can serve — especially people who have historically had the hardest time accessing high-quality mental health care.

People with limited incomes.
People on Medicaid.
Families who can’t afford $200 therapy sessions.
People who need trauma treatment, EMDR, counseling, crisis support, and compassionate care without finances being the thing that keeps them from getting help.

Our goal has never been to build the fanciest practice.

Our goal is to build something that actually makes excellent mental health care accessible to more people.

So today feels BIG.

Please send us all the good vibes, crossed fingers, positive energy, prayers, spells, interpretive dances, or whatever your particular belief system allows. 😂❤️

We’re ready.

And we are really, really excited about what this next chapter could mean for our community.

❤️ Northwest Mental Health Alliance

08/27/2026

Apparently the afternoon caseload has been canceled due to a staff-wide mandatory nap. 😂🐈🐈

Earl & Gray would like everyone to know that Northwest Mental Health Alliance takes rest, regulation, and comfortable seating VERY seriously.

They have personally tested both chairs and can confirm they meet all applicable feline standards.

No notes. No treatment plans. No productivity goals.
Just ✨ nervous system regulation ✨.

Honestly, they may be our most committed employees.

08/23/2026

And we saved one of the BEST for last. 🙌🧠

Wrapping up a whirlwind three days at EMDRIA 2026 with a session on integrating EMDR therapy and Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD….and this one is so clinically useful.

We covered how the AIP model and ERP/inhibitory-learning principles can work together: using ERP hierarchies to help inform EMDR target sequencing, future templates to rehearse response prevention, and strategies to reduce reassurance-seeking and ritualizing during reprocessing.

Especially fascinating is looking at the memory networks underneath OCD presentations involving contamination, harm, unacceptable thoughts, intolerance of uncertainty, and shame ….while still maintaining fidelity to both EMDR and ERP.

Three packed days of learning, thinking, talking about trauma, taking approximately 900 photos of PowerPoint slides 😂, and coming home with so many new ideas to bring into our work.

Couldn’t have picked a better session to close out the conference. ❤️

08/23/2026

Another fantastic session at EMDRIA 2026 -this one with Rachel Totten, taking a deeper look at Phase 8: Reevaluation and what she calls the “adaptive juice.” 🧠✨

Phase 8 is so much more than, “How have things been since we last met?” It’s an opportunity to slow down and notice the subtle ways adaptive information is beginning to show up: cognitively, emotionally, somatically, and relationally.

We explored how to recognize those little indicators that the client’s system is continuing to integrate and generalize change between sessions…and how easy it can be to move right past them if we’re only focused on whether the original target is still disturbing.

Sometimes the most important evidence of healing is in the seemingly small things: a different reaction, a new perspective, a change in the body, a boundary that suddenly feels possible, or realizing that something that used to trigger you… just didn’t.

Such a great reminder to notice the adaptive shifts, give them space, and let the client recognize their own healing.

Really enjoyed learning from Rachel Totten today!

08/23/2026

One of the absolute highlights of being at EMDRIA….getting to see Thomas Zimmerman! ❤️

Thomas provided our consultation as we worked toward both EMDR certification and becoming EMDRIA Approved Consultants, and he is one of those people who has genuinely influenced how we practice.

He’s the creator of Four Blinks Flash, an incredible teacher, and the author of:

EMDR With Complex Trauma
and
Predictive Processing Flash: Healing Complex Trauma a Microslice at a Time

Which, naturally, meant we had to get the obligatory “author holding his books” photo. 📚😃

But what we appreciate most about Thomas is his commitment to making high-quality EMDR education accessible and affordable. He truly seems to care about getting effective tools into the hands of clinicians…without making advanced training financially out of reach.

We’re so grateful for everything we’ve learned from him over the years, and very happy to finally get an in-person photo together!

08/23/2026

Yesterday’s EMDRIA session with Stephen Dansiger had us thinking about something we already intuitively know: music can take us places. 🎶🧠

A song can bring back a person, a place, a feeling, or an entire chapter of our lives…sometimes before we’ve even consciously identified the memory.

We loved learning more about how to use music integrated into EMDR therapy, drawing on the powerful connections between music, emotion, memory, and the nervous system.

Music can evoke emotional states, activate autobiographical memories, create connections across different periods of our lives, and offer another pathway into material that may be difficult to access through words alone.

It was such a creative reminder that EMDR doesn’t have to happen only through talking about a memory. There are so many ways into the brain’s memory networks…and sometimes the doorway is a song. ❤️🎧

Thank you, Stephen Dansiger, for such an interesting and inspiring session!

08/22/2026

This morning’s learning at the EMDRIA Conference challenged us to think bigger about what healing really means.

EMDR is often described as a therapy for reprocessing traumatic memories…but today’s presentation invited us to broaden that lens.

Trauma doesn’t exist only in the mind. It lives within the body, attachment relationships, families, systems, communities, culture, and sometimes across generations. And healing is more than reducing symptoms.

One of our favorite distinctions from this morning:

Treatment asks: How do we reduce suffering and symptoms?
Healing asks: How do we help the whole person become well again?

We explored the neuroscience of EMDR, implicit memory, nervous-system regulation, attachment, systems theory, and the ways EMDR may restore communication between body and brain.

And perhaps our biggest takeaway came from Indigenous perspectives on trauma and healing:

Resilience isn’t necessarily something we give our clients or “install.” It is already there. Our work may be to help them reconnect with the strength, relationships, culture, community, and stories of resilience that have been there all along.

A beautiful reminder that AIP can continue to evolve without losing its foundation…and that EMDR can be about so much more than reprocessing a memory.

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16300 Mill Creek Boulevard Ste G1
Lynnwood, WA
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http://www.nwmha.org/, https://www.nwmha.org/emdr-consultation, https://www.nwmha.org/graduate-therapist-training-progra

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