Providing Teletherapy in Washington, Florida, Connecticut, South Carolina, Vermont, and Delaware.

ChristyForrester

MA, LMFT

(She/her)

PSYCHOTHERAPIST

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.”

- Rachel Naomi Remen

My approach is centered on helping you reach your goals. I offer a non-judgmental safe space to be open and vulnerable about your struggle and compassionately explore how your life can improve in ways that are meaningful for you. I believe in the idea of the wounded healer and it is through our common humanity that I relate to my clients, however unique. I also believe our problems don’t exist in a bubble, but the struggles we face also occur embedded in the larger systems of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, religion, and national identity.

I work with individuals, couples, and families and children with a variety of concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, PTSD, attachment injuries, loneliness, grief, loss, miscarriage, food and body issues, anger, self-harm, mood disorders, life transitions, relationship issues, family of origin issues, existential crisis around meaning of life, teen issues, parenting, domestic violence, and healing after sexual abuse and assault. I have expertise in the trauma of the legal processes around the prosecution of sexual violence. I am LGBTQIA, kink, and poly friendly and have a focus on transgender issues.

My approach is integrative of models including: Psychodynamic theory, Family systems, Attachment Theory, Humanistic psychology, Internal Family Systems, Schema Therapy, Existential Therapy, Experiential Theory, Emotion Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, CBT, DBT, mindfulnesses, and Feminist Theory.

Education

  • Master's Degree in Psychology, Couple and Family Therapy  - Antioch University, Seattle

  • Bachelor of Arts in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Honors - University of Washington

Awards

  • Student of the Year 2016 Washington Association of Marriage and Family Therapy

  • Women Studies Capstone Award for thesis on Healing after Sexual Violence

  • Sterling and Gene Munro Fellow for Public Service 

Advocacy & Service

  • Guest Lecturer in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Courses 

  • RAINN Speakers Bureau - The nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization

  • P.A.V.E., Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment

  • Designed and taught a course focusing on Self-care in Social Justice Work

  • New Graduates Address Speaker at UW Women Studies Graduation 

  • Home Alive Volunteer, Fundraiser, and Auction Contributor

  • Women Studies Departmental Development Advancement Committee Member

  • Legal Voice Volunteer

  • Washington Community Action Network Volunteer

Memberships

  • American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)

  • Washington Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (WAMFT)

  • Psychology Today 

License

  • Marriage and Family Therapist License Washington State LF61136552

  • NPI 1861939472

  • Vermont Teletherapy License number 100.0134298TELE

  • South Carolina Teletherapy License number 1108

  • Delaware Telehealth License number MI-0000146

  • Florida Telehealth License number TPMF1298

  • Connecticut License number 3379