Find a Therapist in Lakewood, WA

Dr. Austin Gonzalez-Randolph has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. He provides psychological testing evaluations for ADHD, Autism, personality disorders, and other issues.

Something needs to change, you can feel it! The confusion, sense of loss, and unpredictable flashes from one emotion to another seem to turn every day upside down. Struggling to find the answers, the way to move forward, is painful and exhausting. Gratefully, stepping from where you and your loved ones are to where you long to be is so much more possible than you may now realize! Together we can find a better way forward. I support couples, individuals and families in Washington and Idaho to heal from a wide range of relational and family difficulties. With compassionate, engaging therapy centered on you and your relationship needs, goals, hopes, and resources, we develop a plan unique to you! My online platform allows for secure, confidential support convenient to you. As soon as you are ready, I welcome you to reach out with an email or phone call! Let's see what we can build as you and your family rise together to a bright new day.

I specialize working with couples, individuals and families. I support each individual's life style choices and will help you achieve your chosen goals. When there is full understanding of a problem, yet find the same cycle recreated, I will help you successfully break out of the emotional cycles that are difficult to alter. I offer a safe place to explore concerns about relationships, parenting, marriage, transition, occupation, separation, depression, stress, trauma, and anxiety. I specialized in internal family system, human development, and healing trauma since 1995.

In working with you I focus on finding practical solutions and promoting insight and self awareness. I believe that in a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship all of us, children and adults alike, have the ability to find answers that will transform the relationship with our selves, our families and our communities. We become open to seeing with new eyes, learning new skills, and creating solutions where we were stuck before. Let me support you in moving forward in your life. After gaining a thorough understanding of your concerns I use many tools to support you in reaching your goals, for example asking questions, relating pertinent information, teaching skills as well as many different ways to process your feelings and thoughts. I also use play therapy, sand tray, cognitive behavioral therapy and teaching social skills and emotion regulation.

My goal as a therapist is to help clients create lives that express who they truly are as whole and complex human beings. When we feel cut off from others or from ourselves, our innate sense of wholeness can get lost beneath unbearable aloneness. But psychotherapy can integrate the many parts of our brains and ourselves. This is a collaborative process that can heal old wounds by inviting us to experience ourselves in new ways, within the relationship we build with a warm and compassionate therapist. Therapy is a partnership, built on safety and acceptance. It invites us to rediscover the parts of ourselves we had to disown as children in order to keep our caregivers close; to learn new skills to handle grief and distress; to build healthier, more nurturing relationships; and to gain access to our own direct experience of the world, perhaps for the first time. I nurture this partnership with clients by recognizing that each individual possesses the wisdom he or she needs, as well as the innate capacity to love, to connect, and to thrive. I see the work clients and therapists do together as a celebration of and reconnection to the deep selves within us all. I know from experience that coming to rest on the true ground of our being, the amazing moments when something inside says, Yes, this is me! is the most powerful source of healing and growth.

I am a geek, and a therapist. I work with individuals, couples and families and I specialize in working with geeks, gamers, and people who work in the tech industry. If you're struggling in your relationships with your partner or family members, or simply feeling anxious or sad and you're not sure why, I can help. We can work together to find the tools and strength that you need to create positive change. I often help people with social skill growth, anxiety, depression, autism spectrum disorders, grief, and communication. My primary focus is in helping families and individuals from various backgrounds and cultures explore new ways to tackle the hurdles and challenges in front of them. I have established a specialty in working within the "geek" and "tech" environments by being able to communicate on a more familiar level regarding video games, card and board games, anime, and computer software technology. When working with families my focus is to help facilitate better communication and establish more functional patterns of communication. With individuals we will work on identifying the areas that you struggle and finding solutions that last. Either way my focus is in helping my clients find lasting and positive change.

**Accepting New Clients** (Updated 7.1.25). Are you going through a difficult life transition? You may feel confused, disoriented, uncertain about the future, and grief for what was. You've been through something major-- and it seems like everyone expects you to just move on. But you feel stuck. How do you move forward when your vision seems blurry? Or when you haven't yet moved through the grief? How do you begin to believe in yourself and see possibilities again? You can find meaning, direction, and joy again. You can find a way forward, and create a life deeply aligned with your values and interests. You can move through the grief, and begin to trust yourself and the world again. Even with all that's been lost, you can find contentment now, and begin to see the possibilities for your future. I'm here to help. I'm a Licensed Therapist and Certified Life Transition Guide, and offer tools for every step along the way. Having a guide can make all the difference in where you end up next, and how long it takes to get there. Visit my website to set up a free 20 minute phone consultation.

Are you confused, frustrated and angry? Have you invested a lot into your relationship but your partner always makes you feel "not good enough"? Are you treated like a second class citizen in your own house? Slowly even you believe that something is wrong with you? The more unfair it gets, the more you try to prove how good you are. Now you have reached the point to where you do even more for your significant other. What's wrong with that picture? Doesn't it feel like a trap? It might be and it is called Emotional Manipulation. On the surface it might sound loving and caring, but in reality it is designed to induce guilt, shame or anxiety. Without recognition, anyone would do whatever it takes to avoid those painful, negative feelings. The manipulator only needs to give "hints" or "directions" what you are expected to do and you instinctively jump to do it. It?s logical. Gradually, the manipulator controls more and more parts of your life. The emotional toll is devastating: the relationship is highly pressurized. Your Self-Esteem is deep down from the constant negative judgments. You are full of doubts about yourself and about the motives of your partner. You feel no matter what you do, you cannot change the situation. I see why you feel that way: someone else controls your emotions and behavior. Additionally, you are right when you think you cannot change the manipulator. Although there is a slim chance for change: you can change your responses to the manipulative attempts. By so doing, it changes the whole pattern. There is help and there is hope! I can help you to unveil the manipulative process, to respond differently and to override manipulation. You can restore your confidence and improve your Self-Esteem. You can create a fairer, more respectful, more balanced relationship. Please check my website for details, and don't be shy to give me a call. Free Initial Consultation I am preferred provider at First Choice Health Aetna United Behavioral Health Group Health Regence Other Insurance Companies might pay partial fee as "Out of Network Provider". Please ask your policy!

Hi! I'm Dr. Dave McNew. I am a licensed clinical psychologist helping those with marginalized identities to heal chronic struggles with complex trauma, anxiety, and depression. I use my passion for depth work, mindfulness, and self-compassion to build space in which you can know yourself more fully and live more authentically. I help to cultivate more safety and joy in your relationships with others, and with yourself. I make space for you to face the parts of yourself that are hardest to feel. Where there was pain and confusion, I help you find greater calm, peace, and connection. I offer depth-oriented, compassionate, and mindful therapy to transform your relationship with the world within and around you.

You’ve managed trauma in the past, but recently your coping tools may feel worn out. Maybe you notice overwhelm, disconnection, or patterns that aren't working anymore. Perhaps you've hit what feels like an emotional or physical wall. Our minds are impressive in the way they protect us from unbearable experiences with anxiety, dissociation, and even psychosis, yet those same defenses can also hold us back. Whether your trauma comes from a complex childhood, a single event, or navigating the challenges of living in a neurotypical world, therapy can help you honor your survival, loosen the grip of the past, and build a life with less distress shaped by choice. Together, we'll connect how what has happened to you has a profound impact on the way you see yourself, and what you expect to receive from others. We'll think about emotions as internal messages, and explore how our bodies hold and express these messages in very real ways. We'll create a calm, safe place to listen for what you need to heal. Research has shown that the "fit" between you and the therapist you choose is even more powerful than the specific type of therapy. Let's connect on a free consultation call where I can hear what's really going on for you, and we can see if we're a good match. Even if I’m not the right therapist for you, I'll help you find one who is.

Being a person is hard. When you've spent your whole life in survival mode, living a life you love is even harder. When your soul feels like it is perpetually bleeding, it feels impossible to just be and enjoy your one short life. Emotional wounds from our past have a way of wreaking havoc on our lives and bodies in the present. It puts a deep shadow over all of life. Now, you feel like a victim of your own body and a liability to your relationships. You’re afraid that if people really got to know you, no one would be able to accept you. Believe me, you are not alone. I've been there and I know how scary and difficult it can be to change and enter into the unknown. You are in good company.

If there is one constant in life, it's change; a new child, a new job, a new relationship, marriage, or the loss of any of those. I enjoy helping people navigate uncertain times, helping them to find a way through, take a new tack, or tap into hidden strengths. Sometimes we can change the situation; sometimes we must change ourselves, tearing down limiting beliefs and narratives to create new beliefs and narratives that honor our true self, our true values, and our goals. And yet other times we must learn to make peace with what we cannot change. I can help you to distinguish between what can and cannot be changed so that you can reduce the struggle and be more empowered and equipped to move forward in your life as it is. If you are looking here you have most likely been struggling. Whatever you're wanting help with, I am likely helping people with those very same issues every day. Let's work together to create the change you would like to see in your life. Let's make today, the first day of the rest of your life.