Debbie Tantrum – Mental Health Counselor, MA. LMHC

Our Focus

Please note – Debbie primarily works with individual adults and does not provide couple’s counseling or anyone under the age of 18.

Grief & Loss

People are often surprised by how long grief can last and that it is perennial. Attempts at numbing may work for a season, but grief insists on being given a voice. Therapy allows you to let the waves of grief come without being alone.

Trama & Abuse

Time does not heal all wounds. The harm from trauma and abuse can change how we see ourselves and often sets us up for future trauma. Therapy can change this trajectory, and help you feel safe inside of yourself again or for the first time.

Anxiety & Depression

These symptoms are pervasive in our culture and are often treated as a problem to cure. Feelings of anxiety and depression, however, can be information leading us to deeper issues. Therapy is a place we can look into these feelings and rediscover parts of ourselves.

Areas of Expertise

Trauma, Abuse, Church and/or Spiritual Abuse, Grief/Bereavement, Anxiety and Depression, Christian Counseling, and Stress Management.

Lifespan Integration

Lifespan Integration is a gentle, body-based therapeutic method which heals.

Complex Integration

CIMBS™ uses targeted therapeutic interventions to modulate the suppression, differentiation and/or activation of the different brain systems.

Emotional Freedom

Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) approaches healing from the belief that emotions are strongly linked to identity. Emotions guide us in defining preferences and making decisions on a daily basis.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative therapy is a form of therapy that aims to separate the individual from the problem, allowing the individual to externalize their issues rather than internalize them.

About Debbie

Debbie Tantrum works primarily with women focusing on issues resulting from trauma and abuse. Most people come to therapy with anxiety and depression, sometimes not understanding why, and other times their loss is very recent and dramatic. Whether you are in the midst of a crisis or do not understand why you are struggling, Debbie loves helping women make sense of their stories and find wholeness.

All Focus Experience Education

Debbie is an experienced counselor having started her private practice in August 2010 with the experience in the mental health field beginning in 1997.

My clients can expect to feel better with the lessening of trauma trapped in their bodies and emotions. Feeling more whole and in charge of your life is possible.

The therapeutic process makes it possible to become more integrated and with expanding awareness, an improved ability to make healthier decisions.

We require a safe, participatory relationship with effective therapeutic techniques to confront the violent effects of abuse and trauma.

Her work has included: adolescent girls, married couples, premarital couples, depression, anxiety, shame, cycles of addiction and self-harm, stress, and anger. Debbie’s work is now primarily with individual adult women.

Additionally, she has worked on loneliness, grief and loss, life transitions, acute/current and post-traumatic stress disorders, and guidance for spiritual/church issues with a Christian counseling perspective.

Debbie graduated from the University of Washington in 1998 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Minor in Dance before obtaining a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Theological Studies at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.

Since graduating Debbie has become a student of C.I.M.B.S. (complex integration of multibrain systems) technique, focusing on neurological study while retaining a holistic approach to healing.

She has also worked as a facilitator for The Allender Center for Abuse and Trauma. As well, fifteen years previously Debbie volunteered on a sexual assault crisis line as well as trained as a group facilitator of survivors of sexual abuse.

Having the opportunity to be in a group with Debbie is a blessing. Debbie’s honesty, kindness and depth are valuable to helping others open up. Debbie’s enthusiasm is contagious which makes it easy from the beginning to open up and her wisdom and insight helps you dig deeper in your own stuff. It’s great to work with someone whose kindness reaches your heart immediately.

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Debbie has a unique presence during therapy that is full of kindness, strength, and intuition. She gives clear yet gentle invitations to dig deeper into story. Her commitment to giving space to each individual’s process and needs helped me learn to have patience for myself as I journey.

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I have grown and developed as a person more in a year than what I have felt in many years. I find my self encouraging others to pursue counseling and dive in because I know the difference it makes to get to know your self, your emotions and your desires.

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Sometimes I wonder if my life has changed since counseling, until I hear from my close friends and family and realize how much of a positive impact counseling has made in my own life physically and emotionally.

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Clients

Available In-Person or Telehealth. I require meeting a client face to face for the first 3 sessions before meeting via Telehealth.
Consultation:
Debbie is a Licensed Supervisor, but she only does consultations. This means therapists who are still getting their licenses can't work under her license. But, if your supervisor approves, these consultation sessions count towards your supervision hours. The fee for consultation is $120.00 per hour.
Please note: As of April 2024, Debbie is accepting new clients and therapists needing consultation. Please use the contact information below.

Sessions

Available In-Person or Telehealth.

I require meeting a client face to face for the first 3 sessions before meeting via Telehealth.

Insurance

Insurances Accepted: Premera, Regence, Aetna, United Healthcare or Optum.

Only Accept EAPs through Optum.
No longer accepting new clients with Kaiser, Tricare, or Cigna.

Payment

If paying Out of Pocket: $125.00 per Session for 55 minutes.
$180.00 per Session for 85 minutes.

Currently only accepting returning clients. Work with adult individuals only:
Ages 18 - 65

Qualifications

Masters in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, June 2010.

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Minor in Dance from the University of Washington, June 1998.

Therapy that creates the ability for change.