Laurel Vogel
Counselor/Writer

Innen Encounter/Mukilteo Counseling

• http://mukilteocounseling.com
• http://mukilteocounseling.com/blog2

I work with adults who experience depression and anxiety. Using an extraordinarily powerful method of intimacy and relatedness, new healing pathways are created in the brain (limbic resonance). This emotion-focused listening and attending alleviates loneliness and facilitates an ability in clients to connect more deeply in their relationships and in relationship to themselves and the natural world (through Ecopsychology).

I also practice writing therapy, and conduct poetry and writing therapy workshops in Mukilteo.

Listening, empathizing, showing how I am impacted. I've written a book about my experience with relational therapy, and I'm a poet.

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As an undergraduate I studied intensively with an expert in Relational Therapy, Dana Crowley Jack (Silencing the Self). She often told us we were doing master's level work, although we were undergrads. I received my Master's in Psychology and Writing (with focused study in Contemplative Psychology and Ecopsychology) from Antioch University, where I blended my love of writing with the practice of listening and attending. I mentored at length with my partner in emotion-focused relational therapy, and he and I wrote a book about our process. I also study Soto Zen with my teacher Norman Fischer, incorporating contemplative methods into both my writing and counseling practices.

I have been in private practice for 3 years, and before that I worked for several years as a counselor and advisor to my peers, and I have life experience that turns out to make what I do especially effective. I have facilitated workshops in Ecopsychology and Despair work, and in herbal medicine. I'm fairly well versed in alternatives methods of healing the mind.

My first book has just been published by Book Surge and is available on my blog (Ninth Elegy), and at Amazon.com. I am in the process of writing a second one, and developing a writing therapy practice based on the work I did in the book. In a Cradle of Words: Intimate Enounters in Relational Therapy.