Samaritan Therapists
Lori VanderBilt, MS, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Voice mail:
(206) 527-2273 x 367 lvanderbilt@samaritanps.org
Office Location:
Seattle
Main Office (near
Green Lake)
564 NE Ravenna Blvd.
Seattle-Downtown
First Presbyterian Church of Seattle
1013 8th Ave
Experience:
- Therapist with Samaritan (formerly Presbyterian Counseling Service) since 1999
- Therapist with Catholic Community Services, Seattle, 1995-1999
- School Counselor/Consultant to St. Benedict School, 1996-1999
- Clinical Member, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
- Facilitator of Couple Communication Workshops, Active Parenting classes, and grief and loss groups
Professional Interests and Specialties:
- Individuals: Relationship concerns, life transitions, grief and loss, family of origin issues, divorce adjustment and recovery, depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse recovery.
- Couples: Helping couples create more satisfying relationships through improving their skills of communication and conflict resolution, developing and maintaining healthy patterns of interaction. Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, http://iceeft.com/whatis.htm.
- Premarital Counseling: Equipping couples for a lifetime of healthy and happy relationship.
- Parenting: Support for parents as their children negotiate necessary and predictable developmental stages; support for parents of children with special needs.
- Spirituality and Lifestyle: Exploring questions of faith and meaning, self-care and the care of others. Using mindfulness strategies in healing.
Education:
- M.S., Marriage and Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University, 1995
- B.A., English, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, 1981