Chantel Ames (she/ her)

LMHC
Accepting Clients

Providing precision-focused intensive therapy Seattle for adults who value rapid resolution and deep healing over years of weekly sessions.

Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Seattle, WA, WA

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Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Group

About My Clients

You've built a life that looks like success — and still feel disconnected, overwhelmed, or stuck. I work with high-functioning adults carrying Complex PTSD, existential crisis, and the gridlock left by relational betrayal or trauma. Together, we return to the wounds still shaping how you love, trust, and see yourself — the shutdown that hijacks your days, the questions of meaning and identity that won't quiet down, the ache between your outside and your inside. We find solid ground.

My Background and Approach

My work draws on a set of synergistic, evidence-based approaches — EMDR, Somatic therapy, IFS, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy— chosen because they meet distress and trauma where it actually lives: in the nervous system, not just the story. How we work together Every intensive starts with a real conversation — your history, your goals, what this process needs to look like for you. Before any deeper work begins, we build in preparation and stabilization, so your nervous system has what it needs to meet what comes next. I work within an EMDR framework, but I draw on attachment theory and somatic awareness, with deep respect for how the body holds — and releases — what the mind can't always reach. The intensive format isn't about rushing healing. It's about giving the process the continuity it needs to actually take hold.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma Trauma Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Attachment Grief or Loss Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Client Focus

Languages
English

Qualifications

License
LMHC, State of Washington · #MHC.LH.61672998
Education
Master of Education in Counseling and Development with a concentration in Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling ; Lamar University
Additional credentials
EMDRIA Certified, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, Group Ketamine Assisted Therapy, Psychedelic - Assisted EMDR Therapy Training, MDMA Provisional Associate Certificate, Mindfulness Informed Professional, Internal Family Systems Circle, Foundations of Somatic Therapy for Trauma: The 9 Key Techniques for Effective Body-Based
Therapy, Somatic Therapy to Create Healthy Attachment: Strategies to Heal Development and Relational
Trauma, Somatic Therapy to Tame the Survival Response and Heal Implicit Trauma Memories
Years in practice
7 years
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Out of Network
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Buddhism
  • Wicca/Paganism
  • Multifaith

Hours & Availability

Monday 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Tuesday 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Wednesday 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Thursday 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Friday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
SundayClosed
New clients welcome
Currently accepting new clients
In-person
Available

Location

Primary Location

6053 25th Ave NE
Seattle, WA, WA 98115-7103
(206)737-7604

Access & Transport

  • Gender-neutral bathrooms
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At A Glance

  • Experience: 7 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $250 - 250/session

Info

Email Chantel
6053 25th Ave NE
Seattle, WA, WA 98115-7103

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