Robert Teister

MFT & M.A. Counseling
Accepting Clients

I've been in private practice for over 30 years, love helping people with inner work Am also a meditation Teacher, Healer and Energy worker

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Ballard, WA

Services
  • Individual
  • Family
  • Child
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

Motivated, may have had some previous therapy, wanting to go deeper to heal wounds from adolescence, childhood and early childhood (Pre-verbal). Can be of any age, eager to explore the inner dimensions, to open the heart more fully.

My Background and Approach

Trained in family systems, gestalt, Depth psychology, Healing wounds from Childhood. Meditation teacher, Deeper levels of realization. Transformation in this very life. Midlife Crisis, Grief Work, Anxiety, Depression, Incest/Molest, Masculine Psychology, Addictions, Identity, Sexual problems, Child/Teen, Hospice Work, PTSD, OCD, Confusion Student of Comparative Religion including the Eastern Philosophies of India YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI5S_uCPFc9W7xNPilg2JuA

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

Everyone gets emotionally wounded in this life. Most of this occurs in childhood, but also during adulthood. These wounds are held in the body and can be healed when we bring our full attention to them. Humans are multidimensional and so are the various wounds. The most important thing to do is to release these wounds at depth. This is how people heal themselves, layer by layer. You can heal them and you can transform into the human being you truly are. It is your birth rite. It is why we are here. That should be both your direction and your vision YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI5S_uCPFc9W7xNPilg2JuA

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Addiction Counseling Depth Therapy Gestalt Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Addiction Counseling
  • Anger Management Therapy
  • Art Therapy
  • Attachment Theory
  • Coaching
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Contemplative Therapy
  • Couples Counseling
  • Dance / Movement Therapy
  • Depth Therapy
  • Eclectic Therapy
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Energy Psychology
  • Existential Therapy
  • Family Systems
  • Family Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Psychodrama
  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
  • Wilderness Therapy
  • Person-Centered (Rogerian)
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Sand Tray Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Grief or Loss
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • Addiction
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Adoption Issues
  • Aging Concerns
  • Anger Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Bipolar
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Cancer
  • Career Counseling
  • Child Issues
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Divorce
  • Family Conflict
  • Gambling Addiction
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • Insomnia
  • Intellectual Disability
  • Learning Disorders
  • Men's Issues
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Parenting
  • Physical Disability
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Sexual Problems
  • Spirituality
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Teen Issues
  • Veterans/Military Service
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Jainism
  • Judaism
  • Taoism
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: 47 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $160 - 190/session

Info

Email Robert
5355 Tallman Ave
YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI5S_uCPFc9W7xNPilg2JuA
Ballard, WA 98107
29617 156th Ave E.
YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI5S_uCPFc9W7xNPilg2JuA
Graham, WA 98338

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