Greater Seattle Allied Therapist and Counseling

Counselor/Psychotherapist

Primary Focus: Abuse / Incest / PTSD Counseling, Addiction / Drug /Alcohol Counseling, Adult Adjustment / Life Transitioning Counseling, Anxiety / Panic Disorders Counseling, Couples / Marriage Counseling, Grief Counseling, LGBTQ Counseling, Specialty Issues, Stress / Depression Counseling, Women's Counseling

Scope of Practice

Jolyn Wells-Moran, PhD, MSW provides a free 30-minute initial assessment, 27 years of experience and an affordable sliding fee scale. She serves adults, couples and teens from age 16 and up. 

Jolyn has helped hundreds of adults develop satisfying inner, relationship and work lives for themselves. The people she has worked with have had a wide variety of strengths and issues. She likes working with people of varying backgrounds, sexual orientations, religions and both women and men. See the full list of issues and goals Jolyn can help you address.

You can also see Dr. Wells-Moran's OCD, OCD-related eating and body image psychotherapy site by clicking here. Read Jolyn's cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) site here. If you're looking for couples counseling, see Jolyn's Staying in Love page.

Humanistic psychology: Jolyn believes each individual has an inherent capacity for internal contentment and urge for personal development. We can change, find increased meaning in life, learn to overcome issues, develop new skills, gain knowledge or increase our flexibility and sense of peace to become the people we want to be. 

Mindfulness: Mindfulness is basically awareness of what you're feeling, thinking and doing. We needn't be victims of our thoughts, emotions, behaviors -- or even events outside of ourselves. Instead, we can develop greater mindfulness and change the unnecessary impacts of adverse circumstances, thoughts or automatic reactions that keep us from being content, productive, joyful or calm.

Strengths-orientation: Enduring strengths are the assets we each own from early ages. Fortunately, we're also all born with an innate facility for healthy equanimity and the inner resources to make wise and healthy choices. When we become aware of these strengths, we can foster their growth to be our best and enjoy our lives to the fullest.

Holism: Dr. Wells-Moran also encourages and supports healthy changes in sleep, exercise, diet, other physical health, social life and life philosphy or spirituality -- all basics of well-being. She often teaches stress reduction along with counseling or psychotherapy. Jolyn doesn't prescribe medications, but understands that some people with certain conditions need medication to support psychological stability, some for a short time and others for the long-term. Current research shows that psychotherapy (counseling), while taking medication, is more beneficial for several conditions than medication alone.

People who see Jolyn gain a stronger sense of meaning, recognition of their real needs and how to meet those needs through using newly developed skills based on strengths. They also learn skills to stop standing in their own way and develop greater joy, better relationships, satisfaction, self-respect, improved physical health and tranquility. Counseling or therapy with me is not passive. Jolyn knows you can meet your goals if you participate in the process.

   Stress Management for Managers

Improve your relations with employees, your family and others,

Increase your capacity for concentration when you need it,

Help you leave the job at work when you're elsewhere,

Gain a healthy sense of humor,

Develop greater personal flexibility,

Expand your creativity, and

Feel, look and be physically and psychologically healthier.

Through a process of discovering a few simple meditation, relaxation and visualization exercises that will work for you, and perhaps changing a few old thinking and health habits, you can be the manager you want to be while also being the person you want to be. $80. per session, no matter where you are on the sliding fee scale.

Seattle marriage counseling, family & couples therapy, Christian counseling, post traumatic stress (PTSD)