Tidewater Therapy

Tidewater Therapy · Port Townsend, WA

I'm Dana — a trauma-informed, somatic therapist. We work at the pace your nervous system can actually keep, not the pace the calendar suggests. Nothing here needs to be explained all at once.

Reach out when you're ready How we might work together

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in trauma-informed, somatic practice

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sessions — never rushed to fit a slot

sliding-scale spots held at any given time

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typical time to hear back, at most

Ways we can work together

Every approach here starts from the same place: the body keeps score, so the work has to include it. If you're not sure which of these fits, the free 15-minute call is built exactly for that question.

Somatic Experiencing

A body-based approach to releasing stored survival responses — the tightness, bracing, and hypervigilance that talking alone often can't reach. Gentle, gradual, and always at a pace your system can tolerate.

Trauma-informed talk therapy

Traditional conversation, paced deliberately: no requirement to recount painful events before you're ready, and constant attention to what's happening in your body as we talk, not just what you're saying.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, used to help specific memories lose their charge — useful for single hard events as well as longer patterns. We move at a pace you set, session to session.

See every way we can work together

The first few steps

Getting started, at a pace that stays manageable.

No forms about your history before we've even met. Three unhurried steps, none of them a commitment.

Step 01

Reach out, however feels easiest

Email, call, or use the contact form. You'll hear back within a few days — no forms about your history required yet.

Step 02

A quiet first conversation

A free 15-minute call to see whether this feels like a fit. No pressure either way, and no obligation to explain more than you want to.

Step 03

Begin at your own pace

Weekly 50-minute sessions, in Port Townsend or by video. The pace and the plan both adjust as you do — nothing is fixed in advance.

About

Hi — I'm Dana

I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist working with trauma through the body as much as through talking. Ten years in, I still think the most useful thing I offer isn't a technique — it's pacing. Most people who've been through something hard have also, at some point, been rushed through processing it. My work is the opposite of that. We slow down until your system can actually catch up.

Simple, honest pricing.

One flat rate, a clear insurance path, and no surprises before your first appointment.

Session fee: $165 per 50-minute session · Sliding scale available
Insurance: Currently out-of-network. I provide a superbill for every session, which many PPO plans reimburse at 40–80% — one phone call to your insurer confirms your specific rate.
Sliding scale: A handful of sliding-scale spots are held at any given time. Ask — no explanation needed, and the worst answer is 'not currently.'