Dr. Hewell can be reached at valerie@hewellpsychology.com or (425) 523-6896.

Note: Dr. Hewell also offers teletherapy services to meet patient needs

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Locations: Issaquah

Valerie Hewell, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience working collaboratively with diverse populations at individual and community levels. She earned her doctorate in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and completed her internship at the University of Idaho Counseling and Testing Center, both APA-accredited. She also holds a post-doctoral Master’s degree in Clinical Psychopharmacology from the University of New Mexico, reflecting her commitment to integrating psychological and physiological dimensions of mental health care.

Dr. Hewell completed her dissertation on success in buprenorphine treatment and served as program director for a buprenorphine treatment program in Alaska during her practicum. Additional training includes practicums working with college students and community members, applied behavioral analysis with children with Autism-spectrum diagnoses, and outpatient treatment for children with emotional and behavioral disorders. She has also completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training through Stanford YogaX, a program designed specifically for health professionals, further deepening her understanding of the mind-body connection and its role in psychological wellbeing and health care.

Supporting the growth of emerging clinicians is work Dr. Hewell finds genuinely meaningful. She has supervised doctoral interns and practicum students at Fairfax Psychiatric Hospital as well as Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associates in private practice settings. She brings the same relational depth and curiosity to supervision that she brings to clinical work. 

While Dr. Hewell is trained as a generalist and can treat a wide range of concerns, she has specific experience, training, and interest in working with adults and adolescents on matters including but not limited to:

∙ Anxiety and mood disorders

∙ trauma and PTSD

∙ Mind-body connection and somatic approaches to emotional health

∙ Helping individuals understand emotions and utilize them in healthy ways

∙ Personal growth

∙ Relational concerns, early childhood experiences, and attachment issues

∙ Self-concept, body image, and perfectionism

∙ Existential concerns and life transitions

∙ Substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders

Dr. Hewell believes the therapeutic relationship accounts for a great degree of healing. She works from a relational orientation that focuses on emotions, here-and-now experience, and conscious and unconscious processes, always striving for genuine understanding. In therapy, she values collaboration, compassion, authentic interaction, unconditional acceptance, safety, and co-creating a meaningful experience.

Dr. Hewell is drawn to therapy that goes beneath the surface including relational, existential, and humanistic work that explores who we are, how we came to be that way, and what we most deeply need and want from our lives and relationships. While attuning carefully to presenting symptoms is always important, she understands them as meaningful data which often point toward deeper patterns, experiences, and needs that deserve compassionate exploration. Her work is oriented not only toward symptom relief but toward genuine and lasting understanding of the whole person. She also values short-term and evidence-based approaches as appropriate for individual patients, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, Motivational Interviewing, mindfulness-based approaches, and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy.