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 experience working collaboratively with diverse populations at individual and community levels. She earned her doctorate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Clinical-Community Psychology and completed internship at the University of Idaho Counseling and Testing Center (both APA-accredited). She completed her dissertation on success in buprenorphine treatment and was the program director for a buprenorphine treatment program in Alaska during her practicum. Other experience 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. 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
Helping individuals understand emotions and utilize them in healthy ways
Personal growth
Relational concerns, early childhood experiences, and attachment issues
Identity development and characterological change
Self-concept, body image, and perfectionism
Existential concerns and life transitions
Substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders
Identity development and characterological change
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, conscious and unconscious processes, and striving for understanding. In therapy, she values collaboration, compassion, authentic interaction, unconditional acceptance, safety, and co-creating a meaningful experience.
Dr. Hewell thoroughly enjoys exploratory depth-psychotherapy. She also values employing 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. She adheres to practice-based evidence by measuring individual therapy outcomes.