Therapy with Maggi

03/07/2024

Last week marked one full year of having my LMFTA credentials, and today is one year once seeing my first client through my solo private practice, so I thought I would take a moment to introduce myself again and update you all on what I’ve been up to.

Okii (hello), I’m Maggi. I use they/them or she/her pronouns and I’m a Q***r, Fat, Native person (Amskapi Pikuni, or Blackfeet) living on sx̌ʷəbabš, Suquamish, Duwamish, Puyallup and Muckleshoot lands. The first photo is a recent picture of me, light skinned and dark haired with glasses and beaded earrings, after a particularly good day as a therapist 🥰 I’m an LMFTA and am supervised by Jackie Abeling and Amber Rice, and you can find more information about my education and training in pics 2 & 3.

In my first year of practice, I’ve learned so much about myself as a person and therapist, and about my own value and worth. Every day when I prepare to sit with my clients through some of the hardest things they’ll experience, I remind myself:
•SOFT BELLY, STRONG BACK,
•You are not the problem, the problem is the problem, and
•I am not the bar from Roadhouse, I am a small branch of the public library system.

The first one is how I want to show up for clients: with gentle tenderness and strength to support them as we walk together through difficulty, grief, life changes, relationship challenges. I offer the softness of unconditional positive regard, but also a firmness of stance when a challenge to the status quo is needed. Therapy makes change, and change doesn’t happen without some challenge.

The second is a reminder of my therapeutic home, Narrative theory. We exist separately from our problems, and messages rooted in systemic oppression often make it hard to remember that. You are not a problem. You are a gift from the universe. Let’s work together on coping, shifting, rejecting messaging that makes you feel like anything less than a miracle.

The third is for me: I’m also human, and I get to set boundaries for how my healing space is treated. The bar in the movie Roadhouse is chaotic, rowdy, and requires Patrick Swayze to show up and save the day. Instead, I’m a small branch of a public library: helpful, quiet, non-judgmental, and with clearly defined working hours 😂

03/15/2023

My schedule is starting to fill up! I have three spots for full fee clients and one reduced cost spot available for queer/trans people of the global majority right now. You can request a free 15-minute video consult with me at www.therapywithmaggi.com if you're considering taking next steps to make change through relational therapy.

Marriage and family therapy offering Telehealth appointments. Paperwork can be filled out online. Schedule an appointment today.

03/07/2023

Cross-posting this from my personal page to provide some more context:

I am so excited to announce the career change I've been working towards for some time: opening my private practice as a systemic relational therapist for romantic partnerships and families! I am accepting new clients in Washington as of now, and hope to expand my licensure to neighboring states in the future. Please feel free to share this post or my contact info (www.therapywithmaggi.com) to spread the word!

You may be asking, "Maggi, what on earth is systemic relational therapy?" Other names for this work are "couples counseling," "marriage counseling," "family therapy," or just plain "therapy." The distinction for me is that I expand my view beyond an individual (or even couple) to consider the constellation of relationships that make up our lives and the patterns of communication and behavior that we form in those relationships. Helping to identify and shift those patterns for couples, romantic partnerships of other forms, families, co-parents and other multi-member systems is where I shine. (That's a long way to say that I work with more than heteronormative marriages.)

My services are self-pay only, and I reserve a portion of my caseload for low-cost sessions for Q***r/Trans People of the Global Majority (often referred to as "QTPOC"). I would also love to contract with Tribal Health organizations to provide telehealth therapy in Native communities--if you have any connections or professional involvement that might help me achieve that, please reach out!

02/28/2023

Welcome to Therapy with Maggi!

As of Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023, I am accepting new relational therapy clients for telehealth services in Washington.