OUR THERAPISTS
Advanced doctoral trainees in clinical psychology provide psychotherapy and psychological assessment working under the supervision of Dr. Brown and other licensed psychologists. The staff therapists bring expertise in the treatment of trauma survivors, working with people with health and illness concerns, and with issues of gender, culture, spirituality and sexuality to our practice.
Christopher J.B.H. Bauchman, M.S., LMHCA
Christopher practices using an integrative approach, largely influenced by client-centered and existential theories, and implements collaborative treatment planning. He is fluent in Spanish and has conducted bilingual individual and couples therapy. Christopher has received pre-doctoral training in psychological test administration working with developmentally disabled adults, as well as at Pacific University’s training clinic and Quest Center for Integrative Health in Portland, OR where he provided individual and couples therapy to adolescents and adults in both Spanish and English. His previous experiences have involved working at an inpatient hospital for chronically mentally disabled children and adults, as well as outpatient case management services with severely mentally disabled adults, where he gained experience in the assessment and treatment of a wide spectrum of disorders. Christopher is also trained in cognitive, personality, and diagnostic assessment, and specializes in multiculturalism.
Michelle Brown, M.A., LMHCA
Michelle utilizes an integrative approach to psychotherapy that is highly individualized to meet the needs to each client. Her work is influenced by narrative, solution-oriented, dialectical behavioral, and feminist therapies. Her previous experience includes providing individual and group therapy to clients dealing with significant issues including trauma, depression, chronic pain, and substance abuse. Michelle has extensive experience with cognitive, personality, neuropsychological, and forensic assessments. She is also trained in EMDR and facilitates DBT skills groups.
Mo Brown, M.A. LMHCA
Mo utilizes an integrative approach to therapy which focuses on each individual client’s needs and strengths. She incorporates principals from systems, attachment, and relational theories, as well as social neuroscience. Her prior experiences include providing individual, couples, and family psychotherapy and a variety of assessments (including neuropsych and learning disability) at the Antioch Community Counseling and Psychology Clinic. Mo also worked through DSHS providing family therapy for families in crisis, and has also worked at a juvenile prison and as a high school teacher.
Michal Goldring-Keidar, BSW
Michal’s work is influenced by narrative, ecological-systems, cognitive behavioral theory and attachment theory. Michal individualizes treatment plans to meet the needs of each client. She has experience working with clients dealing with issues of substance abuse, trauma, mental health and relationships. Michal received her BSW in 2003 with an emphasis on couples and families at Tel Aviv University in Israel. She completed the first year of clinical social work studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and is currently completing her MSW with a focus on mental health and trauma at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Kim Huyhn, M.A., LMHCA
Kim utilizes an integrative approach to psychotherapy focusing on the needs of each client. Her approach is informed by positive psychology, multicultural, feminist, dialectical and cognitive behavioral theories as a way to create a collaborative approach to treatment planning. Kim’s prior experiences include a yearlong practicum at the Wheelock College Counseling Center in Boston, MA, where she provided individual therapy to clients dealing with depression, anxiety, grief, and abuse. She also has inpatient experience working with adolescent females dealing with eating disorders, depression, trauma, and chronic mental illness. Kim is also a researcher at Seattle Pacific University and is helping to develop a positive psychology intervention, which has been utilized with offenders incarcerated at various Washington State prisons. Her prior experiences and research focus centers around a strength based approach to therapy. She is trained in EMDR
Kelsey Kennedy, M.A. LMHCA
Kelsey utilizes an integrative approach to psychotherapy with a foundation in feminist and multicultural therapy. Her previous experience includes providing individual, family and group therapy to clients dealing with significant behavioral and emotional issues resulting from trauma, as well as conducting psychological evaluations. Kelsey's interests include the effects interpersonal, historical and collective trauma has on cognitive, emotional and behavioral abilities and the inherent resiliencies and healing found in culture.
Kathleen King, MA LMHCA
Kathleen utilizes an integrative approach to psychotherapy that is tailored to each client’s needs, goals, strengths, and worldviews. Her approach is largely influenced by cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, ecological systems, and solution-focused therapies. Kathleen’s previous experiences include working in community mental health and medical settings, where she provided individual, couples, and group therapy. The foci of the various groups she has facilitated include women’s support, substance abuse, healthy relationships, self-efficacy, and parenting. She is also currently facilitating a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills group at FCTP. Kathleen has experience conducting full battery psychological assessments on children, adolescents, and adults. She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Alison Munoff, M.A. LMHCA
Alison utilizes an integrative approach to psychotherapy using client-centered techniques and collaborative treatment planning to best fit each client's individual needs. She is largely influenced by humanistic, existential, and dialectical behavioral theories. Her previous experience includes providing individual and group therapy to individuals dealing with a variety of issues including terminal illness, depression, anxiety, abuse, and trauma. She also has experience conducting neuropsychological, personality, and forensic assessments. Alison currently facilitates a weekly DBT skills training group at the clinic.
Nicola B. Mucci, M.A., LMHCA
Nicola practices therapy using an integrative approach influenced by relational psychoanalysis and feminist theories. She also possesses advanced training in several treatment techniques including: art therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Her prior clinical experiences include providing individual psychotherapy, art therapy, group therapy, and assessment services to underserved populations in the community and in an adult psychiatric inpatient facility. In addition to providing therapy at FCTP, Nicola facilitates DBT Skills groups and conducts psychological assessments
Deanna Seather-Brady, CDP
Deanna has 20 years experience working with individuals and groups in a variety of clinical settings with an emphasis on trauma and addictions treatment. Her professional experience also includes treatment with children and adolescents. She utilizes an integrative approach that is individualized to the needs of each client. Her work is primarily influenced by relational, attachment, trauma (Complex Trauma/PTSD), experiential and behavioral theories. She received her degree in addictions counseling in 1996, her BA in liberal studies with an emphasis in psychology and multicultural studies at Antioch University Seattle in 2009 and is currently at Smith College completing her graduate degree in social work. She is trained in EMDR
Hatsy Thompson, M.A., LMHCA
Hatsy’s client-centered approach to therapy integrates insights and practices from mindfulness meditation, relational psychoanalytic theory, and attachment theory. She is especially interested in helping people change ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that made sense in the situations they grew up in but get in their way as adults. She also helps people develop their ability to understand, comfort, and care about themselves. Her previous experience as a therapist includes a year-long internship at Sound Mental Health. In addition, she has served as a mediator, hospice volunteer, and advocate for children whose parents are involved in contested family law cases. She is trained in EMDR
Grin Geiss Trusz, Doctoral Candidate
Grin works with adults, children and families using relational-psychodynamic and systems approaches to therapy. Since 2006, she has been a clinician-researcher at Harborview Medical Center coordinating research on treatment development for vulnerable and underserved adults and adolescents with post-traumatic stress, depression and substance use problems. She received intensive training from the University of Washington in trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and motivational interviewing. Grin has completed practica as a family and individual therapist in a variety of settings including Seattle Children’s Hospital, Marysville School District and Antioch Community Counseling and Psychology Clinic. Her current practice and research centers on relational and feminist understandings of historical trauma in cultural and political context.
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Tyson Bailey, Psy.D. LMHC
Tyson, a graduate of the Argosy University Seattle clinical psychology program, practices using a integrative approach with a foundation in narrative therapy, incorporating additional principles from feminist, solution-oriented, attachment, and person-centered traditions. He is trained in EMDR, and conducts DBT Skills groups. In addition to his two years on-staff at FCTP prior to obtaining his doctorate, his previous experiences have involved working at an inpatient group home for traumatized children and adolescents; individual and family therapy; as well as conducting cognitive and personality psychological assessment batteries. His particular areas of interest include interpersonal trauma, multicultural issues, and the therapeutic aspects of martial arts participation. He also coordinates the clinic's DBT programs.
Pat Russell, Psy.D.
Pat is a graduate of the Antioch University Seattle doctoral program in clinical psychology. She uses a multi-system approach to her practice. Incorporating aspects of intergenerational, narrative, and feminist theories, she has worked with diverse populations in community-based mental health clinics, and with homeless families who have experienced trauma. In addition to her clinical work, she has facilitated interracial groups focused on healing the intergenerational trauma of American slavery. She is an adjunct professor at Cornish College of the Arts where she teaches the Psychology of the Artistic Self and Jung, Art & Archetypes.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Kay Crampton M.S. ARNP
Kay Crampton has been studying and practicing in the mental health field for many years. first as a psychiatric RN, then as a Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her main emphasis is to help clients incorporate a variety of treatments, including self care measures, therapy and medicines to treat health problems in a holistic way. She has worked with clients who have a wide variety of physical and mental health problems. She frequently helps clients sort through available information to make safe treatment choices and strives to keep the number of psychoactive medicines to the minimum required to treat difficult symptoms. Individuals seeking medication from Kay must be currently in psychotherapy at FCTP.
Director of Social Work Training
Beverly Underwood, MSW, Psy.D., LICSW
Beverly comes to FCTP from many years of practice as a clinical social worker. uses a person centered approach through the lens of feminist therapy, incorporating attachment theory and cognitive behavioral therapy. Beverly has had extensive experience working with survivors of complex trauma. She spent two years working with refugees and asylum seekers who have experienced trauma while fleeing their country. Beverly has been trained in EMDR and DBT.She coordinates the social work training program at FCTP.
Assistant Director
Samantha L. Slaughter, Psy.D.
Samantha is a licensed clinical psychologist. She supervises trainees, and assists in the development of the clinic's training programs. Her experiences include working as a therapist in the state prison system and providing supportive services for people affected by cancer at Cancer Lifeline. She maintains a private practice in which she offers therapy, with a special emphasis on working with adult children of trauma survivors, and cognitive and personality assessments. Please visit her website for more detailed information about her practice.
Clinic Director
Laura S. Brown, Ph.D. ABPP
Laura is a clinical and forensic psychologist and the Director of FCTP. She writes, trains, and speaks on feminist therapy theory and practice, trauma and memory, diversity, and psychological assessment. Dr. Brown also has an independent practice where she specializes in working with survivors of trauma. Please visit Laura's website for more detailed information about her work.