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Specialties Include:
-Children, Adolescents & Adults (age 0+)
-LGBTQIA2+
-Trans, Non-Binary & GE Affirming
-Kink, Polyam & Non-Monogamy Affirming
-Neurodivergence (Autism, ADHD, etc)
-Depression & Anxiety
-Trauma
-Grief & Loss
-Relationships & Attachment
-Perinatal/Postpartum Transitions
-Self-Esteem & Self Compassion
-Embodiment & Body Connection
-HAES Informed (Health At Every Size)
-Identity Exploration & Life Transitions
*Relationship Counselor
In Person in Georgetown & Telehealth
Cedar does not accept commercial insurance, but IS able to take some Medicaid or Apple Health plans, such as CHPW and Coordinated Care. Cedar also sees clients on a sliding scale which will be agreed upon before meeting for a full session.
Cedar's fees:
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50-minute session for individuals: $40-$105
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50-minute session for families and relationships: $40-$115;
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80-minute session for families and relationships: $60-$150.
Cedar Salina, Clinical Intern
Pronouns: they/them
If you're queer and you want a therapist who gets it, you’ve come to the right place! I’m queer and nonbinary myself, and I have a lot of experience in various communities. I’m also fluent in areas of sex work, queer family building, polyamory and nonmonogamy, kink and BDSM. You deserve to have a therapist you won’t have to explain the basics to.
People start therapy for all sorts of reasons. Maybe this isn’t your first rodeo, but this time you want someone who feels like a better fit. Or maybe you are now dedicating space in your life to bravely facing some of the parts of your story that can no longer be left unacknowledged. Whatever brought you here, welcome. I’m glad you made it.
It’s not unusual to want to know who someone is before getting into the hard stuff together! So, here’s a bit about me: My path to becoming a therapist has been a circuitous adventure! My experiences have included sex worker rights advocacy and mutual aid, crisis services at Crisis Connections, and working with children and adolescents in inpatient care. I’m warm and collaborative and I show up as a full person relating to you as another person. I believe honesty and kindness go hand in hand, so I do my best with striking a balance between being very direct and compassionately respecting your pace.
My own life has shaped the way I think about therapy. I know how exquisitely beautiful life can be and also how devastating. I’m interested in all of it. Let’s figure out together what makes life feel more meaningful, connected, pleasurable, weird, funny, alive, and worth protecting.
My approach...
My approach is attachment based, social justice informed, and relational. I use an attachment lens as a framework for understanding how early relational experiences shape current patterns of connection and meaning-making. Social justice is very important to me and I view power, privilege, and oppression as central to the human experience, and so innately entwined with the therapy process. I also draw from Trauma-Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (T-FACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing, harm reduction, and trauma-informed care.
I care much more about whether something is helpful than about being married to one type of therapy. I think it’s important to be able to pivot if something isn’t working. I’ll bring what I know, you bring everything you know about being you, and we’ll work from there.
Professional training & memberships...
I am a master’s student in a CACREP-accredited Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Seattle University and completed my undergraduate degree in Psychology and Counseling at Antioch University Seattle. My senior project focused on sex work-affirming therapy.
I have additional training in relationship counseling, trauma treatment, motivational interviewing, crisis intervention, harm reduction, grief and end-of-life support, somatic mindfulness, and supporting neurodivergent youth. I also have training in letter writing for accessing gender affirming healthcare. I am a member of the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association, the Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (SAIGE), and Counselors for Social Justice.