Contact
mkbrennan@samaritanps.org(206) 527-2266 x379
Locations
Samaritan - Main Office
564 NE Ravenna Blvd
Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 527-2266
Availability
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Mary Kay Brennan, DSW, MSW, LICSW
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, as well as an Approved Supervisor for Licensed Associate Clinical Social WorkersCurrently not accepting new clients
Works with Individuals, Teletherapy, and Youth & ChildrenWA License ##LW00004504
My approach to counseling
I view psychotherapy as an opportunity to hit pause and explore thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and life patterns that have influenced your life choices, moods, and relationships. With increased personal insight, you are better equipped to attain your self-defined goals. Psychotherapy is also a time to develop new skills and methods of coping to reach your full potential and have more gratifying relationships. Through warmth, positive regard, humor, and deep listening, I strive to establish an active therapeutic relationship that provides a safe space for growth.
I used a client-centered, strength-based approach to therapy. Psychotherapy may be brief solution-focused or longer insight-oriented work depending on your goals. My lens for understanding is informed by a variety of theories including attachment, relational, life span, ecological systems, and trauma-informed. I understand and consider intersectional identities. Practice strategies include the use of interpretations, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and anti-oppressive frameworks. In child therapy, I use play therapy techniques interspersed with talk therapy. I work to actively involve parents and guardians in their support of their child through collateral or family sessions.
I have experience in working with
Children and adolescents – wide array issues and experiences (i.e., divorce, death, situational adjustments, anxiety, school-based, identity development, disabilities and school settings, abuse / neglect, adoption, etc.)
Women’s issues
Issues of life transitions (i.e., divorce, death, health, etc.), depression, anxiety, grief and loss, identity issues, trauma
GLBTQI
School consultations – Trauma-response teams
Faith communities and community members sessions regarding clergy abuse crisis, removal of priest/ pastor
Supervision (1:1 or group) of LACSWs toward licensure
Education
DSW, Doctorate in Social Work, St. Catherine University and University of St. Thomas
Post-MSW Certificates: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study and Multi-Ethnic Practice, University of Washington School of Social Work
MSW, Clinical Concentration, University of Michigan
BS, Special Education – Emotionally Impaired, Western Michigan University
Professional Experience
Clinical Professor and BSW Program Director, Department of Social Work, Seattle University, 2002 – present
Clinical Social Worker, Supervisor, Consultant – Private Practice, Seattle and Lynnwood, WA, 1988- 2017
Elementary Guidance Specialist, Edmonds School District, 1988-2002
Child and Family Therapist, Compass Health (Formally Luther Child Center) 1983-1987
Insurance Accepted
Aetna, Kaiser (Not All Plans), Managed Health Network, Premera (Lifewise), and RegenceMake an Appointment
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