Our Providers

Jeanne Purdum, LMFT, CMHS, CMHIMP
Co-Owner of ITSNW

Jeanne is one of the co-founders of ITS and has been providing therapy to children and families since 1997. She works from a holistic perspective to address the mind-body connection and increase systemic health. Jeanne has a special interest in addressing how overall brain function/health, nutrition, digestive health, and food allergies/sensitivities impact behaviors, moods, and ultimately mental health. In addition to traditional talk therapy, she is passionate about helping her clients develop a healthy relationship with food and create a comprehensive roadmap to applying nutritional and mental health concepts to prevent and/or treat depression, anxiety, ADHD/ADD and more. She is a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider and Brain Health Coach.

Certifications: PCIT Coach and Mentor, AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor, Certified Eating Psychology Coach, Child Mental Health Specialist, Certified Brain Health Coach, Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Professional (CMHIMP)

Sarah Atchison, LMFT, CMHS, CMHIMP, Maternal Mental Health Specialist
Co-Owner of ITSNW

Sarah is the director and founder of the Bloom Program for Maternal and Infant Wellness. She has a background in working with children, adolescents, couples, and families of all ages and from a variety of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. She has worked extensively with pregnant and postpartum women, young families, and high-risk children. Sarah has a special interest in supporting those who are planning for a baby, have been trying for a while, are adjusting to new parenthood, coping with a loss or utilizing reproductive assistance.

Certifications: Maternal Mental Health Specialist, Infant Mental Health, Perinatal Loss, Infertility, Child Mental Health Specialist, Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Professional (CMHIMP), Gottman’s Bringing Baby Home, BLOOM

Michael Nielsen, LMFT, CMHS
Co-Owner of ITSNW

Mike frequently works with children of all ages from a variety of backgrounds. He has diverse experience working with at-risk youth, children with school related concerns, depression, anxiety, ADHD, blended families, foster children, adoption, anger management, and other disruptive behavioral issues.

Certifications: AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor, Child Mental Health Specialist

Jenelle Larson, LMFT, CMHS
Co-Owner of ITSNW

Jenelle has experience counseling couples, teens, young adults, and families with a variety of concerns, including anxiety, depression, co-parenting, self-esteem, self-harm, school concerns, and natural life transitions. She enjoys working with couples to help them build connection and communication skills in addition to support and forgiveness to work through challenges. She also enjoys helping teens navigate transitions associated with movement into adulthood.
Jenelle is a systemic therapist that uses a client-centered approach to help people identify their own strengths, work through underlying emotions, as well as build and strengthen attachments. She believes counseling is an avenue that helps her clients reconnect with their inner self. Additionally, she believes that every person possesses the strength and skill to lead a successful journey through life.

Certifications: AAMFT Approved Clinical Supervisor, Child Mental Health Specialist, TF-CBT, EFT trained, Gottman trained

Tamra Davis, LMFT, CMHS

Tamra works with individuals and families of all ages and from all backgrounds. She frequently works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, at-risk youth, school concerns, ADHD, anger management, and other disruptive behavioral issues.
Tamra brings diverse experience from her work at Auburn Youth Resources and Catholic Community Services, including running the crisis line.

Certifications: DBT, AAMFT approved supervisor, WA approved supervisor, Child Mental Health Specialist, CBT+

Elizabeth Bergstrom, PhD, LMHC, CMHIMP

Elizabeth works with individuals and couples of all ages with concerns related to anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, self-esteem, self-concept and identity, and personal exploration.
Elizabeth utilizes a psychodynamic approach, operating from a systems theory background and relational lens. She assesses presenting issues holistically and maintains a strength-based practice. She enjoys creating warm, collaborative spaces that encourage meaningful exploration, and productive problem solving. She has extensive experience working with clients from diverse backgrounds.

Certifications: Washington State Approved Supervisor, Gottman Level 2 Trained, Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Professional (CMHIMP)

– Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –

Shannon Armitage, LMFT

Shannon can help anyone with a willingness to try new things, revise an old story, and think creatively (and sometimes playfully) about serious problems. She specializes in working with perinatal mood disorders, adolescent/child family therapy, transitions into adulthood and parenthood, mood and anxiety disorders, LGBTQ+ families, grief and loss, and PTSD.
Shannon brings a wide variety of experience to ITSNW, including work in community mental health, early elementary special education, and research on the role of early childhood education on outcomes for children ages birth-5. Additionally, she draws on lessons she learns from her family, especially regarding the importance of eating and sleeping well and remembering to laugh and have fun.

Certifications: BLOOM, DBT, Pride Program, FFT

Kathy Silveira, LMFT

Kathy can help teens, young adults, women, and adults from diverse backgrounds, including members of military families, the LGBTQ+ community, and a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. She has experience helping her clients through life transitions, anxiety, depression, and crises including self-harm, suicidal-ideation, as well as counseling pregnant and postpartum women and families. Kathy is a PNW native from a multi-cultural, military background with experience as a student athlete. She holds a special interest in helping student athletes balance athletics and academics, handle sports performance anxiety, and cope with difficult transitions. Kathy takes a systemic, client-centered, solution-focused approach to help identify strengths and break down barriers.

Certifications: BLOOM, Pride Program, CBT, TF-CBT

Jessica "Jess" Mannari, LMFT

Jess has experience in community mental health and private practice working with diverse backgrounds and concerns. She can help couples, families, teens, and young adults who are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, sexual trauma, grief, and life transitions. She enjoys working with the LGBTQ+ community.
Jess takes a collaborative approach with her clients, working as a team to manage and overcome challenges.

Certifications: BLOOM, Pride Program, CBT, TF-CBT

Christina Jarchow, LICSW

Christina is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with experience working with several different populations with diverse backgrounds in a variety of counseling settings, including community health and substance use. She has experience working in foster care, with school systems, and with high risk youth. She most enjoys working with the younger population (ages 4 and up) with concerns including challenging behaviors and trauma in addition to anxiety, ADHD, ODD, depression, social issues, and parenting issues.
Christina provides a systemic approach and utilizes a holistic perspective to treatment that focuses on body, mind, and spirit to help treat the whole individual.

Certifications: PCIT, CBT+, TF-CBT

Andrea Rosenkranz, LMHC, CMHS

Andrea is a doctoral candidate with experience working with teens, young adults, and adults from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds with diverse concerns. She enjoys helping her clients overcome anxiety, depression, complex trauma, anger, and grief as well as build self-esteem, manage life transitions, establish self-concept and identity, and challenge/change unhelpful beliefs and behaviors. She brings experience in Community Mental Health and her work with military families to her work at ITS NW.
Andrea takes a client-centered approach and uses a solution-focused perspective to help her clients identify strengths, break down barriers, and identify and process underlying emotions.

Certifications: Child Mental Health Specialist, WA Approved Supervisor, CBT+

– Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –

Erin Manning, LMFT

Erin’s passion is working with children, teens, and young adults with concerns such as anxiety, PTSD, behavioral issues, depression, school related concerns, foster care or adoption complications, blended families, coping with divorce, and children with developmental delays or autism spectrum disorder. She brings a unique perspective from her two years of experience as a visitation supervisor for children in foster care in addition to her work in an outpatient community mental health facility focusing on children with developmental concerns or complex medical conditions.

Certifications: BLOOM, CBT, TF-CBT

Mariette Guidry, LMFT

Mariette has experience working with children, teens and adults. She can help individuals working through anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, life transitions, low self-esteem, or school and social issues, and she is excited about the prospect of engaging her clients in the process of positive change. She enjoys helping individuals and families resolve emotional and relational issues.

John Michael Jennings, LMHC

John Michael works with individuals and families with concerns including depression, anxiety, self esteem, life transitions, trauma, and identity. He is particularly interested in working with teens and young adults. John Michael uses a relational and psychodynamic approach with clients to work with them collaboratively as well as explore attachment, personal relationships, and emotions.

Certifications: Pride Program

Kirstin Han, LMFT

Kirstin has experience working with individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and life stories, and can help adults, couples, and teens. She holds special interest in serving LGBTQIA+ folx by creating a safe space to process and heal trauma, as well as helping immigrant communities in addressing cross-cultural dynamics and communication. She particularly enjoys working with individuals who are seeking support, guidance, and/or positive life changes through self-empowerment and confidence building, as well as those seeking support throughout the perinatal period. Kirstin takes a bespoke approach to therapy by creating individualized experiences of healing, including a holistic focus on mind, body, and soul in addition to mental wellness.

Certifications: BLOOM, Pride Program, TF-CBT

– Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –

Holly Harden, LMFT

Holly brings a diverse background and extensive experience to her work with couples, families, children, teens, and adults. She holds a special interest in working with child development, family relationships, parenting, anxiety, depression, religion/spirituality, and attachment. She has unique perspectives gained from her work as a Court Appointed Special Advocate, social worker, Family Resources Coordinator, and Family Advocate. She takes a systemic approach and enjoys working with multiple people in the room, whether that is a child with their parents, couples, or a large family system.

Certifications: BLOOM, TF-CBT

Kelsey Schank, LMFTA

Kelsey enjoys working with blended families, children, and adolescents. She brings experience from her work at an inpatient facility as a pediatric mental health specialist to her clients at ITS, allowing her a unique approach especially for children with serious concerns. She prefers to include all members of a family in her counseling approach to help her clients navigate family dynamics.

Certifications: BLOOM, Pride Program, TF-CBT

Sarah Beck, LMFTA

Sarah is a systems-trained therapist who incorporates solution-focused and narrative approaches in her work with clients. She enjoys working with children, teens, and adults as individuals or families with concerns including anxiety, depression, self-esteem, trauma, parenting difficulties, family concerns, and grief. She has a special interest and past experience working with children and teens to help them navigate the many changes and struggles that can occur during that time of life. She believes that her clients hold the key to their success and she is a guide to help them reach their goals.

Certifications: BLOOM, Pride Program, TF-CBT

Emily Stephens, LMHCA

Emily enjoys working with teens and adults, and has a special interest in working with people during pregnancy and postpartum. She facilitated a postpartum support group for over five years before joining ITS, and has also worked as an advocate with survivors of sexual assault. She employs a Narrative and Family Systems approach with her clients, including listening to client stories through a lens of context and the systems of which they are a part. Emily uses her open-mindedness and anti-oppressive values to help guide her work with clients.

Certifications: BLOOM

Christi Carlton, LMFTA

Christi works with individuals, couples and families, including children and adults, to help with concerns including anxiety, depression, PTSD, blended families, abuse, trauma, and grief. She has a special interest in supporting the LGBTQ+ community, addressing women’s issues, as well as navigating sex and intimacy concerns.

Certifications: TF-CBT

– Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –

Allie Peyton, LMFTA

Allie’s passion is working with adults, couples and teens on the different facets of identity we each hold to create pleasurable and safe relationships with self and others. Intimacy, communication, body image, attachment, family and societal narratives, and empowerment of emotional and physical needs and desires are a few of the areas Allie works with. Allie has experience with clients of varying walks of life and relationship constellation, kink/poly positive. Allie seeks to create healing and pleasurable relationships through building strengths, creating new meanings and intertwining a holistic perspective.

Certifications: BLOOM, Pride Program, RYT-200

Jenna Evans, LMHCA

Jenna works with families and individuals, particularly women and adolescent girls who suffer from depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, life transitions, and trauma. She is also passionate about working with young and seasoned athletes who need help with emotional regulation or sports anxiety, managing sports performance and outside stressors. Jenna incorporates mental training/visualization to help maximize sports performance.

Certifications: BLOOM, CBT, Mental Imagery

– Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –

Ashley Kortman, LMFTA

Ashley works with everyone, especially teens, adults, couples and families with a wide range of concerns in various stages of life. She is particularly interested in helping her clients work through concerns including anxiety, family relationships, depression, spirituality/religion, and self-image. She uses her experience from her education to access emotional vulnerability, including the use of art and theater to express oneself and promote healing.

Certifications: BLOOM

– Offering virtual (telehealth) appointments only –

Dawn Williams, LMFTA

After a 31-year career with a global humanitarian organization, Dawn is excited about her second act as a Marriage and Family Therapist. She is passionate about working with couples to strengthen their emotional and physical bonds through loving and effective communication strategies and techniques. She also enjoys working with families, adolescents, and children with a particular interest in helping people of color. Dawn is excited about learning, growing, and living her purpose, in addition to serving her community.

Certifications: BLOOM

Haley Ross, LMFTA

Haley likes working with anyone who is interested in digging into the processes, emotions, and stories beneath the surface that often drive our behaviors. She is particularly interested in assisting couples with navigating the inevitable challenges of nourishing a deep relationship. Haley takes a Narrative approach with her clients, in addition to applying her personal experience from ten years in the Personal Services industry.

Angharad Hollingworth, LMFTA

Angharad works with individuals, couples, and families of all backgrounds. She has a particular interest in working with the LGBTQ+ community, especially youth, parents, and couples trying to conceive. Prior to joining ITS, Angharad spent five years as a birth, fertility, and parenthood doula. She uses emotionally-focused and intuitive-based approaches with her clients.

Jami Brandt, LMFTA

Jami enjoys helping individuals and couples of all ages. She is especially passionate about helping children and adolescents with ADHD as well as navigating their futures. She brings her experiences with her family to her work with clients to help them address their concerns with compassion and creativity.

Kat VanTassel, LMFTA

Kat enjoys working with individuals, couples, and adults of all ages. She helps clients with concerns including depression, anxiety, workplace stress, identity development, trauma, communication, life transitions, and intimacy. She brings her experience working in elementary school settings to her therapeutic approach, incorporating a supportive, non-judgmental, curious, and empathetic attitude into relationships with her clients.

Trinity Songha, LMFTA

Trinity works with clients of all ages and backgrounds. She enjoys working with the LGBTQ+ community as well as helping couples navigate communication, intimacy, and bonding. Additionally, she has a special interest in helping first generation immigrants navigate acculturation challenges and cross-cultural dynamics. She brings her background in yoga and massage to her holistic approach to therapy, allowing her to incorporate mind, body, and spirit in the healing process.

Ahlia Kim, MS Candidate

Ahlia uses a collaborative approach to work with individuals, couples, and families of all ages. She utilizes a variety of models, including Narrative therapy, and integrates respect, compassion, and transparency into her relationship with her clients. She holds a special interest in working with people who desire to integrate their spirituality, faith practices, or personal beliefs into the therapeutic process. This includes addressing concerns including spiritual abuse, trauma, or disaffiliation from a religious community.

Katie Roberts, MS Candidate

Katie takes a collaborative, client-centered, solution-focused approach to her work with clients. She works with teens, adults, and couples. She can help with depression including self-injury and suicidal ideation, relationships, spirituality, self-esteem, and communication.

Darryl Cheng, MA Candidate

Darryl enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families of all ages and backgrounds. He has a special interest in helping clients navigate trauma, communication, life transitions, depression, and anxiety. He brings his experience growing up in Hawaii and being raised by immigrant parents to his therapeutic approach, believing in authentic connection and honoring the uniqueness of one’s journey.

McKinsey McMahon, MEd Candidate

McKinsey brings experience from her work at Pierce County Juvenile Court’s “Diversion” program, the Tacoma Boys and Girls Club, and as a preschool teacher’s assistant and childcare teacher to her work with clients. She utilizes Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Gestalt Therapy in her approach. She is passionate about helping her clients discover and achieve autonomy, wholeness, awareness, balance, personal responsibility, and power/control in their lives with the ultimate goal of improving her clients’ sense of health and wellness.

Erin Riggio, MEd Candidate

Erin takes a combined existential and person-centered approach with her clients, while integrating tools from third-wave CBT. She is passionate about helping her clients live meaningful, value-led lives while cultivating psychological flexibility. Erin helps clients of all ages find agency and improve mental well-being by emphasizing taking responsibility for the choices within the client’s control and taking appropriate action in line with those choices. She incorporates humor and humble curiosity into her interactions to build strong therapeutic relationships with her clients. While Erin is excited to work with anyone, she is particularly passionate about working with the perinatal population.

Priscilla Nguyen, MS Candidate

Priscilla brings experience from her work as a Medical Assistant at a Pediatric Neurology Private Clinic and at the Boys and Girls Club to her work with clients. These positions have taught her the power and importance of communication and collaboration while working with individuals and families of all backgrounds. She is particularly passionate about working with ethnic minorities as well as reducing negative stigma against mental health, especially in underserved populations. Her experience being raised in an Asian-American family helps inform her work regarding cultural differences and struggles. She is excited to help her clients improve their lives and support them through their struggles.

Luisa Gallardo, MA Candidate

Luisa brings her experience as a Case Manager with a specialty in the Latino community and her personal cultural experiences to her work at ITS. She creates a safe and judgment-free environment to help her clients feel comfortable and to help initiate positive changes in life and relationship satisfaction. She can help her clients identify unhelpful patterns and behaviors that may be contributing to a feeling of being stuck or overwhelmed. She is particularly interested in working with minority populations and couples. She can help her clients address concerns including generational trauma, women’s issues, infidelity, and spirituality.

Certifications: Training for Suicidal Ideation, Motivational Interviewing, Nativa en Espanol.

Kailee "Kay" Akers, MA Candidate

Kailee’s passion includes working with all ages and backgrounds. She holds a special interest in anxiety, depression, attachment, life transitions, and trauma. Kailee utilizes a mostly systemic Bowenian approach to working with clients. She also incorporates aspects of cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused techniques. She looks forward to teaching her clients mindfulness techniques in an effort help promote holistic healing. Kailee is open to seeing all clients, with particular interest in working with couples and teenagers.

Regan Rodriguez, MA Candidate

Regan works with individuals, couples, and families by utilizing a humanistic, systemic perspective with elements of solution-focused therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). She encourages change by providing alternate perspectives and creating collaborative plans to help her clients achieve their goals, while respecting their unique belief and value systems. Regan brings her experience from her work as a Registered Behavior Technician, Applied Behavior Analysis therapist, and crisis counseling to her clients at ITS.

Anthony Louthan, MA Candidate

Anthony utilizes a systemic orientation and strength-based approach with his clients. He enjoys helping his clients help themselves, especially those who may have difficulty asking for help and those in the midst of life transitions. Anthony brings experience from working in a mental health crisis triage facility to his clients at ITS.

Kristina Betz, MA Candidate

Kristina uses a combined approach of narrative, person-centered, and Bowenian family therapy while working with clients. She is passionate about helping her clients live meaningful and authentic lives while cultivating flexibility and compassion for oneself. Kristina is dedicated to working with adult relationships of any kind. She hopes to help her clients rediscover not only themselves, but their relationships through promoting awareness, balance, personal responsibility, and systemic care practices. Kristina has a specific interest in helping clients navigate trauma, communication and connection, grief, affairs, and life transitions together. Through working collaboratively with her clients, she strives to foster an empathetic and non-judgmental atmosphere that promotes client wellbeing.

Certifications: Gottman Trained

Allison Witham, MA Candidate

Allison strives to understand and celebrate the intricacies of her clients’ experiences. She utilizes solution-focused, narrative, and reality therapy to inform her approach and to build a healing space in the therapy room. She brings her experience from her work at a Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation inpatient facility and as a DUI county programmer. She looks forward to engaging with clients from all walks of life.

Alison Mim Mack, MA Candidate

Alison uses an Emotion-Focused and Solution-Focused approach with her clients. She works with individuals, couples, and families and she looks forward to working with members of the LGBTQ+ community. She can help her clients address many concerns including body image, sex therapy, gender identity, intimacy, and relationship concerns. Alison is sex positive and queer, kink, and poly friendly. She brings her experience working in community mental health and a residential treatment facility to her clients at ITS.

Ciara Field, MS Candidate

Coleman Frostad, LMFT

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Elizabeth

Ashleigh

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Jacqueline "Jacqui" Parkes, LMFT, LMHC, CMHS, Co-Founder of ITSNW