Client Services

People don’t need to be fixed, only seen and witnessed for who they are and offered individualized tools and skills to function in a challenging world. At Connect, we want to help you understand how your environment might be causing some of the challenging behaviors that you or your kiddo might be struggling with. Working with professionals shouldn’t leave you feeling inadequate or worse than when you started. At Connect, Dr Rachel Hughes works hard to give you the compassion you deserve for your situation and a hand of support in identifying the next best step for you and your family, even if that’s not with her. All of the services at Connect Counseling are identity-affirming to support you and your family becoming the best version of yourselves. 

Once we understand the context and more about how you’d like your life to operate differently, we can make an individualized support plan that includes skill building, validation, value clarification, and define purposeful action towards your goals. Dr Rachel uses an evidence-based therapy lens of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and strategic family therapy to create a personal and family compass of values that will help guide you to the right choices for you long after sessions have ended. Read more about some of our service options and our service costs below. 

Parent Coaching Options

Dr Rachel Hughes integrates over a decade of experience as a mental health therapist to take parent coaching to the next level of effectiveness. Together, you’ll devise an intervention plan tailored to your family’s needs, empowering you to foster a nurturing environment where your child can flourish. Let’s collaborate to create a more enjoyable atmosphere for everyone in your family and make your life as a parent even more fulfilling.

Individual, Family, and Group Therapy Options

If you or your child or teen want to work on more person-specific challenges, therapy can be a wonderful option to get compassionate support. Dr Rachel is a marriage and family therapist in Washington and a therapeutic game master and frequently works with card games, board games, and other play activities in session with youth and families to offer an alternative enjoyable way to making progress towards your therapy goals. She uses a foundational General Systems Theory model, strategic therapy to shift the stick-in-the-mud feeling of difficult patterns or interactions in your family and pair this with the value-based interventions of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you confidently navigate forward for future situations beyond our therapeutic relationship.

Insurance Information: Our practice is currently out-of-network practice with most insurances in Washington State. We provide monthly superbills so that you can seek reimbursement with your insurance.  

Online Asynchronous Learning Options at ConnectEdU

Finally, our virtual classes allow parents to engage with the material on their own time and at their own pace. This flexibility makes it easier for parents to gain valuable insights and strategies for supporting their neurodiverse and gender minority children while balancing their other responsibilities. The courses are designed to foster understanding, promote healthy relationships, and provide practical guidance for navigating the unique challenges these families may face.