Our Team

We work with people ages 16+ of all genders, sexual-orientations, cultural backgrounds, and life experiences. We offer couples and individual therapy, drawing from a variety of holistic and evidence-based modalities. We are passionate about getting to the heart of what's really going on. We love what we do and are humbled to walk beside you on your healing journey. Our goal is to support you in connection; connection to yourself, those you love, and our world.

Elizabeth Thomson, she/her/hers
LSWAIC

Elizabeth is a Licensed Social Worker Associate Independent Clinician who offers Eco-Somatic, Emotionally-Focused and EMDR therapy to individuals and couples.

About Elizabeth
Jonathan Barry, he/him/his
LICSW

Jonathan is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. Jonathan offers EMDR, Emotionally Focused, and Somatic Therapy to individuals and couples.

About Jonathan

info@essentialwholenesscounseling.com

Bellingham, WA

We are dedicated to the discernment of truth, no matter how complex the circumstances.

We recognize the destruction, devastation, and tragedy that befell the indigenous peoples and families who have known this land as home for time immemorial when white colonizers arrived around 1850.

We recognize the wisdom lineages and wisdom keepers of the Coast Salish Nations, including the Lummi and Nooksack Nations.

We recognize the benefits we receive from the numberless generations of intimacy and deep relationship carried through by these Nations with Coast Salish land and waters.

We recognize the profound effects of genocide and forced removal that occurred and continue to occur on this land today by those who hold systemic privilege and seek domination and self-interest.

We recognize that racism and all forms of oppression/domination are born of fear.

We recognize that we are in positions of systemic privilege due to these methods of oppression and domination.

We recognize the incalculable injustice and violence that was and is perpetrated against People of the Global Majority, including Indigenous People and Black People.

We recognize the injustice and violence that was and is perpetrated against people of various sexualities, ethnicities, and genders.

We recognize that these systems of injustice and violence lead to devastation, suffering, and division for all.

We recognize the unfathomable potential we have when we come together as a united community of life on Earth, humbled by the truth of interdependence, and willing to be uncomfortable while learning new ways.

We recognize that our existence is interdependent with all life.

We recognize the sacred rights of all beings, human and more-than human.

We honor and appreciate the necessity of learning to care for all life on Earth.