Bellevue Washington Individual, Couples, Group, Family, Child Counseling Services
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CoHear Staff Profiles

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Management Team

Brian L. Whitney, MA, LMFT, LMHC - President and Operations Director - administrator of the Employee Assistance Program contracts. Brian has been an owner, officer, therapist, consultant, and seminar leader with CoHear since its inception in 1974.

Linda Miller, Office Manager - Linda manages the administrative office. She brings a diverse Work experience to CoHear, including years of background in Office and Credit Management for Construction, Boating, Banking and Software development businesses. As CoHear's Office Manager, she is responsible for managing day-to-day operations, including bookkeeping, scheduling, marketing, customer service, and human resources. Linda's personal hobbies include interior design and gardening.

Counselors / Consultants

Brian WhitneyBrian L. Whitney, MA, LMFT, LMHC - Brian has been a therapist and business consultant since 1971. He is a Washington State Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor. He uses a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach in treatment. Brian understands the impact of significant relationships in life, and their effect upon one's health. In Brian's counseling practice, he works with children, adults, and families, specializing in marital relationships, depression, trauma and sexual addiction and infidelity. As a management consultant and an Employee Assistance Provider, Brian conducts Critical Incident Stress Debriefings and Conflict Management Services, as well as leadership and staff development training. Brian enjoys spending time with his family, reading, travel, and playing tennis.

Chia-Wen Chen MA  - (pronounced Ja-Win) offers holistic, strength-based, person-centered and      multicultural counseling approaches.  She encourages self-awareness and acceptance when working with clients in their psychosocial struggles.  Her areas of special interest include interpersonal relationships, body image, spirituality and self-worth, as well as transitional distress in families and in the workplace.  She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Washington and Masters of Arts in Counseling from Seattle University.  She has worked with at-risk Asian immigrant youth and families, and has assisted diverse populations in a smoking cessation program.  She completed her one-year internship    at the Seattle Pacific University Student Counseling Center, working with individuals and groups.  She is an active member of the American Counseling Association, presenting her focus group study in minority young adults and self-efficacy issues at their 2008 annual convention in Hawaii.  Born in Taiwan, Chia-Wen also speaks Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese fluently, and is passionate about promoting cross-cultural understanding.  She enjoys reading, journaling, singing, hiking and spending time with family and friends.

Marla Martin MA - Marla views the therapeutic process as a collaborative partnership between client and therapist.  She places a strong emphasis on developing rapport and trust with her clients.  At the same time, she focuses on the dynamics that relationships, cultures, and faith play in the difficulties of her clients.  Marla has worked with teens and adults on issues ranging from developing self-esteem, depression, anxiety, abuse, grief, life transitions, spirituality, and sexuality.  She uses a holistic approach to counseling including cognitive-behavioral, person-centered, and family systems models.  Marla earned her Masters of Arts from Northwest University in Counseling Psychology, and holds a Bachelors of Arts in Journalism and Spanish from New Mexico State University.  She speaks Spanish, enjoys traveling, sports, reading, and making the most of sunny Seattle days.

 

Steve Sandvik Steve Sandvik, MA - Steve is a knowledgeable and compassionate professional with a Master's in Psychology from Antioch University, Seattle targeted in Mental Health Counseling. While at Antioch, he completed coursework in The Center for Programs in Psychology in the Child, Couple, and Family Therapy combined with the Mental Health Counseling Program. Steve believes it is essential to establish a safe space to look at one’s presenting problems; he has a broadminded perspective, and notices one's personal choice, opinion, conformity, and belief concerning their life or family. Steve practices a wide-ranging therapeutic orientation that helps him treat various clinical issues including addictions, sexual compulsivity and risk-taking behaviors, men's issues, family dynamics, and trauma resolution and healing. Additionally, Steve leverages a successful business history with Alaska Airlines, Nordstrom, and CoHear, delivering top-tear customer service ensuring complete customer satisfaction, and strong long-term relationships.

Shawn Whitney Shawn B. Whitney, MS, LMFT - Shawn has personal and professional experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups around psychosocial and medical health issues. He is a Washington State Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.  In addition to his work with CoHear, Shawn works as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in the Student Counseling Center at Seattle Pacific University. He is passionate about strengthening people and relationships through the exploration of family and interpersonal dynamics. He provides services to individuals and families and employs a wide range of clinical assessment tools to determine client issues and needs. The psychosocial conditions Shawn provides ongoing treatment for include anxiety and depression, abuse and trauma, marriage and relationship issues, health and wellness, spirituality/faith issues, identity development issues, and sexuality. He believes a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach to health is the most comprehensive method of treatment. Shawn enjoys spending time with his family, getting outdoors, and cheering on his local sports teams.

 

Dr. Troy Fenlason PSY. D. is a Clinical Psychologist. He provides assessment and therapeutic services for adult individuals, couples, and therapy groups. He is motivated toward helping people step into their life struggles with the hope of finding more meaningful ways of life and more fulfilling ways of being together. He sees the process of therapy as striving together to find new ways of living out of past experiences and current struggles. His therapeutic approach is primarily relational, which means it is far more than an educational, intellectual, or emotional experience. Troy has a breadth of experience attending to a variety of issues causing emotional distress, and with equal strength, his doctoral focus has given him a specialized understanding for the impact of abuse in intimate/family relationships with insight into change and healing processes for either perpetrators or victims of relational abuses.

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