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CoHear Staff Profiles
HELPING EVERYONE ACHIEVE RESULTS
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 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,
LMHC
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(pronounced Ja-Win) Chia-wen is a
Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington
State, Ethnic Minority Mental Health Specialist, and a Child Mental
Health Specialist. With her person-centered and strength-based
therapeutic approaches, she has assisted children, adolescents, and
adults in making positive changes. Clients from diverse backgrounds
have gained insights in overcoming life struggles, and achieving
their personal, relational and professional goals with her
Multi-Cultural Counseling perspectives. Chia-wen has the first-hand
experience with cultural adjustment, as an immigrant from Taiwan.
She has a deep sense of compassion and desire to help people with
life transitions such as the journey of immigration, adoption,
cultural adjustment, identity crisis, and loss and grief. Trilingual
in Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, and English, Chia-wen has served as
a counselor in Los Angeles and Seattle area. She has worked with
diverse populations in college, drug and gang prevention program,
tobacco cessation program, disaster relief counseling, and Asian
American community mental health agencies. In her free time,
Chia-wen enjoys spending time with family and friends around the
globe, trying out healthy exercise routines, reading, writing, and
watching movies.
Marla Martin MA,
LMHCA - 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,
MA, LMHCA -
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 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 the Assistant Director 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.
 Marie Hoddevik, MA, LMHC-
Marie obtained her MA in Counseling from Mars Hill Graduate
School in 2004. With specialized training in Domestic
Violence, she has counseled both female victims and
perpetrators of abuse. She has extensive experience working
with issues surrounding physical, emotional, spiritual and
sexual abuse, depression, anxiety, and relational problems.
Marie primarily works from a relational style of therapy,
drawing upon psychodynamic and existential, family of
origin, and didactic resources. She believes that the source
of our greatest joy and fears, our deepest pain and desires,
are rooted in relational issues. Marie views the counseling
process as an alliance from which a safe
place is provided to explore how our styles of relating
interferes with experiencing a full and meaningful life.
Hope is offered as the roots of these issues and explored,
creating the possibility that healing can begin its work.
In her free
time, Marie enjoys hiking in the mountains of Northwest and
Norway, reading, baking, classical music, and spending time
with her 10 grandchildren, family, and friends.
 Kit
Ko, ARNP,
is a board certified psychiatric mental health nurse
practitioner with prescriptive authority. She believes that
mental health challenges have biological, psychological, and
social underpinnings that can be addressed through therapy
and medication together. In her practice, Kit focuses on
pharmacological interventions to address mood and anxiety
disorders, but can also provide some brief, solution-focused
therapy to identify client strengths and treatment goals in
conjunction with medication management. She draws from
seven years of clinical experience in psychiatry and holds a
Masters of Nursing with Honors from the University of
Washington. In her free time, Kit enjoys spending time with
family, salsa dancing, cooking, and is studying Spanish and
German.
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