Christina Wellman, LMHC

Christina Wellman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a child mental health specialist. Wellman grew up in rural Washington state in a Shelton-like community with a strong forestry industry. She was a quirky kid who loved reading, riding bikes, and talking to trees. She still loves those things and enjoys helping kids and parents and what they love about life and each other.

She aims to be a culturally humble practitioner in working with folks with marginalized identities: rural, working class, immigrant, BIPOC and LGBTQ, to name a few.

Person-centered counseling; the tension between self-compassion and the need for change; Hand-in-Hand parenting (and other interpersonal neurobiology approaches); EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing); trauma-informed work that brings in the body; intergenerational trauma from Resmaa Menakem and Bowen Family Systems; family play therapy; childhood trauma; Play Therapy (for clients of all ages, 5-95); Interpersonal Neurobiology; attunement and attachment in parenting; anxiety and depression; school-age children; neurodivergence; survivors of sexual assault; immigrant populations.

MA, Counseling Psychology, Washington State University, 2010

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Child Mental Health Specialist

Registered Play Therapist

Certication in Bowen Family Systems