Randall Wright, PsyD

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Services

  • Individual therapy for adults

  • Couples therapy

Specialties

  • Anxiety

  •  Depression

  • Trauma and PTSD

  •  Addiction

  • Life transitions

  • Personal exploration and growth

  • Racial identity and cultural experience

  • LGBTIQ identity

  • Disability identity

Approach & About

I work with adults and couples who are dealing with difficult life experiences, relationship problems, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, ongoing medical conditions, and bipolar mood episodes.  My work also includes helping people who are negotiating social and cultural bias with race, gender, LGBTIQ, and disability identities.  As a therapist, my approach explores both immediate challenges and early relationships as they are commonly intertwined and inform our present experience.  Bringing compassion and understanding to emotional wounds and stuck relational patterns helps to untangle the stressed experiences, behaviors, and relationships of daily life.

My therapeutic approach draws on psychodynamic understandings of experience and behavior, interpersonal theory, and emotion focused therapy.  Work from these perspectives brings insight into life complications and deepens emotional engagement.  Therapy often involves finding new ways to understand one’s relationships, processing emotions tied to difficult life experiences, and exploring new forms of relating with greater depth. 

In working with couples, I use the Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) model to assist in re-aligning relationships around open and responsive emotional exchange.  When couples point fingers or dispute simple differences in opinion, they are doing the best they can.  What is needed for healing, however, is a deepening of the emotional level of relating.  Once couples develop this capacity, then they can begin to successfully work together to solve arguments and disagreements.  As couples come to understand and experience improved emotional communication, they can respond to conflict with more genuine feeling and care, rediscover love, and find a stronger relationship for handling future challenges.  EFT is a well-researched therapeutic model for helping couples.  Surveys show high positive outcomes and sustained relational improvement.  For further interest, please refer to Dr. Sue Johnson’s book, Hold Me Tight, which lays out the concepts and function of EFT.  (If research is not your thing, try starting with page 28.)

In Network With

  • BlueCross BlueShield

  • Cigna

  • Moda

  • Kaiser

  • PacificSource

  • Providence (cannot be Providence employee plan of Washington)

Self-Pay Rates

Intake: $300 (60-90min)

Therapy sessions: $275 for 60 minutes

Late Cancellations & No Shows: $95 first time; $185 second/subsequent