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Find Calm and Support for Life’s Challenges

Trusted and caring guidance for Washington individuals, couples, families & kids

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Feeling Stuck or Struggling to Cope?

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Life can get heavy, whether it’s feeling stuck in grief, facing tough moments in a relationship, or coping with the ups and downs of parenting. Sometimes emotions like worry, sadness, or anger make it hard to get through each day.

Stress, conflict at home, or concerns about your teen might be weighing on your mind. You’re not alone if things feel a bit too much right now.

As experience clinicians, our goal is to help you uncover your true potential and lead a life worth celebrating. While we can’t change the past, we can work together to understand and resolve current challenges.

Using a variety of therapeutic approaches, we’ll address long-standing behaviors and negative perceptions that may be holding you back from a more fulfilling and meaningful life. 

Trusted by Washington families for over 15 years.

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We help identify the root cause and create a clear path forward.

Eastside Counseling Center: Support for Every Stage of Life

Since opening our doors in Kirkland and Bellevue, we have supported people across Washington State with a range of counseling services. Eastside Counseling Center began as a small collective and has grown into a trusted resource for families, couples, and individuals.

Our team helps with anxiety, trauma, addiction, grief, and much more, offering both in-person and virtual appointments. We work with children, teens, and adults, so you can always find care that fits your needs.

What makes us different? We proudly accept insurance and believe in making therapy as easy to access as possible for our community.

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How to Know When It’s Time to Start Therapy: Early Signs People Miss

December 4, 2025

Feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck can happen quietly. Most people don’t wake up one day and suddenly decide they need therapy. Instead, the signs build slowly through stress, emotional fatigue, or patterns that become difficult to manage alone. Knowing when it might be time to start therapy can help you get support before challenges feel unmanageable.

This guide explores subtle but meaningful indicators that therapy could be helpful, along with what it looks like to take the first step.

You’re functioning, but everything feels harder than it used to

A common misconception is that people only seek therapy during crisis. In reality, many individuals are still keeping up with work, relationships, and responsibilities, but with significantly more me

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The Surrender of Winter: When the Body Learns What the Inner Self Already Knows

November 21, 2025

Winter invites a kind of surrender that most of us resist. The days shorten, the air cools, the world becomes quieter ~ and in that stillness, something inside us softens. Something inside us slows. Something inside us is asked to let go.

This season mirrors a truth many of us experience in moments of transformation:
our inner self often understands the next chapter long before our body does.

Your inner self knows how to surrender.
Your deeper wisdom knows how to open, how to trust, how to follow the quiet pull toward something new.


But the body ~  that beautiful, complex, loyal container ~  needs time. It needs support.

Because the body holds:

  • timelines
  • habits
  • fear
  • tension
    old identities
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Your Future Self Will Thank You

Find the help you need so you don’t have to wait to feel understood and heard.

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Contact

BELLEVUE OFFICE
4122 Factoria Blvd SE, Suite 405
Bellevue, WA 98006

Hours

Mon–Sat: 9am–6pm
Sun: By Appointment
KIRKLAND OFFICE
625 4th Ave, Suite 203
Kirkland, WA 98033
Office & Intake (425) 242-6267
Email intake@eastsidecounselingcenter.com
Mon–Sat: 9am–6pm
Sun: By Appointment

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