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Canal Place Office Park
150 Nickerson Street
Suite 203
Seattle, WA 98109
Phone 206.352.1900
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Welcome! My name is Harriet Cannon. I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Mental Health Counselor with over 20 years experience as a psychotherapist and consultant in the US and internationally. I help individuals, couples, families, and organizations create satisfying connections in their relationships, and success in their professional environments.
To facilitate effective change I believe in a systemic philosophy, and methods which consider not only an individual’s world view but also the larger social, economic, and political context in which the client lives and works.
Areas of Specialization:
- Life, Work, and Relationship Transitions
- Multicultural Identity and Relationships
- International Travelers - Expatriation and Repatriation
Life, Work, Relationship, Transitions
“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.”
Many people find psychotherapy helpful in navigating transitions such as: career changes, difficulties in your life as a couple, personal or professional losses, planning for or living in retirement. I use a psychodynamic and systemic approach to psychotherapy which means we look at not only your personal world view but also the context in which you live and work. With a systemic psychotherapy experience you can shape successful changes using a philosophical and strategically planned course of action.
A typical experience in psychotherapy with a systemic approach can include:
1. The “Shake Up
Your life has taken a change or direction which you may or may not have chosen. Your perspective will never be quite the same again. There are changes and losses to acknowledge and work through.
2. Values Clarification
How do you want to interpret the important values, events and patterns in your past in light of the present? What kind of re-evaluation is necessary to give you the best guidance now?
3. A New Mindset
Together we delve into unproductive thought patterns and behaviors that are blocking your creative work and relationships. When you understand the interrelationship of personal, family, work and economic influences in your life, you gain confidence and new strategies you can act on.
4. Staying Fresh
A new plan is the first goal. How does it work as you begin to live it? Having a systemic perspective will keep you on track by fine tuning your new direction, and avoiding the tendency to slip into unproductive patterns which no longer fit your world view.
“Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of somebody else.”
Multicultural Identity and Relationships
“The heart has its reasons that reason doesn’t understand.”
1. Communication
My role is to provide psychotherapy, intercultural communication education, and training for individuals, couples, and organizations who desire more effective, harmonious relationships. You may be seeking these services either personally or professionally in our vast multicultural, global community.
2. Cultural Identity
I assist clients in clearly defining themselves by understanding and integrating their various life influences and experiences. This includes languages, events, and cultures experienced while growing up or living in a multicultural or multiracial environment, or living as an expatriate.
3. Bi-cultural Couples and Multicultural Families
By facilitating understanding, communication, conflict resolution, and parenting, I counsel clients who are aware that their cultural differences are creating problems in their relationships.
“The finest thing in the world…is knowing how to belong to oneself.”
International Travelers’ Expatriation and Repatriation
“Every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you are left puzzling who you are and who you’ve fallen in love with”
1. Expatriation Assessment and Preparation
How? By accessing the relocation risks, coaching to ease those risks, and preparing clients psychologically prior to an international relocation.
2. Culture Shock
I teach the skills needed to cope with intense cultural transitions to avoid the pitfalls of stress-related health problems and depression, while managing personal and professional agendas.
3. Repatriation and Beyond
I assist clients in navigating the challenges that come with re-entering their culture of origin and taking best advantage of personal and professional strengths accrued while living internationally.
“We must take the feeling of being at home into exile…We must be rooted in the absence of a place.”
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