About Mental Health Counseling with
Mercedes Cuevas, MA, LMHC
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Mission & Vision
I love to work with individuals who are ready to move beyond the cycles that leave them feeling stuck, used, hurt, and disconnected from their true selves. Change is hard and meaningful transformation can feel both impossible and lonely.
These patterns often show up as:
• Unhealthy coping mechanisms, bad habits, or difficulty managing stress and anxiety
• Difficulty forming relationships or maintaining connections
• Self-sabotage, self-harm, or suicidal thoughts
• Low self-esteem, depression, and dissatisfaction in relationships or family life
How I can Help: Healing looks different for everyone. I integrate several therapy models to create a supportive, holistic, and flexible experience.
It's been a privilege to be supporting individuals and families across all stages of life. I’m trained in:
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and general CBT
• Person-Centered Therapy
I also integrate techniques from:
• Motivational Interviewing
• Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
• Play Therapy and Art Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Everyone Is Welcome Here
At the heart of my work is genuine connection. I believe in building trust and tailoring interventions to what resonates most deeply with you. Once we establish a foundation of stability through evidence-based techniques, I’ll help you develop practical tools to manage emotions, change your behavior, foster peace, and transform unhelpful patterns to live a more fulfilling life. Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns, people of all ethnicities, gender-identities, sexual-orientation, nationality, and abilities are welcome.
I’m currently in the process of getting paneled with insurance providers, so for now I am contracted with United Health Care and self-pay only. I offer both in-person and virtual therapy sessions for healing and emotional growth, and coaching sessions for folks wanting to build confidence in parenting skills, social skills, or adaptive living skills with ADHD related issues. I also offer a sliding scale to help make care more accessible—just reach out and we can talk through what works best for you.
Serving People: Where Healing Meets Justice
There’s so much happening in our world right now, and I see how deeply it’s affecting people — especially those navigating the immigration system or facing detention. Northwest Immigrant Rights Project provide critical legal representation to immigrants in Washington State — including asylum seekers, families, and survivors of violence. If you would like to also help support free legal counsel to those in need, please show your receipt of a donation to NWIRP for a 10% Discount on your next session if using self-pay. If you are using insurance than know that 10% of all profits, go to NWIRP monthly.
Ready to Begin?
Not sure which service is right for you?
Let’s talk about your needs and explore the best fit for you with no pressure to commit with a free consultation
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Hit the Start Today button, go to the contact me page to ask a question, or get scheduled.
Services
Support for Healing, Growth, and Change
Choose the level of support that fits where you are today.
We offer Therapy and Counseling Services for emotional healing and Coaching Services for personal growth and life transitions.
Coaching Services
Coaching helps you move forward — focusing on your goals, motivation, and personal growth without clinical diagnosis.
Love-life, Dating, and Life Coaching
Gain clarity, confidence, and direction in life, sexual health, intimate relationships, or career transitions.
Together we’ll identify strengths, create goals, and build accountability for change towards a more fulfilled life.
Parenting Coaching
Create structure, connection, and confidence in your parenting. Parenting skills may be needed with or without medical diagnosis being made.
Learn skills for managing behavioral challenges and building positive family relationships and improve communication.
Therapy vs Coaching
Therapy vs Coaching
Emotional Recovery Personal growth
Addresses past trauma Focuses on future
Led by licensed Led by trained clinician coach
May use insurance Self-pay, goal-based
Longer term goals shorter duration
Therapy Services:
Therapy offers space to understand your emotions, heal from difficult experiences, and create lasting change
Individual Therapy for Adults, Youths, and Children
I offer personalized therapy sessions to support adults and youth navigating major stressors that causes grief, anxiety, depression, trauma responses, addiction, and can include late developmental diagnoses such as ADHD.
For younger clients, sessions focus on building emotional resilience and self-worth through engaging in creative evidence-based approaches—helping prevent the development of unhealthy coping patterns.
Couples Counseling & Family Therapy
Strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and navigate relationship or parenting challenges.
Learn new ways to connect with understanding and respect.
DBT Skills & Emotional Regulation
Learn practical tools to manage stress, regulate mood, and build mindfulness. DBT is known to be especially helpful for mood disorders, addiction, and depression among other things. DBT group or one-on-one support helps reduce unsafe behaviors and improve self-control.
Affiliations and Education
Mercedes Cuevas is an Affiliate of Encounter Psychotherapy in Seattle, and is proud to work with Kevin Klevjer, LMHC and Katherine Klevjer, LMHC.
LMHC, LH61675209
American Counseling Association, Member
Washington Mental Health Counselors Association, Member
Palo Alto University
Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling, 2021
Central Washington University
B.S. in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and a
Minor in Psychology, 2017
CONTACT
Drop us a line
Get in Touch:
If you are interested in starting services please call, or schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if we are a good fit and answers questions on the phone or video with this link directly, click here for a
Consultation.
Phone: (425) 610-7406
Office location:
4501 15th Ave South, Suite 103
Seattle, WA 98108
Here to Help!
If you are not ready to schedule an initial consultation or session and have additional questions you are still welcome to call or submit the form below to have concerns addressed. Form requests will be responded to within 24 hours during weekdays and 48 hours on weekend with an email.
