Hannah Bliss, LMHC

Hi, I'm Hannah. I am a licensed mental health counselor in Washington state. I provide psychotherapy to individual adults in Issaquah. I offer office, virtual, and outdoor services. As a queer therapist, I have a special fondness for working with folks identifying as LGBTQIA+.

My education includes a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Bastyr University, where I was trained in trauma-informed psychodynamic and existential therapy. I began my counseling career at a group practice centered around LGBTQIA+ mental health, working primarily with relational issues, self-development (identity, self-concept, self-esteem), and eating disorders. My professional background includes teaching high school, coaching athletics, and infant care.

Therapy with me

I am a relational psychodynamic therapist - I believe that powerful healing can happen in relationship. Much of our human pain and struggle occurs in our relationships: to self, to others, to the world. Therapy offers a relationship dedicated to your emotional development. My hope is to co-create a relational space with you, in which you feel seen and safe enough to tell your story, explore a deeper understanding of yourself and your experience, and wrestle with both change and acceptance.

My work is grounded in a holistic, systemic, social justice lens: that emotions are natural responses, and it is important to consider all aspects of our context.

Through our work together, people often experience increased self understanding and self compassion, feel more connected in their relationships and more aligned with their values in their lives. This is a courageous, messy, beautiful, human journey and I am honored to join you.

Commitment to growth

I love that in this work there is always more to learn. I dedicate regular time to continued education and growth with trainings, consultation, supervision, therapy and reading discussion to keep expanding my understanding of the human experience, therapy theory and practice, social justice issues, and my own personal work.

Professional Memberships

WMHCA - Washington Mental Health Counselors Association

NWAPS - Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study

"Being listened to by someone who understands makes it possible for persons to listen more accurately to themselves, with greater empathy toward their own visceral experiencing, their own vaguely felt meanings."

Carl Rogers