About Evelyn
Evelyn Herman greets people with warmth and directness. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 32 years of experience based in Washington. Evelyn focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
She works to create a listening space where clients can name what matters and begin to move forward. She uses straightforward tools and practices that people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
That includes mindfulness exercises to calm the body and attention, and cognitive techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking. She also brings narrative and client-centered methods to help people tell their story in new ways and feel heard. Evelyn describes her style as holistic.
She pays attention to emotions, thoughts, physical wellbeing, and what people call spirit. Practical work might include breathwork, guided imagery, or simple behavioral steps to improve sleep and daily routines. She has run a independent practice for many years and earlier co-directed a counseling team in Bellevue.
Over decades she has supported people facing trauma, abuse recovery, parenting struggles, blended family concerns, and life transitions like separation or career change. Sessions with Evelyn emphasize collaboration. She invites feedback, adapts approaches to individual needs, and offers concrete strategies to build self-esteem, manage anger, and repair connection.
Her goal is to help people gain more clarity, resilience, and a greater sense of possibility.
How Evelyn’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. In sessions the therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects feelings, and supports people as they make choices that fit their life. This approach is helpful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and exploring difficult emotions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that keep people stuck. Online work can include practicing thought records, trying behavioral experiments between meetings, and tracking changes in sleep or mood to guide next steps.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is about understanding emotional patterns that affect close relationships and personal wellbeing. It guides people to notice and name emotions, shift reactive cycles, and try new ways of connecting or responding.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels helpful. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make therapy more flexible. Video sessions let people work face-to-face when that is helpful. Phone calls require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging can support shorter check-ins or moment-to-moment processing. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English