Patrick J. Hart Psy.D.
Thanks for Your Interest in My Practice!    206-547-HELP
People visit my private counseling and psychotherapy practice for solutions to a variety of psychological difficulties. The atmosphere at The Hart Center Mental Health offers a quiet and relaxed setting to safely explore and resolve your most perplexing personal challenges.

Remain at Ease with Your Self-Discovery:
Learn Effective Personal Coping Skills: Help for Adaptation to Life Change
Clients find themselves at ease with my clinical style as we explore and discover the therapeutic approaches that work best for them. Psychological (personal coping skills) competence can be developed through enhanced awareness, dedicated rehearsal and learning of practical coping skills that help us adapt to life-change and embellish our lives. Seattle Washington: Wallingford district location is convenient to Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland and Mercer Island Areas.

Life must be lived forward . . .
We may not live in the past, yet the past lives in us. –Soren Kierkegaard

Clinical work includes mental health evaluation and psychotherapy for problems of mood like depression, generalized anxiety disorder or bipolar disorder. Solution focused counseling and therapy aims to resolve struggles with fear and anxiety that induce conditions like "panic attack," post traumatic stress disorder PTSD or social phobia.

Learning Psychological Competency:
Self-Regulation: Manage Your Moods ~ Emotions ~ Behaviors
Do your moods and emotions seem to be managing you?

Counseling services provide therapy and counseling resources and skills-development for the management of unwanted habits and compulsive behaviors. Cognitive behavioral therapy will help you remedy problems of mood and emotions – anxiety and worry, grief, frustration – anger management - sadness and fear. Behavioral problems involving various forms of avoidance, procrastination, perfectionism and similar self-defeating tendencies may also be resolved.

As a psychotherapist, I help clients gain clarity and awareness of vital life values and specified personal goals as we effectively explore the nature of their mental health challenges. The therapeutic learning of cognitive–behavioral coping skills requires dedicated rehearsal to maintain personal (psychological) practices that reinforce and assure lasting personal change.

Treatment Matching: Referral to Therapists & Psychologists in Seattle
My services include therapist matching and counselor referral recommendations to select psychologists and other practitioners when clients present with difficulties that are beyond the scope of my practice. You may desire referrals to psychiatrists for evaluation for medicines, or to medical doctors, chiropractors, and alternative specialists like naturopathic physicians, acupuncturists or massage therapists. I maintain a referral base of clinical neuro psychologists and forensic psychologists for clients that require psychological tests and measures and empirically based psychological assessment inventories.

Psychotherapy in Seattle - Bellevue: Maintain Your Mental Health!
My practice offers a relaxed and entirely private setting for anyone wishing to explore personal growth – or compromised mental health. As a practicing psychotherapist and mental health counselor, I enjoy working with people that are feeling perplexed or overwhelmed by the complexities of their psychological life. As a licensed therapist and counselor, I treat Individuals that have experienced trauma, abuse, or domestic violence. Marital couples and individuals struggling with relationships are welcome to speak safely with me about options for renewal and change. I maintain a large referral network of Seattle's best marriage counselors, marital therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Convenient to Seattle, Bellevue, Redomond, Krikland and Mercer Island Washington.

Couples and Marital Counseling: Harmonize Your Relationships
My counseling practice provides solution-focused psychotherapy and skills-based behavioral counseling for couples in conflict. Working as a relationship counselor, I enjoy helping committed couples develop coping strategies to resolve relationship problems. I help couples adjust to the changes, challenges, and stress that is implicit in living in vital relationship. I also work as a counselor and therapist for “recovering couples” that are rebounding from “codependency” and addictive relationship roles.

Behavioral Health Counselor: Manage Your Self-Limiting Habits
Solution oriented counseling services include behavior-regulation (health and life defeating habits or behavior therapy for compulsions like gambling, pornography, chat rooms, internet role play games, shopping and I specialize with various relapse-prevention strategies (e.g., smoking, eating, alcohol and other drug abuse). Frequently people present to my Seattle practice with challenges that involve various forms of avoidance, problems with self-regulation, poor impulse-control, and unwanted habits of compulsive behaviors. My philosophy of mental health emphasizes psychological learning principles that enhance personal competency through skills-development and the rehearsal and maintenance of behavioral-health.

Psychologically Based Alternatives to Twelve-Step Programs
As an alternative or addition to “twelve-step” programs like alcoholics anonymous, alanon, narcotics anonymous or codependency anonymous – I offer my clients contemporary “cognitive behavioral therapy” and “skills-based counseling” approaches for learning “self-regulation” to enhance their lives.

Through such counseling methods I assist people in changing life defeating habits or “compulsions” like internet games, chat rooms, gambling, binge eating, sex addiction, internet pornography and the like. I teach various behavioral self-management (coping-skills) that target problems with diminished impulse control, and teach self-regulation and avoidance reduction strategies to enhance goal directed outcomes that clients wish to achieve in their lives.

Seattle Mental Health Counselor: Behavioral Health is Your Key to Vital Living!

Cautious Individuals Seeking Private Help are Welcome:
    * Health professionals and other wary individuals of public profile
    * Principals and executives of professional organizations or groups
    * Vigilant associates and friends of compromised-defensive individuals
    * Private and confidential evaluation and treatment recommendations
    * Counseling for defendants arrested for drunk driving DUI in Seattle.


Telephone Conference Options: Explore Your Mental Health!
Consultation services are readily available by means of telephone conference. If you prefer this form of contact with me, we can schedule a convenient time. Many clients have found satisfaction in this form of communication – substantial gains may be accomplished – even by telephone.

205-547-HELP
Dr. Patrick J. Hart
Seattle Private Mental Health Practice: Therapist & Counselor

"Jails were built to detain criminals, bad persons, who willingly and willfully (trengress) the civil and social laws. . . . The mentally ill are innocents, guilty of nothing but behaving under disease. Jailing the mentally ill makes as much sense as jailing someone for contracting tuberculosis." -- Dorthea Dix

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Dr. Patrick J. Hart
The Hart Center Mental Health Counseling
A Private Practice: Counselor and Therapist in Seattle Bellevue

Evaluation and Addiction Treatment Matching
Psychotherapy and Behavioral Health Counseling
Referrals To Seattle Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Therapists:
I will help explore your mental health challenges and find solutions for problems that are beyond the scope of my practice.

Treatment Matching:
For Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Schema Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, EMDR, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy and other approaches to psychological change

Mental Health Assessment:
For Depression, anxiety disorders, panic attack, post traumatic stress disorder, anger management, bipolar illness and psychiatric disorders like schizphrenia.

Make Informed Choices:
For appropriate addiction treatment alternatives and drug "rehab" or addiction rehabilitation and recovery center programs for alcohol and other drug problems. Call for recommendations to the best 12 step programs in Seattle or Bellevue. Alcoholics anonymous, narcotics anonymous, codependency anonymous and Alanon will help you get honest about substance abuse and learn if you are confronted by issues of addiction or chemical dependency. If you seek twelve step alternatives and personal skills-based cognitive behavior counseling to enhance your 12 step work -- give me a call. 206-547-HELP (4357).