About Evelyn
Evelyn Herman is a Washington state Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings 32 years of experience to therapy. She focuses on helping people reduce anxiety and stress, work through grief and trauma, and improve relationships and intimacy. Her style aims to make clients feel heard and supported so they can tackle painful issues with practical steps.
She combines mind and body awareness with talking therapy. That means sessions may include noticing bodily sensations, breath work, and simple grounding practices alongside conversation.
Background and approach
Evelyn also uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and shift them into more useful ways of thinking. Mindfulness exercises and guided imagery are a common part of her work. Those tools help people become more present and less overwhelmed by emotions.
She also draws on emotionally-focused strategies to strengthen how clients understand and express feelings in relationships. Evelyn has run a independent practice for many years and previously co-directed a counseling team in Bellevue, Washington. She has supported people through major life transitions, adoption and foster care issues, blended family concerns, and recovery from abuse.
Her experience covers a wide range of life challenges including parenting, career shifts, loneliness, and questions of life purpose. In sessions she invites client feedback and tailors the plan to each person’s needs. She describes therapy as a team effort where practical tools, gentle exploration, and attention to the body help people build clarity, confidence, and renewed direction.
How somatic and talking therapies work online
Somatic-informed work combines attention to body sensations with conversation. Online sessions can include simple breath work, guided grounding, and noticing physical responses alongside talking about difficult memories or symptoms. This can help with anxiety, trauma-related reactions, sleep problems, and stress.Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s experience at the center. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s pace so people feel understood and can explore what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes in thinking or behavior to reduce symptoms like depression and worry.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can shift as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules, make it easier to keep appointments, and let clients continue work between live sessions using messages or brief check-ins.
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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