About Alma
Alma Quinden is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience in Washington. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addictions. Alma aims to create an approachable atmosphere where people can begin to feel understood and safer making changes.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms and everyday struggles. Sessions are practical and paced to each person's needs. Alma pays attention to how past relationships and life events shape current feelings and behavior.
How Alma works
Her work includes attention to attachment concerns, family of origin issues, and communication problems that can leave people feeling isolated. She also supports those coping with guilt, shame, emptiness, and mood disorders. Substance use and dissociation are addressed with focused, goal-oriented conversation and planning.
Alma has long experience with aging and geriatric issues, first responder stress, and veteran and armed forces concerns. She understands immigration-related stress and multicultural challenges, and she aims to hold those contexts in mind while helping someone find workable steps forward. People meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Alma works to match practical strategies to each person’s life. She encourages small experiments between sessions to build stamina and change day-to-day patterns.
What Alma works with
The areas below are the ones Alma selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How evidence-based care fits into online therapy
Alma draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in an online setting. One common approach she uses involves structured, goal-focused work to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms by practicing new skills and tracking small changes between sessions. Another key element is trauma-informed work that helps people understand how past events affect current reactions and builds gradual safety and coping strategies.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alma will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what helps most over time.
Online therapy with Alma is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates and questions between sessions or have shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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