Individual Therapy for Adults — Telehealth in Washington State
Compassionate, unhurried one-on-one therapy for adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, burnout, trauma, and questions of meaning. Delivered by secure video with Heinz Malon, LMFT — 31 years of pastoral and clinical experience.
Individual Therapy for Adults
Sometimes you can name exactly what’s wrong. A specific loss. A relationship that ended. A diagnosis.
Other times you just know that something is off. That you’re exhausted in a way that sleep doesn’t fix. That you’re going through the motions of a life that used to mean more. That you feel anxious without being able to say what, specifically, you’re anxious about.
Individual therapy is where we make room for both kinds of experience and start working toward something better.
My approach to individual therapy is grounded in Marriage and Family Therapy training, which means I’ll always be curious about the context you live in — your relationships, your family of origin, your work, your values, the communities you belong to and the ones you’ve left behind.
You’re not an isolated set of symptoms. You’re a living person, and that life matters. On top of that foundation, I draw from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for real-time nervous-system work, EMDR for trauma and stuck emotional material, Logotherapy for questions of meaning in hard seasons, and three decades of pastoral and clinical experience sitting with people in grief, transition, and ordinary human struggle.
Common reasons adults start individual therapy:
- Anxiety that interferes with sleep, work, or relationships
- Depression that has settled in quietly and just won’t lift
- Grief — for a person, a relationship, a role, or a version of yourself
- Life transitions: career pivots, empty nest, retirement, aging parents, divorce
- Burnout and the slow erosion of feeling like yourself
- Unresolved trauma or hard childhood material that keeps resurfacing
- A creeping sense that something is missing, or that you’ve lost track of what matters
- Faith questions, doubt, religious trauma, or spiritual transitions
Individual therapy is not one-size-fits-all. Some clients come in for a focused piece of work — six or eight sessions to get through a specific thing — and then we wrap up. Others stay longer, working through layered material over time. Either is fine. The structure follows the work, not the other way around.
Whatever brought you to this page, you don't have to have it figured out before you call. Most people don't — and if you did, you probably wouldn't need therapy. Let's just start.
What Does a Typical Session Look Like?
Sessions are 50 to 60 minutes, delivered by secure video. Most clients meet with me weekly or every other week, especially in the early months — consistency tends to do more than intensity. Once things start moving, we’ll often shift to a less-frequent cadence that fits your life.
A typical session is mostly conversation. You’ll talk about what’s been happening, what’s been coming up, what felt hard and what felt a little easier. I’ll ask questions, sometimes offer a reframe, and sometimes bring in a specific tool — a breathing practice, a mindfulness exercise, an EMDR set if we’ve been working on trauma material, a Logotherapy prompt if we’re in the territory of meaning. There’s no script. We go where the work needs to go.
Some weeks will feel like progress. Some will feel like treading water. Occasionally a session will feel like we didn’t get anywhere — and then, two weeks later, you’ll notice that something has shifted. That’s normal. Therapy works on its own timeline.
"I don't fix people. I help people find the inner hope and strength they already carry to make the changes they need."
— Heinz Malon, LMFT
The compass I come back to in individual work, week after week, is simple: do no harm to yourself, do no harm to others, and notice when one of those is slipping. Most of what we end up doing in sessions is the slow, interesting work of paying attention to both.
Why These Tools, and Why Me
- Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT)
- EMDR-trained
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) practitioner
- Logotherapy training (in progress)
- M.Div · MA in Marriage & Family Therapy
- Retired U.S. Navy chaplain & Lutheran pastor
- 31 years in practice & ministry
- Tricare-paneled · Additional insurance in progress
Insurance & Fees
H.O.P.E. Therapy is paneled with Tricare and accepts self-pay clients. Additional insurance paneling is in progress. Sliding-scale arrangements can be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Curious Whether This Might Be a Fit?
Free consultations run 30 to 60 minutes and come with no commitment. The goal is simply to see whether we’re the right match.
What This Service Can't Do
Therapy works best when the match is right — both between you and me, and between you and the format. A few things I’m not the right provider for:
- Active psychiatric crisis (please call 988 or 911 — telehealth is not an emergency service)
- Severe active substance-use disorders requiring detox or intensive outpatient care
- Eating disorders requiring medical monitoring or higher levels of care
- Psychological evaluations, custody evaluations, or forensic assessment
- Children under 12 (my training and focus is 12 and up)
If we talk and I’m not the right fit for what you need, I’ll say so. And I’ll do my best to help you find someone who is.
Other Ways I Can Help
Trauma Therapy & EMDR
Evidence-based trauma treatment using EMDR, mindfulness, and nervous-system work.
Veterans & Military Family Counseling
For service members, veterans, spouses, and military kids. Tricare-paneled.
Couples, Family & Teen Therapy
Systems-based work for couples, families, and teens (ages 12–18).
Ready to Find Out More?
The first step is a fifteen-minute call — or a 30-to-60-minute free consultation, if you’d prefer something more in-depth. Either way, there’s no commitment and no pressure.