3436 NE 45th Street
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: 206.240.5584
Fax: 866.453.0617
E-mail: paula@alseptpsychiatric.com
Days: Tuesday - Friday
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Alsept Psychiatric LLC
About this practice
Paula Alsept ARNP PLLC is a licensed and nationally
board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner based in
Seattle. (ARNP is an acronym for Advanced Registered Nurse
Practitioner.) She has 19 years experience prescribing
medication and doing psychotherapy with adults 18 and over, and couples. She practices psycho-dynamic, insight oriented therapy with individuals as well as couples.
Ms. Alsept approaches the therapeutic process by
addressing each person's and couple's emotional,
physical, professional, and social health. As a medication
prescriber and a psychotherapist, her initial treatment
focus is on symptom relief. She evaluates each patient
individually with a plan of care tailored to his or her needs. During the course of psychotherapy, Ms.Alsept will work with the patient to target the cause of any problematic symptoms and help the
patient develop insights as wells as any changes the person comes to feel are necessary to reduce the suffering related to the symptoms with or without medication.
Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches patients a "toolbox" of ways to deal with problematic behaviors and thoughts. The psycho-dynamic approach Ms. Alsept uses helps people develop an intuitive understanding or narrative of where their repeated or problematic thoughts, feelings and behaviors come from in the context of their own lives and histories. This kind of therapy is sometimes called insight based therapy. By addressing current problems and feelings in the emotional context of their own personal history as well as their medical, familial, social and political situation, patients are offered the opportunity to gain insights that lead to short term symptom relief and long term changes. If you are interested in reading an accessible article comparing cognitive-behavioral therapy and psycho-dynamic/psychoanalytic therapy, there is an interesting, in depth article with a light -hearted title in the January 2016 edition of the newspaper The Guardian called Therapy Wars: The Revenge of Freud.
Ms. Alsept has expertise treating a range of issues with psychotherapy and medication, including:
Post traumatic stress disorder
Anxiety and panic
OCD
Adult Attention Deficit /Hyperactive Disorder
Family and relationship difficulties
Addiction recovery including
MAT with suboxone for opioid addiction
Disordered eating
Paula Alsept ARNP PLLC is currently accepting new patients. Ms. Alsept welcomes patients from all classes, backgrounds, countries, religions, races, classes, and patients who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, non-binary and transgendered. To schedule a visit complete the short form on the Contact Form page which will go through this website to Ms. Alsept's encrypted email box immediately. Then call 206.922-3903 to schedule an appointment with Ms. Alsept. It is the quickest and most efficient way to have your questions as a potential patient answered.