Sierra Lee-Brenner is a licensed mental health counselor and board certified registered art therapist. She maintains a private practice on Bainbridge Island, WA. As a private practitioner, she works with a broad spectrum of clients. The areas of her expertise are grief and los, depression, anxiety, trauma, physical illness, womanhood, parenthood and multiculturalism.
Sierra believes that psychotherapy is a devotional practice of learning to recognize and embrace the incongruent aspects of one's personality with humility and compassion. It is a collaborative process between a client and a therapist that can profoundly influence and transform those who enter into an agreed therapeutic relationship. In Jungian psychotherapy, the symptoms of psychological, emotional, and physical ailments are understood to be important communications from one's center to offer a guidance. Suffering can awaken one's habitual perceptions to mindfully examine and evaluate how to direct one's flow of life with the heartfelt intentions from within.
Dreamwork, art making, yoga, expressive writing, myths/fairytales, and psychological astrology are some of the therapeutic modalities that Sierra integrates into a traditional verbal psychotherapy practice to engage her clients. The multi-modal therapeutic approach encourages the creative imagination of her clients to discover, to connect, and thrive with their own grounding centers that emanate life force. Sierra holds a nonjudgmental, nourishing, relational space for her clients. The aim of Sierra's practice is to support her clients in recognizing and honoring their unique limitations and gifts. Vitalizing one's playful curiosity and spontaneity, she believes, is essential to create the meaningful, resonant stories of one's life.
Education s
Master's of Professional Studies in Creative Arts Therapies, Pratt Graduate Institute (2001)
Master's of Arts in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Jungian Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute (2011)
Licenses & Board Certification
Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State (2007)
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in New York State (2006)
Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC)
Professional Activities and Memberships
Bainbridge Island Psychotherapy Guild Member
Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study
Oregon Friends of Jung
Jung Society of Washington
Sierra believes that psychotherapy is a devotional practice of learning to recognize and embrace the incongruent aspects of one's personality with humility and compassion. It is a collaborative process between a client and a therapist that can profoundly influence and transform those who enter into an agreed therapeutic relationship. In Jungian psychotherapy, the symptoms of psychological, emotional, and physical ailments are understood to be important communications from one's center to offer a guidance. Suffering can awaken one's habitual perceptions to mindfully examine and evaluate how to direct one's flow of life with the heartfelt intentions from within.
Dreamwork, art making, yoga, expressive writing, myths/fairytales, and psychological astrology are some of the therapeutic modalities that Sierra integrates into a traditional verbal psychotherapy practice to engage her clients. The multi-modal therapeutic approach encourages the creative imagination of her clients to discover, to connect, and thrive with their own grounding centers that emanate life force. Sierra holds a nonjudgmental, nourishing, relational space for her clients. The aim of Sierra's practice is to support her clients in recognizing and honoring their unique limitations and gifts. Vitalizing one's playful curiosity and spontaneity, she believes, is essential to create the meaningful, resonant stories of one's life.
Education s
Master's of Professional Studies in Creative Arts Therapies, Pratt Graduate Institute (2001)
Master's of Arts in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Jungian Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute (2011)
Licenses & Board Certification
Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State (2007)
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in New York State (2006)
Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC)
Professional Activities and Memberships
Bainbridge Island Psychotherapy Guild Member
Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study
Oregon Friends of Jung
Jung Society of Washington