Bridges and Boundaries Counseling Services : Mental Health Services for kids, teens, adults, couples, and families.
Meet our Team
Meet our Team
Nikia Bristol, LMHCA
Nikia Bristol is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate with 3 years of experience working in various mental health settings. Nikia graduated from the University of Puget Sound’s Master of Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. During this time, she gained experience in working with diverse populations and supporting children, adolescents, and families as they navigate life’s challenges. Her approach to therapy is grounded in a person-centered framework and pulls from theoretical orientations such as Child-Centered Play Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior
Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. Nikia integrates a strength-based, trauma-informed, and social-justice lens into her work, honoring the diverse backgrounds, identities, and values of those she serves. She is dedicated to creating a safe and affirming therapeutic environment where clients feel heard, valued, and empowered.
components of internal family systems, trauma-focused, existential, and experiential modalities. Jackie completed her Masters degree in Counseling from Prescott College with a specializations in Clinical and Somatic work, along with an Educational Specialist degree in Experiential Counseling with an Adventure-based specialization. Experiential counseling can involve art, play, body integration, nature, adventure, metaphors, movement, and more. It’s a non-traditional modality that is right at home with Bridges and Boundaries; focusing on the interactions between person and environment through activity. Jackie also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and has a certification in cognitive behavioral therapy. Jackie is excited to use these modalities along with your own lived and present moment experiences to help with anxiety, depression, behavior, trauma, and more. Jackie believes that healing must happen across systems, and her work is rooted in feminist frameworks which enables her to attend to the ways people are uniquely impacted by social and cultural factors. She has experience supporting people with diverse needs, diagnoses, lived experiences, and backgrounds, including individuals from LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and Neurodiverse communities
Jackie Posner is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate with 4 years of experience in behavioral health and over 7 years working with children, adolescents, and families in a variety of settings, including IOP, outpatient, schools, and nonprofits. She has a passion for supporting mental health in youth and adults and helping people explore their authenticity and vulnerability to develop adaptive ways of being. Jackie approaches therapy with compassion, curiosity, and collaboration, using a person-centered and relational process that centers the client's choice and wisdom. She offers an integrative approach with
Jackie Posner, LMHCA
Ivy Turner, LMFTA
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Mollie Rundstrom, LSWAIC
Mollie Rundstrom is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker Associate with three years of direct experience in clinical social work and two additional years working in various mental health settings. She has a deep passion for working alongside diverse populations and supporting them in their various journeys. Mollie is interested in an interweaving of integrative therapeutic approaches that utilize aspects of narrative therapy, dialectic behavioral therapy (DBT), internal family systems (IFS), child-centered play therapy (CCPT), and trauma-informed modalities. Mollie completed her Masters in Clinical Social Work at the University of Washington, Seattle with a specific emphasis on utilizing a critical, anti-
Barbara Drescher, LMHC
informed therapy with a social justice lens and gain certification in Cognitive Behavior Therapy Plus.
Ivy uses narrative therapy with a trauma-informed lens, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging and naming oppressive systems that impact a client's life, such as capitalism, racism, homophobia, and transphobia. By recognizing these systems, we can distinguish what is beyond the client's control and shift our focus to their strengths and potential solutions.
Ivy Turner is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate with 3 years of experience in the field. Ivy graduated from Pacific Lutheran University's Marriage & Family therapist program. During their time at Pacific Lutheran University they interned at Infinite Possibilities in Puyallup, they gained experience with couples counseling, family therapy and individual counseling with young adults and teens. After graduating they worked at the Y Social Impact Center of Seattle working with foster care youth and families where they were able to practice trauma
Barb is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of experience in human services. She started in the field in 1996 by working with foster children in a therapeutic program then, after earning her Master's in Counseling from Saint Martins, went on to work with adults and children in a community mental health setting. She started with Bridges and Boundaries in March of 2020 and was an anchor for many clients throughout the pandemic.
Barb has worked as a Designated Crisis Responder for 3 years where she learned to approach crisis and other intensive services with a calm and knowledgeable demeanor. She brings that sense of calm capability to her work now with chronic mental illness and neurodivergence of all kinds. Barb utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Creative Arts and Play Therapy, Trauma Focused CBT, talk therapy and has a client-centered approach to building rapport. She is always seeking to grow her toolkit and provide meaningful and custom-curated practices to treating those who are facing challenges in their daily lives. Barb is kind, gentle and has experience working with all ages - including children as young as 5 - to improve their quality of life.
racist, social justice oriented framework. She believes in the core principle of being person-centered and maximizing human dignity through understanding that humans are the experts in their own lives. In her therapeutic space, Mollie will work to facilitate safe and comfortable spaces that delight in neurodiversity, LGBTQIA+, and racial equity. Mollie’s practice is rooted in working alongside folks with varying and diverse identities and lived experiences. She is committed to a anti-racist, survivor-centered, systems analysis practice.
Lillie McCatty, LMHC, CMHS
Owner
In addition to traditional psychotherapeutic techniques Lillie employs a variety of creative arts and play therapies including the use of masks, puppets, sand tray, doll house, visual and dramatic arts, and more. Lillie has undergraduate and graduate level specializations in child mental health. Lillie McCatty is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Washington. Lillie comes to you with a Master of Arts in Drama Therapy from New York University (NYU) and a total of 20 years of experience in the field of counseling and psychotherapy with children and adults.
She is state recognized as a Child Mental Health Specialist. She has training and experience in Child Life interventions and is therefore qualified to support children who have physical issues that require potentially upsetting medical procedures including things like needle-hesitancy as well as terminal and chronic illnesses. Lillie has experience helping clients with a number of situational difficulties including domestic violence, divorce, adoption, pregnancy, and more. She is highly capable of treating a variety of psychiatric diagnoses including adjustment disorder, depression, anxiety, ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, PTSD, personality disorders, and so on. Lillie has extensive professional and personal experience treating individuals and families from diverse backgrounds and she is a state certified Mental Health Specialist for African-American Populations. Having grown up in the Olympia community Lillie is well connected to community resources and looks forward to facilitating growth and healing in your family.
Amanda Brown, Office Manager
Amanda is the first, friendly face when you enter our offices. She provides support to clients and clinicians with billing, insurance support, scheduling, portal access, and front office needs. Amanda comes to us from her work in the urgent care world and is very experienced in client care as well as the office side of things. In addition to her work with our current clients Amanda also screens all of our incoming clients and helps navigate the onboarding process. Amanda is available Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10:00am-2:00pm.