Bridges and Boundaries Counseling Services : Mental Health Services for kids, teens, adults, couples, and families.
Meet our Team
Meet our Team
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, LMFTA
Ivy Turner, LMFTA
Alysha Sussman, LMHC
Alysha Sussman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, with 5 years of experience. Alysha graduated from Saint Martin's Master’s in Counseling program. During her time at Saint Martin's University, she interned at Behavioral Health Resources. There, she gained experience working with adults, of all backgrounds, facing diverse mental health challenges. After graduating, she was hired out of her internship and continued working with clients around barriers such as addiction, homelessness, psychosis, and domestic violence.
Although Alysha's special focus is mood disorders she is skilled at layering in attachment theory and a trauma informed lens in all her work. Alysha believes that people often carry
intergenerational trauma. But you don't have to. You can heal by honoring your family story while replacing learned patterns with new coping strategies. Alysha uses narrative therapy to uncork the creativity within all of us, to free us from our shame and preconceptions, and ultimately embrace our true authentic selves. Alysha is an LGBTQIA2S+ affirming clinician and has a passion for meeting people where they are, accepting who they are, and treating them wholistically.
Mollie Rundstrom, LSWAIC
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
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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-
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.
Taylor McAvoy, LMHC
Taylor is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 5 years experience.. Taylor began working with children with Autism in 2019 while gaining her master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington. During her clinical internship at LifeWire in Bellevue, she gained experience working with survivors of domestic violence alongside advocates and other mental health professionals. During this time she practiced in trauma informed and social-justice informed approaches to counseling.
Taylor earned her Bachelor's degree from University of Washington, Seattle in 2018 and earned her Master's degree from Northwest University in 2021.
Her experiences working with survivors of domestic violence inspired Taylor to work in trauma-informed and narrative approaches to therapy. She is passionate about being an ally to people of all backgrounds and identities and integrates these values into therapy. As a member of the LGBTQI+ community herself, Taylor is well-practiced in understanding systemic issues and the unique challenges LGBTQI+ people face. She has also attended various training opportunities and consultation groups that integrate these systemic issues into therapeutic techniques with clients.
She believes that the professional relationship should be a safe space to explore identity, experience, coping, and meaning. Taylor uses narrative therapy practices in her work helping clients explore already existing capability within themselves and helps make meaning from their life experience. She also uses a person-centered approach to therapy believing that the client is the expert in their own life. Her skills and training include Trauma-informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques, Narrative Therapy, Existentialism, and integrating Polyvagal theory into therapy. She takes an acceptance-based approach to working with neurodiverse clients helping them find their own strengths, build healthy narratives of their lives, and practice self-advocacy.
Barbara Drescher, LMHC
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, went on to work with adults and children in a community mental health setting. She has since gone on to working in a Group Practice setting with Bridges and Boundaries since 2020. Barb earned her master’s degree from Saint Martin’s University in 2013 and her licensure in 2015.
Starting in 2015, she spent three years working as a Designated Crisis Responder where she worked with individuals who were struggling with acute mental illness and required emergent intervention. Through this experience, Barb learned to approach crisis and other intensive services with a calm and knowledgeable demeanor. Barb utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, 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 practices to treating those who are facing challenges in their daily lives. Barb is kind, gentle and has experience working with all ages to improve their quality of life. Allow Barb to assist you with daily challenges and functioning to have more fulfillment in life, no matter your age!
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.