About Christine

"It's not about becoming better,
It's about dropping the struggle
to be different from who you are."

-Unknown

Adolescents

"Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and learn to love the questions themselves."

-Rilke

 

Individuals & Couples

"The truth about intimate relationships is they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves."

-James Hollis

We all have those things that hook us, triggering us to respond with words or actions that don’t serve us well. These familiar urges might send us turning toward anything we think will diminish our uneasy feelings, such as food, drugs, shopping, unhealthy relationships, unkind words, having a critical mind, or withdrawing from life.   We feel hooked.   

You have been doing the best you can as a person, a parent, a son, a daughter, a partner, and perhaps you are beginning to think your old ways of doing things are no longer serving you, but you don’t yet know another way.  I provide a space for you to move through your stuck places and harness your strengths, enabling you to live a more effective and peaceful life. 

Considering change, making difficult decisions, and asking for help, for you or your child, as you are right now, takes enormous courage. I can offer the support you deserve in your journey—meeting you with objective clarity, understanding there is a reason you are where you are.  I can sit with both your pain and your joy, laugh at life’s ironies, and walk with you through life’s sometimes frightening fires.

I invite you to telephone or email me for a free consultation to see if I am the right support for you and to answer any questions you might have.  My office is conveniently located just off I-5 in North Seattle.

-Christine Hook, MA RC

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