Four Winds Therapy

10/11/2026

Meet Jess Allen, a therapist at Four Winds Therapy who brings curiosity, depth, and nature based healing to her work.

Jess supports people navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, burnout, relationship issues, and life changes. She especially enjoys working with people exploring transformative experiences, shifts in identity, and questions about meaning and purpose.

Her humanistic approach draws on depth psychology, Buddhist psychology, and mindfulness. Jess helps clients explore their inner lives, understand recurring patterns, and bring new insights into everyday choices and relationships. Her multicultural lens recognizes how culture and social systems shape our experiences. She also brings experience as a high school counselor and crisis counselor.

Jess loves ecotherapy and nature based insight work. She offers in person sessions in local Seattle public gardens, bringing the outdoors into therapy as a place for reflection and discovery.

A q***r therapist and longtime music festival lover, Jess welcomes LGBTQIA+ clients, ravers, and fellow festival goers. She has facilitated healing circles at Pacific Northwest festivals and offers psychedelic integration to help people process transformative experiences and make meaningful changes in their lives.

Jess offers virtual sessions, accepts several insurance plans, and provides sliding scale rates for qualifying clients. She’s in demand but you can get on her wait list for future offerings.

Learn more about Jess www.fourwindstherapy.org/jessallen

10/11/2026

I want to give therapists the support, training, and working conditions they need to do their jobs well. I’ve seen what exploitative systems, low pay, poor supervision, and ineffective management do to people. That experience shapes how I supervise and why I built Four Winds Therapy.

With over 30 years of counseling experience, my background includes practicing, managing, and supervising in government and community mental health, a decade in education, and doctoral study in supervision and educational leadership. I’ve supported thousands of people through serious mental illness, trauma, and crisis, and I’ve helped hundreds of therapists develop their clinical skills. I believe deeply in humans serving humans.

My work is informed by longstanding contemplative practice in mindfulness and training in Buddhist psychology. I’m particularly interested in how we understand suffering, attachment, compassion, and our relationship to our own minds. Depth psychology guides my exploration of how spirit and psyche shape our lives.

I’ve spent decades doing underground integration work, helping people make sense of psychedelic and other transformative experiences. This work began long before state certification programs and the commercialization of plant medicine. My commitment to this work continues, regardless of which systems now want to regulate it or profit from it.

I welcome therapists who bring experiential knowledge and skills, have done their own inner work, and remain curious about what they still have to learn. I’m interested in clinically training people whose master’s level education in counseling gives them a foundation for understanding the psychological, relational, and ethical complexities of this work.

Being trusted with someone’s pain is a privilege. It can also leave you questioning how to respond and how to manage what it brings up in you. Supervision makes room for honest conversations about both.

My approach is warm, direct, curious, and grounded in experience. There’s humor, and there’s thoughtful challenge. We explore unconscious patterns, meaning, defenses, ther**eutic relationships, culture, power, and the systems shaping our lives.

As a teacher at heart and systemic disruptor by inclination, I’ll ask you to examine your assumptions, understand the reasoning behind your interventions, and notice when a familiar approach isn’t serving the person in front of you. I’ll also help you recognize and build on the strengths you already bring.

I want associates to trust their clinical judgment, find their own voice, and feel supported as people. I care about creating an equitable practice where therapists take responsibility for their work, recognize what they bring, and find meaning in what they do.

I’m currently looking to hire Washington LMHCAs to join Four Winds Therapy. I will provide clinical supervision and support as you work toward independent licensure. If you’re looking for a thoughtful, collaborative practice where you can grow as a clinician and bring your full self to the work, I’d love to connect. 🌿

10/08/2026

Meet Four Winds Therapist Jennette Nielsen.

Jennette has decades of experience helping others heal. She works with people carrying grief, anxiety, depression, burnout, or the feeling that they’ve spent too long trying to be who everyone else needs them to be. She also works with couples and family dynamics, addiction, identity, creative blocks, and psychedelic integration.

Trauma therapy is a particular strength of hers. Jennette has worked with developmental and complex trauma, sexual trauma, and the attachment wounds that can follow people into adulthood and relationships. She pays attention to what your body has learned to do to keep you safe, drawing on Somatic Experiencing and parts work as you find your own pace through the work.

Jennette also offers an intensive couples therapy model for partners who want dedicated time to work on what keeps happening between them. She helps couples recognize the cycle beneath recurring fights, understand the fears and unmet needs that fuel it, and practice new ways to communicate and repair. The work makes room for each person’s history while helping the couple build more trust, safety, and connection.

Jennette brings a lot of life to this work. She is a mother of two sons, a gardener, a potter, a community herbalist, and a longtime keeper of honeybees. She has accompanied people through birth, death, and divorce, and has volunteered in hospice, sexual assault advocacy, and psychedelic support.

She is a true gifted healer. Four Winds Therapy is honored to offer services with Jennette. Our practice offers online therapy throughout Washington. Read more about Jennette and book a consultation:
https://www.fourwindstherapy.org/jennettenielsen

10/07/2026

Looking for a therapist who gets you? Meet Pete Sandona.

Pete works with people of all genders and ages, including young adults figuring out relationships, work, and who they want to become. He has experience treating anxiety, ADHD, depression, OCD, and substance use concerns, and supporting people with relationship issues, social isolation, and career decisions.

His approach is humanistic and client centered, with a deep understanding of how culture and society impact we humans. He’s an advocate for social justice who brings warmth, humor, and creativity to your work together.

Pete offers men a place to explore male identity and the expectations around masculinity, strength, intimacy, and asking for support. Loneliness, anger, tenderness, fatherhood. Whatever you’re carrying, there’s room to talk about it.

He works with addiction through a harm reduction lens, meeting you where you are and working with you toward your goals.

Pete has experience supporting parents and families through the challenges of raising kids and staying connected.

His relationship counseling honors the many ways humans love and connect. He’s an LGBTQIA affirming ally with extensive experience supporting polyamory, ethical non-monogamy, and other relationship structures. He helps partners work through conflict, communicate, explore identity, and revisit agreements, meeting together and individually so everyone can be heard.

He also offers psychedelic integration to help people make sense of their experiences and what they want to carry into everyday life.

Prefer to get outside? Pete offers in person eco therapy around Olympia, Washington.

Pete plays bass and guitar, loves nature, and is a devoted dog parent to three pups who sometimes join online sessions. He welcomes fellow musicians and is a member of Backline, which connects people in the music industry with mental health support.

To help keep therapy accessible, Pete offers sliding scale sessions and is a member of Open Path Collective.

Online therapy throughout Washington and in person eco therapy around Olympia.

Learn more and book with Pete:
https://www.fourwindstherapy.org/petesandona

10/06/2026

Looking for a therapist who gets you? Meet Pete Sandona.

Pete works with people of all genders and ages, including young adults figuring out relationships, work, and who they want to become. He has experience treating anxiety, ADHD, depression, OCD, and substance use concerns, and supporting people with relationship issues, social isolation, and career decisions.

His approach is humanistic and client centered, with a deep understanding of how culture and society impact we humans. He’s an advocate for social justice who brings warmth, humor, and creativity to your work together.

Pete offers men a place to explore male identity and the expectations around masculinity, strength, intimacy, and asking for support. Loneliness, anger, tenderness, fatherhood. Whatever you’re carrying, there’s room to talk about it.

He works with addiction through a harm reduction lens, meeting you where you are and working with you toward your goals.

Pete has experience supporting parents and families through the challenges of raising kids and staying connected.

His relationship counseling honors the many ways humans love and connect. He’s an LGBTQIA affirming ally with extensive experience supporting polyamory, ethical non-monogamy, and other relationship structures. He helps partners work through conflict, communicate, explore identity, and revisit agreements, meeting together and individually so everyone can be heard.

He also offers psychedelic integration to help people make sense of their experiences and what they want to carry into everyday life.

Prefer to get outside? Pete offers in person eco therapy around Olympia, Washington.

Pete plays bass and guitar, loves nature, and is a devoted dog parent to three pups who sometimes join online sessions. He welcomes fellow musicians and is a member of Backline, which connects people in the music industry with mental health support.

To help keep therapy accessible, Pete offers sliding scale sessions and is a member of Open Path Collective.

Online therapy throughout Washington and in person eco therapy around Olympia.

Learn more and book with Pete:
https://www.fourwindstherapy.org/petesandona

10/04/2026

One year in this garden and so grateful for it and for remembering how to connect to the earth in this way. As I further embrace communication with the plants, I gotta say that moon vine is 🌀

10/01/2026

May we find balance, strength and healing

10/01/2026

And sometimes all we can do is write about it.

Frat boys r**e

09/29/2026

Here I am, arms in the sky again, haha. Apparently this is what I do when a place leaves me in awe. Somewhere in the desert on Dead & Company tour, 2017. Openhearted on the open road.

Staying open to what is can be so hard. Remain open anyway. Return to awareness, even for a moment. That’s where both contentment and change can begin.

09/25/2026

Remaining open to what is and holding openness toward what is possible is difficult. I think sometimes it means just taking the leap and trusting. Not that you won’t fail, but that you can manage whatever trials and tribulations come your way. Trusting that we’re all here to learn and evolve, so maybe failing isn’t even possible anymore.

Finding old photos and it seems I have a tendency to pose open armed in nature, maybe because within the awe of nature I can feel the divine grace of the earth holding all the possibilities for everything. Yours too.

May we let go of the shame that tells us what isn’t possible. May we remain open to noticing what is, with balanced equanimity and still grace. May we join with the earth in remaining open to possibility while also fully embracing the now.