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Elina Kogan, LICSW, MFT, MSW

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker

Elina Kogan is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Marriage and Family Counselor in the State of Washington (#LW61246567).

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With more than 15 years of experience, she draws from evidence-based approaches that integrate the mind and the body to promote resilience and healing.
Elina provides Sensorimotor Therapy with a focus on trauma, addictions, and recovery, rebuilding people’s innate resilience with the help of such tools as mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. She works successfully with adolescents and adults and provides support, insight, and compassion for people who want to know themselves, transform and enhance relationships, manage anxiety and depression, as well as to address current issues in the areas of parenting and life transitions.


Elina offers her services in English, Russian, Hebrew, and Ukrainian.

 

linak@mindfulcarewa.com
425.202.5393

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Availability:
In-person – Fridays, 9 am-6 pm,
Telehealth - Monday-Thursday, 9 am-6 pm

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ABOUT ELINA:

I love my work. It’s an honor and a privilege to support people in creating positive change in their lives. 

 

My professional mission has been to partner with people who experience personal crisis, depression, anxiety, addictions, uncertainty, loss, or trauma, using a relational, attachment lens to understand them. 

 It has been a personal privilege and a professional joy to be able to help people seeking new life goals, improved clarity and energy with a mindful, trauma sensitive, validating and strength-based approach. After years of working as an on-site therapist at a local school, my goal has also become to promote greater acceptance of our human diversity and to support people who find themselves all over the rainbow of the Human Spectrum. 

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The years of professional training help me address many aspects of emotional and thought disorders, as well as issues resulting from the legacy of trauma. My personal experiences as a former Soviet refugee and a child immigrant in Israel inform my understanding of struggling that runs more than skin-deep. I chose a graduate degree in Social Work to deepen my knowledge of the societal processes that augment and aggravate deeply personal problems. 

 

I am an energetic and caring person, comfortable with people of widely differing life experiences and aspirations, and skilled at meeting people where they are, holding a safe space for them to practice self-compassion and self-care, and advocating for them in time of struggle and confusion.

 

In my spare time I parent, hike, walk my dog, study and try new hobbies – there is always something new and interesting on the horizon. 

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Since 2006 I have counseled teens and adults in my work with various agencies, including:

 

  • Inpatient psychiatric services @ Kennedy Health Systems, Cherry Hill, NJ

  • Partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs @ Hampton Behavioral Health Center, Westampton, NJ

  • Marriage and family counseling @ Council for Relationships, Philadelphia, PA

  • Child and Family Mental Health Services @ Sound Behavioral Health, Seattle, WA


Languages: English, Russian, Hebrew, Ukrainian

 

Volunteer work has included:

  • Crisis and Suicide Prevention Helpline @ ERAN/IFOTES in Haifa, Israel 

  • Counseling clients @ Center for Refugees and Survivors of Torture, Philadelphia, PA

  • Counseling @ Covid shelters for clients who experience homelessness, for King County Health Department, Seattle, WA

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AREAS OF FOCUS

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​Anxiety

Depression

Grief and loss

Trauma/PTSD

Parenting support 

Work/School problems

Life Transitions

Interpersonal relationships

Behavior management

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CONTACT

Our office has moved to Forest Office Park, Building F as of May 2019. There is all-day parking surrounding the building. Our building is ADA accessible and has elevators. Childcare is available in downtown Bellevue at Adventure Kids Playcare; mention our name for a discount.    

 

 Note that email is not confidential. Clinical information is best communicated via phone; however, due to a surge in referrals, our response time on email is much faster.  

You may reach me at elina@craftpnw.com 

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