You don't have to already know how to say the hard thing for therapy to help. I'm Kira Jerome, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and I work with individuals, couples, and families building the kind of emotional safety that makes honest communication possible in the first place.

I draw on Satir's Transformational Systemic Therapy, an approach focused on self-worth and communication patterns within a family system, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused approaches, to work with couples reconnection, identity, communication, and early-adulthood transitions. Before training as a therapist, I studied marketing at the University of Washington, and that background left me curious about how people actually communicate, and what they're really trying to say underneath the words they choose.

Couples and young adults anywhere in Washington work with me by telehealth when they want clearer communication and a therapist who won't take sides.

Both of you can join from wherever is easiest, which matters when coordinating two schedules around a couples session, and it starts with one short intake form. I also work with individuals and families navigating early-adulthood transitions, not only established couples, and the same attention to what's being communicated, and what isn't, carries over into family sessions as well.