If you've spent your life being the one who holds everything together for everyone else, therapy can feel like one more thing to manage. I'm Symone Montgomery, a Marriage and Family Therapy intern at Northwest Relationships, working under the supervision of Brittany Thomas, LMFT, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor.

I work with people untangling relational trauma, anxiety, and the weight of roles they never chose but always carried, including oldest-sibling and caretaking dynamics, the kind of role that gets assigned early in a family and rarely gets questioned later. I also work with racial identity and experiences of exclusion or marginalization, areas where I think being able to name what happened, plainly and without minimizing it, is often the first real step. I'm completing my MA at Pacific Lutheran University's Marriage and Family Therapy program, building on an undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico.

Every case I carry is reviewed by Brittany Thomas as part of the standard AAMFT-approved supervision structure at Northwest Relationships, so the clinical judgment behind our work together has that additional layer of oversight built in. I work with individuals, and I try to slow down the pace enough that setting a role down doesn't feel like abandoning the people who relied on you to carry it.

I'm a good fit for someone in Tacoma or across Washington state who's always been the one holding things together, or who's navigating racial identity and belonging, and wants an intern clinician trained specifically in relational trauma.

Request a session or start an intake form when you're ready to begin. If you'd rather ask a question first, that's a good way to get a feel for fit before booking. Naming a role you've carried since childhood, oldest sibling, family peacekeeper, the one everyone calls first, out loud in a session is often the first real step toward setting it down, even partially.