The Syzygy Approach
Syzygy is an integrative psychotherapy and mental health collective in Seattle.
We bring together somatic, psychological, relational, nutritional, psychiatric, and transpersonal perspectives so care can reflect the complexity of the person rather than a single symptom or diagnosis.
We work with anxiety, depression, relationships, identity, grief, sexuality, food and body concerns, major life transitions, neurodivergence, meaning, spirituality, trauma, PTSD, cPTSD, and altered states when they are relevant to the person in front of us.
We are interested in more than insight alone. We pay attention to what is happening in the present moment: in the body, in relationships, in patterns of protection, in the stories we carry, and in the ways change becomes possible through experience.
Embody
Working with the body, not just the story
Many people understand a great deal about themselves and still find that insight alone does not change what happens when they feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or pulled into familiar patterns.
Somatic and experiential therapies bring attention to sensation, breath, movement, emotion, imagery, and the ways the body responds in relationship. Our providers may draw from Hakomi, EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness, and other experiential approaches.
The body is not another problem to solve. It is part of how we understand what is happening.
Our Food + Body Therapy work extends this embodied perspective to nourishment, body image, sensory experience, and our relationship with food. Using a HAES-aligned, weight-inclusive approach, we support a more flexible and trusting relationship with the body.
Our embodied lives also include physiology and the ways mental and physical health interact. For some people, psychiatric evaluation and medication management can be an important part of care alongside psychotherapy. When useful, providers across the collective may collaborate so these different forms of support remain connected rather than becoming fragmented.
Deepen
Becoming curious about what shapes us beneath and within the surface
Some parts of our experience are not immediately available through ordinary conversation. Other patterns are already familiar to us, but we may not yet understand how our thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, and ways of moving through the world continue to organize our lives.
Depth-oriented work invites curiosity about both. We may explore conflicting parts of the self, recurring relationship patterns, memories, dreams, beliefs, images, spiritual or existential questions, and the stories we have come to live inside. Together, we can become more curious about where these patterns came from, what they have protected or made possible, and whether they still fit the life and relationships you want for yourself.
Depending on the provider, this work may draw from Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, dreamwork, active imagination, transpersonal approaches, psychedelic integration, and other experiential practices. Play and experimentation can also become part of the process, creating room to encounter ourselves differently and bringing more curiosity to places often shaped by self-doubt, insecurity, or self-criticism.
Altered or non-ordinary states are not the center of our work, but when they are part of someone’s life, we make room for them thoughtfully. The focus is less on preserving the intensity of an experience and more on understanding what it reveals, changes, or asks of ordinary life.
Connect
Change happens in relationship
Much of what shapes us develops in relationship, and much of what changes us does too.
We pay close attention to how people experience closeness, conflict, vulnerability, dependence, autonomy, trust, and repair. This is true in individual therapy and especially central in couples and relationship work.
Couples therapy may involve learning to recognize the cycle that takes over when both people are activated, understanding the protective strategies underneath conflict, addressing betrayal or disconnection, and building a greater capacity for honesty, repair, intimacy, connection, and differentiation.