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, 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.
Deepen
Understanding the patterns beneath the surface
Some parts of our experience are not immediately available through ordinary conversation. A recurring relationship pattern, a dream that stays with you, conflicting parts of the self, or a sense that something larger is moving beneath the immediate problem may all become part of the work.
Depth-oriented and transpersonal approaches make room for unconscious material, symbolism, imagination, spirituality, existential questions, and experiences of meaning. Depending on the provider, this may include parts work, dreamwork, active imagination, transpersonal approaches, and psychedelic integration.
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, and differentiation.
Our collective also includes care that extends beyond psychotherapy.
Psychiatric evaluation and medication management can support people whose mental health needs benefit from medical care. HAES-aligned nutrition therapy and body image work can support a different relationship with food, eating, embodiment, and self-perception.
When useful, providers may collaborate so care does not become fragmented into unrelated pieces.