Christie Lynk, MA, LMHC

Christie Lynk CV

Christie Lynk has facilitated the exploration of human formation and the primal ache for belonging for 45 years through the fields of psychotherapy, spirituality and education. She teaches at Seattle University as Clinical Director in the Master of Arts in Existential Phenomenological Psychology Program. For 15 years, Christie co-facilitated the Powers of Leadership program at the Whidbey Institute.

She currently finds herself reimagining and designing programs of belonging to hold the individual and collective isolation, grief and trauma of our lives and also offers rituals of rest for clinicians, organizations and young adults. Christie is committed to facilitating programs that embody existence as a relational act; seeking to make meaning as we embrace desire, grief, suffering, confession, gratitude and hope; to affirm our spoken and unspoken confession that we long to love and be loved as we bear witness to the lives of others.

Special Interest Areas

Relational psychotherapy, therapeutic communication, clinical supervision,  rhythmicity in therapy, sabbatical restoration, and grief rituals.

Statement on the Philosophical Foundation of Psychology

We practice psychology as a relational act; seeking to make meaning as we embrace desire, grief, suffering, reconciliation, gratitude and hope. Psychology invites us to the intimate and vulnerable confession that we long to love and be loved as we bear witness to the lives of others.