Jeff VanZant started counseling professionally in 1993 and has worked around the Seattle area co-facilitating men's growth groups in Bothell, Redmond, Everett, Bellevue, and Lynnwood. Jeff also works with client family members and spouses to bridge the gap between understanding and healing where possible working towards reconciliation when timing and circumstance permit.
A former campus minister at the Universities of Kansas and Washington, Jeff was born in Oklahoma but decided to migrate out west to pursue his studies. Jeff has frequently counseled young adults on sexual choices and challenges.
However, the growing awareness of sexually compulsive behaviors frequency of presentation among clients, men's group participants, and those in the recovery community helped propel him to seek further training and specialization to more adequately treat those suffering from hypersexual patterns commonly referred to as sexual addiction.
Jeff has also worked as an industrial engineer and project manager with Boeing and was the director and owner of Tender Care Cottage Adult Family Home in Mill Creek and Shoreline in the 1990's.
A former campus minister at the Universities of Kansas and Washington, Jeff was born in Oklahoma but decided to migrate out west to pursue his studies. Jeff has frequently counseled young adults on sexual choices and challenges.
However, the growing awareness of sexually compulsive behaviors frequency of presentation among clients, men's group participants, and those in the recovery community helped propel him to seek further training and specialization to more adequately treat those suffering from hypersexual patterns commonly referred to as sexual addiction.
Jeff has also worked as an industrial engineer and project manager with Boeing and was the director and owner of Tender Care Cottage Adult Family Home in Mill Creek and Shoreline in the 1990's.
Services
Are you or a friend or loved one are suffering from out-of-control sexual behavior or anger?
Or are you facing relationship crisis or even divorce because of these or other trust-damaging issues?
Then you are in the right place to obtain the therapy you need.
Bright Hearts is the mantel of people who have decided to come out of the shadows of couple distrust, sexual challenges, and anger and live in the light of grace and new beginnings.
Using Gottman techniques I help "in-tact" couples identify deficits and leverage strengths to explore greater trust and healthier communication.
Or are you facing relationship crisis or even divorce because of these or other trust-damaging issues?
Then you are in the right place to obtain the therapy you need.
Bright Hearts is the mantel of people who have decided to come out of the shadows of couple distrust, sexual challenges, and anger and live in the light of grace and new beginnings.
Using Gottman techniques I help "in-tact" couples identify deficits and leverage strengths to explore greater trust and healthier communication.
Our offices are located on the second floor of the Creative Workspace Building off HWY 99 and 168th street in Lynnwood behind Walgreens.
Once you locate the building, locate Gandy's barbershop in the front of the building near the parking lot.
Then, you will need to go around the corner behind Gandy's barbershop to locate the elevator.
Our office manager, Jessica, or one of our two therapists can send the elevator down to you at the time of your appointment.
To access our building, you may call Jeff's Business Mobile Phone at 206-679-4321 or our office phone at 425-419-0090.
Once you locate the building, locate Gandy's barbershop in the front of the building near the parking lot.
Then, you will need to go around the corner behind Gandy's barbershop to locate the elevator.
Our office manager, Jessica, or one of our two therapists can send the elevator down to you at the time of your appointment.
To access our building, you may call Jeff's Business Mobile Phone at 206-679-4321 or our office phone at 425-419-0090.
For sex addiction treatment to be effective proper assessment of incoming clients is critical.
This assessment covers distant, recent, and current sexual behavior constellations, as well past trauma and co-existing disorders.
Testing and screening promotes the best allocation of time, resources and energy and helps prevent expending energy in directions that are "dead ends" and therapeutically misaligned with the client's core needs.
Task-based treatment also helps clients reduce and contain damage, and achieve sobriety, by adopting a proactive mindset.
This assessment covers distant, recent, and current sexual behavior constellations, as well past trauma and co-existing disorders.
Testing and screening promotes the best allocation of time, resources and energy and helps prevent expending energy in directions that are "dead ends" and therapeutically misaligned with the client's core needs.
Task-based treatment also helps clients reduce and contain damage, and achieve sobriety, by adopting a proactive mindset.
SARA is an anonymous and private sex addiction self-assessment; it compares your answers with thousands of other sex addicts who have preceded you in treatment.
Thus, you have the benefit of comparing your life with the lives of others who share the same problem.
Completion of the below Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST) is required prior to taking the Sexual Addiction Risk Assessment (SARA).
You will need the SAST score to complete the SARA.
Free survey designed to assist in the assessment of sexually compulsive behavior which may indicate the presence of sex addiction.
Thus, you have the benefit of comparing your life with the lives of others who share the same problem.
Completion of the below Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST) is required prior to taking the Sexual Addiction Risk Assessment (SARA).
You will need the SAST score to complete the SARA.
Free survey designed to assist in the assessment of sexually compulsive behavior which may indicate the presence of sex addiction.
Often spouses who have been betrayed sexually, emotionally, or with some other major breach of trust will be instructed by a therapist or friend to have their spouse take a polygraph.
On the surface this can appear a sure-fire way to "force the truth" and transcend spousal denial, ambiguity, minimization, or avoidance.
While the polygraph can detect the difference in truthful compared to untruthful responses regarding some overt behaviors e.g.
Sometimes the polygraph provides a missing and expedient way to validate safety from such things as STD's, infection, risk to children, and other scenarios that are laden with immediate concern such that choosing to defer information will dramatically increase fear, uncertainty, and risk to mental health and emotional well-being of the spouse.
On the surface this can appear a sure-fire way to "force the truth" and transcend spousal denial, ambiguity, minimization, or avoidance.
While the polygraph can detect the difference in truthful compared to untruthful responses regarding some overt behaviors e.g.
Sometimes the polygraph provides a missing and expedient way to validate safety from such things as STD's, infection, risk to children, and other scenarios that are laden with immediate concern such that choosing to defer information will dramatically increase fear, uncertainty, and risk to mental health and emotional well-being of the spouse.
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