Maggie "Gigi" Ishaq, LMHC, SUDP, CFRC, CCSMedication Management in Edmonds, WA
LMHC, SUDP, CFRC, CCS
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Maggie "Gigi" Ishaq is the owner and practicing therapist at Balanced Living Therapy, LLC with a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a concentration in substance use counseling, both from Seattle Pacific University. She brings over 23 years of clinical experience helping clients heal from trauma, navigate grief and loss, address substance use concerns, and strengthen emotional health, with extensive experience supporting first responders and
Credentials
LMHC, SUDP, CFRC, CCS
Role
Medication Management
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Co-occurring
Evidence-based approaches
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. A structured trauma therapy that helps the brain re-file painful memories so they stop hijacking the present.
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.
DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Pairs acceptance with change. Especially useful when emotions feel too big to ride out without acting on them.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic Therapy. Explores the older patterns and unconscious dynamics underneath the surface behavior. Slower than skills-based work, deeper on the questions of why you reach for the thing you reach for.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention. Practices noticing urges without acting on them, building the gap between trigger and choice.
Narrative therapy
Narrative Therapy. Treats the problem as separate from the person. Helps you re-author the story you tell about your life so you stop being defined by the addiction chapter alone.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Mental health treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Setting
- Outpatient
Facility
- Community mental health center
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Chronic disease/illness management
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Family psychoeducation
- Illness management and recovery
- Case management service
- Suicide prevention services
Education & counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Children/Adolescents
- Young Adults
- Adults
- Seniors
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