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Anil Coumar
Currently not accepting clients
Seattle, Washington, United States

English, Malaysian
After medical school, I entered the world of mental health "by accident" as a psychiatry resident in India in 1984, because I thought it would be an easy discipline with fewer on-calls. In London, I started my psychoanalytic training and personal analysis. I also trained in Transactional Analysis psychotherapy and received a master's degree in psychology in the U.S.

I was introduced to The Work much later in my career as a psychotherapist and found it both personally and professionally more powerful than all the other therapeutic and counseling modalities in which I had trained. My preference as a psychotherapist is to teach the client to fish rather than provide them with fish, and The Work does just that. It does not drain me as a facilitator, and many times when I facilitate the client, I am also doing my own Work. The Work is easy to teach and to learn. It reduces the clients' dependency on the provider and gives them a tool they can use for the rest of their lives. It has given me a much needed lifeline out of stress in my daily life, and I would like to offer it to you as a facilitator.

When we look at descriptions for all the mental illnesses listed in the DSM-IV (the diagnostic manual for mental illnesses), it becomes quickly apparent that the common theme linking all the diagnoses is the patients' attachment to their thinking. I have yet to come across a mental illness where questioning closely-held concepts is not useful for the patients' recovery.

Currently I am Director of Hall Health Mental Health Clinic at University of Washington in Seattle where I see patients in addition to my administrative duties. I use The Work with most of my patients at the clinic and in my private practice in Seattle. I am also very interested in developing a clinical treatment manual and in doing some research using The Work among people with established mental health diagnoses. I am also exploring ways to make this powerful tool available to university students. If you want to schedule a session, please give me a call or email me.

Contact Information:
Email: acoumar@gmail.com
Phone: 206-577-8900
Skype: acoumar



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