Author: Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA

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Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA

I am a board certified psychoanalyst (BCD-Psychoanalyst) and clinical social worker licensed in the State of Washington (LICSW); a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (FIPA); and a training and supervising analyst with Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. My preparation for professional practice includes a Master's degree in Social Work followed by many years of intensive post graduate study of British Object Relations, the branch of psychoanalysis most concerned with very early relationships and their reverberations across our lives. I began working in the field in 1988, offering post-adoption counseling at Children's Home Society of Washington. I was also an active doula, working with families and training others at Seattle Midwifery School, and serving as a founding board member for the Pacific Association for Labor Support and Open Arms Perinatal Services. I believe this emphasis on early life has helped me to cultivate capacities for accompanying others through the often painful process of psychic development. I have been in private practice in Seattle since 1998.

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Medicine for the Soul

How Great Nurses Make A Physician’s Job Easier

by Dana Blue, LICSW, FIPA

Whether they work in an office, hospital, or healthcare facility, physicians rely on nurses to ensure that they can give the best patient care possible. This is... Read more.