Meet Your Behavioral Health Providers – Squaxin Island Tribe

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Phone: (360) 426-1582

EMAIL:  Jessica Dolge –

Mason/Thurston Crisis Clinic: (360) 586-2800

Ruthie Kovanen

Ruthie is an Associate Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She enjoys working with children, teens, and adults to explore and heal from trauma. Work with clients to navigate feelings of stress and coping. Works with children and teens to explore emotions, thoughts, and difficult experiences with games, activities, and artmaking. Her goal is to create a counseling experience where you feel heard, understood, and safe to show up exactly as you are.

Ase Tojussen

Ase believes that all individuals are unique and special. Addiction looks different for everyone, and she believes recovery will be different for each individual as well. Her role is to help each client discover what recovery will look like for them, anything from complete abstinence to harm reduction. Together we develop a plan that will motivate them to do the work needed to achieve their recovery. She does her best to be real with clients because that is needed to build a trusting relationship.

Giita Clark

Giita has over 30 years as a Mental Health Counselor. She worked for Squaxin for the last 13 years. She is trained in family systems and cognitive therapies. She works with teens, adults and elders managing and coping with a variety of mental health issues. She is client centered, strength based, and solution focused. She believes in patient-counselor collaborative relationships to enhance wellness. Areas of expertise; relationship healing, life transitions, trauma recovery, personal identity conflicts and chronic pain.

Julie Anderson

Julie values the human experience, with all of its ups and downs, and believes people heal, grow, and change by being brave enough to talk about their experiences. She is a person-focused, trauma-informed therapist who incorporates several modalities into the work she does with clients.  She enjoys educating clients about their mind/body experience and encouraging clients to listen to the messages they receive from their bodies.  She sees clients of all ages and, when working with children, incorporates play therapy into the therapeutic experience. 

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