Jeff Roskelley, LICSW

Along with his role as a statewide trainer and consultant with expertise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) for the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry, Jeff offers services through SOUND Life Recovery where he supports private clients experiencing a wide range of issues. He also offers clinical supervision, mentorship, and consulting for mental health professionals, psychiatrists & other clinicians, as well as for mental health agencies throughout the United States. His areas of professional interest include substance use and conditions categorized as severe mental illness, most notably, psychosis, as well as other mental health conditions.

Regardless of the issues a client brings, Jeff’s approach is compassionate, collaborative, and holistic in considering wider life values. While working with the co-occurring issues of more serious mental illness and substance use, his therapeutic orientation integrates addressing both conditions simultaneously, an approach which often leads to better outcomes, as compared to a sequential or parallel approach most often taken to address these issues separately.

Clinical mentees & agencies seek Jeff’s mentorship from across the country. With a wish to foster outcomes toward an experience of greater wellness, he invites his clinical trainees to nurture a genuine connection and sense of emotional safety with their clients. He encourages clinicians to look beyond a diagnosis and the limited scope of symptoms to try to understand that which holds value to each client and to consider the greater whole which makes up each client’s life. His approach to working with co-occurring disorders leads to an appreciation for the functions served by both the use of substances, as well as the functions which the outward expressions of serious mental health conditions may serve, cultivating a more gentle and adaptive view from which to begin therapy and which, ultimately, can shift the stigma that often follows both conditions.

Jeff’s practice & training is rooted in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) and heavily influenced by Polyvagal Theory, Integrated Dual Diagnosis Therapy, harm reduction, among other theoretical models & approaches.

Conditions supported include: anxiety, depression, alcohol & substance use, psychosis, OCD, bipolar disorder, anger, general stress & wellness, challenging life transitions, values identification, and others.