CERE DEMUTH, MA, LMHC

Cere Demuth, MA, LMHC

Psychotherapy & Consultation
Children | Adolescents | Adults

About

Cere has been a practicing psychotherapist since 1992. She is a mother, grandmother, occasional photographer, and writer. She has spent most of her life on the beautiful islands of the Pacific Northwest. She works psychodynamically with children, adolescents and adults. She specializes in issues related to trauma, addiction, and attachment.

For several years she wrote the column, "Parenting on the Rock," for a local paper. Recently, she finished a memoir entitled "The Way We Stay".

The Way We Stay

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"The Way We Stay" chronicles Cere's life as a small town psychotherapist coping for twelve years with the pain, fear, and humiliation of her only son’s opiate addiction.

Living in the idyllic San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest she struggles to balance the complexity of her own emotional needs, the needs of her clients, and the needs of her family beneath the shadow of addiction. She revisits her tumultuous childhood beginning in the Bay Area with her birth during the Summer of Love to leftist radical hippies. Cere retraces her parents’ intense, but brief, political involvement in the leftist militant group The Weather Underground. Eventually, her family moves to Whidbey Island where her parents raise her and her brother in a small, rural, alternative community.

In the midst of a painful, high-risk, adolescence she invites the reader into her internal world as a teen-age mother in 1985, an adoptive mom in 2000, and a psychotherapist of twenty-five years desperately trying to heal her family and herself from the suffering caused by addiction. Written in a sparse, poetic language, it is a story of heartbreaking love, vulnerability, faith and healing.

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"The Way We Stay" chronicles Cere's life as a small town psychotherapist coping for twelve years with the pain, fear, and humiliation of her only son’s opiate addiction.

Living in the idyllic San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest she struggles to balance the complexity of her own emotional needs, the needs of her clients, and the needs of her family beneath the shadow of addiction. She revisits her tumultuous childhood beginning in the Bay Area with her birth during the Summer of Love to leftist radical hippies. Cere retraces her parents’ intense, but brief, political involvement in the leftist militant group The Weather Underground. Eventually, her family moves to Whidbey Island where her parents raise her and her brother in a small, rural, alternative community.

In the midst of a painful, high-risk, adolescence she invites the reader into her internal world as a teen-age mother in 1985, an adoptive mom in 2000, and a psychotherapist of twenty-five years desperately trying to heal her family and herself from the suffering caused by addiction. Written in a sparse, poetic language, it is a story of heartbreaking love, vulnerability, faith and healing.

READ AN EXCERPT

Touchpoints

Orcas Island Lit Fest

Hello Humans Blog

San Juan Islander

"Recover & Reclaim" on iTunes

The aim of therapy is not acceptance, happiness, or adjustment.

It's a transparent, undefended heart.

—Thomas Moore, Ph.D.

Availability

Cere is available for psychotherapy and consultation by video or by phone in the state of Washington. To contact Cere go to choosingtherapy.com or you can call or email her directly at the number below.

Individual sessions are $175 per 50 minutes. Couple and family sessions are $200.

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cere@rockisland.com

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138th Pl SW
Edmonds, WA 98026

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PO Box 1283
Friday Harbor, WA 98250

Until you make the unconscious conscious,

it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

—Carl Jung

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