About

I'm Narayan Singh, PhD, ABPP.
I help individuals and couples
learn to navigate emotions.

Education

I am a licensed clinical psychologist in the State of Washington (PY61404398), and am board certified in couple and family psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). I have also been recognized as a certified Emotion-Focused Therapist for both Individuals and Couples through the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy (ISEFT).

I earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, WA. I completed my pre-doctoral internship at the Spokane Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital and my post-doctoral fellowship in private practice at Eastside Psychological Associates, PLLC.

Specialty

I specialize in working with both adult individuals and couples. My work spans a range of problems including relationship issues, depression, anxiety, worry, minority stress, and trauma. I also have a passion for working with ethnic minority individuals as well as inter-cultural couples. Being of half South Asian descent, I also enjoy serving fellow South Asians.

With all my clients, our work together can include addressing difficulties that arise from differences between yourself and others. This can include differing cultures, senses of self (e.g., individualistic, collectivistic), identities, beliefs, family-of-origin norms, etc. These conversations are often very rewarding and can help improve your self awareness and your ability to connect with others through such differences.

I have been trained in several psychotherapeutic approaches, and I primarily approach treatment from an emotion-focused therapy (EFT) framework. EFT is an empirically-supported approach that can be used flexibly to include other therapeutic modalities when needed. In short, EFT helps change bad feelings that create suffering and keep you from navigating your life better.

Approach

I see people as being experts in their own unique experiences and having the inborn capacity to thrive if barriers to that capacity are understood and resolved. I make an effort to understand you and the internal and external barriers that might get in the way of your thriving.

People have many parts to them. I strive to understand how these various parts work together and conflict for you. Often, this is most quickly uncovered by better understanding the feelings that emerge for you in, and between, our sessions. The discoveries made with this approach are often surprising and help to make sense of long-standing difficulties. Though therapy with me can be a lot of work, it can also be rewarding for the emotional growth and inner strength you gain as we work together.

Let’s find out if my approach

will be a good fit for you.

Click here to schedule a free phone consultation.

Publications

Lewis, J. A., Crouch, T. A., Erickson, T. M., Singh, N. B., & Cummings, M. H. (2023). Interpersonal contrast avoidance as a mechanism for the prospective maintenance of worry. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 94, 102678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102678

Jacobson, N. C., Erickson, T. M., Quach, C. M., & Singh, N. B. (2023). Low emotional complexity as a transdiagnostic risk factor: Comparing idiographic markers of emotional complexity to emotional granularity as predictors of anxiety, depression, and personality pathology. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-022-10347-4

Verdi, E. K., Quach, C., Singh, N. B., Reas, H. E., & Erickson, T. M. (2021). Disgust uniquely predicts coping and interpersonal processes beyond anxiety and dysphoria in the context of naturalistic stressors. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102446

Björling, E. A., Singh, N. B. (2020). Pandemonium versus paralysis: The internal experience of adolescent girls with headaches. American Journal of Qualitative Research, 4(1), 49-68. https://doi.org/10.29333/ajqr/8255

Singh, N. B., & Erickson, T. (2019). Michael H. Kernis. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 1-4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2184-1

Singh, N. B., & Björling, E. A. (2019). A review of EMA assessment period reporting for mood variables in substance use research: Expanding existing EMA guidelines. Addictive Behaviors, 94, 133-146. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.01.033

Björling, E. A., Stevens, C. A., Singh, N.B. (2019). Brief report: Participatory pilot of an art-based mindfulness intervention for adolescent girls with headache. Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 36, 1-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07421656.2019.1609325

Björling, E. A., & Singh, N. B. (2017). Anger without agency: Exploring the experiences of stress in adolescent girls. The Qualitative Report, 22(10), 2583-2599. Retrieved from http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol22/iss10/4

Björling, E. A., & Singh, N. (2016). Temporal patterns of stress in adolescent girls with headache. Stress and Health, 33(1), 69-79. doi: 10.1002/smi.267

Research

I aim to contribute to the development of emotion-focused therapy for individuals and couples through my research collaborations.

Please view my Research page to learn more about participating in research at Singh Psychology.

Teaching / Training

I am the owner and head of institute of the EFT Institute of the Pacific Northwest, through which I host trainings, internationally. If you are interested in hiring me as an EFT consultant, please contact me here.

As a part of this institute’s initiative, I also have a YouTube channel EFT Psychologist. I post videos about EFT theories and concepts as applied to scenes from TV shows and movies. You can watch an episode below.