Therapy & Psychological Testing for Residents of Mercer Island
Welcome!
Focus & Thrive provides mindfulness-based online therapy, life coaching, and neurodiversity-affirming testing for ADHD and Autism for individuals in Mercer Island, WA. Many clients in this community are balancing high expectations, busy schedules, and family responsibilities, often while managing stress, anxiety, or feeling overwhelmed.
With more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Samara Serotkin offers compassionate, mindfulness-based support tailored to your needs. She helps clients gain insight, develop practical tools, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Whether you’re looking for greater balance, clarity, or personal growth, therapy can help you make positive steps forward.
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Our Specialties
Depression Treatment
Do You Feel Overwhelmingly Lost, Lonely And Lethargic? Are you struggling with a heaviness that hangs over you like a cloud that won’t let up no matter what you do? Are you often overwhelmed with feelings of loneliness, helplessness or hopelessness?
Anxiety Treatment
Are You Tired Of Living On Edge? Do you wake up in the morning with a sense of dread – like you’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop? No matter what you do, does it feel like you have little or no control in your life?
Weight Loss Counseling
Are You Engaged In An Ongoing Battle To Lose Weight? Have you made a lot of promises to yourself to lose weight, change what you eat and exercise more? Are you discouraged by how few promises you’ve been able to keep?
Neurodiversity-Affirming ADHD Testing For Adults
Are You Struggling with Attention, Focus, or Learning? Is staying focused on tasks a daily struggle? Do impulsivity or restlessness make it hard to follow through on responsibilities? Does getting started—or staying engaged—with homework, projects, or daily tasks feel overwhelming?
Neurodiversity-Affirming Autism Testing For Adults
Are you Wondering Whether or Not You Are Autistic? Have you struggled with interpersonal relationships, communication and/or sensory issues? Do you often feel “different” from your peers, like you don’t see things the same way? Have you felt the need to “mask” your symptoms by copying what others do?
Mindfulness-Based Life Coaching
Are You Ready To Take Your Life To The Next Level? Are you interested in practicing mindfulness as an avenue to foster your life goals? Do you want to move forward with focus, empowerment and productivity? Life coaching can help you connect to your deeper intentions, create actionable, attainable goals and foster a life that you truly enjoy living
Directions from Mercer Island, WA
- From Mercer Island, take I-90 W toward Seattle
Continue across Lake Washington into Seattle - Take the exit for I-5 North toward Vancouver, BC
- Take exit 167 for Mercer St and continue on Mercer St
- Turn right onto Dexter Ave N
- Continue onto Fremont Ave N/Fremont Bridge and use the middle lane to turn left onto Fremont Pl N
- Turn left onto N 36th St and continue to the destination on the left






