Oregon

My therapeutic approach is direct and strength-based and I use a solution-focused model that puts a priority on real world problem solving. Strengths-based, solution focused counseling is a model that focuses on an individuals inherent strengths and skills and uses those assets as building blocks for future success and problem-solving. Instead of focusing on the problem, which often makes people feel like victims of circumstance, a strengths-based, solution focused approach draws attention to the positives that already exist within and around all of us. This approach dictates that people arent defined by their problems, life traumas, diagnosis, or illness. Instead they are defined by their capacity for growth and change. My goal is to help you move in the direction of increased peace and happiness in your daily life. I believe that we are happiest and healthiest when we are compassionately truthful with ourselves and with the people in our lives. Youll find me to be down to earth, respectful, honest, and challenging. While I am compassionate and sensitive to emotion, it is my firm belief that the road to happiness is paved with hard work, dedication to rational thought, acknowledgement of our strengths and weaknesses and a determination to endure short term pain as the price for long term peace and joy.

I am a therapist in Portland, Oregon. I work with clients on a diverse range of issues, such as depression, anxiety, lack of fulfillment, life transitions, relationship issues, personal growth, LGBTQ issues, and polyamory & consensual non-monogamy. It is my belief that within each of us lies the potential for personal growth and positive change. I use an Existential-Humanistic approach to therapy, which involves exploring and discovering one's unique and authentic self. In this work, we will explore themes such as choice, responsibility, meaning, purpose, and authenticity so that you may discover a more intentional way of being. I also believe that we experience distress when we struggle to reconcile the way things are with the way we want things to be. When this is the case, it can feel like weve lost control of our lives, that the world is happeningtous, or weve lost a sense of who we are. I help clients become empowered to reclaim their lives so that they may live intentionally, authentically, and with integrity, as active players in the creation of their own life experience.

My practice focuses on helping individuals and couples in a safe, supportive, non- judgmental environment, where skills can be honed to create ones best self and relationship. My mission is to help people to be armed with knowledge and empowered to create a life and relationship that best suits them. I specialize in working with a wide variety of relationship structures and lifestyles, as well as with those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer or questioning. I am a safe clinician for those who identify along a non-binary gender spectrum, as transgendered, or transitioning.

Integrative primary care with a sex positive approach. Holistic, caring, nonjudgemental.

Offering: Sex Positive, Humanist, Narrative Counselor/Coach with 17 years experience. My goals include helping people cultivate robust, authentic, meaningful, fun, sexual expression in life. I value and have much experience working with people of unconventional and alternative ways of being in and experiencing the world. I regularly work with people who identify as: LGBTQIAA, neuro-diverse, older, kinky, poly, differently abled, psychonauts, and wonderfully weird. I employ many approaches of which some include: Brene Brown's "Daring Way," Narrative Counseling, Person Centered Therapy, Gottman Method (relationship counseling), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, and Wilderness Awareness Training. I cultivate my professional and personal development via ongoing trainings in: sexual health and social justice, large group awareness training, the psycho-spiritual use of entheogens; and participation in individual and group supervision. Others express that they experience me as genuine, compassionate, loving, skillfully direct, encouraging, non-judgmental, and playful. I am ethically committed to serving you in ways that cultivate your own awareness, compassion and wisdom with respect for the common good of all life. I will only assist in practices I am qualified for by training, experience or practice. I cultivate my integrity thru ongoing training, individual and group supervision. I conduct this work in the spirit of service and reciprocity. I strive to accommodate working with all who seek my services regardless of ability to pay. I offer a sliding scale thru 500% of Federal Poverty Level. I honor all HIIPA and state of Oregon rules and regulations regarding confidentiality and do not keep identifiable case notes or bill insurance as extra measures to protect your privacy.

Sex-positive primary/integrative medicine. Specializing in women's health, sexual health, mental health.

My goal with my clients is to help them look at themselves, their life experiences, and their desires with more compassion and confidence. I want to provide a safety net in therapy, free from judgment and shame, so that my clients feel safe to explore their relational and erotic desires, practice articulating their needs and boundaries in relationships, and touch on any shadowy parts that need attention and grace.

Somatic mental health therapy for individuals, relationships, and families. Increase body awareness, release symptoms of stress, trauma and anxiety. Inclusive and aware of a diverse range of identities and relationship styles. Welcoming to kinky and non monogamous relationships.

I am a counselor in private practice who is LGBTQ+ safe and sensitive, poly / consensual nonmongamy friendly, and kink aware. I would be happy to talk with you and feel out whether I would be a good fit to address the concerns that bring you to counseling. If I am not a good fit, I would be happy to help connect you with other area counselors who may be a good fit for you!Feel free to check out my website or telephone me for more information! For individual therapy, I currently accept a number of insurances and have sliding scale options as well. Relationship therapy is not billable to insurance companies and thus is self pay. All major credit cards, HSA, FSA, checks, and cash are accepted.

Portland Oregon 97218503-254-7996 [email protected] couple polyalternative sexualityI work with adults and utilize a cognitive behavioral approach for depression anxiety parenting personal growth self-behavior modification relationshp issues & sexuality