Feminist Therapists in 97213
I use an Existential Therapy approach to counseling, with influences of Feminist and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques.
Life is challenging, and for some, it feels impossible. Unwelcome and harmful thoughts and feelings make happiness a task that seems far out of reach. It can be overwhelming, and it can negatively affect the way we function in our day to day lives. If this speaks to you, I want you to know that you are not alone, and I would be honored to help you work toward a happier, more fulfilling life.
I use an Existential Therapy approach to counseling, with influences of Feminist and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques.
Life is challenging, and for some, it feels impossible. Unwelcome and harmful thoughts and feelings make happiness a task that seems far out of reach. It can be overwhelming, and it can negatively affect the way we function in our day to day lives. If this speaks to you, I want you to know that you are not alone, and I would be honored to help you work toward a happier, more fulfilling life.
I offer individual therapy working from an intersectional feminist multicultural lens to adolescents and adults.
I am passionate about empowering folks to gain awareness into their own lives so that they can learn to support themselves while navigating life’s challenges. I strive to help people live in a way that invites deeper fulfillment and balance by harnessing their natural ability to cope with stress, emotional pain, and trauma. My therapeutic style incorporates warmth, humor, honest feedback, and values respect and creativity. I prioritize creating a space to safely experiment with sincere ways of being. My goal is to help people create meaningful and positive changes to their lives.
I offer individual therapy working from an intersectional feminist multicultural lens to adolescents and adults.
I am passionate about empowering folks to gain awareness into their own lives so that they can learn to support themselves while navigating life’s challenges. I strive to help people live in a way that invites deeper fulfillment and balance by harnessing their natural ability to cope with stress, emotional pain, and trauma. My therapeutic style incorporates warmth, humor, honest feedback, and values respect and creativity. I prioritize creating a space to safely experiment with sincere ways of being. My goal is to help people create meaningful and positive changes to their lives.
Emily Ardent
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
I view therapy as a collaborative, unfolding process that considers clients holistically. I draw from feminist and somatic approaches, using IFS to help you reconnect with your centered-self, those around you, and broader structures of support and thriving. You can expect a safe and nonjudgmental space - I strive to incorporate anti-oppressive frameworks into my practice, attending to your social and cultural context. I believe that many challenges are related to structural violence and that we hold this trauma in our bodies. I enjoy helping clients tune into their embodied experience to release pain and find understanding.
I view therapy as a collaborative, unfolding process that considers clients holistically. I draw from feminist and somatic approaches, using IFS to help you reconnect with your centered-self, those around you, and broader structures of support and thriving. You can expect a safe and nonjudgmental space - I strive to incorporate anti-oppressive frameworks into my practice, attending to your social and cultural context. I believe that many challenges are related to structural violence and that we hold this trauma in our bodies. I enjoy helping clients tune into their embodied experience to release pain and find understanding.
I feel especially called to work with adult survivors of childhood trauma, survivors of sexual trauma, people who feel challenged by perfectionism, people-pleasing, & anxiety, neurodivergent folks, service industry workers, & queer folks. I'm also passionate about working with couples. Relationships can be magical containers for connection, healing, growth and fulfillment. I also know they can be really hard! I'd love to support you and your partner(s) in co-creating a better relationship.
I feel especially called to work with adult survivors of childhood trauma, survivors of sexual trauma, people who feel challenged by perfectionism, people-pleasing, & anxiety, neurodivergent folks, service industry workers, & queer folks. I'm also passionate about working with couples. Relationships can be magical containers for connection, healing, growth and fulfillment. I also know they can be really hard! I'd love to support you and your partner(s) in co-creating a better relationship.
You deserve to live fully and freely, to express yourself, and to be heard with curiosity and intent to understand. This often means unlearning behaviors or ideas that may have served us in the past and are now holding us back, releasing societal expectations that feel out of alignment with us, and learning what works for us now. We’ll work together to understand how your past shaped who you are, and to discover how you want to show up today.
You deserve to live fully and freely, to express yourself, and to be heard with curiosity and intent to understand. This often means unlearning behaviors or ideas that may have served us in the past and are now holding us back, releasing societal expectations that feel out of alignment with us, and learning what works for us now. We’ll work together to understand how your past shaped who you are, and to discover how you want to show up today.
Zoë Martinini
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213
Waitlist for new clients
I have a real passion for working with teenage girls experiencing anxiety, and women during life transitions such as pregnancy, becoming a parent, relationship changes, or going to college.
I have a real passion for working with teenage girls experiencing anxiety, and women during life transitions such as pregnancy, becoming a parent, relationship changes, or going to college.
Stephanie Solar, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213 (Online Only)
Let's face it. Life is a juggling act between home, work, school, friends and family. Our bodies are bioenergetic systems geared for balance. When things go well, our energy flows and we feel good. When life happens and stress occurs, we can feel anxiety, depression and physical pain. We reach outside ourselves for relief when going inside is the answer. If you are ready for change and are committed to making that happen, please make an appointment today. My approach is wholistic and I use Energy Psychology (Tapping), Zen Buddhism and Mindfulness to achieve a client's goals.
Let's face it. Life is a juggling act between home, work, school, friends and family. Our bodies are bioenergetic systems geared for balance. When things go well, our energy flows and we feel good. When life happens and stress occurs, we can feel anxiety, depression and physical pain. We reach outside ourselves for relief when going inside is the answer. If you are ready for change and are committed to making that happen, please make an appointment today. My approach is wholistic and I use Energy Psychology (Tapping), Zen Buddhism and Mindfulness to achieve a client's goals.
Ashlee Adams
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213 (Online Only)
I have had the privilege of being a resource to individuals facing various challenges. I will be accepting, flexible, and non-judgmental, whether you're exploring questions around anxiety, trauma, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
I have had the privilege of being a resource to individuals facing various challenges. I will be accepting, flexible, and non-judgmental, whether you're exploring questions around anxiety, trauma, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
As a therapist, I help people connect to their inner strength to meet life’s challenges with creativity and compassion for the self and others using a mindfulness-based approach. My practice is rooted in understanding how our emotions show up in our relationships and inner world as well as somatically in our bodies. And how experience is shaped by the family, community and larger systems we’re a part of. Whether you’re feeling stressed, overwhelmed, anxious — or simply stuck — I offer a warm, nonjudgmental space to explore difficult emotions and challenging life issues.
As a therapist, I help people connect to their inner strength to meet life’s challenges with creativity and compassion for the self and others using a mindfulness-based approach. My practice is rooted in understanding how our emotions show up in our relationships and inner world as well as somatically in our bodies. And how experience is shaped by the family, community and larger systems we’re a part of. Whether you’re feeling stressed, overwhelmed, anxious — or simply stuck — I offer a warm, nonjudgmental space to explore difficult emotions and challenging life issues.
Joyce Griffin
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213 (Online Only)
Trauma comes in many forms. It can be from childhood abuse, car accidents, toxic work environment, toxic relationship, racial injustice, war, rape, bullying, natural and manmade disasters like wildfires and earthquakes. You may have the symptoms of PTSD but not have explicit memories of the traumatizing experience. EMDR walks you through a series of steps to help decrease the symptoms of PTSD (nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, insomnia, avoidance and hopelessness about the future). It also helps to map out a plan to deal with future triggers and gives a renewed and positive belief system about the self. I offer a free consultation.
Trauma comes in many forms. It can be from childhood abuse, car accidents, toxic work environment, toxic relationship, racial injustice, war, rape, bullying, natural and manmade disasters like wildfires and earthquakes. You may have the symptoms of PTSD but not have explicit memories of the traumatizing experience. EMDR walks you through a series of steps to help decrease the symptoms of PTSD (nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, insomnia, avoidance and hopelessness about the future). It also helps to map out a plan to deal with future triggers and gives a renewed and positive belief system about the self. I offer a free consultation.
If you’re reading this, we already know you’re struggling. Maybe you’re having trouble “adulting”. You’re feeling like everyone else seems to have it all together, why can’t you? Your mental health is getting worse and worse, and you just want it to stop. Your day to day life is chaos and worry and you remember better days when things just weren't like this. You might feel like you’re out of control of your life.
If you’re reading this, we already know you’re struggling. Maybe you’re having trouble “adulting”. You’re feeling like everyone else seems to have it all together, why can’t you? Your mental health is getting worse and worse, and you just want it to stop. Your day to day life is chaos and worry and you remember better days when things just weren't like this. You might feel like you’re out of control of your life.
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Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
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Portland, OR 97213
If you're feeling stuck, challenged, frustrated, repeating patterns that no longer serve you and do not know how to live your best life, let's work through these things together. If you're not sure of your goals or what is preventing you from moving forward that is a fine place to start or continue on your path to change and healing. Life can present us with many surprises including anxiety, personal, cultural and ancestral trauma, depression, aging, illness, grief and loss. These are all human and change and healing is possible. My online therapy sessions are confidential and inviting. I have limited in person visits.
If you're feeling stuck, challenged, frustrated, repeating patterns that no longer serve you and do not know how to live your best life, let's work through these things together. If you're not sure of your goals or what is preventing you from moving forward that is a fine place to start or continue on your path to change and healing. Life can present us with many surprises including anxiety, personal, cultural and ancestral trauma, depression, aging, illness, grief and loss. These are all human and change and healing is possible. My online therapy sessions are confidential and inviting. I have limited in person visits.
If you're seeking an empowering and transformative experience of therapy, I'd love to support you. I have built my practice to focus on all things relationships: I work especially well with relational trauma, breaches of trust, repairing severed relationships, communication, non-normative relationships, as well as family & reproductive support. I am approachable and bring a solid, vigorous presence to our encounters - you will not feel adrift in our sessions. My style is engaged, directive, and sometimes humorous, and always tender and reverent of all of who you are.
If you're seeking an empowering and transformative experience of therapy, I'd love to support you. I have built my practice to focus on all things relationships: I work especially well with relational trauma, breaches of trust, repairing severed relationships, communication, non-normative relationships, as well as family & reproductive support. I am approachable and bring a solid, vigorous presence to our encounters - you will not feel adrift in our sessions. My style is engaged, directive, and sometimes humorous, and always tender and reverent of all of who you are.
Kat Canada
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LICSW
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213 (Online Only)
I provide psychotherapy to children, teens, and emergent adults using an integrative relational or play-centered approach. I specialize in working young people who are curious about themselves but may feel adrift, alienated, misunderstood, or just tired and angry. For most of us, it makes sense to feel weary, outraged, anxious, or demoralized right now. It does not have to make sense to carry the weight of it alone.
I provide psychotherapy to children, teens, and emergent adults using an integrative relational or play-centered approach. I specialize in working young people who are curious about themselves but may feel adrift, alienated, misunderstood, or just tired and angry. For most of us, it makes sense to feel weary, outraged, anxious, or demoralized right now. It does not have to make sense to carry the weight of it alone.
Let's work together to help you thrive. Maybe your relationships are unsatisfying, you feel depressed or anxious, or you feel like you don't have much purpose. It would be an honor to help you. I engage with clients to create meaning in their lives, to improve their partnerships and friendships, and to improve their sense of connection with themselves, with others, and with the universe. It would be a privilege of offering understanding and support to you and to explore how healing trauma, creating community, deepening mindfulness, and finding peace can revolutionize your wellbeing. I work with individuals and couples.
Let's work together to help you thrive. Maybe your relationships are unsatisfying, you feel depressed or anxious, or you feel like you don't have much purpose. It would be an honor to help you. I engage with clients to create meaning in their lives, to improve their partnerships and friendships, and to improve their sense of connection with themselves, with others, and with the universe. It would be a privilege of offering understanding and support to you and to explore how healing trauma, creating community, deepening mindfulness, and finding peace can revolutionize your wellbeing. I work with individuals and couples.
LAUREN Mullins
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213 (Online Only)
Hi! I'm Lauren. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I aim to create a safe, collaborative relationship as we navigate your healing. The focus may be placed on utilizing personal strengths, increasing safe coping skills and improving feelings of empowerment through evidence based interventions.
Hi! I'm Lauren. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I aim to create a safe, collaborative relationship as we navigate your healing. The focus may be placed on utilizing personal strengths, increasing safe coping skills and improving feelings of empowerment through evidence based interventions.
I partner with clients across the lifespan, helping folks to gain deeper insight into themselves, their desires, and their need for change. As a clinical social worker, my approach emphasizes the impact that marginalization and oppression can have on the mental health and well-being of individuals and families. Whether you are trying to manage anxiety, depression, trauma, the impacts of marginalization, or other stressors harming your mental health, we will work together to create a safe place where you can be seen and heard while finding a healing path forward.
I partner with clients across the lifespan, helping folks to gain deeper insight into themselves, their desires, and their need for change. As a clinical social worker, my approach emphasizes the impact that marginalization and oppression can have on the mental health and well-being of individuals and families. Whether you are trying to manage anxiety, depression, trauma, the impacts of marginalization, or other stressors harming your mental health, we will work together to create a safe place where you can be seen and heard while finding a healing path forward.
Lev Schneidman
Clinical Social Work Associate, CSWA
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213 (Online Only)
Are you wanting more pleasure in your life? Are you feeling numb, disconnected, or not finding the place where you belong? I believe in creating supportive and empowering spaces where individuals can explore, notice, and redefine intimacy and pleasure as it relates to oneself, others, and the world. My approach is first and foremost to help build, grow, and reinforce one’s relationship to oneself. In my therapeutic approach, I practice mindfulness and somatic approaches, always moving at a pace set by those I work with. This means you lead the sessions, and I'm here to support and guide you.
Are you wanting more pleasure in your life? Are you feeling numb, disconnected, or not finding the place where you belong? I believe in creating supportive and empowering spaces where individuals can explore, notice, and redefine intimacy and pleasure as it relates to oneself, others, and the world. My approach is first and foremost to help build, grow, and reinforce one’s relationship to oneself. In my therapeutic approach, I practice mindfulness and somatic approaches, always moving at a pace set by those I work with. This means you lead the sessions, and I'm here to support and guide you.
Beth Purcell
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LMHC, ATR-BC
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213
I work with youth and adults presenting with relationship, family and school challenges. Kids I meet with experience "meltdowns," anxiety, and often identify as neurodiverse. Adults I see find their own attachment glitches activated in moments of greater demand with their kids.
I work with youth and adults presenting with relationship, family and school challenges. Kids I meet with experience "meltdowns," anxiety, and often identify as neurodiverse. Adults I see find their own attachment glitches activated in moments of greater demand with their kids.
Family Roots Therapy
Marriage & Family Therapist
Verified Verified
Portland, OR 97213
Waitlist for new clients
We help new parents, young children, and teens to create healthier relationships and work together to navigate family conflict, life stressors, and adjustment to change. Do your child's emotions and outbursts seem out of control and too much to handle? Does your teen seem anxious, depressed, or withdrawn? Are you and your partner arguing constantly about parenting? Feeling sad and hopeless, or not bonding with your baby or child like you thought you would? We can help.
We help new parents, young children, and teens to create healthier relationships and work together to navigate family conflict, life stressors, and adjustment to change. Do your child's emotions and outbursts seem out of control and too much to handle? Does your teen seem anxious, depressed, or withdrawn? Are you and your partner arguing constantly about parenting? Feeling sad and hopeless, or not bonding with your baby or child like you thought you would? We can help.
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Feminist Therapists
How does feminist therapy work?
Feminist therapy sessions are not only personal but often cultural or political in nature, as the approach is based on the belief that people are affected by, and often struggle with, cultural and societal norms and biases, and need to move beyond those external pressures or stressors to tap their own confidence and engage more fully in their own identity. Sessions may therefore include discussions of sexism, diversity, and gender issues and talk of steps toward greater empowerment for patients who believe they have been silenced and seek to raise their voices.
What are examples of feminist therapy techniques?
Along with traditional talk therapy and analysis, a feminist therapist may employ techniques such as role-playing and assertiveness training to help clients build their self-esteem so that they feel they can act freely, and not based on cultural expectations or gender roles dictated by others. A feminist therapist may also engage in bibliotherapy, offering suggested readings on gender identity or social power inequities as they work toward viewing mental-health concerns through a broad cultural lens before focusing on how they affect the individual. Somatic therapy techniques, with an emphasis on body awareness, self-compassion, and mindfulness practices are also often part of feminist therapist practice.
How long does feminist therapy last?
As with most forms of talk therapy, there is no set duration or end point for feminist therapy; people who believe that they are making progress typically continue until they feel they’ve addressed the issues that had been holding them back. It may take some time to become comfortable discussing personal issues, but once a client feels they can do so, they could expect therapy to last for a number of months, typically including at least 12 sessions.
Does feminist therapy work?
As a relatively recent therapeutic technique, there is not yet a body of evidence proving the efficacy of feminist therapy. However, the approach is based on proven core principles of talk therapy, with a particular emphasis on developing a therapeutic relationship based on equality and authentic connection between therapist and client and discovering and building on clients’ personal strengths to help them gain a greater sense of personal power and agency.