Veterans Therapists in Alphabet District, Portland, OR

Are you feeling stagnant, stuck, or disconnected in relationship to yourself and others in your life? I specialize in individual therapy with the aim of using self and relational exploration, reframing, and evidence based practices to increase quality of self-concept, relationships, and life. Whether you are suffering from a big life cycle change, to depression and anxiety, identity issues, or perhaps grief, I provide a safe, inclusive and affirming space for individuals to explore and create a life that is more aligned with personal goals, values and authentic self. Healing, connection and thriving is possible.

Please visit my website for details about how I treat a variety of common concerns, including rebuilding trust and intimacy, anger management, conflict resolution and recovery work around sex or porn addiction. I provide this service through a secure HIPAA approved therapy platform. I have been working with individuals and couples for over 25 years.

I invite you to a safe and held space where transmuting pain and suffering into embodied medicine is the natural human experience. As a relational and earth-conscious therapist, I believe alchemy is human nature. I specialize in guiding people through fear and loss, dissociation, grief, and trauma. My approach is holistic and multidimensional, as I weave ancient philosophies, energetics, and metaphysics with modern quantum, epigenetic, and neurobiological sciences. I believe all ways we have adapted to survive are gifts we can creatively embrace.

As we walk through life, we sometimes encounter a difficult problem that feels impossible to solve. Although facing such a challenge can be extremely confusing and painful, it may also be an invitation to recognize an old habit, belief, relationship pattern, or lifestyle that no longer serves you and a time to explore new possibilities. I am honored to be able accompany and guide my clients on this sacred journey of healing, growth, and discovery.

Our lives evolve in relationship to ourselves, our partners, our families, communities and other beings (e.g. animals & the land). Healing involves allowing a healthy flow of emotion, communication, care and balance in those areas where we find ourselves stuck. I specialize in working with international and interracial couples and families; and anxiety related disorders including traumatic stress, generalized anxiety, panic attacks and social anxiety from a multicultural perspective. I am fully bilingual and multicultural and will bring to our work my life experience across cultures and my professional training.

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Taking New Clients: Everyone has the essential ingredients for positiv change. Individuals and couples who seek my support are in a difficult moment or intersection in life; seeking resolution between internal and external pressures; seeking satisfaction and harmony in relationships, identity, career, society, etc. I support clients who seek to deepen and broaden their perspective on who they are and who they want to become by examining self-limiting narratives, refining self-mastery, and cultivating self-compassion. BIPOC and multicultural clients often seek my support as well as those who want more from therapy than just insight.

We serve a wide range of clients, individuals, couples families who present with a wide range of issues including trauma, depression, anxiety, addictions, sexual issues, body symptoms. Our staff is trained to work with the whole person, mind, body and spirit, believing that within each person is the power to grow and heal from their issues if we can follow their process and within our issues lies the potential solution. We respect and support diversity and deep democracy within the person and in the world and are especially good with helping with issues around body symptoms and relationship problems.

CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW INDIVIDUAL CLIENTS...Everyone is on a journey of personal development; making meaning of their lives and experiences. I consider people to be the experts in their lives, who, when supported, are able to follow their natural drive for self-actualization. All human experiences are a valuable part of the process of self-emergence. Even the greatest challenges can offer insight and fuel for a path forward. I seek to draw out clients' strengths and support the cultivation of their inner guide. People are neither sick nor well. Rather, we are all in process, with personal depths that want for exploration.

We serve a broad base of individuals, couples, families, and organizations. Our specialities include working with trauma, depression, anxiety, and all other major presenting issues. With couples we work with all kinds of issues including communication, all phases of coming together, being together and coming apart. We also do lots of work with sex and intimacy issues. With families we work with a broad range of issues including blended family issues. We specialize in having therapists that can support diversity in race, gender, sexual identity, economic level, and as a broad a base as we can serve. Our therapists have special training in working with the psychology of body symptoms.

Are you feeling alone, afraid or overwhelmed? Are you having difficulty navigating profound adjustments to your life or your relationships? Are others in your life depending on you to guide them through difficult times? I will help you achieve a sense of calm and a perspective of hopefulness.