Divorce Therapists in Portland, OR
Rooted in feminist theory and cultural humility, my practice is intentionally inclusive and welcoming. I provide high-quality, identity-affirming care for neurodivergent, BIPOC, LGBTQIA2+, and disabled clients. I deeply value the identities, histories, and lived experiences you bring to therapy, and I believe healing requires more than a one-size-fits-all approach. Together, we’ll co-create a therapeutic space that truly honors who you are. I believe that when we understand our patterns, behaviors, and personal histories, we gain the power to create meaningful change.
Rooted in feminist theory and cultural humility, my practice is intentionally inclusive and welcoming. I provide high-quality, identity-affirming care for neurodivergent, BIPOC, LGBTQIA2+, and disabled clients. I deeply value the identities, histories, and lived experiences you bring to therapy, and I believe healing requires more than a one-size-fits-all approach. Together, we’ll co-create a therapeutic space that truly honors who you are. I believe that when we understand our patterns, behaviors, and personal histories, we gain the power to create meaningful change.
Life can present us with some difficult challenges which often can also be the greatest opportunities. My training as psychologist enables me to adapt to the clients individual experience and goal. I love to work with dreams and see how they can support and lead us on our journey. In the same way most of our unintentional experiences have a dreamlike quality to them and when approached with respect and awareness can get us in touch with our deepest sense of self.
Life can present us with some difficult challenges which often can also be the greatest opportunities. My training as psychologist enables me to adapt to the clients individual experience and goal. I love to work with dreams and see how they can support and lead us on our journey. In the same way most of our unintentional experiences have a dreamlike quality to them and when approached with respect and awareness can get us in touch with our deepest sense of self.
My specialties include: trauma and post traumatic stress, anxiety and depression, divorce and co-parenting, relationship difficulties, and stress related to medical issues in adults and children.
My work involves helping you find what is most valuable to you and how you can live more in tune with your values and goals. By helping explore your feelings and relationships, we can discover together what patterns and obstacles can be shifted to bring you into the life you want. I am experienced in helping people improve their relationships, professional lives and sense of personal identity.
My specialties include: trauma and post traumatic stress, anxiety and depression, divorce and co-parenting, relationship difficulties, and stress related to medical issues in adults and children.
My work involves helping you find what is most valuable to you and how you can live more in tune with your values and goals. By helping explore your feelings and relationships, we can discover together what patterns and obstacles can be shifted to bring you into the life you want. I am experienced in helping people improve their relationships, professional lives and sense of personal identity.
Lately -and more often than you'd like to admit- it feels like you're about to break. You're used to managing ALL of the moving parts: school, the house, kids- all on top of your high stress job and normally you're fine, in fact you kinda love the pressure of all the things!
But right now? Everything feels tenuous - maybe it's a relationship that's no longer a place of refuge, or your anxiety about the world is through the roof or you're feeling more scattered than normal - whatever it is you know you hate it and you don't know how to get back to feeling in control. I can help you figure out what's going on.
Lately -and more often than you'd like to admit- it feels like you're about to break. You're used to managing ALL of the moving parts: school, the house, kids- all on top of your high stress job and normally you're fine, in fact you kinda love the pressure of all the things!
But right now? Everything feels tenuous - maybe it's a relationship that's no longer a place of refuge, or your anxiety about the world is through the roof or you're feeling more scattered than normal - whatever it is you know you hate it and you don't know how to get back to feeling in control. I can help you figure out what's going on.
I am interested in helping people with primary attachment issues. I work with couples dealing directly with their attachment problems with each other. I work with individuals who are looking internally to figure out their obstacles to developing intimate partnerships. In both my individual and couples work I usually explore the family of origin as one source of understanding and improving love relationships. My style is collaborative and exploratory while I maintain a hopefully transparent point of view. I look at psychotherapy as an unusual conversation where both people are focused on one to help that person grow and change.
I am interested in helping people with primary attachment issues. I work with couples dealing directly with their attachment problems with each other. I work with individuals who are looking internally to figure out their obstacles to developing intimate partnerships. In both my individual and couples work I usually explore the family of origin as one source of understanding and improving love relationships. My style is collaborative and exploratory while I maintain a hopefully transparent point of view. I look at psychotherapy as an unusual conversation where both people are focused on one to help that person grow and change.
Is divorce or breaking up a possibility?
As a level-3 Gottman therapist, I offer a wide range of experience and a compassionate path forward. I specialize in helping people resolve relationship issues that can lead to communication breakdowns, betrayal, and divorce. We'll work together to rebuild trust, ease confusion, navigate differences, and bring joy & intimacy to your relationship.
Is divorce or breaking up a possibility?
As a level-3 Gottman therapist, I offer a wide range of experience and a compassionate path forward. I specialize in helping people resolve relationship issues that can lead to communication breakdowns, betrayal, and divorce. We'll work together to rebuild trust, ease confusion, navigate differences, and bring joy & intimacy to your relationship.
I support clients experiencing intense change in their relationships; breaking up, getting married, starting a family, blending families, moving in together, experiencing infertility, grieving a death or loss, separating, divorcing, and more. To do so, I offer various couple's therapy formats (discernment counseling, pre-marital counseling, and conscious uncoupling support), family therapy for parents/children, and individual therapy for adults and teenagers impacted by these relationship transitions as well.
I support clients experiencing intense change in their relationships; breaking up, getting married, starting a family, blending families, moving in together, experiencing infertility, grieving a death or loss, separating, divorcing, and more. To do so, I offer various couple's therapy formats (discernment counseling, pre-marital counseling, and conscious uncoupling support), family therapy for parents/children, and individual therapy for adults and teenagers impacted by these relationship transitions as well.
I work collaboratively with teens and adults ages 13 and up on issues such as anxiety, depression, life transitions, and divorce.
I use creative methods to explore emotions and thought patterns that present in your life. Though verbal inquiry and art-making, we will use non-judgmental curiosity to better understand your story and your needs. My work is trauma-informed, mindfulness based, and highly relational. I follow your lead, while offering pause, perspective and support.
I work collaboratively with teens and adults ages 13 and up on issues such as anxiety, depression, life transitions, and divorce.
I use creative methods to explore emotions and thought patterns that present in your life. Though verbal inquiry and art-making, we will use non-judgmental curiosity to better understand your story and your needs. My work is trauma-informed, mindfulness based, and highly relational. I follow your lead, while offering pause, perspective and support.
Is divorce or breaking up a possibility?
As a level-3 Gottman therapist, I offer a wide range of experience and a compassionate path forward. I specialize in helping people resolve relationship issues that can lead to communication breakdowns, betrayal, and divorce. We'll work together to rebuild trust, ease confusion, navigate differences, and bring joy & intimacy to your relationship.
Is divorce or breaking up a possibility?
As a level-3 Gottman therapist, I offer a wide range of experience and a compassionate path forward. I specialize in helping people resolve relationship issues that can lead to communication breakdowns, betrayal, and divorce. We'll work together to rebuild trust, ease confusion, navigate differences, and bring joy & intimacy to your relationship.
My approach to counseling is to create a safe space for you and your family to build hope. We will work to raise awareness around the emotions that so often drive our behaviors. As emotional awareness increases we can choose different responses. Rather than the instantaneous reactions that plague many of us, we will be able to respond intentionally and thoughtfully. As we come to understand the emotional basis of our reactions, and choose to change our responses, we can break negative patterns of behavior with our partners, family, children, colleagues, and other people in our lives.
My approach to counseling is to create a safe space for you and your family to build hope. We will work to raise awareness around the emotions that so often drive our behaviors. As emotional awareness increases we can choose different responses. Rather than the instantaneous reactions that plague many of us, we will be able to respond intentionally and thoughtfully. As we come to understand the emotional basis of our reactions, and choose to change our responses, we can break negative patterns of behavior with our partners, family, children, colleagues, and other people in our lives.
Falling in love is addictive. It is your brain on cocaine. Until, it isn't. At first, you couldn't picture months of arguing. Even an affair, broken trust. Perhaps you never imagined hiding away, secretly texting a colleague - s/he listens to you. Perhaps you just want the miscommunication and storming out of the room to end.
Falling in love is addictive. It is your brain on cocaine. Until, it isn't. At first, you couldn't picture months of arguing. Even an affair, broken trust. Perhaps you never imagined hiding away, secretly texting a colleague - s/he listens to you. Perhaps you just want the miscommunication and storming out of the room to end.
My ideal clients are navigating life transitions such as grief, chronic illness, divorce, parenting, custody challenges, estrangement, or identity shifts.
Together, we work with compassion, honesty, and a belief in meaningful change. My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in the belief that healing and growth are possible at any stage of life. I work especially well with people who are navigating complex emotions, seeking clarity, and striving for a more connected and fulfilling life.
My ideal clients are navigating life transitions such as grief, chronic illness, divorce, parenting, custody challenges, estrangement, or identity shifts.
Together, we work with compassion, honesty, and a belief in meaningful change. My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in the belief that healing and growth are possible at any stage of life. I work especially well with people who are navigating complex emotions, seeking clarity, and striving for a more connected and fulfilling life.
I have been practicing psychotherapy in Portland, Oregon for over thirty years. Initially trained as a child and family therapist in the psychodynamic tradition at the University of Michigan, I have since continued to broaden and deepen my experience and skills through further training in and study of Gestalt therapy theory, contemporary psychoanalysis, Collaborative Couple Therapy, anthroposophy, and hatha yoga. Please feel free to check my website for more information on everything I offer.
I have been practicing psychotherapy in Portland, Oregon for over thirty years. Initially trained as a child and family therapist in the psychodynamic tradition at the University of Michigan, I have since continued to broaden and deepen my experience and skills through further training in and study of Gestalt therapy theory, contemporary psychoanalysis, Collaborative Couple Therapy, anthroposophy, and hatha yoga. Please feel free to check my website for more information on everything I offer.
You've been suffering on your own for far too long, pushing away the pain until it feels like you have nothing left. You're exhausted. You feel alone but you put on a mask, smiling on the outside while you're in so much pain inside. Because you pull it together for the people around you, nobody realizes what is going on. You've lost interest in everything. You can't concentrate. Sometimes you hate yourself and wonder if you deserve to feel good ever again. You feel weak and you are so tired of this pain. It's time for a change.
You've been suffering on your own for far too long, pushing away the pain until it feels like you have nothing left. You're exhausted. You feel alone but you put on a mask, smiling on the outside while you're in so much pain inside. Because you pull it together for the people around you, nobody realizes what is going on. You've lost interest in everything. You can't concentrate. Sometimes you hate yourself and wonder if you deserve to feel good ever again. You feel weak and you are so tired of this pain. It's time for a change.
I specialize in Breakup and Divorce Recovery, treating this experience as a significant life event that deserves focused care.
Sometimes life knocks you completely off course. A core piece of your story—a relationship, a career, a future you counted on—is suddenly gone. It can leave a full-body ache, a grief so heavy it’s hard to breathe. You’ve lost more than a plan; it feels like you’ve lost a fundamental part of yourself. You’re not just mourning what was—you’re faced with rebuilding who you are now. And that feeling of being adrift, of not knowing the way forward? That’s where our work begins. You don’t have to navigate this alone. I’m here to help you find your footing. It is possible to feel whole again.
I specialize in Breakup and Divorce Recovery, treating this experience as a significant life event that deserves focused care.
Sometimes life knocks you completely off course. A core piece of your story—a relationship, a career, a future you counted on—is suddenly gone. It can leave a full-body ache, a grief so heavy it’s hard to breathe. You’ve lost more than a plan; it feels like you’ve lost a fundamental part of yourself. You’re not just mourning what was—you’re faced with rebuilding who you are now. And that feeling of being adrift, of not knowing the way forward? That’s where our work begins. You don’t have to navigate this alone. I’m here to help you find your footing. It is possible to feel whole again.
Positive Aging, Senior Life Transitions, Caregivers/Adult Children, Families - Adoption/ Divorce/Blended Families, Divorce Coaching, Adult Adoptee/Birth Parent Reunification, Pre-Marital Counseling, EMDR, Depression, Anxiety, Grief/Loss, Crisis Intervention and Stabilization, Substance Abuse, Self Esteem/Personal Growth, Individual and Group Drama Therapy.
My intention for you is to gently but dynamically create opportunities for growth and healing through flexible and creative alternatives to break through old patterns. I like to collaborate with motivated clients who are willing to work to change their lives. My goal is to help you discover your own solutions to your problems and concerns in an environment that is welcoming, empathetic and non-judgmental. I do that by carefully attending to your thoughts and feelings. Although I will offer specific "interventions" I believe that change occurs during therapy when there is strong motivation combined with the quality of our connection.
Positive Aging, Senior Life Transitions, Caregivers/Adult Children, Families - Adoption/ Divorce/Blended Families, Divorce Coaching, Adult Adoptee/Birth Parent Reunification, Pre-Marital Counseling, EMDR, Depression, Anxiety, Grief/Loss, Crisis Intervention and Stabilization, Substance Abuse, Self Esteem/Personal Growth, Individual and Group Drama Therapy.
My intention for you is to gently but dynamically create opportunities for growth and healing through flexible and creative alternatives to break through old patterns. I like to collaborate with motivated clients who are willing to work to change their lives. My goal is to help you discover your own solutions to your problems and concerns in an environment that is welcoming, empathetic and non-judgmental. I do that by carefully attending to your thoughts and feelings. Although I will offer specific "interventions" I believe that change occurs during therapy when there is strong motivation combined with the quality of our connection.
Feeling disconnected from yourself, your body, or the people you care about? I support individuals, couples, and families who want more connection, presence, and meaning in their lives. You might feel stretched thin or stuck in old patterns. Maybe it’s hard to move forward in relationships that matter most. If you’re living with stress, illness, pain, or the impact of trauma, I offer a compassionate space where all parts of you are welcome. I bring warmth, collaboration, and respect for the wisdom you already carry. I believe healing happens in connection—with yourself, with others, with community, and with the natural world.
Feeling disconnected from yourself, your body, or the people you care about? I support individuals, couples, and families who want more connection, presence, and meaning in their lives. You might feel stretched thin or stuck in old patterns. Maybe it’s hard to move forward in relationships that matter most. If you’re living with stress, illness, pain, or the impact of trauma, I offer a compassionate space where all parts of you are welcome. I bring warmth, collaboration, and respect for the wisdom you already carry. I believe healing happens in connection—with yourself, with others, with community, and with the natural world.
I have a passion for supporting teens, adults, couples and families in understanding and addressing the unique challenges they may face. My goal is to create a safe and inclusive space where clients can openly explore their emotions, build resilience, and develop effective coping strategies. In addition, I also have experience in couples and blended family therapy. I believe that healthy relationships are built on positive and effective communication. I work closely with couples to provide them with the tools and guidance they need to enhance their connection, resolve conflicts, and foster a deeper understanding
I have a passion for supporting teens, adults, couples and families in understanding and addressing the unique challenges they may face. My goal is to create a safe and inclusive space where clients can openly explore their emotions, build resilience, and develop effective coping strategies. In addition, I also have experience in couples and blended family therapy. I believe that healthy relationships are built on positive and effective communication. I work closely with couples to provide them with the tools and guidance they need to enhance their connection, resolve conflicts, and foster a deeper understanding
I specialize in trauma therapy using EMDR, divorce, infidelity, shame, self-esteem, and relationship issues.
It is important the therapist and the client are well suited. I encourage you to reach out to several therapists and get a feel for their style to ensure a good fit. I offer a 15 minute phone consultation to determine if we are compatible.
I specialize in trauma therapy using EMDR, divorce, infidelity, shame, self-esteem, and relationship issues.
It is important the therapist and the client are well suited. I encourage you to reach out to several therapists and get a feel for their style to ensure a good fit. I offer a 15 minute phone consultation to determine if we are compatible.
My therapy style is warm, engaging, empathetic, active, and goal-oriented. I treat depression, anxiety, and their many facets, including interpersonal conflicts, panic, parenthood, grief, and loss. With 10 years of experience in acute/chronic illnesses like cancer, I also have extensive training in trauma, using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as my foundation. I offer virtual Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Flash Techniques for trauma processing. My approach is gentle, down-to-earth, and collaborative, focused on building your strengths and values.
My therapy style is warm, engaging, empathetic, active, and goal-oriented. I treat depression, anxiety, and their many facets, including interpersonal conflicts, panic, parenthood, grief, and loss. With 10 years of experience in acute/chronic illnesses like cancer, I also have extensive training in trauma, using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as my foundation. I offer virtual Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Flash Techniques for trauma processing. My approach is gentle, down-to-earth, and collaborative, focused on building your strengths and values.
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Divorce Therapists
How does therapy for people affected by a divorce work?
Individuals may feel a number of emotions following a divorce, such as shock, guilt, grief, anger, and fear. Therapists offer a non-judgmental space for individuals to talk about what they’ve experienced and process their emotions. Therapists will help clients develop coping strategies. They can also help a client rebuild their sense of self and self-worth and talk about what a happier future might look like.
What’s the most common type of therapy following a divorce?
There are several types of therapy that may be useful for divorce, including cognitive behavioral, acceptance and commitment, solution-focused brief, and mindfulness-based therapies. Many therapy types are talk-therapy based, which is typically the most popular option for individuals dealing with divorce. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a widely-used talk therapy, however, there’s no specific therapy type that’s designed to help people with divorce, and different types will work depending on the person.
When should an individual seek help due to a divorce?
When the feelings of a divorced individual, or an individual going through the process of divorce, begin to disrupt healthy daily functioning, it may be a good time to look into therapy. If a person finds that they are not performing at work due to problems with anxiety or motivation, if they’re no longer seeing friends due to feelings of shame, or if they’re not properly taking care of themselves as a result of depression, speaking to a professional could help.
How do you encourage someone to go to therapy due to a divorce?
It’s helpful to express concern and love for the individual while framing therapy as a tool for improving their life. Sharing how the individual appears to be suffering, and what effects it has on them or on their children, should be done with compassion and empathy. It may be useful to devise a game plan—breaking the process down into parts, such as finding a therapist, making appointments, and looking into insurance coverage.