Portland Therapy Center
Amanda Fitzpatrick

Amanda Fitzpatrick (She/they)

Marriage and Family Therapist

LMFT

I am passionately committed to guiding relationships towards fulfillment, healing, and growth.

Client Status

waitlist

Contact

503-544-6659

5410 SW Macadam Ave.

Suite 250

Portland, 97239

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $150-$350

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2016

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Group
  • Relationship
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

My clients are curious, self-reflecting, motivated, and they deeply desire connection in their relationships with others and themselves. Many of my clients desire an embodied experience of love, connection and stability in the world and are willing to connect to their bodies to achieve it. They frequently identify as one or many of the following: queer, neurodivergent, polyamorous, single, in relationships, in fat bodies, and want justice for all people and the non-human world.

My Approach to Helping

Our work will be collaborative and deeply informed by social justice and equity. Many problems where we assign personal blame are the result of social systems that value some identities over others and generally perpetuate hierarchy and judgment that translates to individual pain and disconnection. Together we will lead you back to a strongly attached and empowered connection. I believe that you have everything you need for the healing and recovery work we will do. My job is to help you heal from old wounds, reconnect both of you to the wisdom of your emotions and your intuitive knowing, and grow into relational empowerment and mastery. Together we will help shine a spotlight on negative patterns that may have led your partnership to where it is now and help you navigate the challenges that change can bring. My personal experience is that growth comes through hardship and that it is through our deepest pain that we find our greatest gifts. I am honored to begin this journey with you

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I am a Marriage, Couple and Family Therapist licensed with the State of Oregon. I received both my undergraduate and graduate degrees from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. I have extensive additional training in Terry Real's Relational Life Therapy, Internal Family Systems, affirming care for neurodivergent folx, Body Trust, and the affair recovery work of Esther Perel.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) External link

    When working with individuals, I pull primarily from an IFS perspective. I have advanced training in IFS and Inner Relationship Focusing (which I call somatic parts work). Together we will invite your parts and identify them as messengers to guide your healing. We will use ritual, art, story telling and more to explore all the parts of yourself that have a voice. Our work will dive into your body story, uncovering your inherent worthiness and wisdom.

  • Couples Counseling External link

    I believe that we are conceived in relationship and continue to move in, out, and through relationships our entire lives. These relationships teach us how to love, how to hurt, how to learn, how to exist in our bodies, how to judge and hold prejudice, how to forgive. They can bring the wounding cut of betrayal, and also hold tremendous power for healing. I have extensive training in Terry Real's Relational Life Therapy and numerous models that center neurodivergent affirming relationships.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Relationship / Marriage Issues External link

    I believe that we are conceived in relationship and continue to move in, out, and through relationships our entire lives. These relationships teach us how to love, how to hurt, how to learn, how to exist in our bodies, how to judge and hold prejudice, how to forgive. I am a dedicated relationship counselor and have pursued specific additional training for working with neurodiverse, multicultural, and polyamorous relationships.

  • Autism External link

    I support individuals and relationships navigating a (late) diagnosis of autism, partners with differing neurotypes, and parenting neurodivergent children. As a neurodivergent person myself, I approach this work from a deeply strength based perspective. You will not encounter lists of deficits nor dehumanizing evaluations in our therapy. Instead we will treat difference with regard. This tends to be a process of exploration and uncovering, unmasking, from a trauma informed perspective.

  • Cultural and Systemic Oppression External link

    Our work will wrap around the ways in which your body has been privileged or oppressed and how that shows up in your relationships. I have a strong commitment to Social Justice and believe deeply that the path to justice is through relationships: familial, career and work, neighborhood, cultural, national. I have specific experience working with fat folx, LGBTQAI+ relationships and individuals, differently abled folx, addiction and co-dependency, bi- and multi-racial couples.

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