Portland Therapy Center
Arielle Ross

Arielle Ross (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, MPH, LPC

Queer trauma therapy for curious minds

Client Status

accepting clients

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $130-$180

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2019

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Aetna
  • Medicaid
  • OHP CareOregon/HealthShare
  • OHP Trillium
  • Optum
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My Ideal Client

I provide compassionate, trauma-aware, attachment-focused therapy to help clients heal from trauma, manage their ADHD, and reduce anxiety. As an Adult Third Culture Kid, I know how hard it is to find a therapist who GETS the tension between the opportunities and privilege and the experience of so much grief, exposure to things most Americans have only read about. I work mostly with queer and trans adults and individuals in non-traditional relationship structures.

My Approach to Helping

I incorporate mindfulness, creative interventions and personal writing into my practice, and draw heavily from emotion focused, attachment-based and internal family systems theories, which means I focus on learning to identify and name feelings, improve attachments to those close to us, create new meanings after we’ve experienced significant life changes, and offer our past and current selves empathy. I'm trained in EMDR and in Narrative Exposure Therapy, as well as DBT. I am committed to anti-racist and anti-colonial work, and draw from a feminist, queer-affirming & trauma-informed lens.

My Values as a Therapist

I believe we're all doing the best we can with the skills, knowledge and resources we have. I believe that we have an innate internal bent toward healing: that is, if we can heal, we will, and therapy can sometimes help us get out of our own way. I operate from a anti-oppressive, feminist, LGBTQ+ affirming and anti-racist lens, and am a really big history dork, so I like learning about your family history and how that might have impacted how you were raised, your core beliefs and how you were resourced or hurt by that history. In my free time I make food for mutual aid free fridges, am an active member of the Jewish community in Portland, and volunteer with climate advocacy organizations to get out the vote and advocate for divestment from fossil fuels. I also love dancing, hanging out with my partners, and playing board games.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • EMDR External link

    I am training in EMDR and working towards my certification. I have already seen incredible progress with folks with deep seated trauma using EMDR and have found it to be really effective in treating trauma.

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) External link

    I use DBT skills to teach coping and emotion regulation, mindfulness, & interpersonal effectiveness skills. I've run several DBT skills groups and I love helping people understand what mindfulness is, and how they can use it to slow down when they're in a lot of distress.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Immigration/Acculturation External link

    I was raised as a Third Culture Kid, which for me means we followed my dad's job around the world, mostly in East Africa & Asia, from when I was 4 until I came to the US for college at 18. My first therapist job was working with refugees from Iraq, Eritrea & Burma. I want to support my fellow immigrants, the children of immigrants & other globally mobile folks heal from the trauma of moving, re-center their values, & figure out how to live authentically in this new culture.

  • ADHD External link

    I want to help folks who, like me, were late diagnosed with ADHD. We'll work on understanding symptoms, including new things we're learning about how ADHD shows up in AFAB and trans* folks. We can work on issues of shame and how not being "good enough" at things that were easy for others impacted your self-esteem. And we can work on creating concrete coping skills for sensory issues, organization & focus.

  • Sexual Abuse External link

    I work with a lot of different kinds of trauma, but sexual and relational trauma are my main area of focus. I use IFS, EMDR and other tools to help you work through that trauma. I'm a strong believer in consent, and together we'll work on understanding your needs, identifying the boundaries you need in relationships to be safe and how you can explore your sexuality and sensuality safely.

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