Portland Therapy Center
Bonnie Singman

Bonnie Singman (She/her)

Professional Counselor

LPC, PSEP

I offer individual somatic psychotherapy, an embodied, intuitive approach, for adults wanting emotional healing or work-life balance support

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

6192897604

2304 E Burnside St

Portland, 97214

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2013

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network
  • Aetna
  • OHP CareOregon/HealthShare
  • OHP Open Card
  • OHP Single Case Agreement
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My Ideal Client

Are you stressed out? Are you burned out? Do you want freedom from the past? Whether you're needing holistic growth and healing, or to create work-life balance, I am here to support you to navigate attuning to your needs and prioritizing your wellbeing. With a mix of somatic, therapeutic, and mindfulness tools, we will create and implement unique strategies to bring you nourishment, relief, and inspiration, so your life can be sustainable and enjoyable! IN PERSON THERAPY ON MONDAYS ONLY.

My Approach to Helping

Somatic (Body) Psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing® treat the whole person, integrating body, mind, emotions, and spirit, enabling deeper more meaningful work with more lasting results. I facilitate healing that works with the nervous system and different parts of the brain through movement, breath, self-touch, right brain intuition/visualization, self-parenting, & inner body-awareness. Together we will listen to your body's wisdom and emotions to attune to your deeper needs. Somatic work helps to free tension and emotion held in the body, regulate the nervous system, and re-pattern defensive responses & limiting beliefs. Utilizing your body's wisdom, we will tailor interventions to your needs to create a more sustainable and healthy relationship with yourself and the world, including work-life balance, so you can thrive!

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I am passionate about counteracting the single-minded push for productivity in our society, and supporting holistic wellness by tending to our bodies, minds, emotions, and spirits, both at work and outside of work. As a sensitive person, I am dedicated to creating balance for myself, and feel gratified in helping others find it. In this way, we can begin to practice what the world needs to heal- sustainability, interconnection, compassion, and balance. I have been a yoga and meditation teacher and am influenced by Buddhist and Hindu philosophy as well as pagan/wiccan & earth based traditions. I support you in your unique relationship with religion or spirituality through the belief system that makes sense for you. I also love animals and have 2 kitties :) IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THERAPY WITH ME, please go to https://lightofawarenesssomaticpsychotherapy.com/contact-career-break-work-life-balance-somatic-counseling and fill out the questionnaire. IN PERSON THERAPY ON MONDAYS ONLY

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Somatic Therapy (Body Centered) External link

    Somatic (Body) Psychotherapy treats the whole person, integrating body, mind, emotions, and spirit, enabling you to do deeper more meaningful work in less time with more lasting results. I work with the breath, movement, inner body sensations/awareness, and access the right-brain through symbolism, intuition, & imagery. Somatic Experiencing® teaches you to track and attune to your nervous system to regulate, release trauma, empower, and attend to needs and nervous system states effectively.

  • Hakomi External link

    Hakomi is grounded in five principles: mindfulness, nonviolence, organicity, unity and body-mind holism. We support defenses that may arise and see them as important protectors, trust and follow what is arising in your mind/body/spirit with no agenda, and explore what arises using experiments that offer real change experiences in the present moment.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Compassion Fatigue External link

    Are you burned out, stressed out, feel like an empty well that has to somehow keep giving? It is essential to care for yourself adequately to make giving to others sustainable, and if you're experiencing compassion fatigue, your being is letting you know it's time to make some changes to put your own well-being first. Allow me to support you to navigate the signals from your body/mind/spirit and attend to the important needs that will nourish, restore, and inspire you.

  • Personal Growth External link

    Would you like to thrive in your life? Do you have a sense that more is possible? Do you have limiting beliefs from the past holding you back? Together we can tap into your inner wisdom to support you becoming your most authentic and supported self. We can explore a range of issues, from spiritual and existential, to self care to self-parenting, to following your bliss and finding your true calling. Let's access your unique and essential self to increase meaning, joy, and richness in your life!

  • Anxiety External link

    Anxiety can feel debilitating, but it is your body's energy mobilising to protect you (even if the perceived danger is from the past). By attuning to your nervous system and employing somatic techniques, we can support the protective energy of anxiety, and meet it with avenues for expression, along with accessing regulation and safety, so you can feel grounded and empowered. Together we can access present moment safety you can feel, so anxiety can stand down when danger is not present.

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