Portland Therapy Center
Carrie Ivy

Carrie Ivy (she/her)

Professional Counselor

I offer deep attunement, warmth, compassion, patience, and empathy. I support people to stand for themselves and their dreams.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503-367-4097

6118 SE Belmont St, Suite 409

Portland, 97215

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $75-$150

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2017

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket

My Ideal Client

Often, by the time you are looking for a therapist, the need for support has already been around for awhile. So, just, thank you, for being here. In some ways this is the hardest part, looking up at the summit of this mountain you are going to climb. But you are here because you know you don’t have to do it alone. I am a supportive, stable guide for my clients. If you are in patterns that you are struggling to change or if you seek to better understand yourself and heal, I'm here for you.

My Approach to Helping

I work with individuals and couples to provide support, heighten awareness, and bring clarity to foster understanding and forward movement. I offer in-person sessions at my office in SE Portland, as well as telehealth options to meet remotely. I am especially passionate about relationships, childhood trauma, and spirituality. With a Masters in Process-Oriented Facilitation and Conflict Studies, I use a process-oriented approach, which includes parts work like IFS. We will work together wherever you are at in your own process, exploring unconscious patterns, and pouring positive regard on all the underprivileged parts of yourself. In addition to talk therapy, I offer a variety of methods including dream work, art making, role-play, movement, and constellation work (walking vectors). I offer counseling and guidance navigating boundaries, grief, identity, sexuality, career, self-love, family dynamics, body symptoms, spirituality, plant medicine integration and harm reduction, and more.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I believe that by integrating the parts of us that we marginalize and honoring our hearts, we can heal. (I believe this is true personally and collectively.) I believe all people and all things have a spirit, and that our connection to the spirit in ourselves is our key to contacting the spirit in everything else. I bring my whole self and whole heart to my practice. I have a rich spiritual life, guided by the stars and seen and unseen forces of nature and beyond. I'm an astrologer, I read birth charts (and tarot, and Kabbalistic Tree of Life), and keep my eye on the greater energies at play in our inner and outer worlds. I am a creative with many practices, and encourage others to follow their passions. I am a white queer cis woman, a witch, a partner, a mother, a poet, an activist, a mystic, an artist, a publisher.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Couples Counseling External link

    I love working with couples, facilitating conflict, and nurturing understanding on all sides. I have experience with married couples, poly/non-monogamy, and non-romantic relationship conflict.

  • Coaching External link

    Coaching offers fresh outlooks and perspectives, as well as support and new ideas. Growth and change are imperative to forward progression, and since those times tend to be the toughest, it's my honor to offer support and encouragement. Through process-oriented techniques, we will explore your high and low dreams and what is looking to happen next.

  • Feminist External link

    My person-centered approach prioritizes equality within a cultural context, examining how the personal and societal are intertwined. This strengths-based approach hones personal power, authenticity, and inclusion in a collaborative way.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • LGBTQ Issues External link

    I am passionate about serving fellow queer folks. Regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, we deserve to bring our whole selves to all areas of our lives, and I offer extra support navigating issues that may arise in mainstream society as well as within the LBGTQIAP2+ community.

  • Women's Issues External link

    I am passionate about working with women and non-binary folx, in all that we are up against in the world and with all the gifts that we innately possess. I have 6 years experience working one-on-one with women and non-binary folks to tell their stories of personal struggle. These stories are always each gloriously their own and offer a conduit of personal power when shared in a safe container.

  • Relationship / Marriage Issues External link

    Relationships hold our greatest learnings and help us to know ourselves more fully. Through them we get to experience love, joy, excitement, but also pain, conflict, and confusion. With my experience facilitating relationship conflict, both individual and two-party, I find there is a trove of valuable information in all that arises, which we will use to heal old dynamics and seed new growth.

  • Family Conflict External link

    I have a special compassion for those who have suffered familial trauma or struggled being in relationship with their families of origin. My experience in a community clinic was primarily focused on work with clients with a history of familial trauma.

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