Chelsea Kellogg

Chelsea Kellogg (she/her/hers)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Online anti-oppressive, neurodiversity affirming, and trauma informed therapy for adult individuals, couples, polycules, & families.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $185-$205

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2020

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Aetna
  • OHP CareOregon/HealthShare

My Ideal Client

I specialize in working with adults who experience complex trauma and/or ADHD and autism. I enjoy working with curious, empathetic, self reflective people who are on the intellectual side. My clients are ready to dive deep & appreciate therapy as a space to cultivate insight and change to their patterns. My therapeutic style is directive, transparent, collaborative, mindful, empathetic, intuitive, and real. Please note that I do not work with couples navigating separation and/or abuse.

My Approach to Helping

As an emotionally focused therapist, I believe that emotion is a powerful agent of both change and connection. Problems tend to happen when the dominant emotional experiences that underlie experience are not fully conscious or felt. Same goes for our thoughts. Change occurs when emotions and thoughts are made more fully conscious and interacted with differently. In couples therapy, we work toward change by accessing (making explicit) the dominant emotional experiences and then creating new ways of expressing and receiving these emotional experiences to allow change to happen. I integrate attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, humanism, somatics, experiential therapy, IFS, intersectional feminism, affirmative care, family systems theories, ACT, motivational interviewing, harm reduction, Gottman method, MBNET (Mentalization Based Narrative Exposure Therapy) and psychodynamics in my work.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I utilize an intersectional lens to my work. I am trans-allied, anti racist, anti-colonial, anti-apartheid and genocide, feminist, HAES and body trust informed, and poly and LGBTQIA+ allied (I am personally bi/pan-sexual and demisexual.) I have completed numerous advanced trainings to better support neurodiverse people who experience, ADHD, and/or OCD. I am also trained in assessment of ADHD and autism for adults. I am neurodiverse myself. My practice is secular and non-religious. I have extensive knowledge and experience treating complex trauma (CPTSD) and trauma in general.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Attachment Theory External link

    I incorporate attachment work into every session and it is a grounding theory of my style and approach to providing therapy. Therapy is most effective when a therapeutic relationship forms between the therapist and the client. Attachment theory guides me in how I build that relationship with my clients.

  • Emotionally Focused External link

    EFT is used with families, couples and individuals. Sometimes when we're stressed, tired, spread too thin, or triggered we can struggle to connect emotionally with our partners or ourselves. I use both S. Johnson's Emotionally Focused Therapy and L. Greenberg's Emotion Focused Therapy to help make sense of negative cycles of interaction, connect to underlying emotion, balance identity with relationship, and become skillful in both self regulation and co-regulation.

  • Somatic Therapy (Body Centered) External link
  • Couples Counseling External link

    I'm passionate about helping couples navigate the complexity of relationships. I help couples learn to communicate skillfully (especially about emotional needs), negotiate conflicting needs, become less reactive and more receptive, make repairs, and choose new behaviors that are more aligned with personal values.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • PTSD External link

    I specialize in helping people understand the ways trauma, especially complex trauma and intergenerational trauma, impacts their lives, their relationships, and their emotional and behavioral symptoms or experiences. Using somatic therapy, mindfulness, awareness of systemic oppression, neuroscience, and psychoeducation, I facilitate an integration of traumatic life experiences so you can regain safety, personal power, agency, joy, liberation, healthy connection, and self trust.

  • Relationship / Marriage Issues External link

    I specialize in couple and relationship therapy for people living with trauma and neurodiversity. I will help you understand your own or your partner’s trauma/neurodiversity and how it shows up in the relationship. I will help you foster new ways of interacting that bring connection, intimacy, and security. We will work together to communicate skillfully, negotiate conflicting needs, become less reactive and more receptive, make repairs, and choose new behaviors together.

  • Women's Issues External link

    I am passionate about offering women a safe space in therapy where a sense of solidarity and communion and can be felt. I often support women who have been victims of domestic and sexual violence in the past toward post traumatic growth. I also often work with cis men in individual therapy, so if you are a man and would like to work with me, please don't hesitate to reach out.

  • Autism External link

    As a late diagnosed autistic and ADHD therapist, I am passionate about supporting neurodiverse clients. I provide autism and ADHD assessments for adults.

  • Historical Trauma External link

    The past matters. The present is influenced by and in part, created by, the past. Systems of oppression, including the United States government, have historically and currently harmed and traumatized groups of people in ways that impact the mental health of families across generations. Therapy, whether it's individual or relationship, is a great place to care for and tend to those generational, historical, and current realities.

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