Portland Therapy Center
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.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

5034615547

97210

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $185-$250

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2020

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Anthem
  • Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield

My Ideal Client

I enjoy working with curious, empathetic, self reflective people who are ready to dive deep, cultivate insight and change patterns. My approach is very much rooted in anti-oppressive frameworks and an understanding of the ways that oppression affects mental health. My therapeutic style is directive, transparent, collaborative, mindful, empathetic, intuitive, and real. I am specialized in supporting people with complex trauma, ADHD, level 1 & 2 autism, and anxiety.

My Approach to Helping

My work is informed by a wide array of therapy approaches and theories. Instead of talking about those approaches, I think it's more helpful for you as the client to understand what working with me looks and feels like in action. As a therapist, my role is to form a professional relationship with you that is nonetheless genuine and human. We will first discuss what you hope to get out of therapy including your goals. I will then help you identify the things that could be getting in the way of reaching your goals and what might be keeping you stuck in old patterns. We will spend time making sense of different aspects of your experiences, like your relationship dynamics, your history and trauma, your internal thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and memories, and so on. I will help you understand these experiences from new angles and also help you contextualize them. I utilize an intersectional and systemic lens to my work.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I am trans and queer allied, anti racist, anti-colonial, anti-apartheid and genocide, feminist, HAES and body trust informed. I have completed numerous advanced trainings to better support neurodiverse clients and provide assessments for autism and ADHD. 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

  • Family Systems External link
  • 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.

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) External link
  • Feminist External link

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.

  • Depression External link

    I welcome couples of all kinds, and I specialize in 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 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.

  • Anxiety External link
  • 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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