Grace Silvia, LCSW (she/her)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Deeply Respectful. Gentle & Empowering. Core Transformation.
Client Status
Contact
503-929-0326
314 NE 19th Avenue
Portland, OR 97232
At a Glance
Me
Rate: $60-$140
Provides free initial consultation
Provides telehealth services
Practicing Since: 2011
Languages: English
Services
- Individual
Insurances Accepted
- Out of Pocket
- Out of Network
My Ideal Client
I will support you in developing curiosity, compassion and mindfulness in the exploration of your inner and outer worlds. All of you is welcome--heart, body, mind, soul. My practice is client-centered, relational, and strengths-based.
My Approach to Helping
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Techniques I Use
Specialties
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Hakomi
Hakomi is a body-centered, mindfulness-based approach. Hakomi uses body awareness to access the unconscious. Both trauma and brilliant, creative healing wisdom are stored in the body. By learning how to listen to and follow your body's cues, you will find a depth , ease and aliveness that working in ordinary consciousness can't access.
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Feminist
As a radical feminist, I believe my work must: > deeply honor each person's inner wisdom instead of pathologizing doctrine; > recognize the deep soul wounding that chronic and acute oppression, systems of injustice, and planetary pain cause; and > orient deep personal healing in service to becoming an empowered agent of change, rather than adjusting to being a cog in the machine.
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Experiential
Whether talking about what happened yesterday or in your family growing up, we will work with what you experience as you explore it in the moment. That way the work is fresh, not a stale re-hashing of an old, stuck story. Using basic building blocks of gentle curiosity, compassion and honoring both what shows up as well as resistance to what shows up, deep transformation happens.
Issues I Treat
Specialties
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Anxiety
How do we find a way to sit with anxiety, when it makes us want to crawl out of our skins? But it's likely desperately trying to protect us on a core level. Can we find a way to have compassion for its desperate work? It can become an ally if we can listen!
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PTSD
Therapy should not be re-traumatizing! If you find yourself dissociating during or after therapy or dreading it, that is telling us something important to listen to. Working in a trauma-informed way means I will help you learn the signs of when you are beginning to re-experience the trauma, and how to bring yourself back into safety. The work must go at your pace, guided by your body's subtle cues and your inner 'no' and 'yes.'
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Depression
Deep sadness. Can we stop pushing it away, even for a moment, and listen to what it is desperately trying to tell us? This is no easy task in our culture of 'Produce!' and 'Be happy at all costs!' Yet there is so much to be sad about personally, societally and planetarily. Pushing it away makes it dig in deeper. But by honoring it, we can find its meaning, our passion and our unique call to action.
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Schizophrenia
Many people hear voices, see things others don't, or have unusual beliefs. It's only a problem when it makes your life hard. What is labeled schizophrenia can be a brilliant response to trauma, a spiritual sensitivity needing a container, or....? It is for you to find your own meaning. I would be honored to support you on this path.
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Bipolar
Deep lows and intense highs can wreck havoc on your life. But they can also be gifts of exquisite sensitivity, a response to trauma, or/and a spiritual awakening. I am learning from friends, clients and colleagues what can be helpful. I would be honored to share what I am learning and learn from you on this journey.
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Body-positive / Health at Every Size
Queer-competent
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I have experience with the following
Judaism
Wicca/Paganism
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Grace Silvia, LCSW has not posted any group sessions.
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Grace Silvia, LCSW has not published any articles.