Portland Therapy Center
Laura Birchard

Laura Birchard (she/ her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, CADCI

Clinically rooted trauma informed therapy that invites dreams, emotions, experiences, symptoms to guide our work, your path to wholeness.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503-953-5012

1318 NW 20th Ave.

Portland , 97209

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $120-$150

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2019

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

My clients want to learn to uncover what’s authentic and brings wholeness. I help people create meaning of their inner world, expand capacity to hold/access this invisible world to inform relationship to self/others. I support clients in expanding capacity to cope with overwhelming experiences using imaginal, relational, and depth oriented psychotherapeutic practices.

My Background

Laura Birchard, MA LPC CADCI is a depth-oriented psychotherapist in private practice for individuals in Portland, Oregon. Laura has extensive experience providing counseling in a variety of settings, including outpatient adult, psychiatric rehabilitation counseling and case management for adults with serious and persistent mental health, and early assessment support alliance for young people and their families— teens and young adults— who are at risk for or experiencing first episode psychosis. Laura has also provided care in inpatient residential services for adults in recovery for substance use disorders, as well as providing emergency behavioral health services in an emergency department. Depth Psychotherapy is an orientation to the therapeutic process that creates spaces that that invite and sustain contact with the living mystery. Depth psychotherapy explores the complexity of the self on the edge of what is known and unknown.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

There really is nothing else like therapy in the world. To me it is deeply personal, and highly professional. My practice is informed by depth or analytical psychology (Jungian), Trauma informed practices including somatic therapies, feminist theory, and psychodynamic theory. I have additional training in assessment and DBT. I am an ally and anti-racist. Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman wrote that “mystery is the depth of the sacred". The sacred does not belong to any specific religion, but is part of the very fiber of our being, and connects us to the earth, stars, and other people. At times this connection to the sacred can be obscured, fractured, or seem broken. Hope feels lost, our self unknown. Therapy can help. When I am not in my office I can be found wandering the forests, volunteering in my community, reading, and developing my own deep practice utilizing yoga, meditation, as well as engaging in creative practices.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Depth Therapy External link

    I provide trauma informed therapy that welcomes dreams, images, emotions, experiences, symptoms guide our work and shape a treatment only for you, making changes at a deeper level. With training in psychodynamic and analytic (Jungian) psychotherapeutic practices, I am highly skilled at making the focus of our work contacting and amplifying your unique process of embodied psyche (soul making) ; supporting meaning making in relationship to self and others (and the Self). Let's talk today.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Bipolar External link

    I have specialized training in to diagnosis and treatment of Bipolar Disorder, or Manic depression- a complex mood disorder ranging from elevated mood symptoms to depressive symptoms. Careful differential diagnosis, and considering the whole of you are important factors in treatment. Bipolar disorder can include challenges with attention and focus, sleep disruption, rumination. If you have a bipolar I or II diagnosis, or suspect you have something more than unipolar depression, reach out today.

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