Portland Therapy Center
Magnolia Medlin

Magnolia Medlin (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

M.A. Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Supervisor: Suzie Wolfer

I offer therapeutic presence and support to dissolve whatever may be blocking the intelligence and wisdom of your creative life force

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

3365200318

Email

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $175

Provides free initial consultation

Services

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Relationship
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • OHP CareOregon/HealthShare
  • OHP Open Card
  • OHP Pacific Source Community Solutions
  • OHP Trillium

My Ideal Client

Do you feel ready to explore and heal what’s getting in the way of you living your most joyful, creative, connected life? Are depression and anxiety keeping you either feeling weighed down, dull, and purposeless, or else on high alert and living from a place of fear and busyness round the clock? Are habitual thought-loops and tensions in the body keeping you in a perpetual state of mistrust, perfectionism/people-pleasing, and/or judgement towards yourself and others?

My Approach to Helping

In my practice, I use a blend of Somatic Experiencing, Voice Dialogue Parts Work, and mindfulness-based present moment inquiry to create a compassionate and attuned space of inner exploration and healing. Often, experiences of depression and anxiety are the result of an impulse getting “stuck” in the system and not being able to fully move, release, and complete its cycle. In working with me, you will learn how to track and nurture your nervous system and to support life energies to move more freely through your body. With parts work, we gently disentangle the knot of different “selves” or competing perspectives that can dominate our lives. Together, we make space for the critic, the pleaser, the know-it-all, the fearful child, etc etc., and get to know their deeper desires and needs. In our work together, you come to the embodied understanding that you contain these perspectives, but they are not who you are, fundamentally.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I first considered becoming a therapist after finishing a two year period of residency at a Buddhist monastery — I wanted to find a vocation where I could have authentic encounters with other humans, where we could open to the inherent capacities of the human body/mind to heal and to grow into greater ease and wellbeing. I am particularly drawn to working with girls, women, and female-identified folk of all ages to support the feminine to tune into the wisdom, power, and joy of the body to heal itself and to move from "stuckness" into flow. I am an expressive arts therapist, and I like to use a wide range of creative practices, including embodied parts work, dream exploration, writing exercises, sound/singing, and visual art/collage, to tap into the deep reservoirs of creative wisdom inside of you. Ultimately, I see therapy as a space where you can discover, when shame and fear are no longer dominating the system, what it means for you to live a joyful, creative, meaningful life

Techniques I Use

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Spirituality External link

    I lived at trained at Great Vow Zen Buddhist Monastery for 2 years, and I bring a strong flavor of mindfulness and present-moment inquiry into my sessions with clients. When so desired, I can work with clients according to the philosophy of Buddhism, including no-mind, the causes and conditions of suffering, and cultivating lovingkindness.

  • Women's Issues External link

    I have co-led two women's wilderness rites of passages through Wild Open Being, and I have trained in council process with the School of Lost Borders. I use this training in group and individual work with women, and I have a strong desire to support women to embody their most authentic, wild, joyful selves.

  • Self-Esteem External link

    I have been in a study of the book Soul Without Shame by Byron Brown for a few years now, and I participated in a course on the book as well. I have developed, through this book as well as my work with Voice Dialogue parts work, a way of creatively disengaging from the inner judgement voice.

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