Licensed Professional Counselor
MS, LMHC, LPC
A clinician for 20 years, I specialize in supporting queer and trans adults, relationships/couples, and folks with Bipolar Disorder.
Client Status
208-907-1625
5651 N Lombard
Portland, 97203
Rate: $200-$250
Provides free initial consultation
Practicing Since: 2005
I work with couples and relationships where people are struggling to connect and understand each other, but would like to. I work with queer and/or trans looking for mental wellness, understanding their sexuality, and learning the language to express who they are and want they want. Many of my clients are neurodivergent. I am also trained in helping people with Bipolar disorder find their stability and peace.
Specialties
I am trained in PACT: psychobiological approach to couples counseling. PACT is a fusion of attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, and arousal regulation. Understanding how the brain works provides a physiological basis for understanding how people act and react within relationships. In a nutshell, some areas of your brain are wired to reduce threat and danger and seek security, while others are geared to establish mutuality and loving connection.
Our relationships with the people who raised us gave us our foundation for understanding the world: are others safe or not? Can I trust people? As adults, we respond to those we care most about according to our experiences from birth to young childhood. Knowing our attachment styles can give us the ability to choose good partners, and have healthy relationships.
Specialties
Most of my clients are transgender and/or non-binary. I have taught masters level classes for other therapists on how to support clients around gender, and helping people explore their own gender identity is one of my favorite parts of being a therapist.
I enjoy helping clients learn how to manage bipolar symptoms and live as peaceful as life as they choose. I believe the societal stigma around bipolar is incredibly damaging and I work to help people thrive despite potential negative perspectives out there. I enjoy supporting people find rhythm and balance in their lives through attention to sleep, regular nutrition, awareness of drugs and alcohol on stability, adherence to medication if prescribed, and stress management.
In relationship work/couples counseling, I want to help people develop healthy connections and attachments to the people they love and to themselves. I believe that my clients are the experts in their relationship, and it is my job and honor to help coach and guide them into more effective ways of relating. Many of us were not given models for what a healthy relationship looks like, nor how to disagree in ways that feel fair and just for everyone involved.
I have worked for 20 years with people of all ages who are on the autism spectrum, and other kinds of neurodivergence. I enjoy helping people learn what they need, how to advocate for themselves, and build self compassion. The world was not built for the needs of autistic people, and many times people blame themselves for not being able to fit in better, easier. Neurodivergent people deserve to have their needs met in ways that work for them, and I like helping them figure out how.
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