Portland Therapy Center
PK Foss

PK Foss (She/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

I specialize in Brainspotting for queer, trans, Neurodivergent/spicy brains, chronic pain, and wrap around couples therapy.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

5038045761

7831 SE Stark St

Suite 213

Portland, 97215

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $175-$200

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2013

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

My clients are looking for deep and lasting change. Often they’ve done talk therapy and only gotten so far. At the core, you’re probably here because you know you want to do or feel something different and when it comes down to the moment, you don’t feel like you can. You feel stuck in the same feelings or behaviors that you’ve known. I love working with neurodivergent brains, therapists, queer and trans folks, chronic pain, and anyone dealing with trauma and/or shame.

My Approach to Helping

I use Brainspotting as a foundational part of my work with clients. We use it to reprocess and move feelings, triggers, and reflex actions that keep people stuck. Most people when they’re not overwhelmed or triggered can figure out what it is they need to do and how to live by their values. Most couples when they’re in a good place can communicate well together. Brainspotting is one tool I use to help get people to the place of being able to access their best self and respond rather than react. Then if needed, we do some work around whatever skills are needed to move forward. This can include communication skills, boundary setting, stress harnessing, neurodivergent brain harnessing/management, etc. I also utilize some Gottman methods when working with couples and parents.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I am a queer, anti-racist, feminist, mama who lives in Portland. If I could step outside of capitalism entirely and live my dream life, I would contribute by growing food, cooking things, fermenting things, feeding people, and doing Brainspotting for people who want or need it. I’d also spend a lot of time adventuring with people I love. Especially, surfing, white water rafting, and open water swimming. As a therapist, I love my job. I figure if we’re not laughing a bit, we’re doing therapy wrong. I love seeing people make changes and feel proud of themselves. I got into this job because I needed to learn a lot and do my own work. I’m here because I know how good it feels to do it and see change. I want to help other people do theirs with empathy and a belief that we're all doing the best we can in the moment and sometimes we need help to do better.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Brainspotting External link

    I’ve found Brainspotting to be such a helpful tool for moving things that are stuck for people, that I am not taking new clients who are not interested in it as part of our work together. It has been a focus of my professional development and personal growth in such an impactful way, that doing therapy without it feels like leaving my best tool out of the room.

  • Couples Counseling External link

    I work with couples to manage their conflict, strengthen their friendship and appreciation, and to create intimacy through long term relationship shifts. With couples I utilize Gottman Method therapy, which is research based and tested. Couples therapy, believe it or not, can be an enjoyable and deeply healing process. I also utilize Brainspotting with individuals to support the couple work when we get stuck.

  • Gottman Method External link

    I utilize Gottman Method with couples in order to manage conflict, deepen their friendship and intimacy. One of the most important keys to long-standing contentment in a relationship (even when there’s significant conflict!) is learning how to repair the emotional harm partners have caused for one another. Couples therapy, believe it or not, can be an enjoyable and deeply healing process.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Parenting External link

    I love working with parents on a variety of issues including but not limited to; co-parenting more efficiently, behavior change with your kids, and becoming the type of parent you want to be. I base a lot of my work with parents in Gottman Method Emotion Coaching, which is research based and tested.

  • LGBTQ Issues External link

    I am both personally and professionally involved with LGBTQ community and am very aware of the dynamics of being part of those communities. I find that, like so many oppressed groups, it is important to find support with someone who you don't have to teach the basics of your experience to along the way.

  • Relationship / Marriage Issues External link

    I work from the Gottman Method of couples therapy, which is research based and tested and considered by many in the field, the most effective roadmap for helping relationships to become stable and happy. I also use Brainspotting as part of a wrap around couples therapy, to help each person move through issues that keep the relationship stuck.

  • PTSD External link

    Post Traumatic Stress is the brain's natural way of dealing with trauma when it has gotten stuck and hasn't been processed. I work from a variety of research based methods to assist clients in processing their trauma so that they can move through it and get to the other side. My primary tool at this point is Brainspotting.

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