Portland Therapy Center
Quinn Bailey

Quinn Bailey (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, NCC

Supervisor: Aaron Kelsay, LPC

Being a person is hard. And while life can often feel overwhelming, I believe with the right support everyone is capable of change & growth.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503-862-6812

9201 Southeast Foster Road

Suite 207

Portland, 97266

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $150-$200

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2022

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network
  • Aetna
  • OHP CareOregon/HealthShare
  • PacificSource
  • Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield
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My Ideal Client

My ideal client is someone who is interested in exploring the challenges in their life and motivated to learn and grow in the face of them. I have experience working with individuals facing addiction (both process and substance), recovering from trauma, and navigating different sorts of attachment wounds. I also enjoy working with individuals who are navigating life transitions and crises, exploring their familial and social roles, and grappling with existential and spiritual questions.

My Approach to Helping

I strive to create a warm, non-judgmental space where you can explore your emotions and experiences from a place of compassion and authenticity, fostering a genuine connection and opening up new possibilities for a more fulfilling and joyful life. I practice with an integrative approach that combines contemporary psychoanalytic, existential, and narrative frameworks—exploring internalized beliefs, the realities of life, and empowering clients to find new ways of relating to them. I blend these theoretical insights with relational, person-centered, and somatic approaches to create a sense of safety and empowerment for my clients. I also utilize cognitive behavioral (CBT) approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and incorporate mindfulness-based practices in order to provide clients with tangible tools to help facilitate their own healing.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

We live in a culture designed to exploit rather than support our mental health. We are constantly inundated with products designed to capture our attention by entertaining, angering, frightening, and making us generally feel inadequate. No wonder so many of us are struggling! I believe that it is only by reckoning honestly with the ways in which our culture manufactures an insecurity that it then exploits, can we begin to explore the options that have in navigating this toxicity. As a counselor, I identify as a Buddhist and as an existentialist, in the least pretentious sense. To me, this means that I recognize and accept that life entails suffering, and believe we also have freedom in choosing how we respond to it. The most insidious thing about the erosion of our attention is the way in which it limits our freedom to to choose how we respond. My clinical approach focuses on exploring values and utilizing mindfulness-based approaches to help restore this foundational human freedom.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Addiction Therapy External link

    My graduate program included a specialization in addiction treatment. I also worked for the last two years in problem gambling treatment, working with individuals struggling with gambling, often in addition to substance abuse. I also identify as being in recovery from numerous forms of addiction.

  • Existential External link

    I earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and the existentialists have always been a favorite of mine. I have really enjoyed integrating the lessons I have learned from the existential tradition into my clinical approach.

  • Psychoanalytic  External link

    I practice with a contemporary and integrative clinical approach that is guided by a psychoanalytic model of the self, desire and drive, etc. In particular, the Freudian analyst, Jacques Lacan, is a major influence on my theoretical approach. I have spent years studying his work and continue still. I also draw heavily on the work of Lacanian theorists such as Slavoj Zizek, Mari Ruti, Alenka Zupancic, and Todd McGowan.

  • Psychodynamic  External link

    I believe that there are always unconscious elements of our experience and motivation, and that the more we can work to understand what these pieces are, the more effectively we can work with, change, or overcome them.

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    I have utilized mindfulness and meditation practices in my own life for more than a decade and believe they can be a flexible and powerful tool in supporting change.

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