Rainer Rivenburgh (they/them)

What I Specialize In

I supervise with an integrated developmental, feminist, and trauma-informed model. My approach to supervision is to acknowledge and dismantle (to whatever extent possible) power differentials in the supervision relationship. This power issue is, again, mirrored in the client-counselor relationship. I prioritize psychological and physical safety for clients and for my supervisees. I help support supervisees in how to create a felt sense of safety in sessions. I help clients recognize when trauma response patterns are showing up in session--in themselves and in clients--and how to respond in ways that do not cause re-traumatization, and foster resolution of the trauma. I also help supervisees attend to vicarious trauma they are experiencing, repairing interpersonal/childhood shildhood survival patterns, so as to steward this trauma toward growth and autonomy rather than moral injury and shutdown.

Why I Became a Therapist

As a clinician, I hold LGBTQ+ community competences with a special focus on the needs of transgender/gender diverse people, including gender issues for children and youth, and WPATH Standards of Care. I have training in art therapy, Narrative Therapy, Relational-Cultural & Feminist Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Somatic Experiencing© Therapy. I have training in mindfulness approaches. I work from a systemic, trauma-informed perspective, using a client-centered approach. I have worked in a broad range of settings including inpatient psychiatric, assisted living, day treatment, and outpatient settings. I am a Board-Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Credentialed Supervisor (ATCS, with the Art Therapy Credentials Board), a Licensed Art Therapist (LAT), Licensed Professional Counselor, and Approved Clinical Supervisor (including Disciplinary Supervision) for LPC and LMFT-track associates with the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists.