Portland Therapy Center
Rachel Shapiro

Rachel Shapiro (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

LPC Associate (Oregon), LCMHCA (North Carolina)

I am a feminist, Internal Family Systems therapist working with adults seeking support with trauma, relationships, anxiety, and depression.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

9175976440

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $165-$185

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2017

Languages: Español

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket

My Ideal Client

I work with adults seeking to delve deep inside and are interested in experiencing Internal Family Systems. IFS builds self compassion, insight, and healing. It also can help create movement and growth in places that have long been stuck. As a systems therapist, I see the individual as a family of parts functioning within a larger context. I work with clients who are interested in including an exploration of external systems of oppression and how culture has impacted their worldviews.

My Approach to Helping

In therapy, I create sacred space for clients to bring compassionate curiosity to life experiences. Therapy is a place to deepen one’s connection and relationship with the self, and to gain embodied insight about one’s personal process, dynamics, and patterning. It is also a place to explore one’s relationships to others to build more fulfilling connections and intimacy in one’s life. I offer various tools to support you in your journey, such as Internal Family Systems, mindful self compassion, guided visualization, and a somatic (body based) orientation to trauma. Ultimately, we work together to tenderly uncover what is true for you, to make the unconscious conscious, and to hear and amplify your inner voices in areas where they long to be heard. I offer and invite radical approval for the shameful, dark and hidden. I welcome you in your full complexity, including your powerful wisdom and aliveness as well as your mystery, your shadow, and your disowned and exiled parts.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I am interested in ancestral healing and intergenerational healing of trauma and have been trained as a death doula. I am interested in psychedelic integration and support. I am an artist and parent. Please inquire about sliding scale availability if needed.

Techniques I Use

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Postpartum External link

    I work with pregnant and new mothers and offer support during this life transition.

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