Portland Therapy Center
Sarah Blaszczak, M.A, LMFT

Sarah Blaszczak, M.A, LMFT (She, her, hers)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT T1554

Supervisor: Corina Mattson LMFT

I am fortunate to do this work I love, and honored to walk beside people, as they liberate themselves based on their deepest wisdom.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

510-213-3389

510 SW 3rd Ave

Suite 200

Portland, 97204

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $140-$200

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2004

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield

My Ideal Client

Welcome Welcome to my psychotherapy and coaching practice. Here you will find a warm, caring and confidential setting where we can look deeply at experience, changing your relationship to suffering. I am particularly enjoying working with people who are approaching or have had an initial non-dual or "no-self" realization, in order to integrate their new awareness and do deeper shadow work.

My Approach to Helping

Between and within humans, multiple perspectives exist, and what is discovered depends on how observing happens. This understanding has led to my intense compassion for all kinds of human suffering, and delight in the unique paths forged. It is possible to ultimately drop attachments contributing to suffering, in order to experience the innately loving conscious beings we are. Here the focus is less on some idea of "right and wrong" and more on the wise discernment of what ACTUALLY contributes to suffering based on experience. My therapy practice is driven by a belief that if anyone had been through what you had been through, they would be exactly where you are. I also believe in equifinality; the idea that there are multiple paths to the same destination.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I have been working in the field for about 20 years. My license has afforded me the opportunity to work with a variety of clients in an array of settings. I have worked with couples, families and individuals in private practice settings, as a therapist at a drug treatment center for youth, as the lead clinician in an inpatient program for people who identified as female struggling with dual dianoses, as the Clinical Director of a transitional housing program for women leaving prostitution and escaping sex trafficking. My current Therapy and Coaching Practice is my love and joy. I support people in seeing through psychological conditioning and becoming more stable. We can then look into the true roots of suffering. I am particularly enjoying working with people who are approaching or have had an initial non-dual or "no-self" realization, in order to integrate their new awareness and do deeper shadow work.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) External link

    Most of us have some ambivalence about most things because we have multiple motivations (to succeed, to be happy, to be liked for example). IFS is a way to reach consensus within ourselves, particularly if we experienced trauma.

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    Peace can come from meeting life’s suffering with clarity, grace and curiosity. Mindfulness allows us to know our patterns and motives more clearly so that we can see through our conditioning.

  • Eclectic External link

    I adjust my approach based on your presenting strengths and challenges in collaboration with you. I do not expect you to adapt to my style. I am comfortable using a wide range of specializations, theories and approaches.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Spirituality External link

    I am particularly enjoying working with people who are approaching or have had an initial non-dual or "no-self" realization, in order to integrate their new awareness and do deeper shadow work. If you are just at the beginning of asking bigger questions about existence, are in recovery and deepening your relationship to Higher Power, or have a history of religious trauma, I also have a great deal of experience and enjoy supporting people around these issues.

  • Sexual Problems External link

    I have experience working with sexual problems including avoidance and compulsions. I also enjoy supporting individuals that have, or currently experience stigma and oppression around sexuality.

  • Anxiety External link

    Mind identification can be incredibly painful and stress-inducing. I enjoy helping people inquire into the nature and substance of thought, in order to find peace without the content of thoughts having to change.

  • PTSD External link

    I have a wealth of experience and use a wide variety of approaches to help people heal from their unique combination of trauma symptoms, including flashbacks, dissociation, panic, avoidance, depression, irritability and low self-esteem.

  • Codependency External link

    So many marginalized populations and folks who grow up with abuse or addiction in their households adapt by living life from the outside in-adjusting to what they have been told implicitly and explicitly to be for other people in order to access love and resource. This also happens to be a symptom of codependency, a normal reaction to abnormal circumstances. I can help you reorient to yourself.

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