Portland Therapy Center
Tate Sprite

Tate Sprite (they/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

Naropa University, MA Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling

Are relationships hard? Are people stressful? I specialize in helping you heal your relationship to yourself, others, and the world.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

5033089663

2223 NE 47th Ave

Portland, 97230

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $100-$175

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2023

Services

  • Individual
  • Group

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

I usually work with self-conscious outsiders, who may even be helpers or leaders, who are stressed out by people or who struggle with boundaries. They want to be free of the intense self-criticism and instead feel belonging and connection. In working with me, they develop a healthy sense of self-compassion, grow empowered to connect with people authentically, and find their voice in the world.

How I Can Help You

My main therapeutic modality is Emotionally Focused Therapy. This attachment-based approach is non-pathologizing: we trust that a person’s inner experience as well as their actions make sense in some way that is trying to help. What has healing power is when you have enough safety in a relationship (e.g. with a therapist) that you can recognize your patterns and befriend your own emotions with compassion. Once you have new, more connected emotional experiences in real time, you start to find a new sense of self. Your capacity to navigate human experience grows. Then you can safely begin to deepen into difficult experiences from the past, to now directly feel and see and integrate them in a new, better, fuller way. Gradually, these changes shape a new story of yourself and your life, and naturally lead to new actions. This approach is known to be helpful across a variety of diagnoses but especially with those facing depression, anxiety, and the effects of trauma.

Why I am a Good Fit for You

I may be a great fit if: ~~ you want to do attachment work ~~ you practice mindfulness, or want to start ~~ you want to be more aware of your body or do somatic work ~~ you've exhausted your options with talk therapy ~~ you are right-brained, artistic, holistic, or intuitive ~~ you don't just want new tools and behavioral skills, you want to re-organize your basic operating system for doing life ~~ you're already committed to personal growth or have done a lot of work on yourself ****** My special affiliations: ~~ born and raised outside the US ~~ dysfunctional family ~~ spiritual seeker from when I was a kid ~~ lived through the violent fall of communism ~~ spent many years in a cult ~~ highly intelligent and highly sensitive ~~ am queer in a number of ways

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Emotionally Focused External link

    Overall, I describe my approach as attachment-based, trauma-informed, mindful, somatic, compassion-focused, experiential and existential. While I draw on my study of the modalities listed below (and some that weren't on the list), my main model is Emotionally Focused Therapy. It centers relationship and emotional experience. I'm pursuing certification in Emotionally Focused Therapy for individuals (EFIT) and receive regular supervision and training by certified EFT supervisors.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Social Phobia External link

    I work especially with people who experience this sometimes paralyzing fear of being seen by others. I mainly support them to develop self-compassion, put their inner critic in its proper place, learn mindfulness and somatic awareness, participate in new and positive experiences of relationship, hold their right boundaries, know who they are, connect to their voice, take safe risks, and be authentic. In working with me, they develop a new relationship to themselves, others, and the world.

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