Portland Therapy Center
Yael Kievsky

Yael Kievsky (she/her/ella)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

If you're seeking an empowering and transformative experience of therapy, I'd love to support you. I specialize in relationships & trauma.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

971-256-5766

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $125-$185

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2018

Languages: English, Español

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

I have built my practice to focus on all things relationships: I work especially well with relational trauma, breaches of trust, repairing severed relationships, communication, non-normative relationships, as well as family & reproductive support. I am approachable and bring a solid, vigorous presence to our encounters - you will not feel adrift in our sessions.

My Approach to Helping

My style is engaged, directive, and sometimes humorous, and always tender and reverent of all of who you are. I believe in people being the experts of their own past and their many possible futures, and this orientation has me showing up with a radical sense of hopefulness and creativity to our every encounter. I value cultivating transparency and collaboration in our work together. I am trained in expressive arts for trauma processing. Via simple, non-intimidating arts prompts we may find new points of entry into old stories, and source surprising or compelling meaning - on your terms. I use neuroscience to ground our understanding of what you may be going through. I am trained in NET, a radical and affirming trauma processing modality that empowers us to revisit your story on your terms. In my work with couples I draw directly from restorative and transformative justice & EFT, a deeply effective attachment based approach for transforming relationships.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

My background is as an artist and educator, and I am rooted in anti-oppression and liberatory practice. As a Latinx-Jewish immigrant, I come from deeply collectivistic cultures, and the value and sacredness of reciprocal human connection drives my work. My lived experience of immigration and acculturation led me to specialize on the many griefs and traumas of displacement, present or intergenerational. My own experiences in the area of fertility/infertility, queer family making, and perinatal complications showed me firsthand the ways our society does not champion these powerful journeys fully or well. I am dedicated to supporting folks throughout pregnancy-ing, birthing, and parenting; including the joys, fears, grief, and trauma which very often intersect. I am queer-allied, kink-allied, sex positive, trans affirming, anti-ableist (with a disability justice and neurodiversity informed lens), HAES-informed, and explicitly anti racist in my therapeutic work.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Expressive Art Therapy External link

    I am trained in expressive arts for trauma processing. Via simple, non-intimidating arts prompts we may find new points of entry into old stories, and source surprising or compelling meaning - on your terms. The arts also provide us with a wealth of tools for embodiment and nervous system regulation, as well as help us leverage our strengths (individual & cultural) for accessing newfound resiliency.

  • Emotionally Focused External link

    I have advanced training in EFT for working with couples, a compassionate and deeply effective attachment based approach for transforming relationship patterns.

  • Narrative  External link

    I practice primarily as a narrative therapist, influenced by relational and attachment approaches as well as Internal Family Systems, feminist psychotherapy, and existential and transpersonal approaches, and an intergenerational/systemic lens. I draw strongly from interpersonal neurobiology and neuroscience, such as polyvagal theory, and somatics.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Family Conflict External link

    I have built my practice to focus on all things relationships: I work especially well with family reconciliation processes, breaches of trust, repairing severed relationships, and communication in families.

  • Relationship / Marriage Issues External link

    In my work with couples I draw directly from restorative and transformative justice, where I learned the values of radically shared wellness, a sense of wellbeing that is deeply accountable and co-constructed within each relationship (families, couples, polycules, etc). I have advanced training in EFT for working with couples, a compassionate and deeply effective attachment based approach for transforming relationship patterns.

  • PTSD External link

    I have a reverence for trauma work and show up fully to support you with compassion, insight, creativity, and shared trust. Many theories of trauma all point in the direction of relationships: that the wounds that we sustain in this lifetime occur within our stories with others. I see therapy as a place for you to explore and reclaim your power. I am trained in Narrative Exposure Therapy, a radical and affirming trauma processing modality that empowers us to revisit your story on your terms

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