Experiential

Brooke Kaufman (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

M.A.

It is only through present-moment experience that we are able to have a new experience of being with ourselves and others. There are practical tools of awareness that I will guide you in to be able to develop more capacity to experience emotions and sensations. Through nervous system tracking, mindfulness practices and other somatic modalities, you will learn the skills you need to feel more centered and to have more capacity for aliveness.

Aspen Bialer (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA

Russell Chamberlain (he/him)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Gabriella Losada (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS

Experiential therapy involves bringing creative elements or activities into session that take us beyond just staring at each other and talking. Sometimes this means writing, making art, using music, or creating a tangible coping tool to process things in a different way. Creativity can be helpful in moving through grief, trauma, and dissociation, especially when verbal processing feels difficult.

Sawyer Salameh (They/Them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I focus on what’s happening in the room to help you better understand yourself and gain more control over your choices and life. Our experience encompasses everything occurring in the room, including our thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. By paying attention to these elements, you can explore how they influence your behaviors and decisions, leading to a deeper understanding and more empowered approach to life.

Ajay Dheer (He/They)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

M.S. Marriage and Family Therapy

Experiential therapy was a large focus of my training in graduate school. My studies and my clinical practice have included various experiential based approaches, including but not limited to: mindfulness, breath work, role plays and other more traditional experiential techniques. These techniques can be particularly helpful when traditional talk therapy could use a boost.

Ernest Likins (he/they)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA

My training in Experiential psychotherapy goes back to 2010 when I began my undergraduate study of Somatic psych and recognized the necessity of the mind-body connection in mental healthcare. In sessions I provide contemplative and sensory-driven guided imagery from a neurodivergent-affirming lens.

Lauren Stines (she/they)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

MA, LMFT

Our experiences make up who we are. As an experiential therapist, I will invite you to explore how you are experiencing the content of your life within the 'here and now'. I do so by engaging my clients with mindfulness exercises that explore their present emotional responses to the content they bring to therapy.

Jane Flanagan (they/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Paisley Jen Burrell (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT, LPC

Experiential therapy focuses on what’s happening in the moment rather than only talking about the past. I help clients slow down and tune into their immediate emotional and relational experience, offering guidance as new insights emerge. Together, we try out new ways of relating in session, allowing couples to learn through experience what feels more connecting and supportive.

Rebecca Brown Schroeder (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, NCC

I see clients at The Center at Heron Hill, a unique outpatient mental health practice located on a 60-acre farm just outside of Portland in Canby, Oregon. Our agency offers an Ecotherapy experience that utilizes nature and animals as well as a wide variety of experiential activities such as mindfulness, gardening activities, embodiment, movement and yoga-based activities, art activities, archery, slack line, sand tray, fire building, and opportunities to experience equine-assisted therapy.

Laura Birchard (she/ her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, CADCI

You come to therapy for an experience, not to be given information. Experiential therapy is an active, process-oriented approach that goes beyond talk therapy. It uses creative, somatic, and interactive techniques—such as Sandplay, role-play, art, and guided imagery—to access deeper emotions and unconscious patterns. This approach is especially effective for treating burnout, stress, reconnect with themselves, and restore a sense of vitality and balance.

Joyce Korschgen (Ms)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Carl Jensen

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC

I have significant background in Psychodrama therapy, as well as Gestalt therapy. When a client goes deep into a problem area, this approach may often be the most valuable. There are numerous therapeutic experiential interventions that have the potential to creatively begin healing or transform an individuals problem area.

Christpher Jordan Robertson-Volpe (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

R11364

I use experiential therapy to engage clients through movement, creativity, and nature-based practices. Healing becomes active and embodied, not just talked about. My ecotherapy and somatic background helps clients access emotions and shift patterns through lived experience.

Kestrel Fae Tippie (they/them)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

OR LMFT # T2221, CA LMFT #130759

If realizations alone would've solved your problems, you probably would've gotten there already- but that doesn't really work for trauma. That's why I work experientially, based in the body, and in alliance with nature. With drama therapy and role play we can embody, un-do, and re-wire past trauma and pain, and practice new ways of being. Through expressive modalities like sand tray and creative arts, you can access stuck material and liberate it in service of self-expression and healing.

Jack Marvin (She/They)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Existential therapy tackles the deep, often unspoken questions of life: meaning, purpose, and the anxiety that comes with uncertainty. It is completely normal to feel lost, isolated, or overwhelmed by big transitions. Rather than just treating symptoms, we will collaboratively explore what truly matters to you. Together, we will navigate these very human struggles, empowering you to make authentic choices, embrace your freedom, and build a deeply meaningful life.

Jamie Van Auken (She/Her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA, E-RYT 500

I offer and facilitate outdoor nature walk appointments (when the weather cooperates) as part of the healing process. Using nature-based therapy and bilateral stimulation, these sessions offer a unique opportunity for further regulation, mindfulness, and clarity. I also am available for therapeutically-held, 're-experiencing' sessions, where you can integrate a sense of felt safety into more activating spaces.

Grace Silvia, LCSW (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Whether talking about what happened yesterday or in your family growing up, we will work with what you experience as you explore it in the moment. That way the work is fresh, not a stale re-hashing of an old, stuck story. Using basic building blocks of gentle curiosity, compassion and honoring both what shows up as well as resistance to what shows up, deep transformation happens.

Suzanne Sanchez (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

I use experiential techniques to help clients access parts of their sub-conscious mind. Examples may include art therapy techniques, role-playing, writing, and play therapy. Through experience, insight is often increased, and as self-awareness grows so can self-esteem, self-confidence and motivation.

Ayala Parker (she/they)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Michaela Christopher (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A. Marriage, Couple, & Family Therapy

Anna Schaum

Licensed Professional Counselor

I am a Board Certified Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy (www.psychodramacertification.org), am qualified to train therapists in this modality, and teach at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR and Antioch University in Seattle.