Feminist

Gabriella Losada (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS

The word feminist can be loaded depending on your identities. To me, feminist therapy is intersectional and includes looking at layers of privilege and oppression. Feminist theory as a therapeutic lens involves collaboration, balancing power dynamics in the traditional client/therapist relationship, and talking about identities and systems and how they impact your well-being.

Ashley Adler (she/her/hers)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Master of Arts in Marriage, Couples, and Family Therapy

Therapy through a queer and feminist lens acknowledges the impact of systemic oppression, gender norms, and heteronormativity on mental health and relationships. It creates space to unlearn limiting narratives, embrace identity, and explore relationships, power, and pleasure on your own terms. This approach values self-determination, centers your lived experience, and challenges the idea that healing happens in isolation—recognizing that identity, culture, and community all shape personal growth

Courtney Boyd

Qualified Mental Health Professional

Through a personal passion, I have been drawn to feminist theory as it challenges the gender roles and cultural stereotypes that can often contribute to personal distress. By focusing on empowerment and social change, feminist therapy aims to help clients develop a strong sense of self, challenge oppressive systems, and advocate for themselves and others.

Caitlin Keitel (she/her)

Professional Counselor

M.A. Process Oriented Facilitation

I work primarily with women, non-binary, and queer people to rewrite the stories we have been told, and tell ourselves, about our self-power, lovability, competence, beauty, bodies, and societal worth.

Christa Cummins (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

Empowering women--and men--to understand their experiences to the extent that cultural influences have played a role is an element of my practice. We'll explore the ways in which your life might be changed by living in a way that is true to yourself by tapping your strengths.

Alana Ogilvie (she/they)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT, CST

In my work I focus on reworking gendered power dynamics with individuals and couples and addressing social inequities that keep partners form being collaborative with one another.

Portland Therapy Project

Licensed Professional Counselor

Sam Skye (he/him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

ATR, LPC

My work as a feminist therapist focuses on how intersectional oppressions can impact mental health. Within families/relationships, I am focused on support equal division of labor (including emotional labor). Feminism is just as relevant to men's issues as well work to break down gender stereotypes that often prevent men/masculine people from living fully and with joy.

Carrie Ivy (she/her)

Professional Counselor

My person-centered approach prioritizes equality within a cultural context, examining how the personal and societal are intertwined. This strengths-based approach hones personal power, authenticity, and inclusion in a collaborative way.

Day Adams (he/him)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

MA

To me, a feminist approach to therapy involves being aware and critical of power differences and the way that narrow and culturally-influenced ideas about our identities can negatively impact our wellbeing. I try to center often-marginalized voices and question what might seem like "common sense". I work hard to practice therapy as horizontally as possible, leaning on collaboration around direction, self-disclosure, and not pretending to have the best answers.

Gary Conachan III (he/they)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS

For me, my orientation as a feminist therapist looks like naming my identities and biases, the reasons behind treatment approaches, and always asking for consent in treatment. In other words, I work to equalize the power imbalance as much as possible, always working collaboratively with my clients.

April Slabosheski (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MS, NCC

Our experiences, feelings, and struggles exist within important social contexts. As a feminist counselor, I believe that acknowledging the power dynamics, identities, and social roles that shape our lives can help us develop a greater sense of agency, personal choice, and well-being.

Kristen Genzano (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, NCC

I specialize in working with women. In my practice, I am consistently looking at my client’s experience through the feminist lens. From this perspective I work collaboratively with my clients to allow for a more balanced, accepting, and self-compassionate experience of themselves.

Lauren Saville (She/They)

Licensed Professional Counselor

C5949

Jessica Besner (she/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, M.S.

specifically Relational-Cultural framework. This became a foundation for my work after moving to Portland and working with more diverse folx. It is also trauma-informed which laid the groundwork for my specialization in trauma work . Takes cultural trauma and social context into consideration and normalizes traumatic responses. Collaborative approach which reduces power differential in therapy and allows for attention to the ways that privilege and power shows up in relationship.

Emma Stern (she/her/hers)

Licensed Professional Counselor

C7542

Feminist therapy takes into account dynamics of marginalization and systematic oppression. In therapy, I ask clients to consider ways in which race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, age, socioeconomic status, and ability status impact their lived experience. As a therapist, I am committed to questioning power, privilege, and positionality. I encourage clients to look at how white supremacy, toxic masculinity, and late-stage capitalism can severely challenge mental health.

Tessa Rose (she/her/hers)

Professional Counselor

M.A. Process Oriented Facilitation

Melissa Hartley (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

NCC, LPC

I focus on the importance of empowerment and awareness of systems of oppression which impact people of all genders. What you can expect here is to be treated with respect, to have the whole person you are, your identities and lived experience, validated and welcomed.

Maddy Engelfried (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA

Feminist therapy isn't just about women's issues (though it certainly can be). It's about cultivating an egalitarian relationship between the therapist and client and recognizing that whatever our gender identity and expression, we all have things in our lives that oppress us and things that give us privilege. I see feminism as an essential lens to understanding the therapeutic relationship and the world at large.

Emily Wagner (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Mariah Beltran (she/her)

Clinical Psychologist Resident

Resident213

Feminist therapy for me functions as the lens in which I understand client's presenting concerns and then use various interventions from other orientations for treatment. Basically this means that one of the goals in every session with me is to empower the client in front of me and help them find their internal power.

Chantal Miniet (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

C8779

I strive to challenge oppressive systems and promote social justice while honoring clients' unique strengths, resilience, and agency. By acknowledging power dynamics, exploring intersectionality, challenging gender norms and stereotypes, promoting empowerment and agency, and addressing trauma and oppression, I aim to create a space where clients feel validated, empowered, and supported in their healing journey.

Colette Gordon (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Feminist in a way that's all about looking at power dynamics and talking about them. Feminist in a way that is against building power on the backs of others. Feminist in a way that seeks to support individual and collective empowerment. Feminist in a way that is pro-sex workers. Feminist in a way that is weight neutral, pro-fat liberation and gets feeling bad about your body. Feminist in a way that seeks to resist racism, capitalism, police/government violence, and other oppressive systems.

Jennie Hagen (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LMHC, LPC

Identifying as female in our culture comes with so many landmines. Navigating relationships, work/life balance, parenting, misogyny, and so on. If you've clicked on this specialty, you know. I like to work from an feminist perspective to see how gender underlies other stressors. Feminism is intersectional, and if you identify as female (or on the feminine side of the spectrum) this space is for you.

Grace Silvia, LCSW (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

As a radical feminist, I believe my work must: > deeply honor each person's inner wisdom instead of pathologizing doctrine; > recognize the deep soul wounding that chronic and acute oppression, systems of injustice, and planetary pain cause; and > orient deep personal healing in service to becoming an empowered agent of change, rather than adjusting to being a cog in the machine.

Brandy Tidwell (she/her)

Clinical Psychologist

PhD

I approach therapy from a theoretically integrative lens, building on a foundation of intersectional feminism, systems theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and trauma-informed care. I integrate a variety of evidence-based models tailored to each client’s concerns, background, and preferences. I have specialized training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Prolonged Exposure, and Emotion Focused Therapy.

Emily Berry (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

When we reflect on our feelings and experiences, it is important to acknowledge the various systemic and societal influences at play. Over our lifetime, we naturally internalize messages from our culture that ultimately inform our beliefs about ourselves in the world. Feminist therapy focuses on understanding this in order to help us move beyond limiting beliefs and live a truly authentic life.