Women's Issues

Angelie Karabatsos (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Women today face many difficult choices and must deal with numerous life challenges., which can cause emotional conflicts. One such conflict, for professional women is choosing between a promotion or marriage. Other conflicts revolve around childhood trauma or intimate partner violence. I build a caring and compassionate alliance to help you confront deep wounds and plot a new course.

Kristin Schuchman (she/her)

Professional Counselor

MSW, CSWA

I offer a compassionate and supportive space for women to explore your thoughts and feelings. Whether navigating life transitions, changing careers, coping with stress, or seeking personal growth, I'm here to help. Through evidence-based therapeutic approaches, we'll work together to develop coping strategies, improve self-esteem, and enhance your overall well-being. My goal is to empower you to live a fulfilling and meaningful life.

Irma E. Llanes (she/her/ella)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

I have dedicated my 20+ year career to the work of healing & working with women. My extensive experience is in addressing issues affecting women such as domestic violence, sexual abuse, postpartum depression, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting, life transitions, and relationships. I have also created & lead an all girls life skills group for middle & high school young women.

Matia Kelly, MA, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

This is an interesting and challenging time for both men and women as we navigate changing gender norms and expectations. I’ve worked with many women on the unique experiences caused by these changes, especially struggles with relationships.

Emma Jewell (she/her)

Somatic Practitioner

Radical Aliveness Practitioner, Family Constellations Facilitator & LMT

I specialize in working with moon/menstruation cycles, mood regulation and awareness for this powerful natural cycle. I work with your Menstrual origin story, and social and systemic impacts on your body, to integrate and build understanding to prepare and navigate this ongoing natural process.

Melissa Yeary (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC, CHT

The major events in a woman's life can be challenging. Relationship growth or difficulty, becoming a mother or deciding not to have children, managing work and family, coming into your own as a woman. These transitions are rich times to take stock of who you are, claim your power, and choose to live your life with heart and creativity. I've been there. I can help you find your way.

Cedar Hills Outpatient Services

Social Worker

Cedar Hills Outpatient offers a Women's Group that is a safe, supportive, and empowering space for women to focus on their mental health and / or substance recovery while balancing the pressures of womanhood and / or historical trauma. This program therapist is female and is certified in trauma treatment (CCTP).

Carrie Ivy (she/her)

Professional Counselor

I am passionate about working with women and non-binary folx, in all that we are up against in the world and with all the gifts that we innately possess. I have 6 years experience working one-on-one with women and non-binary folks to tell their stories of personal struggle. These stories are always each gloriously their own and offer a conduit of personal power when shared in a safe container.

Courtney Watson (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, Approved Supervisor (OBLPCT)

I support women through the emotional complexity of midlife—grief, transition, relationships, and rediscovery. This work is about softening into who you are now, rather than who you've been expected to be. Whether you're navigating perimenopause, shifting roles, or simply longing to know yourself more fully, therapy can offer a place to explore what’s unfolding.

Refresh Therapy

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

We offer individual therapy specifically tailored to meet a woman’s needs. Women reach out for therapy for a wide variety of reasons, and we would like to support you on your journey towards finding YOUR happy.

Jennifer Gray (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC, EMDR

Supporting women navigate unique challenges, including perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-doubt, burnout, and stress. Specializing in building confidence, setting healthy boundaries, and addressing imposter syndrome while fostering resilience and balance. Providing tailored support to help women align personal values with professional goals, overcome overwhelm, and create a fulfilling path to success in both their personal and professional lives.

Ashley Adler (she/her/hers)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Master of Arts in Marriage, Couples, and Family Therapy

You’re ready to understand yourself on a deeper level—the patterns that shape your relationships, the wounds that still linger, and the ways you’ve learned to protect yourself. Maybe you’re looking for a space where you can be supported in breaking old cycles and stepping into the change you’re craving. Whether you’re untangling childhood wounds, navigating the impact past relationships, or rewriting the stories you’ve carried about yourself, you don’t have to do it alone.

Korina Jochim

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Issues pertaining specifically to women and femme persons including trauma, codependency, abuse, systemic oppression, and empowerment.

Katrina Clark (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

MSW, LCSW

Juggling a family, career, relationships, and societal expectations as a woman can be challenging. I help women who are looking to change the course of their relationships by breaking unhealthy patterns, setting boundaries, overcoming people pleasing and perfectionism, building self esteem, and embody the full version of themselves.

Caitlin Keitel (she/her)

Professional Counselor

M.A. Process Oriented Facilitation

I am committed to the culture change necessary to heal and uplift women, non-binary folks, and everyone who experiences gendered violence. My approach includes processing internalized oppression due to systemic violence, healing interpersonal violence, and building a critical awareness of everyday sexism. Together we work toward self-power, community power, and honest expression of our experiences

Christa Cummins (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC

Women face unique barriers, often due to cultural expectations. Family, work, burnout, self-esteem, transitions from motherhood to empty-nesting, the choice to forego marriage or not to have children, challenges of retirement: these all look different for women, and we'll explore what they look like for you as the individual person you are, in the context of what you would like from your life.

Chynna Springer (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LMHC, LPC, CADCI

I really enjoy working with and empowering women. Women face many unique challenges in a patriarchal society and our experiences in this world are colored by our culture and our roles. Whether dealing with general life stressors, discrimination, women's rights, balancing work/home life, parenting, divorce/uncoupling, navigating relationships, etc. A feminist and equality lens I believe is beneficial for everyone.

Marcy Irene Jenks (she/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, RN, LPC, LMHC

Examining the transitioning roles of the female from Maiden to Mother to Matron.

Chelsea Kellogg (she/her/hers)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

I am passionate about offering women a safe space in therapy where a sense of solidarity and communion and can be felt. I often support women who have been victims of domestic and sexual violence in the past toward post traumatic growth. I also often work with cis men in individual therapy, so if you are a man and would like to work with me, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Amanda Best (she/her/hers)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

LMFT-A

I provide guidance on navigating issues related to body image, consent, and self-acceptance. I provide a safe, nonjudgmental, and confidential environment where you can openly explore your feelings and thoughts related to your femininity. We can challenge societal stereotypes and expectations about femininity, allowing you to define it on your terms and break free from any limitations that may have been imposed on you.

Jessica Baker, M.A. LMFT (She/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

B.S. Health Psychology, M.A. Counseling, LMFT

As a women, mother, wife and human being, I hold women's issues very close to my heart. Specifically, I work with pregnancy and birth experience, grief, health issues and identity. My published Master's thesis is on the topic of child birth as a rite of passage.

ariel reiner (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA

Trauma and abuse have been passed down from generation to generation. And, so has resilience. I hold a transgenerational lense in our approach to moving forward.

Mary Knoblock (she/her)

Hypnotherapist

Clinical RTT Hypnotherapist

I work with a lot of woment who are experiencing start of career anxiety and mid life anxiety. We work together to find a comprehensive hyponosis focus and work to resolve your issues together through a hypnosis session.

caroline sabi (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

As a woman who has lived in three different countries, I consider myself an expert when it comes to gender and cultural conditionings we have undergone that could be causing the current low self-esteem most women are experiencing. It is my mission and passion to process those earlier conditionings and help women live an empowered life.

Paige Medina (she/her)

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

MSN, PMHNP

I have a strong passion for working with women and addressing their unique mental health needs. I provide compassionate and empowering care, creating a safe space for women to explore concerns and work towards wellness. I offer tailored treatment plans in medication management and believe in the strength and resilience of women.

Jona Behrer (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

There are a variety experiences unique to women, or being female bodied. These experiences can be beautiful, deeply painful, traumatic and transformative. I help women cope with systemic oppression, rape culture, abuse, cycles of birth and loss, reproductive health, and sexuality. I help women to find their power, have stronger boundaries and a stronger sense of self.

Jennifer Crawford (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC, NCC

Much of my experience is related to the empowerment of women. I am particularly interested in women's health transitions such as birth and perimenopause/menopause. I've provided counseling as part of the Sexual Information Center in college and volunteered for Planned Parenthood. I've also worked closely with women professionals and women arts in the areas of career and leadership development providing mentoring, coaching, and therapy for women growing their power and role at work.

Jennie Hagen (She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LMHC, LPC

Identifying as female in our culture in 2023 comes with so many landmines. Navigating relationships, work/life balance, parenting, misogyny, rights to body autonomy, 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.

Brandy Tidwell (she/her)

Clinical Psychologist

PhD

I understand how patriarchy and misogyny deeply impact women’s health and harm our communities as a whole, and I seek to support and empower women in the pursuit of equity and liberation. Throughout my career, I have sought specialized training in women’s health and advocacy, such as during my time at the Washington Corrections Center for Women and the Women and Gender Diverse Specialty Clinic at the Portland VA Medical Center.

Gina DeLeo (she/her)

Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

M.A.

I have worked closely with women across the lifespan, especially around big life transitions, family/relational issues and inter-generational trauma.

Lili Micaela

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC Oregon, LMHC Washington

The over-arching umbrella of my expertise is women’s empowerment. I’ve taught, facilitated, organized, and provided individual therapy around issues such as self-health, sexism, abuse, adverse childhood experiences, recovery, coming out, relationships, sexual pleasure, reclaiming physicality & outdoor adventures, caring for the land, intentional community, & elderhood.

Clea Partridge (she/her/hers)

Professional Counselor Associate

Masters of Science in Counseling

Women's issues are everyone's issues, yet living and being socialized as a woman, (however you define that), brings unique challenges in American society. I can help you navigate some of the issues women face in our modern world while honoring your unique identities and cultural histories. Issues including aging, beauty and size standards, pain related to the menstrual cycle, menopause, and fitting in as a trans woman are all on the table

Gillian Chachere

Qualified Mental Health Professional

My educational background is in feminist psychoanalysis, and I approach women's issues - body image, reproductive issues, sex and relationships, parenting, trauma, etc - from a strong feminist perspective.

Sasha Rosenfels, MA, LMFT (She/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Women face unique challenges which may include but are not limited to restrictive gender norms as well as inequality on multiple levels both within and outside of their family systems. If interested, women are allowed the space in individual sessions to explore their own unique experiences as women and to discover and build upon their inherent power and value.

Melissa Hartley (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

NCC, LPC

As a counselor with a Feminist focus, I place importance on empowerment, awareness of systems of oppression that impact people of all genders, and how that shows up in the content we discuss, as well as the relationship between us in our respective identities. You can expect safe space to talk about the differences between our identities in a respectful and affirming way.

Kelly Sullivan (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

L4631

I work with women and couples experiencing issues with infertility, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, post-partum adjustment and menopause. These experiences can change fundamental aspects of identity. They are times of culturally informed and biological transitions and can be full of overwhelming challenges. They can also provide a unique motivation for shifting old perspectives.

Camillia de la Garza Thompson (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, CMA

In alignment with my cultural studies, I see gender issues as an intimate piece of our identity, often without conscious choice or recognition. Sometimes, therapists spend your time trying to solve society's problems by making them your problems. There is a difference. I want to facilitate your empowerment, however that feels for you.

Candice Guertin-Carey (She/Her)

Somatic Practitioner

MA

Relationships Self Confidence Boundaries Lifestyle Friendships Family Planning Career and Motherhood

Sarah Craycraft

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, NCC

As women, we are often juggling so many different roles. You might be a partner, a mother, an professional, and so many others. Often, we need someone to talk to about how all of those roles fit together. If this is you, I can help.

Susan Gulka (She/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

Sorting out who you are, life transitions, support and listening, motherhood, identity in relationships

Jennie Hayes, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

We are a cultural turning point for women, a reckoning coming at a time where women still face enormous amounts of misogyny, internalized misogyny, role expectation, discrimination, harassment and social expectations about everything from looks to childbearing to relationships. I love working with women as they process trauma and transitions, explore their identity and come into their own power.

Diana Oxley, Ph.D.

Licensed Professional Counselor

Diploma, CG Jung Institute Zurich; Ph.D. (Psychology), Arizona State University

I have a strong interest in and commitment to helping women confront the cultural pressures and biases that may be operating against them in a patriarchal culture.

Christina Dunning (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC

In our society, women are so often taught to put their needs second and to be warm and consistently pleasant to those around them. While these qualities can sometimes be helpful, they can also trap us in patterns in which we lose track of our needs and disconnect from our authentic selves. Counseling offers a place to reconnect with oneself and explore and practice boundary setting and self care.

Kristen Genzano (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, NCC

I have dedicated my practice to working with a variety of women’s issues including perfectionism, work-other-self balance, fertility issues, romantic relationships, mother/daughter relationships, and coping with experiences of sexual abuse.

Audrianna J. Gurr (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC License and CADCI certificate, CDWF certificate

I work with women at all stages in their lives. I have particular training and background with perinatal mental health challenges including infertility, infant loss, new parents, new identities and mom and parenting challenges as well as those in the perimenopause arch. I have been working with the Baby Blues Connection and Brief Encounters organization for over 10 years and work with clients individually, a couples and in groups.

Stephanie Podasca (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, LMHC

Being a woman in this world is hard! It's important you work with someone that understands the array of challenges women are faced with from the time they are born and throughout life. I have the most experience working directly with women in both individual counseling and in women's-based recovery circles. I am passionate about helping women process their experiences of womanhood, motherhood, sexuality, challenges in the workforce, and overcoming trauma so they can live empowered lives.

Douglas Counseling

Licensed Professional Counselor

Douglas Counseling has a specialty in working with women's issues. We work with women to help them uncover the core issues behind the challenges they face. Common areas of focus with women include improving boundaries, empowerment, achieving healthy self-esteem, managing caretaking roles, finding equity in relationships, and learning to speak out from an assertive place.

Shawna Oliver, LCSW (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I have spent much of my career supporting women through many of life's challenges. Often times these challenges come in the form of abuse, trauma, divorce, grief and life transitions. This can interfere with how we perceive ourselves. It has been my experience that women often possess an inner strength that with help they can identify and grow.

Therese Long (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Throughout the years I have done work around empowering women to find their strength within, resist or challenge social expectations, and open conversations around 'taboo topics'.

Magnolia Medlin (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

M.A. Clinical Mental Health Counseling

I have co-led two women's wilderness rites of passages through Wild Open Being, and I have trained in council process with the School of Lost Borders. I use this training in group and individual work with women, and I have a strong desire to support women to embody their most authentic, wild, joyful selves.

Lesley Smith (they/she)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I have experience working with female-identified people and am knowledgable on the unique experiences of these individuals and the ways that patriarchy influences our lived experience.

Coleen Moreno (she/ her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, LICSW

I have worked with woman-identified adults to help increase personal growth and satisfaction related to health, grief and loss, social environments, self-esteem and relationships of all kinds.

Amy Galaviz (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, LMHC, PMH-C

My women-centered practice focuses on assisting women through all life stages including family planning, pregnancy, postpartum, parenting, infertility and self-identity. Visit www.mindbodymamapdx.com to learn more. *Certified Perinatal Mental Health Provider

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Licensed Professional Counselor

Burnout! As women we live with the expectation of putting everyone else's needs first! I hear the unspoken embarrassment of not being able to “keep up” or “lean in” or “get it all done.” These women have nothing left for themselves and they feel “empty”, “hopeless”, “stuck”.

Mariah Beltran (she/her)

Clinical Psychologist Resident

Resident213

In my training and research, I focused on the experiences of women, specifically Latina/x women.

Katie Playfair (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC (OR) LMHC (WA)

I've been through multiple pregnancies, difficult deliveries, pregnancy loss, and perimenopause and have helped clients navigate these life experiences as well. I help clients with anxiety histories plan for possible pregnancy-related anxiety, depression, or OCD and provide support for those who were completely surprised by the arrival of these symptoms.

Sarah Sterling

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, LPC, LMHC

When women are empowered, humanity will finally be able to live peaceably upon the Earth. The patriarchy has subjugated, repressed and shamed the feminine, women and the Earth for thousands of years. It is the unique responsibility of women to empower themselves in the face of this oppression, changing the paradigm from within. I love to work with: Body image, self love, mothering, sex and female pleasure, facing shame, initiations into feminine power.

Donna Prinzmetal (she/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

As women, we are constantly defining and re-defining ourselves. As we journey through different phases of our lives, we sometimes face challenging decisions and difficult transitions. Therapy can help women develop a stronger identity, increased well-being and a sense of empowerment. Writing therapy can be enormously healing.

Janean VeDova (she/her/hers)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Trained Supervisor

Women continue to be systemically oppressed in the systems we move in (ex. relationships, reproductive/human rights, family, work, healthcare, law). Women can gather together to share wisdom, strength, empathy, encouragements, compassion and support to help one another move through whatever is hard.

Sarah King (She/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

PMH-C

To live a well-rounded healthy life, we recognize and honor a woman's holistic, mind-body-spirit connection.

Anya Valsamakis (she/her)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

One of my central areas of focus over the past twenty years has been the empowerment of women and girls, and I have worked in many nonprofit organizations in the field. Recurring themes with which I have experience include gender dynamics in relationships, power relations between women, and family pressures, particularly on work/family/self development.

Nicole Corbett (she/her)

Hypnotherapist

Certified Hypnotherapist and Brainspotting Practitioner

I work with women exactly where they're at. Services I offer include hypnosis for self-compassion, self-forgiveness, forgiveness of others, and post-traumatic growth. Find your way past the blocks to a fulfilling life.