Portland Therapy Center
Arielle Ross

Arielle Ross (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MA, MPH, LPC

I work with LGBT+ clients working through trauma and ADHD and adult TCKs, immigrants & other nomads to find belonging and wholeness.

Client Status

accepting clients

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $130-$180

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2019

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Aetna
  • Carelon
  • Cigna
  • MODA
  • OHP Trillium
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My Ideal Client

I want to help you find that sense of belonging & trust within yourself and in your relationships, and lean into curiosity & compassion for all your parts, so that you can be seen, heard, & validated. I provide compassionate, trauma-aware, attachment-focused therapy to help you manage anxiety, heal your trauma, and build more authentic relationships. Right now I am especially hoping to work more with creatives, medical professionals, and adult TCKs.

My Approach to Helping

I incorporate mindfulness, creative interventions and personal writing into my practice, and draw heavily from emotion focused, attachment-based and internal family systems theories, which means I focus on learning to identify and name feelings, improve attachments to those close to us, create new meanings after we’ve experienced significant life changes, and offer our past and current selves empathy. I'm trained in EMDR and in Narrative Exposure Therapy, as well as DBT. I like to use art, humor and gentle movement to help us move from intellectualizing to truly moving through our emotions towards long-term mental health. I am committed to anti-racist and anti-colonial work, and draw from a feminist, queer-affirming & trauma-informed lens.

My Values as a Therapist

I believe we're all doing the best we can with the skills, knowledge and resources we have. I believe that we have an innate internal bent toward healing: that is, if we can heal, we will, and therapy can sometimes help us get out of our own way. I operate from a anti-oppressive, feminist, LGBTQ+ affirming and anti-racist lens, and am a really big history dork, so I like learning about your family history and how that might have impacted how you were raised, your core beliefs and how you were resourced or hurt by that history. In my free time I am an active member of the Jewish community here in Portland, I play a lot of board games and I dabble in various art media and crafts (I'm probably crocheting as we speak).

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • EMDR External link

    I am training in EMDR and working towards my certification. I have already seen incredible progress with folks with deep seated trauma using EMDR and have found it to be really effective in treating trauma.

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) External link

    I use DBT skills to teach coping and emotion regulation, mindfulness, & interpersonal effectiveness skills. I've run several DBT skills groups and I love helping people understand what mindfulness is, and how they can use it to slow down when they're in a lot of distress.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • PTSD External link

    I've worked with all kinds of trauma from childhood and family trauma to war and displacement to gun violence and car accidents. I use EMDR and Narrative Exposure Therapy to help clients move intrusive PTSD symptoms like flashbacks from the warning "this trauma is happening right here and now" feeling to a (still unpleasant, but less intrusive) memory. I help clients build distress tolerance skills & the longer-term skills of re-connecting with loved ones and a sense of hope in the future.

  • Immigration/Acculturation External link

    I was raised as a Third Culture Kid, which for me means we followed my dad's job around the world, mostly in East Africa & Asia, from when I was 4 until I came to the US for college at 18. I want to support my fellow immigrants, the children of immigrants & other globally mobile folks heal from the trauma of moving, re-center their values, & figure out how to live authentically in this new culture. I also help folks who grew up globally mobile learn to re-connect with their emotions and goals.

  • ADHD External link

    I want to help folks who, like me, were late diagnosed with ADHD. We'll work on understanding symptoms, including new things we're learning about how ADHD shows up in AFAB and trans* folks. We can work on issues of shame and how not being "good enough" at things that were easy for others impacted your self-esteem. And we can work on creating concrete coping skills for sensory issues, organization & focus.

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