Terry Moody

Terry Moody (she/her)

Qualified Mental Health Professional

M.A.

Supervisor: Teresa Jansen LPC

Supporting you through challenges and helping you connect with your innate capacity to heal and create a meaningful, clear, connected life.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

971-940-2601

1785 NE Sandy Blvd

Suite 270

Portland, 97232

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $185-$265

Provides free initial consultation

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Aetna
  • Anthem
  • Intercommunity Health Network (IHN)
  • Kaiser
  • MODA
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My Ideal Client

I work with adults and couples facing grief, loss, and challenging transitions; depression, anxiety, addiction, and questions of identity and worth; PTSD, dissociation, and relational trauma; relationship and communication issues; career and role transitions; ADHD, those who identify as highly sensitive, and creative people. For couples, I create space to explore intimacy, communication patterns, and the dynamics of your connection, while helping you write a new chapter in your shared journey.

My Approach to Helping

Healing happens through authentic presence and the warmth of connection – with ourselves, each other, and the world that supports us. I see myself as an ally and guide, committed to holding a clear and compassionate space to support you in coming home to who you really are. When we allow ourselves to be seen by another in the space of unconditional positive regard, the knots of suffering are softened and can begin to untangle. Inspired by the power of therapeutic connection, my passion is supporting people in accessing their innate capacity for healing and creating lives filled with meaning, clarity, beauty, and wholeness. I view healing as a collaborative journey where we work together to find the most honoring ways to support your goals. This journey is a dance between effort and ease, depth and levity, fueled by courage, commitment, and plenty of humor.

Why I am a Good Fit for You

I draw from diverse psychotherapeutic, spiritual, and somatic traditions, including Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Buddhist psychology, polyvagal theory, neuroscience, and mindfulness traditions to meet each client and each moment exactly where you are. Therapy works on both cognitive and deeper levels, tapping into the innate wisdom of the body and mind to heal life’s inevitable wounds, both sudden and accumulated over time. I’m formally trained in EMDR and Lifespan Integration, powerful modalities for processing trauma and integrating fragmented experiences. These processes transform our perspectives on ourselves and our lives, offering a lens of safety, self-compassion, and aliveness, and gifting us with a greater sense of connection. While change can feel challenging at times, I believe the healing journey is equally filled with joy, ease, and expansiveness, and should be “good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end."

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Attachment Theory External link

    Our earliest relationships become blueprints for how we navigate love, trust, and connection throughout our lives. I help you recognize patterns that developed in childhood as adaptive responses to your environment and explore how these strategies may be serving or limiting you now. In the secure base of our therapeutic relationship, you experience what it feels like to be truly seen, understood, and valued, allowing for neural rewiring and healthier relating patterns.

  • EMDR External link

    EMDR recognizes that our bodies hold memories and wisdom that our minds alone cannot access. Trauma lives not just in thoughts, but in the nervous system, breath, and posture, and affects our felt sense of safety in the world. Through bilateral stimulation, we help your brain reprocess traumatic memories, allowing them to be integrated rather than remaining stuck in hypervigilance or numbing. We work somatically, honoring your body as an ally in healing.

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    With over two decades of contemplative practice across meditation, breathwork, and yogic inquiry, I bring embodied understanding of how mindfulness transforms our relationship with ourselves and experience. Mindfulness isn’t solely stress-reduction – it’s a way of being where we meet each moment with presence, curiosity, and compassion. We learn to observe thoughts and emotions without being overwhelmed, creating space for wise response rather than reactive patterns.

  • Transpersonal External link

    Therapy is inherently sacred work where deepest questions of meaning, purpose, and connection are explored. I honor clients across all spiritual and religious beliefs, understanding our connection to the sacred – however we define it – is often our deepest source of strength and resilience. For some this is traditional religion, for others nature, creativity, or service. I create space where your unique relationship to the sacred can be honored and integrated into healing.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • ADHD External link

    ADHD is a unique neurological difference with both challenges and extraordinary gifts. I view it not as a deficit to fix but a brilliant mind operating at different frequencies. Together we explore how your ADHD brain works – its patterns of attention and awareness, creativity and energy – developing strategies that honor your gifts while building practical skills that work with your natural ways of being. We also heal from feeling “different” or “not enough” in a neurotypical world.

  • Anxiety External link

    Anxiety is your nervous system’s attempt to keep you safe in a world that can feel overwhelming or unpredictable. Rather than eliminating it, we learn what the anxiety is trying to tell you and develop a different relationship with it. Anxiety lives in the body as much as the mind, so we use somatic approaches, including breathwork and mindfulness for grounding. You learn to notice anxiety without being swept away or afraid of it, discovering that beneath lies deep care, sensitivity, and wisdom.

  • Loss or Grief External link

    Grief is a natural part of human existence that, when embraced, deepens our capacity for meaning, connection, and joy. Whether you're navigating the death of a loved one, relationship endings, health changes, career losses, identity shifts, a major life transition, the loss of a dream, or what Francis Weller calls the “sorrows of the world,” all grief deserves witnessing and care. Using creative, somatic, and evidence-based approaches, we transform pain into something generative.

  • Depression External link

    Depression feels like dense fog where joy feels distant and muted. It’s not personal failing but complex response to life experiences deserving compassion. Sometimes depression protects when overwhelmed or signals disconnection from authentic self. We develop gentle relationship with depression while building strategies, using somatic, creative, and mindfulness approaches to restore aliveness.

  • PTSD External link

    PTSD symptoms are evidence of survival instincts working overtime, not signs of being broken. Trauma lives in the body, and healing happens when your nervous system understands you’re safe now. Using EMDR and trauma-informed approaches, we gently process memories for integration. We work at your pace, helping you reclaim agency, wholeness, and connection after trauma.

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