Portland Therapy Center
Brittney Van Matre

Brittney Van Matre (she/her)

Professional Counselor

Intern

Supervisor: Brad Byrum #T2185

I am a mother, traveler, & PNW native whose life has been shaped by 20 years of navigating corporate environments & personal transitions.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

7831 SE Stark St

#211

Portland, 97225

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $30-$120

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2026

Services

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket

My Ideal Client

I work with high-achieving, highly sensitive adults navigating anxiety, burnout, identity shifts, relationship challenges, and quarter or mid-life transitions. Many of my clients feel disconnected from themselves and their intuition after years of adapting to external demands. Grounded in depth psychology, somatic therapy, dreamwork, and ecopsychology, my work helps you listen to symptoms with curiosity, reclaim self-trust, and live in greater alignment with your authentic and creative nature.

My Approach to Helping

My approach is grounded in depth psychology and somatic practice, with a specialization in working with anxiety and life transitions. I am currently completing my Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, blending two decades of executive leadership experience and professional coaching with post-graduate training in archetypal astrology, Jungian-oriented depth psychology, dreamwork, and somatic approaches. I view anxiety not as a disorder to be eliminated, but as an intelligent messenger. Symptoms such as worry, compulsions, insomnia, and intrusive thoughts are approached with curiosity and compassion rather than control. Together, we listen for the meaning beneath the symptoms and explore the inner landscape they reveal. I support clients in developing self-trust, emotional regulation, and a more aligned way of living.

Why I Became a Therapist

I became a therapist through my own lived experience of transition, anxiety, and profound identity shifts. After two decades in executive leadership and corporate environments, I intimately understand the exhaustion that comes from performing, adapting, and being disconnected from one’s inner life. My path into therapy was shaped by personal and professional moments that required me to slow down, listen inwardly, and reckon with questions of meaning, belonging, and authenticity. Along the way, I discovered that anxiety, burnout, and emotional distress are often not signs of failure, but signals calling us back to ourselves. Experiences with depth psychology, somatic work, and dream exploration helped me understand the psyche as purposeful, relational, and profoundly wise. This reframing was both healing and transformative. I became a therapist because I wanted to offer others the kind of space that changed my life. This is my calling for the second half of life.

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