Caroline Kinsley

Caroline Kinsley (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

LPC, BC-DMT

As a dance/movement therapist & counselor I will invite the mind and body to join in the therapeutic space.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503-893-2390

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $160-$180

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2020

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Cigna
  • Kaiser
  • PacificSource
  • Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield
  • United Behavioral Health

My Ideal Client

Are you ready to begin or continue your therapeutic journey and engage consistently in the work? If you are curious or open to incorporating dance/movement and mindfulness based practices into your therapeutic space, welcome! Clients I work best are experiencing worry, sadness, emotional discomfort and are open to explore additional ways to express, soothe, calm, and understand what is coming up for them.

What I Specialize In

My work experience includes working with individuals over the past 5 years managing depression, anxiety, and difficult transitions. I approach these experiences with a variety of evidence-based lenses, adjusting to what best meets the needs of my clients, including dance/movement therapy, psychotherapy, trauma informed practices, and mindfulness based approaches. I’ve worked with adolescents and adults in a variety of settings, including private practice, school-based, community mental health, and partial hospitalization. Just as I encourage my clients to do, I continue to seek opportunities to learn, and discover new approaches and ways of moving through my therapeutic practice.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

My personal values are relationship building, promoting integration, and exploring through movement. I love understanding, supporting, and relating with people. I find the more we join, the more we know and discover common interests and humility. As something I value, I hope to share this very same with others as well. My value of integrating the body and mind throughout the whole therapeutic process is reflective in my life as well. A large part of what I love to do involves movement. I’m a dancer, yogi, skier, backpacker, and whitewater kayaker. These activities fill my cup-they allow me to move through wild places with others in many different ways. Being a member of these communities allows me to spend time with others in embodied and authentic ways.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Dance / Movement Therapy External link

    As a Board Certified Dance/movement Therapist, I've obtained the highest national certification achievable by the American Dance Therapy Association professional organization. As such, I approach the work from the lens' of psychotherapy and exploring how the mind and body can work together in the space. I have extensive training working with individuals managing depression, anxiety, relational trauma, and self-esteem concerns through the use of dance/movement therapy.

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    I incorporate the use of mindfulness based strategies such as meditation, guided visualizations, and mindful movement experiences into my sessions. I've attended numerous continuing education courses and consultation groups focusing on the use of mindfulness based approaches to therapy.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Self-Esteem External link

    Being able to understand and trust oneself is key to feeling confident. Through dance/movement therapy and mindfulness-based approaches, there will be space to strengthen this inner relationship. You will explore how to build the relationship with non-judgment, kindness, and love. We will explore how to make this a strong foundation as life will bring novel and unexpected situations. Therefore, if you do temporarily lose trust in yourself you have skills to kindly return back again and again.

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