Portland Therapy Center
Casey Black

Casey Black (he/him)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW, LICSW

If you can be curious about it, you can change it. Online therapy in WA & OR. In person in Vancouver.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

541-525-0034

205 E 11th St

Suite LL8

Vancouver, 98660

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $75-$165

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2018

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network
  • LifeWise
  • Premera
  • Providence Health Plan

My Ideal Client

Some of my clients know exactly why they need therapy. They have names for it, like childhood trauma, cPTSD, depression, or people-pleasing. Many don't have words yet. They just know they're suffering—something just feels off. Maybe there's a sense of numbness, of being shut down, or anxious. Or there's a lack of purpose; a persistent feeling that something is wrong, or something's missing They come to therapy first to find a name for their suffering, then to find a way of coming back to life.

My Approach to Helping

My approach to helping is to let whatever is happening in the present moment lead us deeper into your self. If you arrive with a strange feeling, we sit with it. If you arrive with a thought, we unpack it. If you arrive with a numbness, we’ll be with that too. The more we can just be with a thing, the more we’ll understand your suffering. Curiosity and compassion will guide us. Meaning, if we’re curious about your pain and kind to yourself while tending to it, change will happen. Being with yourself in this way may not feel natural at first. That’s okay. We'll work with an eclectic approach that works for you: This may include somatic mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or psychodynamic therapy. Non-clinically speaking, it just means we're going to use whatever we need to to help you feel better. My experience: Before opening a private practice three years ago, I worked for three years as a therapist at the Portland VA.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Humanistic  External link

    A humanistic approach means that you’re going to experience me as being extremely curious about what it’s like to be you in this world right now, and that as you explore yourself in deeper and deeper ways I’m going to be right there with you, helping you process those findings. The humanistic approach also means that you’re going to get a real live person in the room, rather than a therapist with a blank face behind a notepad.

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    Being a humanistic therapist informed by mindfulness means that as difficult experiences arise in session, I may invite you to do something other than 'talk' about them. For example, we may pause to get really curious about what's going on in the body. While I believe that mindfulness can be life-changing when practiced intentionally, we won't necessarily practice it in every session (unless you'd like to). Rather, the therapy session in and of itself will act as a kind of mindful dialogue.

  • Psychodynamic  External link

    Therapy through a psychodynamic lens recognizes that 1 - painful patterns and experiences in the present likely have roots in past experiences. 2 - These past events inform our present selves outside of our awareness. 3 - It can be healing to bring these past events into awareness.

Issues I Treat

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