Portland Therapy Center
Christina Sheehan

Christina Sheehan (she/her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC, LMHC

Helping sensitive, insightful women unlearn self-doubt, set boundaries, and stop shrinking to make others comfortable.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503-470-3128

Mailing Address: 1327 SE Tacoma St.

#110

Portland, 97202

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $175

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2016

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

You’ve always been the sensitive one—the one who notices, overthinks, and quietly holds it all together. You’re tired of self-doubt, emotional caretaking, and pretending you're fine. Maybe you've lost your voice in a relationship, or never fully claimed it. You want to trust yourself, set boundaries, and finally feel like you. You're not too much—you’re ready to come home to yourself.

What I Specialize In

I specialize in working with Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), deep-feeling women, and those recovering from relational trauma—especially covert or narcissistic abuse. Many of my clients feel stuck in self-doubt, people-pleasing, or perfectionism, and are ready to reconnect with their voice and stop abandoning themselves. With a trauma-informed, compassion-based approach, I help clients build boundaries, trust their intuition, and unlearn patterns rooted in early emotional pain. Therapy with me isn’t about quick fixes—it’s about deep reclamation and lasting change.

My Approach to Helping

My approach is warm, intuitive, and grounded in deep respect for your sensitivity and complexity. I draw from Compassion-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodynamic theory, and attachment work to help you explore how past experiences still shape your present. Sessions with me are collaborative, spacious, and nonjudgmental—you won’t be pathologized for your sensitivity or pressured to “get over it.” Instead, we’ll move at your pace, gently untangling patterns of self-abandonment, shame, and emotional overload so you can reconnect with your voice and live from a place of clarity and self-trust.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Psychodynamic  External link

    I use a psychodynamic approach to help clients understand how early relationships and unconscious patterns shape their present struggles. Together, we explore the emotional roots of self-doubt, perfectionism, and people-pleasing so you can create lasting, meaningful change—not just temporary relief.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Codependency External link

    I help clients break free from codependent patterns that lead to overgiving, self-abandonment, and guilt around setting boundaries. Together we untangle the roots of people-pleasing so you can reconnect with your needs and start showing up for yourself—without apology.

  • PTSD External link

    Mid Life Crisis! Feeling stuck, disillusioned and purposeless when you are supposed to feel only gratitude sucks. You have no energy, you're crabby all the time, and nothing really matters. It's not just anxiety or depression, it's your life/soul calling you to grow. Midlife gives you the challenge of realigning to a new purpose. The problem is we can't see the new purpose and meaning while the old is still hanging around. I help support and guide this process.

  • Abuse External link

    I support survivors of emotional and narcissistic abuse in naming what happened, healing from gaslighting, and rebuilding their sense of self. This is a safe space to process the harm, reclaim your clarity, and reconnect with your inner truth—without judgment or pressure.

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