Portland Therapy Center
Clare Knudsen

Clare Knudsen (She/Her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA in Counseling, Professional Counselor Associate (OR), LMHCA (WA), 5NP Technician (OR)

Supervisor: Dr. Bart Fowler Psy.D. (WA: PY60153263, OR: 1297)

Finding help can be hard, so I aim to make it easy. I help adults and teens find greater clarity, creative solutions, and deeper meaning.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

3602184036

1302 SE Ankeny Street

Portland, 97214

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $185

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2023

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Evernorth
  • Aetna
  • Cigna
  • LifeWise
  • Premera
  • Providence Health Plan
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My Ideal Client

Are you struggling to find a path to the life you want? Do you feel disconnected from important relationships in your life or even yourself? Do you find yourself feeling stuck after a loss or traumatic experience? Life hands us the unexpected, both painful and beautiful. The waters are murky, but you don’t have to wade through them alone. If you are in need of a compassionate, safe space to explore yourself, your story, and a way forward, reach out now.

How I Can Help You

My primary goal is to be an empathetic witness to your story, providing space in which you feel safe, heard, and seen. I work from an Existential-Humanistic (EH) perspective, meaning I view counseling as a practice of presence. It’s hard to feel human in a world of constant demands, distractions, and doings. Through authentic connection and mindful awareness, we’lll slow down and just be. Often, this change of pace and focus is transformative, creating clarity about how you have been living and how you would like to live. Ultimately, I seek to help you know yourself better and embrace your power and responsibility to create the life you want. I have experience helping clients through trauma, grief, relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Together, we’ll explore your unique story, identify your goals, and build on your existing strengths to move toward a more meaningful and fulfilling life. I have specific training in EH therapy and am always building skills.

My Values as a Therapist

As a human and therapist, I value authenticity, complexity, hope, and justice. Authenticity means that I show up as myself, human like you (but just with some extra training and experience in this field). Complexity means I acknowledge that life as a human is full of contradictions—we have many identities, we feel many emotions at once, etc. Clarity and truth do not require simplicity. Hope means that I firmly believe in each person’s potential to grow and be well. Justice means that I hold high regard for your lived experience and consider the effects of culture and social systems (racism, sexism, ableism, etc.) on your present concerns.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Existential External link

    I work existentially because I know the value of living existentially—in the present, engaged in authentic relationships, and in light of the existential givens (death/life, freedom/responsibility, etc.). Since 2024, I have sought specific training in the Existential-Humanistic approach to psychotherapy and served on the board of Existential-Humanistic Northwest. In therapy, I relate to you as a fellow human being with concerns about how to live meaningfully, not as a machine with broken parts.

  • EcoTherapy External link

    I have training in nature-based interventions through the Somatic Nature Therapy Institute, and I am able to offer sessions supporting your healing through reconnection with the natural world. We often forget that, as humans, we ARE nature, and reconnection with our fellow nature beings can aid us through a variety of mental health concerns. According to your comfort and needs, this work can take place in-office or outdoors through walk-and-talk or sit-down therapy sessions in SE Portland, OR.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Codependency External link

    I have professional experience and education working with clients around codependency. This style of relating to self and others is more common than you might think, and it can wreak havoc on our lives and wellbeing. It often stems from experiences of trauma or unmet needs in childhood, and together, we can explore your history, relationship patterns, and boundary styles. Through greater clarity and compassion, you don’t have to feel stuck and frustrated in this exhausting relational strategy.

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