Portland Therapy Center
Deesha Narichania

Deesha Narichania

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

Experiential somatic psychotherapist. 2nd gen, queer, parent, AuDHD. CV of trauma-focused community-based and SJ work. I draw, write, lift.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

3050 SE Division

Portland, 97214

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $250

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2019

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket

My Ideal Client

Are you someone who tends to feel and think deeply about relationships of all kinds? Do you care a lot about social justice, creativity, and the future of our planet? I am also a deep feeler, and I know firsthand how, while this is a beautiful and deeply alive way to be, it can also benefit from mental health support– because for most of us the contexts we live, play, and work in aren’t built with deep feelers in mind.

What I Specialize In

I have training and practice in advanced experiential methods (somatics, parts work, relational) that can help you to actually feel more of what you want to feel, be more of who you want to be, and create more of what you want to create. The work we do *in session* creates new neural pathways and new possibilities. In our work together, parts of you that have often felt alone, misunderstood, despairing, or scared, may finally get to feel seen and helped. As much as you are ready to experience change, you will– and there is no rush. If there are parts of you that aren’t ready, we’ll get to understand this as your wise pacing, taking care of something important as well. I have extensive experience doing these kinds of therapies with people who have experienced developmental or attachment injuries, systemic oppression, or trauma. I also have experience working with folks living with chronic illness or pain, as well as neurodivergent folks.

My Values as a Therapist

I believe that therapy as a field exists because colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and hypercapitalism have all but obliterated culturally rooted ways of being in relation, tending to harm and suffering, and grieving. I am grateful to be a therapist, but I do not subscribe to many of the ways that I have been taught, nor most of the pop psychology that circulates on social media. I believe that if more people were fed, housed, treated with dignity, and felt free in their own bodies, therapy would be less needed. And still, in the world we live in, there is a beauty and power in the kind of therapeutic work that can undo aloneness, doula a deepening of relationship with previously exiled parts of the self, accompany grief, and sustain attention on hope, creativity, awe, and compassion– and even a healing in re-learning how to sustain attention at all. I am truly humbled and excited every day to get to do this intimate, vulnerable, and life affirming work.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) External link

    Level 2 trained, and practiced AEDP for 4 years in a trauma-focused clinic setting prior to in my private practice.

  • Somatic Therapy (Body Centered) External link

    Trained and practiced for over a decade with generative somatics. I also have advanced SE training with Kathy Kain (Touch Skills for Trauma), where I currently support as a teaching assistant.

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) External link

    BIPOC Level 1, and LGBTQ Foundations course trained.

  • Experiential External link

    STAIR Level 3 trained, on track for certification by 2027-2028. This method was created by Julianne Taylor Shore and is a brain-based method bringing together parts work and coherence therapy.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Political Climate External link

    While I’ve chosen to focus my attention and resources towards excelling as an experiential therapist, for years I was doing direct services, program and organizational development, and philanthropy at the intersections of ending gender-based violence and various social justice causes. My choice to train with generative somatics was a political one, and I enjoy supporting social justice movement leaders and am well versed in the challenges you face.

  • LGBTQ Issues External link

    Part of the reason I created a private practice was to be a resource for queer, lesbian, gay, bi, two spirit, intersex, questioning, and gender non conforming people. Prior to creating my own practice I led a program that provided trauma-focused therapy to trans* people. I'm also currently involved with a local project that provides post operative care to trans* people.

  • Loss or Grief External link

    I notice many kinds of grief that are not usually recognized or spoken about as grief. I enjoy supporting people in nuanced kinds of losses as well as the kinds of losses that are more traditionally recognized.

  • Relationship / Marriage Issues External link

    I enjoy supporting people in deepening all kinds of relationship. I have extensive experience helping people deepen relationships with themselves and with other people. I also help people to deepen their relationships with non-human beings, such as pets, land, or spiritual path.

  • Chronic Pain or Illness External link

    My training with Somatic Experiencing especially, seems to be well suited to support folks living with chronic pain or illness.

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