Portland Therapy Center
Elle Biesemeyer

Elle Biesemeyer (she/her)

Student Counselor

Student Therapist

Supervisor: Joey Tomlinson, CSWA

Accepting New Clients! (11/2026) I'm Elle (she/her). a student therapist at Bridges Therapy Group in my advanced year of my MSW program.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

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At a Glance

Me

Provides free initial consultation

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Intercommunity Health Network (IHN)
  • Medicaid
  • OHP CareOregon/HealthShare
  • OHP Trillium
  • Samaritan Health Plans

My Ideal Client

I may be a strong fit for clients who wish to build a collaborative relationship with their therapist founded on human connection. I enjoy supporting individuals who feel as if they live in a world not built for them, want to build a better world, struggle to live under systemic oppression, or are healing from abuse. As a fat, queer autistic woman, I also invite clients seeking shared lived experiences with their therapist. I offer free 15-minute consultations--let's see if we're a good fit!

My Background and Approach

As a student therapist, I hope we can co-learn and build an approach that is tailored to you informed by multiple modalities. I want to support clients to assemble a toolkit for themselves to practice in the day to day. I believe in self-determination above all. Clients already have the solutions and motivation to accomplish their goals but need support to develop their skills and put them into practice.

Why I Became a Therapist

I come to clinical work by way of lived experience as a queer autistic fat woman, my background in sexual and domestic violence advocacy and prevention, and prison abolitionist organizing. I am a fierce advocate for justice and I believe that to build a world we want to live in, we must practice both collective care and individual self-care. I am currently pursuing my Master's of Social Work degree with a clinical focus because I had my own poor experiences in therapy growing up and began to understand myself and my peers needed, in addition to individual therapy, systemic change which materially supported our transformation.

Techniques I Use

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Autism External link

    In order to and thrive, autistic individuals often need safe spaces and support to practice unmasking, develop tools to identify and cope with sensory overwhelm, and recover from burnout. Drawing on multiple modalities, I offer therapy that is inclusive of autistic cognitive processing and behavioral styles. I'd love to know about your special interests and stim behaviors! I also bring lived experience as an autistic person into the therapeutic relationship.

  • Cultural and Systemic Oppression External link

    It is completely normal to experience distress while living under systemic oppression as oppression can be traumatizing. I believe in self-determination and individual capacity for transformation above all, but these may be bound by systemic barriers. Using an intersectional, social justice-informed lens, I draw on multiple modalities with clients to develop methods to examine impacts of oppression in their lives, externalize this distress, and find pride in their identity and lived experience.

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