Portland Therapy Center
Evan Stuart

Evan Stuart (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

Supervisor: Rhoberta Michaels - LPC C0768

People want an experience of healing, not just an explanation, something they can feel deeply in a therapeutic relationship.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

5036078593

1942 NW Kearney Street #11

Portland, 97209

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $45-$100

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2023

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Group
  • Relationship
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket

My Ideal Client

My path toward becoming a therapist started as a meditation facilitator, where I gained a deep appreciation of how mindfulness can bring calm and insight. The techniques and skills I employ can help with anxiety, stress, depression, feeling stuck, difficult co-parenting, listening to teenagers, navigating divorce and loneliness, working through romantic relationships, seeking new health and resurrection. Having a therapist ally can soften anxiety, bring ease, confidence, and healing.

How I Can Help You

The ideal client will have an experience of warmth when meeting me, a feeling of being listened to, safety, empowered in authenticity, and building trust toward healing. We will celebrate your strengths and authenticity. This early process often involves just feeling heard and safe, finding new insight around experiences that influenced your self-beliefs and cycles of pain. We will also work toward creating a new cycle of peace based on considering self-regulating emotional truths. Healing can occur in recognizing the difference in where one actively has agency, and also identifying where it may be necessary to let go. I am also trained in Brainspotting, along with other advanced mindfulness techniques, which can unravel deep somatic stress in the body and bring healing. I am a systems thinker and believe in the power of relationships, seeing where you exist inside the system of your family, relationship, marriage, workplace, or community.

My Values as a Therapist

Individuals can move toward self-regulation when provided with safety and also tools for healing. My own journey of looking deeply within to find insight is what led me to become a therapist. Along the way, I’ve learned to release anxiety, stress, and sadness, to cultivate courage and responsibility for change, and to face life’s challenges—parenting struggles, school pressures, divorce, difficult co-parenting, relationship loss, and loneliness. Through that process, I’ve rediscovered trust, confidence, and a sense of healing and renewal. In our work together, we’ll focus on your strengths, clarify your goals for growth, and move forward at a pace that feels right for you—always guided by your values. I look forward to meeting you, exploring what matters most to you, and imagining together what it would look and feel like to arrive at your goals.

Techniques I Use

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Anxiety External link

    Mindfulness tools, compassionate empathy, and creating a safe space for recognizing unhelpful thought patterns give you a chance to change thought patterns, bring more ease and confidence into your life and create positive change.

  • Depression External link

    Holding space for depression rather than treating it like a demon provides more space for self-compassion. With this self-compassionate framework, we start to see how many things that have happened to us are not our fault, but now it is our responsibility to find and make meaning of them. This journey shows us the flower that grows from the compost of our past experiences. The intentional mindfulness tools that we work on together deepen this process and provide you with strength and insight.

  • Codependency External link

    Restoration Therapy provides a framework to strengthen your patterns in relationships with others. Looking at historical attachment patterns, and reframing them with intentional mindfulness tools can lead to the growth of a stronger, wiser self in your relationships with others. Co-dependency can be shifted to attracting relationships that serve you.

  • ADHD External link

    Neurodivergence can be celebrated. However, reaching that place of confidence as an individual, as well as a family navigating a neurotypical system, often requires a compassionate alliance. As a former schoolteacher in Special Education, I have experience holding space with this process. I am a strong champion of neurodivergent populations and hope to help you find more ease and grace with your brilliant individuality.

  • Aging Concerns External link

    My own experiences have taught me deeply that therapy can provide meaningful support for individuals navigating the challenges and transitions that come with aging. Concerns may include changes in health, mobility, identity, relationships, loss, or a sense of purpose as life circumstances evolve. A therapist can help clients process these experiences with compassion, explore sources of resilience and connection, and cultivate acceptance and meaning with an understanding ally.

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