Portland Therapy Center
Franklin Co

Franklin Co (he/him)

Professional Counselor Associate

Supervisor: Leslie Taylor, LPC

Hi, I’m Franklin! I'm a professional counselor associate with particular interest in working with members of the BIPOC & LGBTQ+ communities.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

9712382418

7110 SW Fir Loop

Suite 145

Tigard, 97223

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $165-$225

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2024

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network
  • Aetna
  • Cigna
  • Optum
  • Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield
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My Ideal Client

I welcome adolescents and adults from all backgrounds to my practice! I have worked with mental health challenges including anxiety, OCD, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, ADHD, and disordered eating. In sessions, my clients and I have worked together on issues related to self-worth, abuse and neglect, financial stress, self-harm, suicidality, religious and racial trauma, transphobia, substance use, executive dysfunction, and interpersonal violence.

My Approach to Helping

In my practice, I use a relational and systemic lens to understand my clients’ problems. The relationships and cultures we occupy are significant factors that I consider as we explore your concerns and collaborate on solutions. My approach aims to neutralize imbalances in power between me and my clients based on our social locations (e.g., age, race, gender, sexual and affectional orientation, etc.). These identities are integral to our experiences in life, informing the values we hold, the beliefs we endorse, the privileges that benefit us, and the oppression we endure. I will work toward understanding the world as you see and live in it as we share and transfer the roles of expert, teacher, and healer. My practice is based in relational cultural theory (RCT); and I incorporate interventions from additional modalities, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and narrative therapy.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I am a Texas native born to an immigrant Chinese father from the Philippines and a white mother from a small coal mining town in rural Appalachia. My identities as multiracial and gay are significant parts of my background that inform my values and perspective as a clinician. I strive to lead with curiosity and seek to understand; I endorse harm reduction and health at every size; and I find significant value in learning from mistakes. When I’m not working, some of my favorite hobbies include being dog dad to my forever puppy, S’mores; singing in the car and at karaoke; climbing and yoga; watching movies (especially horror!); innovating new recipes in the kitchen; trying new restaurants; and traveling with friends.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Eclectic External link

    My practice is based in relational cultural theory (RCT); and I incorporate interventions from additional modalities, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and narrative therapy.

  • Relational  External link

    My practice is based in relational cultural theory (RCT), an approach with foundations in psychodynamic, multicultural, and feminist theories. In RCT, one of the primary goals is to support growth-fostering relationships in which both individuals feel valued and seen. Using the therapeutic alliance, I engage my clients in our work through validation, immediacy, and mutuality (i.e. we impact one another).

  • Cultural Congruence External link

    In my practice, I use a relational and systemic lens to understand my clients’ problems. The relationships and cultures we occupy are significant factors that I consider as we explore your concerns and collaborate on solutions. My approach aims to neutralize imbalances in power between me and my clients based on our identities, which are integral to our experiences in life and inform the values we hold. I will work toward understanding the world as you see and live in it.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Cultural and Systemic Oppression External link

    In my practice, I use a relational and systemic lens to understand my clients’ problems. The relationships and cultures we occupy are significant factors that I consider as we explore your concerns and collaborate on solutions. My approach aims to neutralize imbalances in power between me and my clients based on our social locations. I will work toward understanding the world as you see and live in it.

  • LGBTQ Issues External link

    In my practice with LGBTQIA2S+ clients, I provide a space for curiosity and learning where clients set the pace at which they explore and disclose; I support relational healing using the therapeutic alliance formed between me and my clients; and I aim for balance in our perspectives to include celebration, mourning, frustration, and hope.

  • Racial Identity External link

    In my practice with BIPOC clients, I validate the experiences of my clients to support their grounding in a reality that is often vilified, stereotyped, or ignored by the dominant culture; I encourage my clients to explore their identities and to identify their values as individuals and as members of a family/community; and I challenge my clients to use expansive thinking to make sense of their complex experiences and relationships.

  • Child or Adolescent Issues External link

    In my practice, I consider the range of cognitive, emotional, and physical abilities typically present in adolescence to help me understand the problems reported by my teenage clients as they see them. Focuses in my sessions with adolescents may include emotion regulation, social skills building, familial and peer relationships, executive function, and coping skills.

  • Personal Growth External link

    Wherever you are on your life’s trajectory, I aim to provide you with a space that treats your reality with nonjudgment and reverence; where we work together to identify common themes and patterns, name and process emotions, grieve injustices and loss, practice coping skills, empower one another, and infer meaning from your experiences.

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