Portland Therapy Center
Gail Westlin, MS, MEd, LPC

Gail Westlin, MS, MEd, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

Heal emotional and spiritual trauma through dreams, life stories, and archetypal images. Experience an authentic, vital, and creative life.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503-307-8681

2538 NE 32nd Avenue

Portland, 97212

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $140-$155

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 1995

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

I enjoy working with clients who are eager to embark upon a healing journey from emotional and spiritual trauma to the discovery of wholeness hidden within. Your Path unfolds through sharing life and interpersonal struggles, Dreamwork, mythological motifs, images, and archetypal energies; your Destiny is an authentic, creative, vital life with a greater capacity for self-expression.

My Approach to Helping

With compassionate listening, I will work with you to identify your core issues, clarify beliefs, and release limiting patterns. I will support you in deepening your capacity for self-reflection, acceptance, and life purpose. Your strengths will be honored while working through the challenges of relationships, depression, anxiety and/or creative blocks.

My Approach to Helping

A psychotherapist in private practice, my training is in Jungian depth psychology from the Santa Fe Jung Institute. I am passionate in supporting my clients heal spiritual and emotional trauma through a trusting relationship and tapping into their soul’s inner wisdom to make deeper life meaning. Formerly a school principal and counselor, I have worked with countless families in crisis and advocated for students with special needs and differences in language, culture, gender, and sexual orientation. I have extensive experience with clients facing life transitions such as career change, marriage, parenting, divorce, loss, and retirement. I have a particular interest in trauma including specific training in working with refugees and veterans.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Depth Therapy External link

    We will listen to your inner wisdom through your personal stories, dreams and archetypal images to enhance your ability to be authentic and more passionately engaged with your life.

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    Supporting greater life balance, sense of well-being and self-acceptance, mindfulness enhances the therapeutic process. Clients are encouraged to focus on thoughts, feelings and body in the moment without judgement.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Parenting External link

    I will support you in strengthening bonds and communication, learning to de-fuse situations, and instilling the importance of safety and personal freedom.

  • Child or Adolescent Issues External link

    I have worked with teens and their families for over thirty years as a therapist and school counselor.

  • Relationship / Marriage Issues External link

    Skilled and compassionate, I will help you build trust, deepen connections and improve communication.

  • Loss or Grief External link

    Supporting individuals and families around loss is a privilege. Grief has a life of its own with its own timeframe. I offer a safe and loving environment to bring your grieving process.

  • Depression External link

    I will support you in gaining insight to your life patterns, move through pain, develop self-compassion, learn coping skills, and devleop an increased sense of options and potential.

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