Portland Therapy Center
Jack Marvin

Jack Marvin (She/They)

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

LCSW

I work collaboratively with queer, trans, and poly individuals & families to address the barriers in connecting with ourselves & others.

Client Status

waitlist

Contact

503-974-6885

97212

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $180-$250

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2019

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Group
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • OHP CareOregon/HealthShare

My Ideal Client

As a member of the LGBTQI+ community, I have a special interest and passion in serving those who identify as queer and trans- community members, as well as families and parents navigating their young person's coming out experience. Additionally, my interest, education, and experience include working with adolescents, adults, groups, and families navigating relationship conflict, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief and loss, gender dysphoria, body dysmorphia, and traumatic experiences, among others.

My Approach to Helping

My approach is centered in a radical feminist framework that understands each of us has been harmed by systems (family, societal, political, among others) and that, depending on our intersectional identities, that harm has varying impacts on our bodies, hearts, minds, and stories. I am particularly interested in the stories that we tell ourselves. Too frequently, these stories come from our external worlds and are integrated as fundamental truths. I believe therapy is a collaborative process of disentangling unuseful, harmful, and deeply integrated falsehoods. In this process of unraveling, we learn new tools and skills that enable us to know ourselves deeper and integrate truths congruent with that deeper knowing. My practice relies on a humanist narrative approach that integrates CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing techniques as well as attachment, trauma, and polyvagal theories, all in support of the reclamation of control and autonomy of your identity and story.

Why I Became a Therapist

Injury and harm, and the symptomatology that often accompanies, occurs within our relationships to systems, as well as our past and present interpersonal relationships. I believe that healing from these harms also happens in safer and more trusting relationships. I became a therapist to work to create this type of safer, more trustworthy space. It is my great privilege to hold hope that no matter how loud, painful, or uncertain you're feeling now that together in this safer and more trusting space with specific, attainable, and measurable goals, we can work to reduce the symptoms you're experiencing.

Techniques I Use

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • LGBTQ Issues External link

    In working with the LGBTQIA2S+ community, I know how difficult this world can be to navigate. Unfortunately, due to historically oppressive systems, experiences of trauma are an all too common occurrence among our community. Yet, the resilience of our community is inspiring and healing. Utilizing intersectional-feminist and systems lens, as well as elements of popular education, I am passionate about working with our community to both grieve the systemic harm and co-create resilience!

  • PTSD External link

    Traumatic experiences change the way we see and experience the world. They also often rob us of our ability to trust ourselves. I hope to collaborate with you to create safety in the therapeutic relationship and build a toybox of skills and tools to ease the daily distress. With this safety, these skills, and my experience and training we will begin reprocessing and integrating the experiences that robbed you of peace and trust in self, such that you are empowered to reclaim it!

  • Gender Identity External link

    Our experiences of gender, especially for queer, trans, and non-binary folks, are most often complicated by the world and communities around us. I work to remove barriers to obtaining gender-affirming care and support gender-expansive clients in self-love and discovery in the process of understanding our gender(ed/less) experience. I look forward to witnessing and supporting you on this often wonderful, sometimes painful, nearly always rewarding process of unearthing your most authentic self!

  • Loss or Grief External link

    There is no doubt that grief and loss are processes that we experience as a result of death. However, grief and loss are all too commonly relegated solely to the realm of death loss, ignoring the fact that being a human presents everyday experiences of grief and loss. Loss of time, expectations, relationships, to name a few, are often disenfranchised, resulting in exacerbated and unnamed grief. I work to validate these everyday losses and support you in navigating grief regardless of its causes.

  • Dissociative Disorder (DD) External link

    Dissociation is our body's way of disconnecting from overwhelming experiences (thoughts, feelings, identity, reality). Dissociation can feel terrifying, comforting, and frustrating when we feel like we don't have a choice in the matter. I've been trained and have much experience working with folks on dissociative symptoms on the spectrum from daydreaming to depersonalization/derealization, as well as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Let's work together to put you back in the driver's seat.

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