Portland Therapy Center
Jane Flanagan

Jane Flanagan (they/them)

Professional Counselor Associate

Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Supervisor: Stephen Keeley, LPC, CHT; Anne-Marie Benjamin, LPC, CHT

Creative, body-centered tending space for parents, queers, caregivers, creators, and space holders.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503-912-4244

827 NE Alberta St

Portland, 97211

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $140-$150

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2020

Services

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket

My Ideal Client

Most of my clients identify as queer, parents, creatives, or a combination of those. Somatic and creative practices are core in my approach, which allow for more direct routes into your expression, liberation, and inherent wisdom. If you are hoping to expand into your most authentic identity, integrate transformative experiences, and tend to your most tender parts, I would love to work with you. Welcome creative queers, radical parents, chronic illness-havers, intuitives, movers + makers!

What I Specialize In

My bread and butter is in melding somatics and creative expression, as well as supporting pregnant, postpartum, and parent clients. Between training in Hakomi (a mindful-experiential somatic approach), the Life/Art Process at Tamalpa Institute (an expressive arts and embodied movement modality), and perinatal mental health, I've found that holding deep healing spaces with a balance of the two has been the most supportive and organic, especially in processing birth experiences. Sessions can look like making visual art in session, writing, voicing, moving the body, and developing practices for emotional regulation or embodied expression outside of session. I've worked with individuals in therapy for about 4 years and with groups, and hold a very strong value in collective healing. Particularly in communities of parents, queer people, and artists, there is such richness in the vulnerability, risk-taking, relief, and immense reward in showing up for others and being willing to be held.

Why I am a Good Fit for You

If you hold identities that are beyond 'traditional' and 'normie', you'll feel right at home here. I love working with those who want to embrace their full, authentic selves, in your intersections, histories, and complexities. That's why holding tending containers with and for queer people, parents, and creatives feels most in integrity with what I do an who I am-- particularly in this time rife with burnout, overwhelm, and widespread systemic oppression. I invite those who are deep feelers, sensitive sensors, and caregivers to be nourished by this work. If you feel in textures/colors/images, rich visual/conceptual metaphor feels natural to you, or tend to gesture or draw as you talk (or in place of talking), I'd love to support your integration of an identity or navigating a life transition (like becoming a parent or deepening into your authentic gender) so much more accessible.

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