Portland Therapy Center
Kip Williams

Kip Williams (he/they)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

Ph.D., LMFT

Eco-Somatic therapist here to help you step out of the endless cycle of analyzing, managing, and trying to fix yourself.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503.922.6339

1308 NW 20th Ave.

Portland, 97209

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $250

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2012

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Group

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

I work with adults navigating the effects of trauma, grief, painful relationship and family dynamics, and seasons of spiritual or existential change. You may feel stuck in the same loops—your mind keeps returning to what happened, your body stays tense or guarded, and familiar patterns keep showing up in your relationships. You may have already done a lot of healing work and understand yourself well, but still long to feel more at home in yourself and less defined by what hurts.

My Approach to Helping

As an eco-somatic therapist, I work with the whole field of your experience—body, mind, emotions, relationships, and the environments that shape us. Therapy with me isn’t always 50 minutes of sitting across from each other talking. We might explore meditation, notice what’s unfolding between us in the moment, follow a sensation or impulse in the body, experiment with breath or movement, create a ceremony to honor the changing seasons, or take therapy outdoors onto a forest trail. When clinically appropriate, we may also work with expanded states of consciousness as a way of loosening familiar patterns and opening new perspectives. Whatever form the work takes, the aim is to help you come into more direct contact with yourself and discover new ways of being with what you carry.

My Values as a Therapist

I aim to practice in a way that is queer-affirming, anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and liberatory, with attention to both personal healing and the larger contexts that shape our lives. Human suffering and psychological distress can’t always be understood as something happening inside an individual. We are shaped by relationships, cultures, systems of power, and the conditions we’re asked to participate in and survive within. That also means asking how we participate in the worlds we inhabit—what we reproduce, what we resist, what we care for, and how we want to live in relationship with others, including the more-than-human world. Healing has personal, relational, ecological, and transpersonal dimensions: it can be a process of becoming more fully connected to ourselves, one another, the living world, and whatever sources of meaning or belonging feel true for us.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • EcoTherapy External link

    The earth is our home. Ecotherapy is a practice of coming back home—to our bodies, to place, to the living world, and to our sense of belonging within it. Whether we meet outdoors, in the office, or online, we can explore not only how nature supports us, but also our responsibility to the more-than-human world. Remembering that we belong to a living web of relationship can restore perspective, deepen connection, and become a meaningful source of resilience, nourishment, and well-being.

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    Mindfulness is woven throughout my work as a way of meeting experience with curiosity, compassion, and less urgency to fix or change it. By focusing on the here and now, mindfulness helps us better understand our internal world while cultivating greater ease and resilience. I offer a gentle, trauma-sensitive approach that may include therapeutic meditation and breathwork, mindful self-inquiry, and support in developing a personal practice.

  • Relational  External link

    Relational therapy pays attention not only to what you bring into the room, but to what happens between us as the work unfolds. Together, we can notice patterns of reaching, withdrawing, protecting, pleasing, bracing, or longing for connection as they show up in real time. The therapeutic relationship can become a place to practice more honesty, trust, choice, and connection.

  • Somatic Therapy (Body Centered) External link

    Somatic therapy focuses on the body-mind connection, helping you get beneath the story by noticing what’s happening in your body, emotions, impulses, and nervous system. When you notice these patterns mindfully as they’re unfolding, you can stay close to what you’re feeling without disappearing into it and explore new ways of responding that feel more grounded, alive, and true to you.

  • Transpersonal External link

    Transpersonal therapy makes room for the parts of experience that don’t fit neatly into ordinary psychological language—questions of meaning, purpose, spirituality, identity, connection, and expanded states of consciousness. It can support exploration of experiences that feel profound, disorienting, or difficult to put into words while staying grounded in your own values and sense of what is true for you.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Cultural and Systemic Oppression External link

    Cultural and systemic oppression can shape how safe, visible, connected, and free we feel in our bodies and relationships. Experiences of racism, heterosexism, transphobia, ableism, classism, and other forms of marginalization can leave real emotional and nervous system impacts. Therapy can offer space to name these realities, honor their effects, and reconnect with agency, belonging, and self-trust.

  • Dissociative Disorder (DD) External link

    Dissociation can show up in many ways—from feeling numb, foggy, far away, or disconnected from your body to losing time or feeling like parts of you are hard to reach. These responses often develop as ways of getting through overwhelming experiences. Somatic therapy can help you build a steadier sense of connection to your body, your surroundings, and yourself, at a pace that feels manageable.

  • LGBTQ Issues External link

    As a queer therapist, I bring both lived experience and specialized training to work with LGBTQIA2S+ clients. My doctoral research focused on LGBTQ+ minority stress. I explored how growth-fostering relationships within LGBTQ+ communities promoted individual and community resilience. In therapy, we can work toward feeling more grounded and confident in who you are, loosening the impact of shame or internalized stigma, and living with greater authenticity and freedom.

  • PTSD External link

    PTSD can leave you feeling as if the past is still happening in the present—through intrusive memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, numbness, shutdown, or a body that stays braced for danger. Somatic therapy can help you build a steadier sense of safety in the here-and-now, understand your nervous system’s protective responses, and gradually reclaim more choice, connection, and ease.

  • Spirituality External link

    Spirituality can be a source of meaning, connection, comfort, or wonder—and it can also be complicated during periods of loss, transition, doubt, or inner change. For some, spiritual or religious communities have also been places of shame, coercion, exclusion, or harm. I welcome spiritual and existential exploration in therapy without imposing any particular belief system, and can support you in making sense of experiences that feel deeply meaningful, unsettling, or hard to put into words.

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