Professional Counselor Associate
CRC
Supervisor: Daniel Schiff PhD
I offer individual counseling ages 15+ & specialize in chronic illness/pain, disability, C-PTSD. I'm queer, bicultural, and take OHP.
Client Status
503-887-3608
1722 NW Raleigh
ActivSpace
Portland, 97209
Provides free initial consultation
Practicing Since: 2021
Languages: English, Français , Italiano
I work with many clients who struggle with CPTSD, chronic illness, and disability. These show up as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, substance or behavioral addictions, difficulty with boundaries, people-pleasing, as well as creative blocks and low self-confidence. I have experience working with people ages 15-90+. In my previous career as a movement therapist I specialized in enhancing athletic performance as well as working with physical limitations, experience that informs my work now.
Specialties
I incorporate QiGong, a Chinese medical-spiritual practice based on Traditional Chinese Medicine to help clients experience connection with their body in a non-performative, attuned way. Evidence based studies show that Qigong has been successful in alleviating symptoms of PTSD, chronic pain, anxiety, and depression. QiGong is a gateway to enhancing awareness, mindfulness, and self-regulation. QiGong is in alignment with Polyvagal practice.
I draw from an existential perspective, guided by the belief that each individual possesses wisdom capable of navigating life's complexities towards greater freedom, connection, and well-being. While we may not have control over many external factors, we hold the power to liberate ourselves from repetitive, unfulfilling patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion.
Specialties
Being human inevitably arouses anxiety, often through trauma-related ruptures early in life. I use somatic interventions to help people learn self-regulation, and I work relationally to help clients build skills to co-regulate with others in their lives. I work more with generalized anxiety disorder that shows up as social anxiety, body dysmorphia, compulsive thoughts and behaviors. through the lens that anxiety is often trying to keep us safe.
People with chronic illness come from difficult family of origin dynamics. I bring somatic, trauma-informed lens to working with chronic illness, pain, disability. As someone with Crohn's disease, I have personal experience with financial, sexual, career, and relational sequelae of chronic illness. I use an integral lens that includes mindfulness practices for symptom relief as well as practical skills to manage ADL's.
Physical illness and depression often accompany each other. Even without a diagnosable illness, depression lives in the body as a kind of heaviness, an inability to find satisfaction or joy, a sense o hopelessness that pervades all aspects of life. I use a somatic, trauma-informed lens and practices to help clients integrate skills that are not just cognitive, though thoughts contribute to depression. I include mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual interventions.
Our ancestors' lives inform us through patterns that live in our very cells. Whether through war, genocide, dispossession, abuse, violence, loss, and (im)migration, having a place to uncover stories, explore family dynamics, and make choices based on your preferences rather than constraints is crucial for personal recovery as well as healthy relationships.
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