Portland Therapy Center
lisa anne ross

lisa anne ross (she/her)

Somatic Practitioner

Learn skills that connect you to your inner knowing, shift painful patterns, and risk authentic self-expression for a more fulfilling life.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503-449-7115

97211

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $65-$300

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2018

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket

My Ideal Client

I work best with folks who are ready to engage deeply with their inner world—those who are eager to learn and implement the inner skills that lead to change. My clients often describe themselves as introspective and committed to personal growth, and are navigating topics such as struggling with self worth, relational challenges, or spiritual disconnection. I work with people of all identities, bodies, backgrounds, and relationship structures— your lived experience is honored in our relationship.

My Approach to Helping

The work I do, Core Energetics, is grounded in the belief that lasting change doesn’t come just from insight, but from felt experience. I help clients notice what’s happening beneath the surface: in posture, in sensation, in emotion. We slow down and listen to the body’s signals, tracing them to the patterns they reveal—often shaped by early relationships, past overwhelm, or what had to be hidden to stay safe. Rather than pathologizing or striving to fix, we follow those threads with curiosity and use both grounding techniques and expressive movements to explore their wisdom. This process of embodiment helps folks learn to make friends with a wider range of emotions. Over time people feel more connected to their agency and more at home in their own skin.

My Values as a Therapist

I believe healing doesn’t happen in a vacuum. We’re shaped not only by our families and interpersonal relationships but also by the systems we live within. I hold a lens that recognizes the impact of racism, capitalism, anti-fat bias, ableism, transphobia, and other intersecting forms of oppression as part of the landscape we’re navigating together. Truth telling is at the heart of my work, and that means acknowledging that I live and work on the traditional lands of the Kathlamet, Clackamas, Clowwewalla, Wasco-Wishram, Multnomah, and Skillot bands of Chinook; the Tualatin Kalapuya; the Molalla; and many other tribes who lived along the Columbia and Willamette rivers before European settler colonialism forcibly displaced them. In both my personal and professional life I’m committed to the ongoing, imperfect work of interrupting white supremacy and other inherited systemic-isms.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Somatic Therapy (Body Centered) External link

    Core Energetics explores the intersection of body, mind, and spirit using embodiment practices to bring consciousness to the flow and constrictions of energy in our body, mind, and emotions. I’ll guide you in applying awareness and movement to unwind the physical and energetic armor that formed as we developed from childhood into adulthood, leading to an authentic self unbound by insecurities.

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    Mindfulness, from a therapeutic perspective, is a conscious awareness of our present moment. In Core Energetics, cultivating mindfulness is the basis from which we are able to track and transform our lives. You’ll learn how to bring consciousness to your body, beliefs, emotions, and behavior by cultivating an 'objective observer self'.

Issues I Treat

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