Portland Therapy Center
PK Foss

PK Foss (She/her)

Licensed Marriage Family Therapist

LMFT

Brainspotting-based intensives & ongoing therapy for queer, trans, neurodivergent folks, couples, and poly/open relationships.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

5038045761

Suite 213

Portland, 97215

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $200-$225

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2013

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Family
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

Brainspotting intensives & ongoing therapy for people who want deep, lasting change. You’ve probably done talk therapy and gotten only so far. At the core, you know you want to do or feel something different — but in the moment, you can’t. You feel stuck in the same feelings and behaviors. I love working with neurodivergent brains, therapists, queer and trans folks, people with chronic pain, and anyone navigating trauma, shame, or poly and open relationships.

My Approach to Helping

Brainspotting is at the core of my work. We use it to reprocess the feelings, triggers, and reflex reactions keeping you stuck. Because here’s the thing — when you’re not overwhelmed, you already know what you need. Most couples, when they’re regulated, can communicate just fine. Brainspotting helps you get there. Then, if needed, we build the skills to move forward: communication, boundaries, stress management, neurodivergent brain harnessing. With couples and parents, I also draw on Gottman methods.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I’m a queer, anti-racist, feminist mama living in Portland. My dream life off the capitalist clock involves growing food, cooking, fermenting things, feeding people, adventuring with people I love: surfing, whitewater rafting, open water swimming, and doing Brainspotting for anyone who wants it. As a therapist, I love this work. If we’re not laughing a little, we’re doing it wrong. I got into this field because I needed to do my own work. I know what it feels like to change — and to feel proud of it. I’m here with empathy and a firm belief that we’re all doing the best we can, and sometimes we need help to do better.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Brainspotting External link

    Brainspotting is a brain-body based therapy that works below the level of conscious thought. The idea is simple: where you look affects how you feel. By finding a specific eye position that connects to a stuck feeling or experience, we can access and process what talk therapy often can’t reach. The stuff that lives in your nervous system, not just your mind. It’s gentle, it’s deep, and most people are surprised by how much can shift.

  • Couples Counseling External link

    I work with couples to manage conflict, strengthen friendship and appreciation, and build lasting intimacy. I use Gottman Method therapy — research-based and field-tested — as the foundation. And when we hit a stuck point, I bring in Brainspotting with individuals to move what’s underneath. Couples therapy, believe it or not, can actually be enjoyable. It can also be deeply healing. Often both at once.

  • Gottman Method External link

    Gottman Method gives couples a research-based roadmap for managing conflict, deepening friendship, and building real intimacy. One of the most important keys to lasting contentment, even in relationships with significant conflict, is learning how to repair. How to actually heal the emotional harm partners cause each other and to get back on the same team.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • LGBTQ Issues External link

    I’m personally and professionally rooted in LGBTQ+ communities. I know the dynamics from the inside. Like so many marginalized groups, you shouldn’t have to spend your therapy sessions teaching someone the basics of your experience. You can just get to work.

  • Relationship / Marriage Issues External link

    I work from the Gottman Method, which is research-based and widely considered the most effective roadmap for building stable, happy relationships. I also weave in Brainspotting to help each person move through the individual stuck points that keep the relationship from growing. I have experience working with couples and people in poly and open relationships. Whatever your structure, the goal is the same: helping you build something that actually works for everyone in it

  • Parenting External link

    I love working with parents on co-parenting, behavior change, and becoming the parent you actually want to be. A lot of this work is grounded in Gottman Method Emotion Coaching, which is research-based and gives you a real roadmap for raising emotionally healthy kids. And for the pieces that aren’t logic problems, the holdovers from your own upbringing, Brainspotting can help move what insight alone can’t.

  • PTSD External link

    PTSD is the brain’s natural response to trauma that got stuck. It hasn’t been processed, so it stays. I work from research-based methods to help you move through it and get to the other side. My primary tool is Brainspotting, which works at the level where trauma actually lives below logic, in the body.

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