Portland Therapy Center
Dr. Sarah Kendrick

Dr. Sarah Kendrick (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

PMH-C, CCTS

Supervisor: Ariana Lloyd, LCSW

The parenting path can leave folx feeling responsible for & alone in their suffering. There is a safe, healing, & less lonely way through.

Client Status

not accepting clients

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $60-$185

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2011

Services

  • Individual
  • Group

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

Impossible expectations are etched onto your very being & come along to birth, parenting, & stories you tell yourself. You're navigating postpartum depression, anxiety, birth trauma, grief, loss, & wearily raising wee ones— wondering how you went wrong. You’re not responsible for, or alone in the ache! You are your own best compass & I’m a skilled map-maker. I'd love to help you be safe, seen, & supported on your journey so you can let go of getting it right and reclaim your right to be well.

My Approach to Helping

I’m a story-catcher, empath, advocate, feminist-researcher, & wounded-healer serving whole-hearted hurting humans as they bravely & wearily raise the next generation. I help folx experience their life rather than analyze their experience. I offer ways to safely ground the storied-body in courageous vulnerability & joy. I utilize trauma-informed & flourishing-focused tools to help people understand symptoms as instructive points of pain rather than signs of brokenness. There is no symptom that diminishes the inherent capacity to heal! I’m certified in perinatal mental health and know personally & professionally how profoundly the suffering & healing in birth & beyond shapes the way we show up in the world. I invite you to shed shame, grow compassion, & live into the safety & relationship you’re wired for.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I’m in the business of shame-dousing, patriarchy-smashing, paradox-holding, & resilience-building. My deepest desire is for an equitable system in which all parents have the support needed to flourish. Until then, I’m committed to counseling & customizing roadmaps to help folx make the journey. As a wounded healer, my traumas & losses have taught me that I could suffer-with-meaning & that no symptom diminishes our inherent capacity to heal. Birth & parenting are personal, political, relational, ambiguous, & transformational. Their outcomes are deeply rooted in our embodied need for safety & relationship. Toward Freedom advocates for that safe connection with immediate unreserved respect for the inherent worth, wisdom, & autonomy of all who connect here. It stretches out to my humble learning of trans-birth experience, parts-work for racial trauma, & refusing a culture of white-supremacy from which I benefit. I uphold non-violent communication (ahimsa) & advocate radical compassion.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy External link
  • Somatic Therapy (Body Centered) External link

    I could have spent my whole life talking about trauma instead of moving it through. As a student who stumbled into the field, I was its biggest critic. I wanted evidence that the body mattered. In my most profound relationships now as client or healer, we don't talk a lot & the evidence is right there in the ability to process & release pain without analysis paralysis. I lead folx to learn from their own body how stress shapes the way they walk the world & they let it lead them toward freedom

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) External link

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Postpartum External link

    The postpartum period brings pressure to be better than however & whoever we are in the moment. People plan for, mourn, & wearily raise babies fighting the inherent needs, aches, & discomfort of being human. I help folx find their wise & adaptive parts the world has deemed unruly, so they can feel the gorgeous-mess of it all & know that vitality is inherent too. The grasp of depression, anxiety, grief, or fear is not loosened by battle, but by the addition of safety, relationship, & being seen.

  • Parenting External link

    Years ago I saw a mom collapse on a stack of perfect-parenting books with shame-filled tears falling onto her baby's head. I hid the books & held them both (& still do that when I can). I'm now a Perinatal Mental Health & Trauma Therapist helping parents navigate depression, anxiety, scary thoughts, rage, shame, & the unbearable weight of impossible expectations. I help folx let go of getting it right so they become safe, seen, & supported on the embodied journey they are so perfectly made for.

  • Historical Trauma External link

    I'm a wounded-healer in the business of inter-generational healing. Folx talk about post-traumatic stress without recognizing the powerful potential of post-traumatic growth within families. Affective neuroscience offers an invaluable picture of how trauma was embedded in ourselves & our loved ones and ALSO of how to integrate & heal it rather than pass it on to our children. I help clients rewire how they show up in world to forge a safer path for raising healthy whole-hearted children.

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