Licensed Professional Counselor
PMH-C, CCTS, LPC, LMHC
Innovative, gentle therapy for rapid results. Therapy Intensives, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Birth-Mapping, & Nervous-System Know-How.
Client Status
503-822-7740
97068
Rate: $100-$360
Provides free initial consultation
Practicing Since: 2011
I help liberate folks from the echoes of trauma, squeeze of daily stress, mayhem of a mysterious nervous system, crushing weight of impossible expectations, & embodied beliefs that keep them feeling powerless or stuck. Whether navigating birth, raising littles, waking up in midlife, or facing the unique challenges of parenting as healers or veterans, I promise you~ there is a safe, healing, & less lonely way through. I’ll walk with you.
Specialties
ART uses the brain’s natural ability to reprocess distressing images and sensations of suffering. With guided eye movements & visualization, ART rewires experience so we keep the facts but lose the pain. This gentle, effective approach requires no homework, no processing between sessions, & no need to verbalize trauma! Lasting relief occurs in an average of 1-5 sessions and the process is safe, grounding, empowering, and even fun. Clients are bewildered by immense change with so little effort.
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
Specialties
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.
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.
I'm a wounded-healer & like you, I was told PTSD wrecks families and is super hard to treat. Nobody told me about post-traumatic growth & flourishing. About how you can deepen & expand your life & family not just despite trauma but because of it. I want you to know it's not a disorder, but a body-brain responding exactly as expected to things that were too big, too fast, too much, or experienced alone. I offer tools for gently & rapidly returning you to the safety & connection you're wired for.
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