Portland Therapy Center
Sarah Wilson-Montemayor

Sarah Wilson-Montemayor (she/her)

Professional Counselor Associate

MA, PhD

I offer a safe haven to tend wounds and nurture new life through psychotherapy, mystical exploration, and radical compassion.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

‪5035735681

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At a Glance

Me

Rate: $170-$190

Provides free initial consultation

Practicing Since: 2023

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Aetna

My Ideal Client

Welcome. You may be here because you're longing to heal wounds and burdens that block access to your vitality. Parts of you may: • Feel overwhelmed or overstimulated by modern life • Struggle with self-criticism • Have difficulty with boundaries • Feel stuck in limiting familial or cultural patterns • Carry sexual, religious, cultural, or other traumas • Desire reconnection with your body, nature, intuition, sexuality, or soul—but feel bound by inherited shame. I am here to support you healing.

My Approach to Helping

I offer a compassionate space to untangle shame, heal old stories, and reclaim your vitality. My aim is to support your unique unfolding and reconnection with meaning, joy, and inner truth. To assist you, I weave together body-based strategies; deep listening; relational warmth; a container for healing and unburdening your parts; and soulful exploration. I also help clients heal shame rooted in cultural, systemic, and ancestral wounds - patterns you may have unknowingly inherited that have caused painful suffering and self-blame. Together we will learn to find, listen to, trust, and follow the deep wisdom within you that knows how to heal and live a fulfilled life. I am honored to walk beside you on this path.

My Values as a Therapist

I am passionate about creating a space where clients can rediscover connection to dreams, desires, and passions: those life-giving energies that illuminate us from within, fill us with vitality, and create natural conditions for compassion and presence. For many, these sparks can feel distant, buried beneath disconnection and neglect. The journey to reclaim them invites us to meet long-hidden parts of ourselves—places frozen or silenced, where aliveness was once carried. As we move through reconnection, we also gently tend to what stands in the way: wounds, symptoms, traumas, shadows, body sensations, multigenerational patterns, and cultural programs that obscure vitality. This is deep tending, compassionate witnessing, and a return to unconditional love. In this unfolding, life narratives are transformed, bringing meaning and allowing you to step into your authentic truth. I hold this work with profound honor, and walk with care, curiosity, and respect for your unique wisdom.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Depth Therapy External link

    I specialize in approaches that honor the wisdom of your body, nurture self-love, and gently illuminate unconscious patterns that shape how you think, feel, and relate. Together, we welcome and compassionately explore the many parts of you—including those that hold pain, fear, and longing—so that inner conflict can soften and your innate aliveness can emerge more freely. We follow the wisdom of these parts with curiosity and care, listening closely as they reveal what they need in order to heal.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Self-Esteem External link

    My approach to self-esteem is to reconnect with the part of you that remembers your inherent worth—an innocent, authentic, untouchable sense of self. Over time, traumas—personal, familial, cultural, or collective—can cover or block this. Together we gently reveal and heal these blocks, explore your authentic facets of self-esteem, and experiment with ways to integrate them into your daily life.

  • Codependency External link

    I offer a compassionate space to tend codependency and harmful relational patterns. Together we gently uncover the unmet needs beneath these patterns and explore new, nurturing ways to meet them. With care and curiosity, we trace the roots of where codependency began and create adaptive paths toward healing, guided by what uniquely nourishes you.

  • Sexual Abuse External link

    I work collaboratively with clients navigating sexual trauma, modeling healthy boundaries and consent as we move at the pace of safety. Together, we tend to the traumatic experiences, create a cultural understanding of the roots of sexual trauma that serves to remove personal shame, cultivate safety, and gently reclaim the capacity to experience authentic joy in the body—if and when that feels right.

  • Historical Trauma External link

    My approach to historical trauma is to gently explore how it has shaped your thoughts, feelings, body, and sense of self, as well as its impact on family and culture. With imaginal and trauma-informed methods, and always at the pace of safety, we witness what needs to be felt, grieved, raged, or released. Together we also seek what brings nourishment, new life, and, if resonant, ancestral connection and cultural pride.

  • Spirituality External link

    I create a safe, unconditionally loving container to explore what spirituality or soulfulness means to you. Rooted in reverence for the infinite ways the soul speaks, I combine psychotherapy, mystical traditions, and embodied practices to support your reconnection with your unique divine inner vitality. Together we explore what awakens your authentic self and learn to weave spiritual meaning and soulful practices into everyday life.

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