Portland Therapy Center
Stuart Malkin

Stuart Malkin

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC

Supporting you with compassionate, mindfulness-based therapy, I help you heal, grow and thrive!

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

971-266-1693

Lake Oswego, 97034

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $150-$160

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2015

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network
  • OHP Single Case Agreement

My Ideal Client

Some issues I can help with include depression, anxiety, co-dependency, past trauma, men's issues, neurodiversity issues (ADHD and Autism), and creating better communication and more intimacy in your relationships.

My Approach to Helping

Due to COVID-19 and Oregon Health Authority classification as a health care worker, I am only seeing clients online, over the phone, and sometimes in outdoor settings. One of the most important factors that predicts successful therapy is the relationship between us. Our working alliance must allow you to trust, feel safe, and feel open. I strive to attune and collaborate with you to help build a safe, authentic connection that will serve your healing and growth. I incorporate mindfulness-based approaches of Hakomi, Recreation of Self (RC-S), attachment work, trauma resourcing. In couple's work, I use a combination of PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy), Gottman, mindfulness, compassionate communication/NVC, and emotionally focused.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I've been in practice since 2015 and have been specializing in mindfulness-based depth work , trauma resourcing, and attachment. I completed a Masters Degree in Counseling in Clinical Mental Health at Portland State University. In addition, I completed a year-long internship practicing mindfulness-based, somatic therapy approaches with the M.E.T.A Counseling Clinic. Previous to my internship, I had completed the two-year M.E.T.A. Comprehensive Training program. I also assisted in teaching the M.E.T.A Comprehensive year one program in 2015 to deepen my training.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Hakomi External link

    I incorporate mindfulness-based methods of Hakomi, Recreation of Self (RC-S), attachment work, and trauma resourcing. I have extensive training learning these modalities through my internship experience and training with Mindful Experiential Therapy Approaches (M.E.T.A.).

  • Somatic Therapy (Body Centered) External link

    Drawing on mindfulness-based, somatic training in Hakomi, Recreation of Self (RC-S), I use the body as a way to access emotions, sensations, imagery, memories that may related to a way a client experiences their body and their therapeutic goals.

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    I incorporate mindfulness-based methods of Hakomi, Recreation of Self (RC-S), attachment work, and trauma resourcing. I have extensive training learning these modalities through on-going practice, supervision, and previous internship experience and training with Mindful Experiential Therapy Approaches (M.E.T.A.).

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Historical Trauma External link

    I help clients heal from adverse past emotional, physical, and sexual experiences using trauma resourcing and mindfulness-based, somatic counseling. Working slowly to create collaboration, safety, and resiliency, past traumatic events are processed in mindfulness, reworking the past experience in safety.

  • Men's Issues External link

    I help men build better relationships, build skills and confidence in fully expressing themselves, and feel more holistically empowered with their masculinity. In the past, I have facilitated a men's process group exploring all of these issues and more.

  • Relationship / Marriage Issues External link

    I help partners identify undesired ways of relating, communicate in healthier and more connecting ways, and make different choices in relating. I use experiential, mindfulness, and attachment based approaches to help couples experience better understanding, empathy, and skills in connecting with each other.

  • Codependency External link

    I work with clients to help them see how they contribute to co-dependent relationships, where they learned it, and support them to help break the cycle.

  • Depression External link

    I provide compassionate, mindfulness-based counseling to process what may be causing depression, help access resources in the self for more resiliency, and help you find more contentment in life.

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