Portland Therapy Center
Stuart Malkin

Stuart Malkin (he/him/they)

Licensed Professional Counselor

MS, LPC

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

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

971-266-1693

6901 SE Lake Rd

Suite 27

Portland, 97267

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $185-$225

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2015

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Group
  • Relationship

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network

My Ideal Client

I help adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected—whether due to trauma, relationship strain, anxiety, low self-esteem, or career stress. I also support anyone wanting healthier communication and deeper intimacy in their relationships, neurodiverse clients, those experiencing climate anxiety and grief.

How I Can Help You

Therapy works best when the relationship feels solid—when you can trust that you’re seen, safe, and understood. I focus on building that kind of working alliance with you: one that is attuned, collaborative, and grounded in authenticity, so real change has room to take root. My approach is somatic and “bottom-up,” integrating Hakomi, Lifespan Integration, attachment work, and trauma resourcing. With couples, I use a blend of PACT, Gottman, experiential and mindfulness-based practices, and compassionate communication/NVC to support connection, clarity, and resilience in the relationship.

Why I am a Good Fit for You

I’m a cis-gender, culturally Jewish therapist who values authenticity, connection, and the many shapes and identifies that individuals and families can take. As someone in a blended family who also identifies with geek culture, I work well with people who don’t fit traditional molds and are wanting to be more authentic in their lives. Before becoming a therapist, I spent 20+ years in the software industry, often living on autopilot and chasing achievement over connection. Going through a divorce in 2006 and finding support in counseling changed my life and set me on a new path. I moved to Portland in 2009, volunteered on crisis lines, studied mindfulness-based psychotherapy, and completed my counseling degree. I live with my spouse and son, a cat who thinks he’s a dog, and a very sweet dog who thinks she is my shadow. Can you tell I love animals? In my spare time, I enjoy hiking and dog adventures, exercise, and fantasy role-playing.

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 ongoing certification training, 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. Lifespan Integration, as the name suggests, helps integrate unprocessed wounded states from past and teaches your mind and body that these events are over.

  • 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 lifespan integration, 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.

  • Anxiety External link

    I help process your fear, anxiety, and the origins of them with Hakomi, mindfulness, and Lifespan Integration. This can support your nervous system to tolerate stress better and stay regulated and more connected to yourself and others. As part of this I will help you develop tools that you can apply to your daily life in helping you regulate your emotions.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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