Portland Therapy Center
True Refuge Art Therapy & Counseling

True Refuge Art Therapy & Counseling (they/them)

Licensed Art Therapist

LAT, LPC

Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy and Counseling Licensed Art Therapist (LAT,ATR) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Portland, Oregon.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

541-515-2036

1280 Pearl Street

Eugene, 97401

Email Website

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $100-$225

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2014

Languages: English, Español

Services

  • Individual
  • Child
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • OHP Open Card
  • Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield

My Ideal Client

Clients usually have an interest in art threapy, the symbolic, the creative, and transverbal approaches to personal wellness and healing. They may see therapy as a call to adventure and inner exploration. "Disasters catapult people into experiences beyond ordinary reality. Although there are many ways to initiate a heroic journey, the call to adventure usually comes unexpectedly." --Gita Morena, The Wisdom of Oz: Reflections of a Jungian Sandplay Therapist

My Approach to Helping

I offer a non-judgmental and supportive environment where clients of all ages may process difficult feelings; heal from past traumas; reduce anxiety; and come to know and accept themselves more fully through art; sandplay, and mindfulness practice. I am trained to offer EMDR as a trauma-focused healing modality. You will find open and curious therapeutic inquiry in a free and protected space to promote the integration of shadow which can revitalize possibilities for living with greater balance and peace within oneself and with the world.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I hold a Master's degree in Art Therapy/Counseling as well as an MA in Compatative Literature and a BA in Cultural Studies. I specialize in Mindfulness-based Art Therapy and Sandplay for individuals and small groups. I work with clients facing a variety of issues, including: anxiety; grief and loss; the search for meaning; life transitions; depression; trauma; and persistent challenges with emotional regulation.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Art Therapy External link

    Images open a door into psyche and reveal more than words alone, often offering up their own solutions to a client's dilemma. As Mary Watkins writes, 'the image in its specificity lends us the imaginal background to each experience, thus raising the day world onto the plane of metaphorical meanings...[becoming] an eye through which one perceives and senses.'

  • Mindfulness-based External link

    Awareness practices to reduce compulsive thoughts, habits, and distortions to experience the fullness of reality just as it is through all-acceptance and the cultivation of unshakable liberation of mind.

  • Art Therapy External link

    I offer Sandplay Therapy in the spirit of Swiss psychoanalysts Carl Jung and Dora Kalff.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

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