I use a whole-person approach to therapy and counseling to help adults with chronic conditions, college students, overworked professionals and caregivers alleviate pain associated with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, prevent burnout and work towards cultivating and sustaining optimal health. Currently offering telehealth individual and group therapy to residents of Oregon.
I work side by side with clients with the hope that when strengths and inner resources are more efficiently utilized and when patterns of relating to self and others are compassionately, honestly and curiously confronted, long lasting therapeutic outcomes can be realized.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate with the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists (OBLPCT) and an NBCC National Certified Counselor. Andrea Redeau, LPC is my current clinical supervisor. I hold a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Portland State University and a BA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo.
My specialties include anxiety, depression, grief and loss. As a Certified Grief Informed Professional, I help people discover if/how their persistent depressed states are signs of complicated grief, why time didn’t really “take care of it” and how to live healing journeys that can honor the pain and foster resilience.
Being a Master Certified Health Coach and certified teacher of a somatic practice for over 10 years prior to becoming a clinician in addition to working with diverse needs and cultures help me to consistently invite the whole person to engage in the therapeutic process, not just the emotional and cognitive dimensions.
To help identify sources of current imbalances and co-facilitate empowering therapeutic experiences, I see people holistically, within the contexts of their lives and as parts of larger systems that constantly impact their health. My goal is to help you alleviate pain, meet your goals and gain reliable tools to sustain therapeutic gains in the future.
I use trauma informed, relational, humanistic-existential and psychodynamic approaches. Depending on each person’s needs, tools from different modalities can be used including: Gestalt, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Solution Focused, Brief Psychodynamic Therapy and Somatic Interventions that leverage and strengthen the mind-body connection.