Offerings for Clinicians and Other Professionals

In this time in our world, more than ever, practicing ethically must be central to our process. Addressing power and responsibility more actively, helping our clients consider the larger context of their struggles, understanding the limitations of our singular perspectives and thinking more deeply about how to embrace and relate across human differences are essential.

Relationship, cultural humility and a commitment to lifelong learning are at the core of my work. These offerings are a step toward a village I dream up, toward a collaborative space where Portland healing, organizing, teaching professionals and leaders who wish to invest in the well-being of our place come together to learn and grow.

If you are:

• Interested in learning across discipline differences, theory differences, culture differences, differences in levels of experience respectfully…

• Willing to muck around in the places where all the shit you think you know becomes irrelevant…

• Beginning to see more often how the separation and individualism built into our culture, is the implicit background for so much of what our clients struggle with, for our “problems…”

• Invested in repair, not just with the individual in front of you in mind but with our broader community, with our world in mind…

This might be a space for you.  I bring care and humility, unending curiosity, an investment in all that lives beyond words, hard earned recognition that my “mistakes,” have provided some of my best learning and an accompanying shame-free mentorship style to these offerings. I ground my work in embodiment, anti-oppression and attachment oriented frameworks and a recognition that learning together is how we grow. My relational years within the lineages of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Modern Psychoanalytic Group Training, The Hakomi Method and most recently Somatic Abolitionism are the ethical ground of my work. Whether you are integrating a new therapy methodology or growing beyond allegiances to your training, making time to get to know how you fit in the broader context of your world will contribute to your effectiveness. I look forward to being moved by what you bring. You are your primary therapeutic tool. Be part of a space that supports you accessing your unique giftedness as a therapist.

Relational (Un)Training Circles

A Relational (Un)Training Circle is an experiential learning experience designed to support clinicians, healers, leaders and professionals who help others in their work. I’ll be offering these in a variety of topics with the core aim of finding ground in ethical and culturally competent practice. CE’s available. See options below:

Consultation for Group Leaders and Aspiring Group Leaders

Group work is the just right medicine for our splintered times. Bringing clients together to feel with each other disrupts the individualistic frames baked into our current cultural reality. Knowing the purpose of your group and creating a structure that supports your aims is foundational for success. I’ll offer a brief didactic “lesson,” each session. Your burning consultation questions will guide our learning. Now and again, guests experts with proficiencies in a broad range of skill areas will join us to support your learning.

• Offered Monthly on the third Wednesday from 9:30-11:45am.

• Location (in Portland) TBA

Centering Relationship in the Therapy Room

United statesian culture tells us progress and outcomes are key. If we are not careful, these essential frames can disconnect us from what’s most essential. Our methods tune us to see in ways, which can, if we are not attending to relationship, “forget,” the very humans we are trying to help. These consultation sessions will center our right brain, direct feeling experience to support making meaningful moves in the therapy room, moves which can potentially serve a deeper relational aim.

• Offered Monthly on the first Wednesday from 9:30-11:45am, starting in June.

• Location (in Portland) TBA