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 which supports Portland healing, organizing, teaching professionals and leaders to learn together and grow.

Here’s what I’m committed to:

Supporting group and relational therapists to stay in courageous, responsible, satisfying relationship to yourselves, your clients and the broader world, even when it’s hard.

Here’s what I envision:

Spaces that disrupt individualism and provide the community you need to make change through your practices.
If you are:

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

• Tired of the ways separation and individualism are built into our work.

• You are anti-pathology and want to help your clients be kinder to themselves and to recognize the contexts they are swimming in.

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

• Willing to muck around in places where *what you know* becomes irrelevant…
  

This might be a space for you. 

I bring care and humility, unending curiosity, an investment in all that lives beyond words. I bring hard earned recognition that my “mistakes,” have provided some of my most powerful learning. You can count on shame-free mentorship, exploration grounded in embodiment, anti-oppression and attachment oriented frameworks and a recognition that learning together (missteps and all) is how we grow.

My training has been transmitted directly teacher to student within the lineages of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Modern Psychoanalysis, The Hakomi Method and most recently Somatic Abolitionism. Relationship (to self, to others and to the larger world) grounds me ethically in my work.

Whether you are integrating a new therapy methodology or growing beyond allegiances to one training method or another, 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
distinct and essential therapist seat.

As clinicians, we swim daily in our clients’ emotional lives. To be good helpers, sorting our feeling responses from what we are picking up in our clients is essential. Enhancing our capacity to respond versus react requires life long discernment. Group work supports this relational learning.

You are uniquely suited to this work. Learn to ground into your internal guidance system as your primary therapeetic tool. Let it guide you towards the healing work you are meant for. All while clocking required CE hours.

Who’s all this for?

Humans who work with Humans including but not limited to: Therapists, Psychologists,  Social workers, Coaches, Educators, Executives, Team Leaders of any kind, Health Professionals, Artists, Entrepreneurs, Managers, Organizational Leaders, etc. Particularly those of you who wish to ground your work in the ethically grounded, culturally humble practices of Interpersonal neurobiology.

What you’ll explore?

Relational Frameworks and Tools, Neuroscientific “stories,” to support the humans you work with to embody their learning, the limits of our Western Eurocentric perspectives, the benefits of holding learner (versus knower) mindset, lots of other emergent tid bits….

Where?

My Office at the Ford Building: 2505 SE 11th Ave. Ste. 222, Portland, Oregon 97202 or Online in my Zoom Room.

Why might you attend?

You learn experientially. You’ve learned plenty of skills and are interested in being supported toward your unique therapy methodology right now. You’re questioning our field and trying to find a path that aligns with your values. You are looking for self of the therapist (or insert your career title here) work amongst like-minded (ehem) weirdos like you. You’re tired of powerpoints, zoom rooms with 10s to 100s of participants. You want a guide who can support you directly. You’re interested in healing as an emergent learning journey in which you are a human in the room. You understand you are your primary tool. You’re up for silliness, badassery, alternative perspectives and believe connectedness to something beyond the self supports our work. You’d like to explore in a space that holds missteps, mismatch, mistakes as not only welcome but essential to relational well-being.

Relational (Un)Training Circles

A Relational (Un)Training Circle is an exploratory 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 current offerings below:

Ethics for Group Leaders and Aspiring Group Leaders

Group work is complex and often absent in students’ clinical training. Whether you facilitate process groups, psycho-educational groups, support groups or training groups, this simple framework offers an orientation to group work that is confidence building and helps clinicians clarify their scope of practice. This is an essential element in the running of ethical groups.

What attendees are saying:
“I'm really excited to begin working with groups.”
“Inclusive.”
“Excellent framework.”
“Skillful. Nutritious.”
“Challenging status quo norms…”

More info on what you’ll learn here. Certificates of completion provided by request. Continuing Education credits must be approved by your licensing board. Audits by OBLPCT require a course description, learning objectives, and agenda information, which are accessible on my website. Your board requirements may be similar.

Day Long Exploratory Workshops and Online Opportunities for Learning

I’m offering three 6 CE Exploratory Workshops soon:

Session 1:
Systems, Identity and the Role of the Therapist
You are not outside the system: Locating yourself in the work
Offered in person on Friday June 5th 8:45am-5pm
$275 full rate. Other fee options available.

We will ground us in our greater context. You'll engage and share your experiences and knowledge related to systems:

• How do societal power, access, safety and dehumanization move in the space you and your client inhabit together? 

• What bigger picture supports ground and aid you, when possibility is clouded by their impacts.

Without claiming the power dynamics and leaning into the aid of your cultural knowledges, your belief systems and your place in the natural world.

REGISTER HERE

Session 2:
Right Brain Interpersonal Process
Staying with What’s Hard: Letting Difficult Feelings Light Your Way
Online Mondays June 8th, 15th and June 22nd from 4:30pm-6:45pm
$275 full rate. Other fee options available.

We will explore the interpersonal dynamics that flow between us and our clients. Often these experiences challenge us and occur without words.

• How do you handle difficult feelings and rupture and repair? 

• How do a listening and action-taking stance impact your clients' process and your experience with them?

We'll feel into right brain awareness and clarify how our left brain outcome orientation operates for us in our sessions.

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Session 3:
Embodied Awareness and the Use of Self
Being You in the Room: Your Lived Experience as a Healing Tool
Offered in Person June 12th from 8:45am-5pm
$275 full rate. Other fee options available.

We will land in our distinct, individual embodied stories having immersed in our contextual reality. This exploration will touch into "use of self," as our primary tool. 

• How do you hold your own and your clients' full complexity in your work?

• How do you stay connected to yourself

We'll be curious about ourselves and kind towards ourselves. We'll celebrate and challenge each other and offer tenderness. We'll be fully human together, for a change.

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Attend the full series for $750. Other fee options available:

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