A Will to Wonder Counseling
Become yourself, live the process.
You hold the capacity to create new meaning of your experience.
When you embrace your unspoken truths, you grant us admission for travel on your internal landscapes.
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” – bell hooks
The landscape of the inner world can feel barren. You do not have to walk these streets alone. The healing journey is inextricably relational.
Clients and I navigate these spaces by shifting our lens and be guided by an internal compass.
I focus on relationships, sex therapy, c-PTSD, addiction, family conflict, trauma, life transitions, depression and anxiety.
At this point in your healing journey, you have found yourself reading these words. If you are seeking new perspectives and approaches to life’s challenges, I would be happy to join you where you are and embark at your side, and at your pace.
The longing to tell one's story and the process of telling is symbolically a gesture of longing to recover the past in such a way that one experiences both a sense of reunion and a sense of release." – bell hooks
To feel seen by another is a transcendent, sacred, requisite part of life. However, joining with another in this endeavor requires a depth of vulnerability that must endure relational conflict, misunderstandings, and loneliness. With clarity, transparency, and parity, I cultivate safe spaces for deepening expressing and receiving love.
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” –bell hooks
Our sexuality and gender identities are sacred assets. Systemic biases inhibit them as much as the selves that are investigating this terrain.
My academic and professional training has enabled me to help others transform what was once hidden, burdened, or condemned into a fertile landscape empowering client-led exploration.
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Families are dynamic systems. Often, our beliefs about what family looks like becomes embedded in the relational dynamics inherited from past generations. Sometimes, they are created of our own will. In others, they are ones we find ourselves in outside of any conscious choice. In any case, they will be asked to blend, bend, and sometimes they break.
In my sessions, family members and I investigate the role the distress plays within the family system and investigate strengths laying in wait beneath the surface.
“To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.” – Irvin Yalom
The therapeutic relationship is nuanced. This peer group provides a free space for students, interns, associates, licensed professionals, and supervisors from a to engage with one another as active witnesses in each other's professional journeys. The aim of this group is to transcend the systemic hierarchies that organize psychotherapeutic training and practice, share resources with one another, and provide insights on the therapeutic practice.
"The wound is the place where the light enters you." -Rumi
Nicole Lynch, MCFT Associate
This life's peaks and valleys can be disorienting.
You have the road map.
I commit to participating in our work together with reliable, authentic presence so that we can together uncover the truth that lays in wait.
Academic Background and Clinical Training
“a person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.”– Carl Rogers
I hold a master’s degree in Marriage, Couples, & Family Therapy from Lewis & Clark College. I specialize in Human Sexuality, non-monogamy, gender identities, and I approach client systems with attention to issues of systemic oppression that impact resource access, and limitations to wellbeing in community.
My philosophical approach is one that champions the client experience over clinical agenda. I aim to meet you where you are, as you are, when you are ready.
I hold Gottman Method Couples Counseling Certifications Levels 1 & 2.
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A Will to Wonder Counseling
1421 Southeast Stark Street, Portland, OR 97214