Hey, I’m Carina.
If you feel lost and uncertain, you're not alone. If you’re struggling to navigate the complexities of life, I hear you. If you need a safe space to cry, be curious, or simply explore your thoughts and emotions: I hope you find it here. If you need to speak the things that are weighing on your heart and mind but aren’t sure how, we will figure it out together.
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Specialities
Trauma
Are you tired of experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions like anger, shame, depression, and disconnection? Exploring how past experiences are affecting you presently? Therapy can help you to heal the parts of you that have been hurt and need tending to.
Body Image
Stuck in the cycle of trying to change, fix or control your body? Exhausted from patterns of dieting, an inner critic, and difficulty feeling comfortable as you are? Together we can explore your relationship to your body, diet culture, and societal pressures around bodies. and start creating more inner peace. I am guided by health at every size model and body neutrality.
LGBTQ+ Issues
Do you need support around coming out, navigating transitions, or exploring your gender or sexual identity? Are you currently delving into and examining your relationship to yourself, your community, and others in your life? As a queer therapist, I love supporting folks around LGBTQ specific issues.
I love working with:
lgbtq+ people
depression & anxiety
codependency, people-pleasers, perfectionists
adult children of alcoholics
trauma
neurodivergence
freaks, geeks, weirdos
creative types, artists, people who color outside the box
About Me
I am passionate about working with spiritual, creative, artistic weirdos who live and love outside the box. Perhaps you’ve ended up here because you're feeling lost, disconnected, and struggling to find your groove in the world. I bet there are also ways that you are yearning to express yourself; to be deeply seen and supported.
I will meet you where you are, and show up in the therapy room as my authentic self. Our sessions will be filled with curiosity, humor, warmth and consent. I strive for therapy to be a safe, non-judgemental and anti-oppressive space for everyone. My approach centers on a multicultural and social justice lens—meaning that my work embraces cultural identities, social locations, and the broader contexts of your lived experience. I will approach our work together with compassion, joyful expression, and collaboration. It is from this space that I believe change can occur.
More info: I’m a white, cisgender bisexual woman and I grew up in the Midwest. I was raised religious and now identify as spiritual. Outside the office, I spend my time building my vinyl collection, taking film photos and playing video games. I’m a musician and music lover. I’m a cancer sun who loves swimming in the cold California ocean, making imperfect pottery, and cuddling with my cats.
FAQs
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Therapy can help you navigate life’s challenges, uncertainties, transitions, and mental health concerns. I hope that during our work you will build more acceptance and compassion for yourself and your experiences. My goal is to create a safe space and therapeutic alliance which enables you to explore things like disconnection, ambivalence, hopelessness and anger while recognizing your strengths and resilience. We will learn and honor the things that have gotten you to where you are now, while finding the spaces where growth is needed. Over time, I hope you will integrate new ways of being and relating.
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Body Image
Anxiety & depression
Neurodivergence
Trauma
LGBTQ+ therapy
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My approach is grounded in feminist and lgbtq+ affirmative therapy. I am informed by internal family systems, acceptance and commitment therapy, narrative theory, ecopsychology, and contemporary psychodynamics.
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I am working towards my licensure in both California and Oregon. I offer virtual therapy for clients across Oregon, including Portland and surrounding areas. I offer therapy for clients throughout California virtually, and also provide walk-and-talk therapy in San Francisco.
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I am in-network with OHP Open Card. My full fee is $150 per 50 minute session. I do offer sliding scale options which are reserved for people in financial need. I provide superbills for my out-of-network clients and am happy to help with insurance reimbursement. I also accept vouchers from the Loveland Foundation.
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