About Madeline
Welcome! I’m Madeline (she/her).
I’m a neurodiversity-affirmative therapist specializing in therapy for Autistic and ADHD adults, complex trauma, and transformational healing. Trained in IFS, EMDR, Brainspotting, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), my approach is integrative, relational, and rooted in steadfast trust in your inner healing intelligence. I believe healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken—it’s about reclaiming the wholeness that was always yours.
Now, for a little more personal stuff: Like many of my clients, I’m sensitive, neurodivergent, and existential AF. I believe movement, music, and trees are some of the best medicines there are. I love dancing, beach volleyball, and time with both my human and other-than-human companions.
I do this work because I know firsthand the difference between therapy that truly helps and therapy that falls flat (or worse, causes you harm). I now live a life that past versions of me barely dared to dream of, and I know how transformative it can be to have a therapist who just gets you. While I no longer struggle in the ways I once did, I believe growth is a lifelong process—and I’m committed to doing my own work along the way. (Yes, therapists go to therapy too!)
My Approach to Therapy
Above all, my approach to therapy is based in the belief that we are hurt in relationship, and we heal through relationship.
Guided by values of compassion, liberation, connectedness, and humor, I create a space where you can explore, unmask, and reconnect with yourself and the world around you in a way that feels safe and authentic.
I offer a trauma-sensitive, inclusive place where all parts of you can be deeply listened to, understood, and accepted. I also understand the ways in which differences in your brain and nervous system, like Autism, ADHD, and complex PTSD, affect your needs in therapy and life, and I adapt the therapy process to be uniquely suited to your needs.
Some of my advanced training includes Internal Family Systems, Brainspotting, EMDR, Neurodiversity-Affirmative therapy, attachment theory, somatic approaches to healing, ecotherapy, and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. My approach is LGBTQ2IA+ affirming, informed by liberation movements, and integrates animist and decolonial persectives. I welcome people of all faith and spiritual backgrounds, body shapes and sizes, abilities, nationalities, ethnicities, and class backgrounds.
Professional Background
Throughout my career, I have provided crisis and mental health services in multiple settings, including , rural community mental health clinics, an intimate partner/sexual violence shelter, and private practice settings with children, teens, adults, and families.
Prior to becoming a therapist, my focus was on outer healing - for institutions, organizations, and society. I worked in social justice organizing and advocacy for several years, including environmental, food, farming, and racial justice movements, as well as advocacy for and with survivors of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and human trafficking. After learning many lessons, including some painful ones about humility and overfunctioning, I decided to focus my professional work on inner healing and liberation. Now, I view my work as a therapist as involving both inner and outer transformation, because our mental health doesn’t exist in a vacuum, separate from and immune to the world around us.
Education & Credentials
For more of the nitty-gritty stuff, here are some more of the reasons why I’m qualified to help you:
Licensed Professional Counselor (#C7172) in Oregon
Internal Family Systems Therapist (Levels 1 & 2 Trained, Program Assistant for Level 1)
EMDR Therapist (basic training (2019) and advanced trainings and consultation)
Brainspotting trained (Phase 1) (2022)
MCoun in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Oregon State University (2020)
Member of the Oregon Counseling Association (ORCA)
Inbodied Life Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy and Integration Training (2023)
Fluence Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Training (2023)