About Madeline 

Welcome! I’m Madeline (she/her). 

I’m a plant nerd, podcast aficionado, and can still do a pretty decent cartwheel. Like many of my clients, I’m sensitive, neurodivergent, and can live up in my head. I love dancing, beach volleyball, and time in nature.

I do this work because I’ve been there, have faced my own struggles with the right support, and felt the freedom on the other side. Having experienced both profoundly helpful and less-than-helpful therapy as a client myself, I also know what a difference it can make to have a great-fit relationship with a therapist who just gets you. While I no longer struggle like I used to, I believe our personal growth work never really ends, and I’m committed to doing my own ongoing work. (Yes, therapists go to therapy!)

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. 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 and ADHD, affect your needs in therapy and life, and I adapt the therapy process to be uniquely suited to your neurotype. My style is warm, strengths-based, engaged, & relational. I have advanced training in Internal Family Systems, Brainspotting, EMDR, Neurodiversity-Affirmative therapy, attachment theory, somatic approaches to healing, and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy. My approach is LGBTQ2IA+ affirming, celebrates neurodivergence, is informed by liberation and social justice movements, and is rooted in body liberation. I welcome people of all faith and spiritual backgrounds.

Professional Background

I have provided therapy in multiple settings, including rural community mental health clinics and private practices with individual 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, 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 burnout, 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. 

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 (2020-2021) & 2 (2022) Trained, Program Assistant for IFS Level 1 training)

• EMDR Therapist (basic training (2019) and advanced trainings and consultation)

• Brainspotting trained (Phase 1) (2022)