Greetings,

I’m Alice (she/they), a Clinical Social Worker living and working on the traditional and stolen lands of the Watlala bands of the Chinook, Multnomah, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Tualatin Kalapuya, Clackamas, Molalla and numerous other tribes who were in relationship with The Big River here in Portland, OR.

I’ve worked with children, families and adults since 2014 and started my private practice in 2020. I believe therapy is a co-creative space and I deeply honor the therapeutic relationship.

Intentions:

  • I aim to seek consent at all times.

  • I aim to be clear and direct in my communication around scheduling, billing, and therapeutic expectations.

  • I commit to continually engage with others’ contributions towards the field of trauma, embodiment, healing, resiliency, grief, white supremacy, generational wisdom and what may arise that I lack knowledge of.

  • I aim to do no harm and acknowledge when I do.

  • I commit to being in relationship with my own personal and ancestral healing.

  • I aim to show up as a human, not an expert. To acknowledge when I do not know and to interrogate my assumptions.

  • I aim to be tender and caring and confident in holding emotional space for you.

  • I aim to honor all beings.

Folks I work with tend to be:

  • In some stage of questioning what they have believed to be true and/or are being pushed towards it by their emotional discomfort.

  • Open to touching into their edges of emotional discomfort and increasing their body presence.

  • Familiar with self-criticism and feelings of shame.

  • Curious about or grounded in looking towards their ancestors and the past for guidance and understanding.

  • Feel overwhelmed by the environmental, social and political reality of our time.

  • Believe in the dignity of all beings.

Folks I turn towards for wisdom: 

James Baldwin ~ bell hooks ~ Joanna Macy ~ Rev. angel Kyodo williams ~ adrienne maree brown ~ Paulo Freire ~ Joy Harjo ~ Mary Oliver ~ Grace Lee Bogs ~ Prentis Hemphill ~ Winona LaDuke ~ Angela Davis ~ Pat McCabe ~ Audre Lorde ~ Resmaa Menakem ~ Carlin Quinn ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer ~ Sherrie Mitchell ~ Ramona Beltrán ~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~ Land ~ Birds