Compassion Focus Therapy therapists in Oregon

What is your unique contribution in the world? And what is the personal or professional threshold you find yourself at? This is the domain of coaching. My background and training supports this deeply personal inquiry. Let's do this work together.  

Some may experience a bump in their life where they need a reset, and others may seek more in depth habit changing skills. Are you in a time where you may need help understanding how to break old habits, mend relationships, find confidence and skills to manage everyday real life situations that cause a continuum of an addictive cycle in your life. I'm here to help guide individual's through the change process utilizing a holistic approach for finding balance within one's life. I use motivational interviewing, skills based teachings, and a strength based approach to help people find their path to making and sustaining change in their life. I specialize in helping individuals make the changes they see fit related to improving their quality of life. I’m a licensed clinical social worker and certified addiction counselor with 11 years of experience. Through my struggles with alcohol and drug use, and finding my recovery from substance use I have found a life full of joy and purpose. My primary objective as a therapist is to help others find their joy and purpose in life, and to embrace their best life.  

Anxiety, depression, and past traumas can stand in the way of healthy, balanced relationships. You may feel like you're standing in your own way and second guessing yourself all the time. You may have noticed uncontrollable negative self talk that spirals and seems to take on a life of it's own. These behaviors create a cycle of anxiety and depression that's hard to battle. With my help you will learn skills to combat anxiety, depression, to stop the negative self talk, to work through past traumas, and to gain confidence. In the process you will build healthy, balanced relationships and live a more fulfilling life.  

My initiation into healing arts probably began as a child when I was blessed with experiencing a variety of paranormal events that helped me to learn and trust clairaudient and clairvoyant communication with spirit. My formal initiation began in 1996 in Portland, Oregon when I began studying Shamanic Healing though the Foundation For Shamanic Studies. I have trained with Sandra Ingerman in Soul Retrieval techniques and with several shamanic practitioners incorporating the healing energies of nature, doing divination work and teaching others to learn to do shamanic journey work. In 1998, I began training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). It was here, that I really began to understand how the body stores traumatic material subconsciously, that the physical body can manifest that stored material in physical and emotional disease and that the body can release that stored memory and it’s subsequent effects given the opportunity and assistance with proper techniques. In 1999, Wendy began training in Dynamic Energetic Healing™, a powerful protocol that encompasses a variety of healing modalities drawn from the Energy Psychology field. Energetic Healing focuses on helping clients to identify negative emotions, limiting beliefs and old traumas held in the energetic pathways of the body, explore the origins or root causes of these disturbances that may have occurred in current or past life or carried through on an ancestral linage and then release them. Since then I have studied and certified in a variety of Energy Pyschology techniques such as Emotional Freedom Technique, Tapas Accupressure Technique, Healing from the Body Level Up, and many more. I am a Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology since 2004. In 2006 Wendy completed a 2 year intensive training with the Wellness Institute in Heart Centered Hypnotherapy. And in 2019, she completed the Essentials training in RIM (Regenerating Images in Memory) These trainings utilize the clients wise intuitive self along with guided prompts from the therapist to bring into consciousness, then clear and heal the past trauma memories still carried in the mind and body. I hold a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology, a Master of Science degree in Social Work, Certifications in Hypnotherapy and Energy Psychology and am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I have been in private practice since 1995.  

Most of us therapists and counselors get into the field because we ourselves have suffered from mental and emotional challenges and life struggles. We want to learn from our experiences and give back to the community, to effectively help in some way. To contribute and create a sense of certainty. We are a small group of experienced licensed therapists who are passionate in making a difference and create hope, happiness, and peace of mind.