Emotionally Focused (EFT) therapists in Oregon

The fact that you are reading this page means that you are taking the courageous step of seeking a healthier way of living - that alone is something to be commended and celebrated. I have broad experience helping individuals struggling with issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, obsessive compulsive disorder, ADHD, and substance use issues. I also have extensive experience working with individuals from different racial, ethnic, socioeconomic backgrounds as well as members of the LGBTQ+ community. My approach to therapy is eclectic, insight oriented, existential, and tailored to your specific needs. I consider it essential to explore the aspects of life that you find meaningful in order to build coping skills, behavioral strategies, and cognitive approaches that help you live in a way that you find rewarding and fulfilling. I seek to engage my clients at their level of readiness in order to create a therapeutic experience that is supportive, goal-directed, empowering, and appropriately challenging. I find great meaning and enjoyment in my work and feel a profound sense of gratitude in being able to help individuals struggling with mental health issues. I would be thrilled to accompany and support you in your journey of personal growth and development.  

Asking for help is one of the most challenging things to do for ourselves, but it is one of the best ways of self-investing. When we physically do not feel well, we reach out to our doctors or nurses for support because we think that is normal. When we do not feel well mentally, it can give us a sense of not feeling normal, and while everyone's story is different, it is the same because we all have one.  

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.  

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.