“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing.”  -Arundhati Roy

I aspire to have a revolutionary approach to therapy, an approach that supports growth towards all of our freedom. And I am still in the process of decolonizing a colonized body and mind, just as you are. I am inspired by Sonya Renee Taylor’s body-based, radical self-love as espoused in her book and social movement The Body Is Not An Apology. I honor the lens of intersectionality – the acknowledgement that bodies bear differing levels of burden according to their position within multiple oppressive systems, and do my best to be an ally in empowering all bodies to be free, with regulated nervous systems. I would like to name that I feel like I am a particularly strong ally for queer folks; I love what queerness brings into the world, some of my closest people are queer, and I have experience working with a variety of LGTBQ+ individuals as a therapist. Additionally, I have lived significant portions of my life in Latin America, speak Spanish, and would be honored to work with Spanish speaking clients.

“Pleasure is the point. Feeling good is not frivolous, it is freedom.” -Adrienne Maree Brown

Increasingly I recognize a regulated nervous system as a cornerstone of well being within our bodies. And thus I am drawn to learning about Polyvagal theory and all practices that help us maintain a regulated nervous system, including pleasure, creativity, and connection with Source/Spirit. Some of the forms of creative self-expression that have most supported me are writing, dance, and singing, and I would love to support your creative process as a part of your healing journey. Some things that bring me joy and pleasure include singing in community, dancing in community, being in nature, rock climbing, and any other backcountry adventuring that I can access, such as canyoneering or rafting. Nature was one of my strongest allies and regulating forces in my childhood and my connection to the earth is strong. Just as we co-regulate together, we can co- regulate with the earth; nature is one of the strongest and most reliable regulating forces we can access.

As a mother of two young adults, I have lived through many stages of the lifespan, which helps me support you through the many transitions of life, whether it be learning to adult, marriage, divorce, parenting, role changes, the loss of a loved one, a spiritual awakening, or any significant change really. I love to honor the depth and power of transitions and am well versed in the transformative nature of grief. I have been influenced by grief teachers such as Sobonfu Some and Francis Weller, as well as my own significant grief processes. Becoming capable of feeling our pain is one of the strongest and most revolutionary things we can do. A society cannot be healthy until it has metabolized its pain, and we have so much.

Life has presented me with a wealth of challenges, from significant childhood trauma, to relational loss, multiple head injuries, and a host of mysterious health symptoms, which has given me the opportunity to learn a lot about the nuances and many layers of healing. I have had to reach for the largess of my soul and the unconditional love of my spiritual support team to make it through the hardest times, and I am grateful for the inner sense of connection and resilience this has forged. For that reason, I am experimenting with how to bring Spirit, soul, and energy work into therapeutic sessions, for I believe these are essential resources that we should all have access to, and that make the healing process more efficient. In addition to being a trained mental health therapist, I am a budding channel and light language practitioner. Sessions may include things such as prayer, intention setting, ceremony, light language, and creative self expression, in ways that seek to align with your belief systems. My therapeutic approach draws heavily on Internal Family Systems Therapy. I find its parts work model to be an elegant representation of the fractal nature of the universe. As we learn to love and integrate all of our parts into a harmonious whole, we become more adept at loving all that we witness in humanity so that together we can become a more harmonious whole, owning and integrating its pain and darkness. 

Like any good healer, my aim is to support you in accessing your own wisdom and movement towards healing, wholeness, and empowerment. My tools, skills, perspectives, and experience are in service to you taking responsibility for yourself while leaning into the mystery of what healthy interdependence looks like. Thus I work best with those who are ready to be active in their own healing process. I am not the best person to go to if you are in active crisis – in this case you will likely be better served in a larger agency with more wrap around services. That being said, if you are in a more stabilized place, I am open to working with all trauma histories.

“Liberation is the opportunity for every human, no matter their body, to have unobstructed access to their highest self, for every human to live in radical self-love.” -Sonya Renee Taylor

If you are seeking depth, sensitivity, and compassion in a practitioner with the capacity to span the breadth from the embodied to the spiritual, the mundane to the mystical, the personal to the political, that’s me. I would be honored to help you navigate life’s greatest challenges. I hope at the very least our work together can inspire trust in you – trust in yourself and your meaningful place in the world, trust in a life force that is guiding us towards love, no matter how convoluted the path may seem.

I am currently accepting new clients with the following providers: Private Pay, PS commercial, OHP (Open Card and Trillium), Regence BCBS, Moda, and First Choice Health Network.

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You can also find me on our Virtual Resources platform on Patreon, where I offer poetry and Light Language Transmission meditations.

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door. If you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.” – Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

My work is rooted in the wild, woven with magic, and devoted to the sacred remembering of who we are beneath our conditioning.

I approach therapy as ritual, as reclamation, as resistance. It is a return to the body, to the breath, to the earth, and to the truths we carry in our bones. I hold space for healing that is not only personal, but political—a soul-deep process of unlearning, rewilding, and restoring what late-stage capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and other systems of oppression have tried to sever. I am here to help you remember who you are and find the joy of being in right relationship with yourself as you navigate your relationships with others and systems at large. I am here to help you reclaim your magic. I take my work seriously, but welcome joy and playfulness in my sessions. 

My practice blends clinical tools with ancient ones; comprehensive training in Western therapy practices such as DBT, CBT, and Parts work as well as esoteric practices such as Tarot, astrology, archetypes, and somatic ritual. I use these intuitive practices to help clients access the parts of themselves that exist beyond language and logic. My incorporation of Tarot into my work has been incredibly helpful as a practitioner and for my clients; it is not about prediction, but presence. It invites conversation with the unconscious, and offers imagery that liberates and heals. It is a tool to deepen intuition.

Living on Mt. Hood, I consider the natural world both muse and co-therapist. The land teaches me how to listen, how to slow down, how to trust. I guide clients into right relationship with nature as mirror and medicine, using ritual, seasonal cycles, and earth-based practices to support nervous system regulation, spiritual insight, and deep belonging. I am comforted by the woods I live in and my partner and I are always exploring new hikes.

“Inside each of us is the Maiden who dreams, the Mother who nurtures, the Queen who leads, and the Crone who knows.” - Unknown

As my personal practice has deepened, I have become more connected with nature, the four feminine archetypes—Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Crone—have become central to how I work. These archetypes live in all of us, regardless of gender, and I help clients reclaim the wisdom and power of each one. Whether you're navigating a transition, grieving a former version of yourself, or stepping into something new, these archetypal lenses offer profound insight into your inner landscape. With this work comes grief and I have been easing into my work as a grief doula. There is no healing without grief and although we must do our own work, we do not have to do it in isolation.

Somatic therapy is woven through every session, whether through breathwork or movement. I work with the body as oracle and storyteller, using yoga (primarily Hatha) and movement-based practices to support trauma healing and embodiment. “Movement as medicine” isn’t just a phrase for me—it’s a lived philosophy that honors the body as both sacred and sovereign. As a yoga practitioner for the past 22 years, it has become a core part of my identity and a deep passion to share with others.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” – James Baldwin

I am deeply aware of how oppressive systems shape our mental health. I hold an anti-capitalist, trauma-informed, and liberation-focused lens in my work. Therapy with me is not about fixing what's broken, it is about honoring what's been adaptive, protecting what's sacred, and reimagining how we relate to ourselves and the world. Healing is resistance. Rest is a spell. Boundaries are sacred. Community is part of the cure.

Though I’ve spent years walking beside clients one-on-one, I feel called toward collective spaces of healing—toward circles, ritual, and connection. I believe in therapy that’s rooted in soul and soil, in justice and joy. I believe in your right to take up space, reclaim your voice, and live a life shaped by your own values, not someone else’s expectations.

When I’m not in sessions or teaching yoga, my partner and I are finding new hikes each weekend and spending time with our dogs, Hattie and Cheese. I am a huge foodie and love exploring new foods and baking delicious treats. 

I am currently accepting new clients with the following providers: Private Pay, PS commercial, OHP (Open Card and Trillium), Regence BCBS, Providence, and First Choice Health Network.

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I want you to be free.

“It is in the light and the shadow, that we find the indefatigable strength of the human spirit.” 

Hello!  My name is Laura (she/her/ella).  I was born in Costa Rica and my ancestors come from the Huetar/Pacacua original people of Quitirrisí, Costa Rica, Italy, and from Spain.  I have seven years of experience providing therapy and mental health consultation in early childhood, community mental health and private practice settings.  I have worked with people healing trauma, to include immigration trauma, anxiety, loss, depression, and life transitions and losses.  In the last ten years, I have grown exponentially through spiritual traditions from our dear Turtle Island/Abya Yala and have developed a strong relationship with my own Huetar lineage. 

Thank you for taking the first steps to heal.  I would be honored to meet you in your transformative time, as a fearless, loving guide traversing the darkness with you.  

I know that there is light at the very darkest of tunnels because I have been there.  Healing my own early traumas and navigating dark nights of the soul that came along with adolescence and then motherhood, I rest in a deep trust in the power we each hold within to heal and to harvest the fruits of our journeys, and to walk in greater alignment with our greatest joy and purpose. 

We don’t know what the fruits are of the struggle we are going through, we don’t know what the fruits are of the past, of the hard times, the anxiety, sadness, the grief, of the trauma, of the neglect, of the abuse…we don’t know.  All we can do is trust that there is a gift.  In that trusting and in that learning to trust, through the process of therapy as we acknowledge, feel, and uncover what those gifts are of those moments, we will find that even in the darkest of circumstances there’s always a gift.  If we are brave enough to reach out for help when we feel alone and vulnerable, that same strength and courage will also lead us to uncovering the jewels that are waiting there, out of our most profound pain.  

We also don’t need to stay in the pain to heal.  We can feel the pain, feel what is there, and allow our minds and bodies to show us what we need to feel…to really listen…and from there, we are not obliged to stay in that pain and struggle, in those old stories.  Our job is merely to look at those stories, recognize those stories, and not live in them anymore.  We are not chained by them.  We are not chained by the past.  So the task of therapy is to learn what chains we are wearing, what chains we have put on ourselves, what chains we’ve tried to place on others, dissolve or break them apart…and live as a free human being on this Earth.  A soul free to live in accordance with its own sacred path.  

Therapeutic Offering

I offer an integration of therapeutic approaches which include Brainspotting therapy, ecotherapy (western speak for practices that allow us to intentionally receive the medicine of the Earth), polyvagal application, and mindfulness based psychotherapy.  Brainspotting is a type of therapy that allows the body/mind to heal itself by locating a place in the visual field that allows us to access the deeper places in the body and consciousness where the distressing emotions or event is stored.  In comparison to many therapy approaches, Brainspotting reaches below the thinking brain into the deeper parts of the brain, allowing for profound healing.  Thus, unlike traditional talk therapy or trauma-focused CBT, you do not need to go into extensive details about any trauma or distressing events you have survived.  The combination of Brainspotting, polyvagal practices (practices to help strengthen the body’s flexibility to stress), and mindfulness create a powerful approach to healing.  Even if you don’t have significant trauma in your life, Brainspotting allows us to unlock places where you might be stuck in your life, performance, and creativity.  Beautifully, often the insights and wisdom of the highest parts of our being show up through Brainspotting sessions.  

Through many years on my own spiritual path, I honor the unique ways we are healed by all of life.  I approach spiritual experience integration through an honoring, trusting lens.  In addition to the work highlighted above, I am honored and joyful to work with you if you are looking for a practitioner to integrate spiritual experiences into your daily life and relations, so that you may walk in true embodiment of the teachings and gifts you have received.

I work with clients who can keep themselves and others safe while outside of session.

Quiero que seas libre.

“Es en la luz y la sombra donde encontramos la fuerza infatigable del espíritu humano.” 

¡Hola! Mi nombre es Laura (ella). Nací en Costa Rica y mis antepasados provienen de los pueblos originarios Huetar/Pacacua de Quitirrisí, Costa Rica, de Italia y de España. Tengo siete años de experiencia profesional como terapeuta y consultante de salud mental en escuelas, centros comunitarios, y en práctica privada.  En los últimos diez años, he crecido exponencialmente a través de tradiciones espirituales de Abya Yala/nuestra querida Isla Tortuga y he desarrollado una sólida relación con mi propio linaje del pueblo originario Huetar.  

Gracias por dar los primeros pasos para sanar. Sería un honor para mí acompañarte en tu tiempo de transformación, como una guía intrépida y amorosa que atraviesa la oscuridad…y la luz…contigo. 

Sé que hay luz en lo más oscuro de los túneles porque he estado allí. Al sanar mis propios traumas de mi niñez y navegar las noches oscuras del alma que vinieron con la adolescencia y luego la maternidad, descanso en una profunda confianza en el poder que cada uno de nosotros tiene para sanar y cosechar los frutos de nuestras experiencias, y para caminar en alineación con nuestra mayor alegría y propósito. 

No sabemos cuáles son los frutos de la lucha por la que estamos pasando.  No sabemos cuáles son los frutos del pasado, de los tiempos difíciles, la ansiedad, la tristeza, el duelo, del trauma, de la negligencia, del abuso.  Lo único que podemos hacer es confiar en que hay un regalo. En esa confianza y en ese aprender a confiar, a través del proceso de terapia mientras reconocemos, sentimos y descubrimos cuáles son esos regalos de esos momentos, encontraremos que incluso en las circunstancias más oscuras siempre hay un regalo. Si somos lo suficientemente valientes para pedir ayuda cuando nos sentimos solas y vulnerables, esa misma fuerza y valentía también nos llevará a descubrir las joyas que esperan allí, a partir de nuestro dolor más profundo. 

Tampoco necesitamos permanecer en el dolor para sanar. Podemos sentir el dolor, sentir lo que hay ahí, y permitir que nuestra mente y cuerpo nos muestren lo que necesitamos sentir... para realmente escuchar... y a partir de ahí, no estamos obligados a permanecer en ese dolor y lucha, en esas viejas historias. Nuestro trabajo es simplemente mirar esas historias, reconocer esas historias y no vivir en ellas nunca más. No estamos encadenados por el pasado. Entonces, la tarea de la terapia es aprender qué cadenas tenemos puestas…qué cadenas nos hemos puesto nosotras mismas, qué cadenas hemos tratado de poner a otros, disolverlas o romperlas... y vivir como un ser humano libre en esta Tierra. Una alma libre para vivir de acuerdo con su propio camino sagrado.

Ofrenda Terapéutica 

Ofrezco una integración de la terapia que incluye Brainspotting, aplicación polivagal, prácticas para recibir intencionalmente la medicina de la Tierra/ecoterapia, y terapia basada en atención plena/meditación.  Brainspotting es un tipo de terapia que permite que el cuerpo se sane a sí mismo localizando un lugar en el campo visual que nos permite acceder a los lugares más profundos del cerebro, cuerpo y la conciencia donde se almacena las emociones o experiencia difícil. En comparación con la terapia de conversación tradicional, Brainspotting llega por debajo del cerebro pensante a las partes más profundas del cerebro, permitiendo una curación profunda. Por lo tanto, a diferencia de solamente la terapia de conversación tradicional CBT centrada en el trauma, no es necesario entrar en detalles extensos sobre cualquier trauma o evento angustioso que hayas sobrevivido. La combinación de Brainspotting, prácticas polivagales (prácticas para ayudar a fortalecer la flexibilidad del cuerpo ante el estrés) y plena atención crea un enfoque poderoso para la curación. Incluso si no tienes traumas significativos en tu vida, Brainspotting nos permite desbloquear lugares donde podrías estar atascado en tu vida y creatividad. Hermosamente, a menudo las realizaciones y la sabiduría de las partes más elevadas de nuestro ser aparecen a través de las sesiones de Brainspotting. 

A través de muchos años en mi propio camino espiritual, honro las formas únicas en que somos sanados por toda la vida.  Además del trabajo detallado en este ensayo, es un honor y felicidad para mí trabajar contigo si buscas un profesional para integrar experiencias espirituales en tu vida diaria y con todas sus relaciones. 

Trabajo con clientes que pueden mantenerse a sí mismos y a otros seguros fuera de sesión.

I am currently accepting new clients with the following providers: Private Pay, BCBS, Cigna, and FIrst Choice Health Network.

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