Compassionate Lens Counseling

My approach to counseling is collaborative, compassionate, patient, and kind while also using skillful exploration and gentle challenging to support you to understand, work towards, and to reach your personal or professional goals. I will focus on understanding you where you are at without judgement, so that you can have greater acceptance of yourself and your experience, and be able to be vulnerable and honest with someone who cares as you navigate the challenges you face. While it would be nice to have a quick fix to some of our problems, I believe that it takes some time to reach a place where you can live in congruence with who you want to be, and see it as an unfolding process of discovery, curiosity, and challenge that can help clarify your understanding of yourself and what you want in the world. Issues I help folks with include increasing understanding and self-acceptance, working through decision-making and adjusting to life transitions, managing symptoms of depression or anxiety, and assisting clients in navigating and improving interpersonal relationships. I feel honored to be a witness and source of support on your journey, and will assist you in finding the appropriate pace that will help you to meet your goals. I am most passionate about working with growth-oriented individuals and folks in relationships who feel that they are not reaching their full potential, who want to improve their life in aspirational ways, or who feel stuck and want to work through life transitions or major life decisions. My goal is to work together to help you gain insight about yourself, identify helpful coping strategies and skills, to help you explore and understand patterns that may no longer be serving you, and explore and implement strategies to help you be in congruence with who you are. I specialize in working with individuals who are navigating relationship challenges or conflict, have communication difficulties, or are wanting to work on understanding their attachment style(s) and the impact of family of origin dynamics. I earned a Master's Degree from Portland State University in 2020 with a clinical focus on Relationship and Family Therapy - this means, that my approach is systemic in nature, and I will help you to understand how your experiences with others have shaped who you are. My goal is that at the successful completion of therapy you will have gained insight and tools to help you navigate your life in a way that feels positive, authentic, and in alignment with your true self, while decreasing the negative impacts of depression, anxiety, relationship conflict, or major life transitions. If you're interested in scheduling a 20-minute free consultation to see if we would be a good fit, please click the "contact" button on this website, or email me at: adam@compassionatelens.com "The curious paradox is that when I can accept myself just as I am, then I can change." -Carl Rogers (founder of Person-Centered Therapy)