Make peace with your story
Trauma therapy in Portland, Oregon
Hi, I’m Riva.
I offer focused trauma therapy that helps you find your courage and start really showing up in your life.
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The past keeps sneaking up on you – whether that’s in the form of intrusive memories, overwhelming emotions that leave you struggling for air, or a constant low-grade anxiety that keeps you doomscrolling or staying constantly busy so that you don’t get sucked under the surface of…whatever it is you’re trying to run away from.
You’ve tried all the coping skills. And yeah, they help sometimes. But when will the real change happen? Telling yourself to put the past behind you just doesn’t seem to work. You know that for trauma, you need something more—even if sometimes you still question whether what you went through really counts as trauma. As much work as you do to avoid it all, some part of you knows there’s something here you need to face head-on.
You’ve “just coped” long enough. You want therapy that will help you finally put this baggage down, and become the lighter, freer version of yourself you know you can be.
You’re tired of walking in circles, thinking you’re going somewhere but finding yourself back in the same frustrating patterns.
I do trauma therapy that helps people who are sick of repeating the same old shit get clarity, find their courage and start really showing up in their lives.
We may not have met each other yet, but here’s what I know:
You can walk through your dark woods.
You can confront your monsters.
You can find your way home to yourself.
What I help with:
A Therapist Can’t Say That
The Podcast
A Podcast For Therapists, By A Therapist
For a field that prides itself on helping people talk about things that nobody else talks about, there are a lot of things we don’t talk about. And by “we,” I mean therapists. Things that don’t fit with the image of the “good therapist” that lives in our heads—or in the heads of other therapists.
On A Therapist Can’t Say That, we get real about what it’s really like to do this job.
