Services
About My Clients
My clients want to learn to uncover what’s authentic and brings wholeness. Many of my clients are teens and adults who are highly sensitive, may have had experiences with extreme states or trauma, who struggle to find spaces that are safe to dive in, and reconnect with their unique sense of being. I help people create meaning of their inner world. I support clients in expanding capacity to cope with overwhelming experience using imaginal, relational, and depth oriented psychotherapeutic practice
My Background and Approach
Laura Birchard, MA LPC CADCI is a depth-oriented psychotherapist in private practice for individuals in Portland, Oregon. Laura has extensive experience providing counseling in a variety of settings, including outpatient adult mental health treatment, psychiatric rehabilitation counseling and case management for adults with serious and persistent mental health, and early assessment support alliance for young people and their families— teens and young adults— who are at risk for or experiencing first episode psychosis. Laura has also provided care in inpatient residential services for adults in recovery for substance use disorders, as well as providing emergency behavioral health services in an emergency department. Depth Psychotherapy is an orientation to the therapeutic process that creates spaces that that invite and sustain contact with the living mystery. Depth psychotherapy explores the complexity of the self on the edge of what is known and unknown.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Each of us hold a unique process of transformation within us, that is truly unlike that of any other person. Making contact with this process is an essential part of living, and yet being a self in the world can be a difficult process, often with significant suffering. Psychotherapy is a unique place to develop capacity for coming into being through transformational process. Therapy with me is highly: Relational- research supports that the therapeutic relationship is a key factor in healing. Imaginal- we will work to reignite the flame of embodied reverie. And Integrative- with the aim being wholeness and transformation. Therapy is a unique place to explore, come to know who you are, heal trauma, reduce distress. Psyche, or soul, is calling you to discover a deeper part of your being, and I am committed to this work of reconnecting to the source of healing within you. Imagine accessing all of your self to show up for your life, without battling internal dragons. Let's talk.