One to one
Individual counseling
Fifty minutes, online, usually weekly to start. We work with the parts of you carrying the old weight — not to fix them, but to hear them.
Online sessions · Oregon, Washington
I create safety for people to come home.
Counseling for adults who are tired of overthinking, second-guessing, and feeling like they're never enough. If you're struggling with self-worth, anxiety, shame, relationships, or feeling stuck in patterns you can't seem to change, let's chat and see if we're a good fit.
Who I work with
Common reasons people reach out
- Relationships that feel harder than they should be
- Social situations create anxiety or overwhelm
- Low self-esteem and a critical inner voice
- You might struggle with overuse of screens, marijuana, or other substances
- You know what to do differently, but your old patterns keep pulling you back
- Told you're “too much” or “too sensitive,” and part of you still believes it
If one or more of these sounds familiar, that’s a good sign we’d work well together.
The self-help hamster wheel can become its own trap. You keep learning, analyzing, improving, and trying to fix yourself, only to end up right back at the feeling that you are still not enough. Awareness and insight matter, but they are not always enough to stop the cycle.
But what if the cycle was the problem — not you?
Insight lives in the head. Change lives in the body.
About
About Linden
The story behind a therapist who believes healing is not about becoming someone new — it is about returning to who you have always been.
I have always been fascinated by the places where people lose themselves — the moment someone looks at their life and thinks, how did I get here?
Whether this is your first therapy session, or you've put your last therapist's kid through college, I meet you exactly where you are.
This is the work I love. My own life has shaped the way I sit with people — I have had my own seasons of shame, addiction, illness, fear, and rebuilding, and they taught me this:
It is about making peace with the parts of yourself you have spent years judging.
It is about stopping the fight against yourself.
Anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-doubt, shame — I do not think these are signs that something is wrong with you. They are usually adaptations that made sense at the time.
My approach is warm, direct, and deeply human. Therapy should be a place where you can tell the truth about your life without being judged for it.
Healing is not about fixing yourself. It’s about learning to accept yourself, trust yourself, and stop abandoning yourself.
Let’s walk you home, together.
— Linden
Training & credentials
- Licensed Mental Health Counselor · Washington
- Oregon LPC · in process
- MA, Mental Health Counseling
- Certificate, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy · Integrative Psychiatry Institute
- Training in Internal Family Systems, somatic practice, and Compassionate Inquiry
- Co-founder, Open Heart Collective
It's not our job to feel good, but to get good at feeling.The Feeling Practice
How I work
Slow, embodied, and at whatever pace your system agrees to.
Three threads run through everything I do. You don’t need to know the names of them to benefit — but here they are.
Parts work · IFS
You are not one voice
The part of you that pushes and the part that shuts down are both trying to keep you safe. When we stop taking sides, they stop fighting. Underneath them is a self that has never been damaged.
Somatic
We follow sensation
Slowing down enough to notice the clench, the flutter, the sudden flatness — and staying there a beat longer than is comfortable. This is where the nervous system actually updates.
Compassionate Inquiry
Gently, underneath the story
Not digging, not pushing. Asking what the story is protecting, and waiting for the real answer. Everything here moves at the pace your system agrees to.
Ways to work together
Four doors into the same room.
Everything below is built on the same principle: go slow, stay in the body, and let what’s underneath speak in its own time.
Psychedelics
Preparation & integration
Support before and after a psychedelic experience — including ketamine, and psilocybin within Oregon's licensed program. We prepare your intention, your body, and your nervous system, then afterward we make the experience livable in ordinary life.
Group
The Feeling Practice
A six-week group for learning the skill nobody taught us: how to stay with a feeling long enough for it to move. Small, structured, and practical — an hour and a half a week.
Retreat
Beloved: The Relationship With Yourself
A weekend for ten women, co-facilitated with Jamie through the Open Heart Collective. Circle, somatic practice, rest, and the high desert doing what it does.
Fees
Clear numbers, no surprises.
We start with a free call so you can hear my voice and I can hear what you're carrying. No commitment either way.
Consultation call20 minutes, by phone or video
Free
Individual session50 minutes
$150
Extended session90 minutes
$180
Psychedelic preparation & integrationPriced as a package — we'll design it together
Inquire
Payment is due at the time of service; I accept card and check. I'm in-network with Premera and LifeWise; for other plans I'm out of network and can provide a superbill for reimbursement. A small number of reduced-fee spaces are held for people in financial hardship — ask me on the consult call, it's an ordinary conversation.
Questions
Before you write to me
Are sessions in person or online?
Counseling sessions are online. It keeps my schedule flexible for clients across the state and, in practice, most people settle in faster from their own couch than from a waiting room.
Is psychedelic support the same as therapy?
No — and it's important that they stay separate. Preparation and integration support sits outside of clinical counseling. For psilocybin specifically, Oregon runs a regulated services program with its own rules, and I'll walk you through what that means, and what it doesn't, on our call.
Do you take insurance?
I'm in-network with Premera and LifeWise, so if you're covered by either, my billing collective, Shelterwood Collective, handles the claims on my behalf. For other plans, I'm out of network and can give you a monthly superbill to submit yourself, which many plans reimburse in part.
What happens in a first session?
Less than you'd think. We talk. I ask what brought you now, and what you've already tried. Somewhere in there I'll ask what you notice in your body, and you're allowed to say "nothing" — that's a real answer and a useful one.
Get in touch
Start with a conversation.
Tell me a little about what's bringing you here. I answer every message myself, usually within two business days.
- Email · linden@lindengriffith.com
- Phone · 206-300-6090
- Serving clients online across Washington
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