Online sessions · Bend, Oregon
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.
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?
About
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?
The people I work with are thoughtful, self-aware, and deeply committed to growth. They have read the books, done the therapy, learned the language.
And yet, they still feel stuck.
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. They taught me that healing is not about becoming a different person, or finally reaching some better version of yourself.
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
It's not our job to feel good, but to get good at feeling.The Feeling Practice
Who I work with
If one or more of these sounds familiar, that’s a good sign we’d work well together.
How I work
Three threads run through everything I do. You don’t need to know the names of them to benefit — but here they are.
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.
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.
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
Everything below is built on the same principle: go slow, stay in the body, and let what’s underneath speak in its own time.
One to one
Fifty minutes, online, usually weekly to start. Relationships that keep going the same way. Anxiety around other people. A self-esteem problem you can name but not shift. The gap between what you mean to do and what you actually do. We work with the parts of you carrying the old weight — not to fix them, but to hear them.
Psychedelics
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
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
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
We start with a free call so you can hear my voice and I can hear what you're carrying. No commitment either way.
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
Get in touch
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