Stress therapists in Portland, Oregon OR
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Angelica Amaya
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW,LICSW
I specialize in helping clients manage and reduce stress that impacts their emotional, physical, and mental well-being. My approach focuses on identifying sources of stress, developing healthy coping strategies, and building resilience through mindfulness and self-care. Together, we work toward creating balance, clarity, and a greater sense of calm in daily life.
21 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Michael Pollet
Pre-Licensed Professional, SW
Our work starts by acknowledging the social, cultural, and environmental conditions that may contribute to the problems that affect your quality of life and capacity to receive or engage in mental health care. Therapy is tailored to your preferences to minimize stressors and build skills for interacting more effectively with the outside world. The behaviors, emotions, relationship patterns, or self-beliefs that no longer work for you can be transformed, rather than pathologized by identifying external power imbalances that impede quality of life and highlighting the good intentions behind difficult interactions.
2 Years Experience
In-Person in Portland, OR 97214
Online in Portland, OR Oregon
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Kailey Hockridge
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, EdM, LPCC
Stress is not only something we experience in our minds, but in our bodies, as well. We hold on to stress in many ways - muscle tension, headaches, disrupted sleep, appetite changes. I work collaboratively with my clients to understand how stress shows up for them and to develop a set of coping skills they can rely on to manage their stress more effectively.
12 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Wendy Jensen LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Hypnotherapist, Diplomate Comprehensive Energy Psychology
Nearly half of women report a rise in stress levels over the past five years. And while women and men tend to cope with stress differently, we know that chronic stress contributes to a range of health problems in both sexes, including mental health disorders, heart disease and obesity, depression, anxiety, low sex drive, memory and concentration problems, headaches, upset stomach, lack of focus, lack of energy and mood swings.
Stress can be a motivator, and it can even be essential to survival. The body’s fight-or-flight mechanism tells a person when and how to respond to danger. However, when the body becomes triggered too easily, or there are too many stressors at one time, it can undermine a person’s mental and physical health and become harmful.
Stress is the body’s natural defense against predators and danger. It causes the body to flood with hormones that prepare its systems to evade or confront danger. People commonly refer to this as the fight-or-flight mechanism.
Managing stress calls for addressing the mind as well as the body, since both the brain and body contribute to symptoms. In my practice, I employ a variety of stress busting techniques derived from energy psychology including acupoint tapping, EMDR, Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM), guided meditation and exercises such as tai chi and qi gong movements meant to disapate stuck energy from the body.
31 Years Experience
In-Person in Portland, OR
Online in Portland, OR Oregon
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Kelsey Williams, Cosmic Reflections
Pre-Licensed Professional, Professional Counselor Associate, Certified Meditation Teacher
Let's first understand what it is that causes stress in your system- is it high or impossible to meet expectations you hold for yourself, having an identity that makes you feel singled out, or taking on too much? Let's use meditation and parts work to explore how you might unload some of the stress you're carrying, or your relationship to it.
7 Years Experience
In-Person in Portland, OR 97203
Online in Portland, OR Oregon
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Angie Arledge
Pre-Licensed Professional, CSWA
With everything in life that comes our way it can be a lot and there may be struggles that are overwhelming.
5 Years Experience
In-Person in Portland, OR 97227
Online in Portland, OR Oregon
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Lesley Lacny
Licensed Professional Counselor, M.A, Psych.R, C.Psych, LPC
Stress can show up as feeling constantly overwhelmed, tense, irritable, or mentally exhausted. It often affects sleep, focus, mood, relationships, and your overall sense of balance and well-being.
I provide therapy for stress to help you understand what’s driving your overwhelm—both emotionally and in your nervous system. Together, we’ll explore the underlying patterns, pressures, and internal responses that keep you stuck in a heightened state of tension.
The focus is on helping you feel more grounded and regulated, while also building insight into what’s contributing to stress so you can respond differently, restore balance, and move through life with more ease and clarity.
20 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Dr. Tonia Vojtkofsky
Psychologist, Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Struggles with excessive tension or discomfort in the body, physical and mental exhaustion from stress.
24 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Linda Schartman, MA LPC
Counselor/Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor
In the U.S., the focus on hustle culture and economic pressures create toxic stress. I can help you sort through what level and types of activity fill your cup, or replenish your supply of spoons such that your life is sustainable. Also, we will talk about how to modulate stress exposure over time based on our needs.
6 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Catherine Saunders
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Bad stress and good stress are a part of life. It’s when it causes dysfunction in any aspect of our lives that we can use an advocate like a Therapist to work through the issues and to come up with relieving solutions.
29 Years Experience
In-Person in Portland, OR 97221
Online in Portland, OR Oregon
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Dr. Michael Marossy
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Chronic stress can gradually affect emotional wellbeing, physical health, relationships, concentration, sleep, and overall quality of life. Many individuals experiencing ongoing stress feel emotionally overwhelmed, mentally exhausted, irritable, disconnected, or unable to fully recover from the constant demands and pressures of daily life.
I help clients better understand the emotional, behavioral, relational, and environmental factors contributing to stress while developing healthier coping strategies and greater psychological resilience. Therapy focuses not only on symptom management, but also on creating more sustainable patterns related to work, relationships, boundaries, self-care, emotional regulation, and overall life balance.
8 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Benné Gulick, MA LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor
We can work together on establishing new coping skills and strengthening old ones to manage stress.
7 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Katie Steinert
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Stress is a part of life... but sometimes it can become overwhelming. Stress takes many forms - it can be an important life transition such as the adjustment from college to a career or a cross-country move. It can also take the form of relationship conflict, family tension, or just feeling burnt out. Therapy can provide a space to problem solve and work to minimize the impact that stressors have on your happiness and functioning. Using an empathic, supportive, and solution-focused approach, my role is to work collaboratively with you to determine practical steps to create positive change and manage stress.
11 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Dawnn R. Meiers
Psychologist, Psy.D.
Stress is inevitable. Suffering is not. My approach to stress is informed by research from the fields of behavioral health and lifestyle medicine, as well as the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and so-called "third-wave" cognitive-behavioral models including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Let's surf the waves of life stressors together and learn how to stay (mostly) above water.
19 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Luke Colbourn
Counselor/Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor
One word that describes so many different experiences. It can be helpful to not stop with that one word, and bring curiosity to these experiences: "How do I know I'm stressed? Is there a body feeling that cues me in on it? What are my usual responses to these feelings? What helps and what hinders? What have I been taught about stress? What are my expectations about experiencing and responding to stress? There's generally more depth and complexity to our experience and understanding of stress than most of us have been raised to expect.
6 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
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Gina Adorno
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, CADC I
I help clients manage stress, burnout, and overwhelm that can impact both emotional and physical well-being. Therapy focuses on identifying stress patterns, addressing barriers and boundaries, and building regulation skills, leading to an increased sense of agency and greater steadiness and capacity.
6 Years Experience
Online in Portland, OR Oregon (Online Only)
Portland has a strong therapy culture deeply intertwined with its progressive values, with high demand for therapists who specialize in LGBTQ+ identity, non-traditional relationship structures, trauma, and social-justice-informed approaches to mental health. The city's visible homelessness crisis and political tensions have contributed to significant community-level anxiety, and therapists here frequently address activist burnout, moral injury, and eco-anxiety alongside more traditional presenting concerns. Oregon Health & Science University provides major institutional mental health resources, complemented by a dense network of independent practitioners across the inner eastside, Hawthorne, and Northwest Portland. Oregon's relatively permissive telehealth laws make it particularly easy to access care from across the state.
Stress therapists in Portland, Oregon Statistics
Stress therapists in Portland, Oregon average 14 years of experience and charge around $188 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (65%), Internal Family Systems (IFS) (37%), and Hypnotherapy (35%).
Average years in practice
14 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$188
Accept insurance
40%
Offer sliding scale
56%
Gender ID
| 65% |
Female |
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| 25% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Non-Binary |
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| 4% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 55% |
Online Only |
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| 45% |
In Person and Online |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 65% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 37% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
| 35% | Hypnotherapy |
| 34% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 32% | Somatic Therapy |
| 32% | Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
| 29% | Integrative Therapy |
Ages Served
| 95% | Adult |
| 56% | Young Adult |
| 52% | Senior |
| 31% | Teen |
| 21% | Children |
Client Focus
| 60% | Women |
| 50% | LGBTQ+ |
| 39% | Men |
| 34% | Christian |
| 34% | Buddhist |