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"Creating a good life based on worthiness"
| 1732 SE Ash |
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(503) 239-8737 |
| Portland, Oregon
97214 |
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Pamela V. Church |
Location: |
SE Portland |
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2 blocks south of Burnside at the corner of
18th and Ash |
Degrees: |
Master of Psychology |
Clinical Psychology |
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Bachelor of Arts |
Psychology |
Licenses: |
Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist |
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| Advanced Training &
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| Certifications: |
Clinical Member American Association of
Marriage and Family Therapy |
| Availability: |
Routine |
| Affiliations: |
American Mental Health Alliance -
Oregon |
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| Fees: |
$100 per 50 minute session |
Specialization
| Relationships, couples work |
Mind & Body Interface |
| Creativity-Spirituality |
EMDR |
Focus of Practice & Interests
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Non-invasive body centered
tools to maintain whole brain flourishing
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Work with increasing compassion
and kindness for self and other
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Couples work to further
closeness and communication
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Mind & body interface with
physical distress and symptoms
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Couples work with survivors of
childhood trauma
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Developing mindfulness and
accessing wisdom
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Background & Experience
| Private Practice since
1980 |
Group facilitator for 10 years |
| Therapist in school system working in
groups with adolescents who have been abused |
Volunteer therapist Cascade AIDS
Project |
| Author |
Lecture nationally on body
states, trauma and developing loving coherancy |
Patient & Client Populations Served
| Older Adults (65 and
up) |
Adults (18 to 65
yrs) |
| Teenage (13 to 17
yrs) |
Preteen (8 to 12
yrs) |
Orientation & Approach
| I believe that the heart of all things is
relationship. So, how to make sense of it and do our
best? Therapy for me is about understanding our early
relationships, our current relationships, the relationship that
happens wherever we go. It is about looking at, naming and
witnessing, those patterns that interfere with well-being. It
is about acceptance of self. It is about change. It is
about liveliness and intimacy. It is about confidence and
happiness. I work from a base of nonjudgmental exploring as a
way to facilitate the unfolding of one's story, so it is felt and
seen, fully regarded. |
Personal Comments
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About "Gestures of the Heart"
Here we are in the 21st
century and the perennial question is still keen.
How do we find joy and a sustaining grace in our everyday
life? The perennial answer
might be there as well. This
book addresses something I call Trauma Residue Syndrome (TRS).
It is about the stress that hinders our capacity to be open
and present. The protocols in
the book work with diminishing the Trauma Residue Syndrome so we
have full, clear resource.
This is not about fixing anything.
Truly, there may be nothing broken.
This is about using somatic tools to access the unique voice
of our own wisdom and then moving into the day from there. |
Articles & Papers by Pam Church:
(Click on the underlined titles to link to that article or
paper)
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