Therapy for Anxiety, Trauma, Burnout, and Emotional Overwhelm in Portland, OR | Julie Sliga, LPC

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What we explore in therapy.

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Reaching out for support takes courage—especially when you’ve been carrying so much on your own. Whether you're navigating anxiety, burnout, chronic pain, or the ways trauma can echo in the present, therapy offers a space to pause, breathe, and come back to yourself.

You might feel overwhelmed, disconnected from your needs, or unsure what comes next. Maybe something in your life no longer fits—and you’re ready to understand why. Therapy can help you notice the patterns that no longer serve you, reconnect with your values, and begin to feel more whole.

Therapy with me is spacious, relational, and grounded in compassion—all held together with a thread of humor. We’ll explore what’s been weighing on you, and create opportunity for something steadier to emerge: a compassionate relationship with yourself, little more ease, a little more clarity, and a deeper sense of connection.

Specialties

These are just a few of the places we might begin. Click through to learn more—and trust that wherever you land is a good place to start.

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Anxiety

We’ll explore what your anxiety is protecting, what it’s asking for, and what’s possible when you’re met with care instead of pressure. Learn more

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Life Transitions

Here you’re allowed to pause. To feel. To rebuild at the pace of your own becoming—slow, imperfect, and deeply true. Learn more

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Chronic Illness

We can sit with the unknown. With the grief. With the fury and the fog. With the tenderness of learning to live in a body that has changed. Learn more

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Work Stress

When work becomes a story of survival, therapy helps you reconnect with the parts of yourself work asked you to push aside. Learn more

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Trauma & PTSD

Trauma isn’t your whole story. It’s a survival chapter. We’ll listen to your body, soften old patterns, and learn to notice what kept you safe. Learn more

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Grief & Loss

You might feel raw, numb, angry, or unrecognizable to yourself. However you’re carrying grief—quietly, fiercely, tenderly—it belongs. Learn more

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Chronic Pain

Pain Speaks. Therapy Listens. When we listen to chronic pain differently, the body can begin to relearn safety and soften. Learn more

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Self-Compassion

At the center of everything is self-compassion. We’ll explore how to turn inward with self-trust and care, even when it feels unfamiliar and fragile. Learn more

Therapeutic Approaches

  • Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)

  • Positive Psychology

  • Motivational Interviewing

  • Solution Focused Therapy

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Trauma-Focused

  • Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)

  • Mindfulness-Based Practices

  • Somatic Approaches

  • Culturally Sensitive

Psychotherapy for diaspora communities including Asian diaspora, South Asian diaspora, Pacific Islander diaspora, African diaspora, Black diaspora, Latinx diaspora, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) diaspora, Jewish diaspora, and multiracial or bicultural individuals. Therapy for third-culture kids (TCKs), immigrants, expats, and transracial adoptees. Support for identity, belonging, intergenerational trauma, cultural disconnection, and bicultural navigation.

Philosophy of Care & Cultural Humility

Therapy with me is spacious, relational, and grounded in warmth, humor, and compassion. Together, we’ll untangle what’s been asking for your attention and make room for self-trust.

That trust includes honoring who you are—your history, your identity, your context.

You are a cultural being, shaped by many intersecting identities—race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, neurotype, religion, class, language, family history, geography, and more. You carry stories that come from place, from people, from systems, and from survival.

To ignore these parts of your experience is to miss something essential.

I believe therapy should honor the full context of who you are—not just your symptoms, but your story. Whether or not we share the same identities, I bring cultural humility, curiosity, and a commitment to understanding how your background, beliefs, and lived experiences shape your inner world.

Many clients prefer to work with someone who shares parts of their identity—and that can be a powerful source of resonance and safety. But research also shows that what matters most is a therapist’s capacity for attunement, cultural responsiveness, and humility.

That’s what I aim to offer:
A space that holds the complexity of identity, and care that’s spacious enough to meet the whole of you.

What We Talk About In Therapy

Therapy brings us into conversation with the many layers of being human.
It is an open space for a wide range of experiences like these.

• Adoption • Agoraphobia • Aging • Anger • Anxiety • Art & Creativity • Belonging • Boundaries • Burnout • Caregiver Stress • Childhood Experiences • Chronic Illness • Cultural Adjustment • Eco-Anxiety • Family • Forgiveness • Friendships • Goal-Setting • Gratitude • Grief • Identity • Imposter Syndrome • Life Transitions • Loneliness • Mindfulness • Narcissistic Abuse • Overfunctioning • Parenting • People-Pleasing • Perfectionism • Psychoeducation • Relationships • Relationship Patterns • Resilience • Self-Compassion • Self-Esteem • Shame • Somatic Symptoms • Specific Phobias • Stress • Strengths • Trauma • Values • Values Conflicts • Well-Being • Workplace Stressors •

Let’s explore this together.


To help determine if we’re a good fit, I start with a brief inquiry process by email.
Submit the form below, and I’ll follow up as soon as possible.

I’m currently accepting new clients for telehealth only. I’m in-network with OHP and PacificSource, and I can also provide superbills for out-of-network reimbursement.