Julie provides non-pathologizing support for grief and loss. She helps clients process death, medical crises, estrangement, or the loss of imagined futures. Her therapy supports emotional integration, ritual, nervous system care, and meaning-making for clients moving through transitions marked by sorrow, transformation, and memory.

Julie Sliga, LPC is a trauma-informed therapist in Portland, Oregon offering evidence-based, mind-body therapy for chronic pain, chronic illness, trauma, anxiety, and work stress and burnout. Her approach integrates EMDR, Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), CBT, and somatic and polyvagal-informed practices. Julie also incorporates attachment-focused therapy and parts work rooted in relational neuroscience and attachment-based care. She provides in-person sessions on Fridays and telehealth across Oregon. Julie provides trauma-informed career counseling through a trauma-informed lens, supporting clients facing burnout, work stress, neurodivergence, and complex relationships with productivity and identity. Julie is in-network with PacificSource and CareOregon (OHP/Medicaid), and offers a limited number of sliding-scale therapy sessions based on availability.

 Therapy for Grief & Loss

Grief doesn’t need a plan. Just a place to land.

This Is a Place for What’s Real

And you can put some of this heavy burden down.

Grief doesn’t follow stages. It doesn’t move in straight lines. It’s not something to “get over.” Whether your loss was recent, long ago, or hard to name—grief has its own timeline, its own language, its own weight.

You might feel raw, flattened, numb, angry, disconnected, or deeply present in ways you’ve never been before. You might not recognize yourself. You might be carrying the quiet pressure to move on—or to perform grief in a way others understand. But here’s the truth: your grief is not a problem to solve. It’s something to be with, and something to be witnessed.

What I’ve Learned From Listening

Sometimes grief is slow and quiet. Sometimes it’s visible. Sometimes it’s rage. Sometimes it’s staring at a wall, trying to answer an email, feeling like the world has rearranged itself without your consent.

I’ve sat with people grieving partners, parents, friends, futures, faith, function, and the parts of themselves they’ve had to let go. Grief reshapes a person. And it deserves compassion, not fixing.
However you’re carrying this—quietly, fiercely, tenderly—it’s the right way. I’ll hold a lantern while you find your path.

Let’s sit with what’s here.

Begin the Inquiry Process.

We Often Talk About:

Ambiguous Loss • Death of a Loved One • Caregiver Grief • Medical Grief • Estrangement • Identity Shifts • Non-Death Losses • Anticipatory Grief • Anger • Numbness • Pressure to “Move On” • Heartache • Shifting Family Roles • Isolation • Disenfranchised Grief • Grieving While Parenting • Traumatic Loss • Spiritual Crises • Pet Loss • Permission to Not Be Okay • The Body in Grief • Tiny Moments of Relief • Self-Compassion • Making Meaning • Memory • Ritual • Guilt • Longing • Love

My Philosophy of Care

Grief asks a lot of you. Therapy for grief shouldn’t.

This is a space where you can come undone, or not. Where you can speak, or be silent. Where your experience doesn’t need to be justified, fixed, or reframed. Together, we’ll make room—for memory, for meaning, for anger, for tenderness. For whatever is here, in whatever shape it takes.

My Portland-based therapy practice offers a space for grief to be witnessed—without timelines or expectations.