Julie supports clients through life transitions such as divorce, identity shifts, medical diagnosis, career change, or major moves. Her therapy offers grounding, grief processing, and meaning-making. With an integrative approach, Julie helps clients build emotional flexibility and find steadiness during seasons of upheaval and renewal.

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.

Support for Life Transitions

In This Chapter, Growth Doesn’t Feel Like Certainty.

Life Transitions Tell a Story of Becoming

Every part of you that feels unsure is also the part that’s growing.

Change doesn’t always arrive with clarity. Sometimes it brings quiet confusion, a loosening of what once felt solid. In this space between identities, roles, or seasons, it’s common to feel unsteady—like you're not quite who you were, and not yet who you're becoming. And still, something is shifting beneath the surface. In therapy, we honor that in-between space. We make room for the questions, the grief, the small brave steps. Growth doesn’t always announce itself—but it’s happening here.

Change asks us to loosen our grip on who we thought we had to be. It may stir up old questions about identity, worth, or direction—especially if the transition was unexpected or unwelcome. You don’t have to rush into reinvention. Sometimes, just having a space to land, to speak the unspeakable, and to not be expected to “figure it all out” is enough for the next step to quietly unfold.

What I’ve Learned From Listening

Transitions come in all forms—loud and quiet, chosen and not. What looks like progress from the outside may feel like disorientation on the inside. What seems small to others might carry enormous emotional weight for you. I've worked with people standing at thresholds they never expected to cross—grieving the life they imagined, holding both relief and regret, or simply asking, “Who am I now?”

These turning points don’t need to be milestones to matter. The work is in honoring what’s real, right now, and moving through change with care—not having it all figured out.

You are allowed to change.

If you’re moving through a life transition, I offer space to hold the whole story.

We Often Talk About:

Aging • Belonging • Breakups • Career Pressure • Change • Coming Out • Courage • Divorce • Family Roles • Grief • Identity • Inner Strength • Leaving a Faith Community • Letting Go • Life Transitions • Motherhood • Moving • New Chapters • Queer Identity • Relationship Changes • Renewal • Retiring • Self-Compassion • Self-Worth • Sleep • Starting College • Uncertainty • Values

My Philosophy of Care

Change is part of being human—but that doesn’t make it easy. I offer a space where you can slow down, feel what’s real, and move forward without rushing.