Kellyjoy Kanaley LPC — Counselor in Portland, OR
Address1235 SE Division St OR, Portland, OR 97202
Phone+1503-473-2910
Websitekellyjoykanaley.com
Kellyjoy Kanaley, LPC, offers psychotherapy in Portland, Oregon, specializing in support for creative, sensitive, and spiritually curious individuals and couples. Her approach integrates EMDR, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), mind-body techniques, and Transpersonal Psychotherapy. Kanaley works with clients experiencing anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, emotional overwhelm, creative blocks, and life transitions. She also has experience as a death doula and previously as a licensed massage therapist. With over 15 years in private practice and 30 years studying meditation, she aims to help clients strengthen their intuition, build healthier habits, develop spiritual practices, and foster deeper connections. Her work is described as helping clients clear obstacles on their spiritual journey, achieve concrete results, and learn self-sufficiency in healing.
Best for
- Creative individuals
- Sensitive individuals
- Spiritually curious clients
- Individuals seeking spiritual guidance
| Key services | Individual therapy, Couples therapy, EMDR, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Transpersonal psychotherapy, Body-centered techniques |
| Tags | emdr, mindfulness, cbt, transpersonal psychotherapy, trauma therapy, anxiety counseling, creative blocks, spiritual counseling, portland therapist, couples counseling |
Reviews on Google5.0 · 1 reviews
If you're looking for a therapist who will guide you spiritually and open your soul to its creative potential, Kellyjoy's work is a gift that I personally hope you will choose to embrace. I've worked with a handful of therapists throughout my life, work a twelve-step program, and endlessly educate myself to find peace and meaning in existence. Kellyjoy helped me clear the debris from the path of my spiritual journey. If you are looking for concrete results, Kellyjoy can get you there. Trusting her intuition (and then my own), I went on a silent retreat. If you would have told me years ago that I would ever agree to a silent retreat I would have questioned your sanity! I began performing in theatre again, after more than a decade hiatus from the stage. I am becoming my authentic self more and more each day, thriving creatively (getting measurably better on the guitar every day), and living an esteem-able life, guided by higher values that were always within but had become obscured by the daily grind and material concerns. With Kellyjoy's guidance, I have become the proverbial person who was taught how to fish. Give a person a fish and you will feed them for a day. Teach them how to fish and you will feed them for a lifetime. Kellyjoy will teach you how to fish. If you are skeptical of what I am saying in terms of spirituality (as I spent most of my life being), rest assured that Kellyjoy's practice is grounded in scientific rigor, ethics, and an expansive knowledge of the human mind and various therapeutic approaches. (Fantastic bookshelf and reading recommendations!) What makes her work a truly extraordinary gift, however, is that you don't have to stop learning at how to heal. She can teach you why and how healing works. Understanding this, you will do more than heal, you will thrive.
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