Marina Llanas, CSWA

Pronouns: They/Them

States: Oregon

Supervisor: Emily Baran, LCSW

Finances:

• Private Pay

• Sliding Scale

• Pacific Source Commercial

• Providence

• Kaiser NW

Modalities: Talk Therapy

Each of us contain patterns, burdens, behaviors, and narratives that keep us stuck and restrict us from experiencing lives with greater ease and freedom. When these restrictions become too heavy and too tight, we can challenge them with the support of someone who sees the authentic us that exists beyond those limitations. I consider it a true honor to work alongside clients as they redefine themselves and reach towards the lives they truly deserve.

I provide trauma-informed, anti-oppressive counseling for teens, adults, families, couples, and families. I am rooted in Liberation Psychology and believe in working towards collective, community liberation through deep personal work within ourselves and our relationships.

My work with clients draws on multiple frameworks including attachment theory, somatic-based therapy,  internal family systems, mindfulness techniques, and motivational interviewing to increase your awareness of your physical, emotional, mental, environmental, and relational experience. As we grow this awareness, we will also work to make tangible shifts in your life that bring greater healing and freedom. I believe in utilizing polyvagal theory to conceptualize and work with clients’ nervous systems. Because of this, my work always centers the therapeutic relationship and honors the time it takes to truly build a sense of safety and trust.

I have found success in supporting a wide variety of challenges. I enjoy working with clients with anxiety disorders, depression, trauma, and other mental health challenges. Additionally, I am especially skilled in supporting: clients exploring their gender and/or sexual identity, people experiencing burnout and social justice work fatigue, people with complex family and relationship systems, emerging adults, teens and their families, and folks navigating ongoing systemic oppression. I deeply appreciate the opportunity to support fellow BIPoC and am particularly skilled in supporting folks with mixed ancestry who are navigating complicated cultural identities.

I identify as a nonbinary, queer, neurodivergent, Latine/Chicanx multiracial person. I believe in integrating my personal identities in my work to stand in solidarity with clients and deepen my understanding of how they are impacted by their own social identities.

I believe strongly in each person’s ability to heal through connection to the land, themselves, and those that deeply see and understand them. With greater connection, we can learn how to let go of our old ways of surviving and find new ways to heal, grow, and transform.