Serving: Oregon

Supervision: Emily Baran, LCSW

Accepting: PacificSource commercial and OHP, Providence, Kaiser NW and sliding scale

Marina Llanas, CSWA

My therapeutic work centers on unburdening our bodies, minds, spirits, and relationships from limitations that inhibit our ability to embody our inherent wholeness. I offer trauma-informed, anti-oppressive counseling for teens, adults, couples, and families. As a therapist rooted in Liberation Psychology, I believe that our personal healing is inseparable from collective healing and liberation.

I use an integrative approach that draws from a range of frameworks including attachment theory, poly-vagal theory, somatic-based therapy, internal family systems, mindfulness, and EMDR. Our work together focuses on increasing your awareness of your physical, emotional, mental, environmental, and relational experiences. As we grow this awareness, we also work toward making meaningful, embodied changes in behaviors and coping strategies.

I especially appreciate the opportunity to work with trauma and anxiety disorders, folks exploring their gender and/or sexual identity, emerging adults, and BIPOC navigating ongoing systemic oppression.

Our experiences of identity, oppression, and power often appear in the therapy space. I invite all clients to explore how these experiences show up in their own lives and our work together with gentleness and courage. I am a nonbinary, queer, Latine/Chicanx multiracial person with ancestry that includes both settler-colonialism and the lineage of resistance. I also hold lived experiences of developmental, activist, and community trauma. I believe in integrating these experiences into my work as a way of standing in solidarity with clients.

It is my intention to create a sacred container for your healing. I believe that healing occurs through deepening our connection with our bodies, the land, other-than-human beings, our values, and our communities. Through this connection, we remember the wholeness already within us. Our remembering creates the possibility for us to embody our lives with more ease, purpose, and liberation.