CREDN Provider Directory

Hi, I’m Jess and I am so glad you are here. Sometimes there are seasons in our lives where we feel stuck or lost, like we don’t measure up to the standards set around us. We may find ourselves struggling in our relationships, or even in old patterns of behavior we can’t seem to break. If you find yourself in this space today, I am here to help. I am honored to walk alongside clients as a compassionate listener and guide and believe in a strengths-based and collaborative approach to healing. In my work as a therapist, I utilize narrative therapy in order to assist clients in discovering how past and present experiences have shaped the story of their lives. I am also a HAES-aligned practitioner with experience in working with individuals struggling with eating disorders.

My counseling philosophy is focused on the belief that everyone has the ability to achieve optimal mental health. Whether your goal is to gain deeper self awareness, create satisfying and healthy relationships, heal past trauma, or feel more positive about your life in general, I can help you meet your goals. My counseling style is collaborative, warm, and down to earth. I use humor to build connection and ease anxiety. My goal is to create a space where you feel heard, validated, and supported. I specialize in eating disorders, body image challenges, emotional eating, reintegration of body + mind, and healing one's relationship with food + body weight/ size.

Hello! I’m a nutritionist, dietitian and life coach with a passion for helping you tap into intuition, connect to your core self, and move forward in a life grounded in your inner wisdom. I have worked as a Body Positive Nutritionist for over ten years, helping folks with disordered eating, weight concerns, diabetes, and overall well-being. I believe that every body, no matter the size, deserves to be nurtured and cared for, which is why I use a weight inclusive, body positive approach. In addition, in the past ten years, I’ve focused my continuing education on behavioral health so that I can better help folks navigate the food-mood connection. As a coach, I have a passion for helping folks identify and deepen their strengths and core values to focus on forward momentum. I have a passion for helping folks who find themselves struggling with perfectionism, all-or-nothing thinking and find themselves floundering and often feel lonely in the journey with food. I’ve integrated Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO DBT) principles throughout my work with clients. RO DBT helps those who tend toward perfectionistic thinking and black/white to improve flexibility and openness, strengthen their relationship with food and body, and build skills that cross over into other areas of life. I periodically offer Radically Open Nutrition classes. Working with Lynae will be a combination of nutrition support to help nourish your body while checking in with mental health to honor your past experiences, heal wounds that impact your current relationship with food, adapt skills to situations where mood impacts food choices. Lynae has spent the past 10 years focusing continuing education on mental health to offer mindfulness, counseling skills and offer you a toolbox that will be far more holistic than nutrition information on its own.

Kayden (they/he) is a transmasc non-binary abolitionist counseling psychologist in WA state who specializes in gender affirming medical care, eating disorder treatment, kink/sex/polyam/SW affirming, and abolitionist mental health care. They are bilingual in English and Spanish, work with ages 14-adulthood and currently live and love and work as a poet, parent, professor, and psychologist on the homelands of the Yakama Nation, stewards of this valley since time immemorial.

After growing up in the Midwest, I moved out to the West Coast to complete my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Women’s Studies from San Diego State University. Following graduation, I moved up to Portland, Oregon where I earned my Master of Arts in Professional Counseling. I chose Lewis and Clark not only for its verdant tree-covered campus, but because the programs and coursework emphasized building a therapeutic practice grounded in social justice and anti-oppression. Additionally, I completed the Lewis and Clark Eating Disorders Certificate Program which included numerous courses in that specialty area, covering topics such as Health at Every Size (HAES), mind-body connection, and the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders. As part of my graduate program, I completed an internship with a local eating disorder treatment center where I had the opportunity to work with adolescent and adult clients of all genders at the Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) levels of care. Following my graduation from Lewis and Clark, I had the privilege of staying on as a Primary Therapist there before being given the opportunity to help open a new adult Residential Treatment Center (RTC). Several theories and paradigms inform my practice, many of which you can see listed in the “Therapeutic Toolbox” section below. I allow my passion and curiosity to guide me in pursuing new trainings, community discussions, justice work, and other opportunities for personal and professional growth. Ultimately, my approach to therapy is rooted in compassion, connection, and curiosity. I also bring plenty of playfulness, humor, and authenticity into the therapeutic space and encourage clients to do the same. I hope to walk with you in your growth process and help you recognize your inherent strength, resilience, worthiness, and wisdom. Your experience is unique, and you are the expert on your life. Our work together will benefit from mutual, reciprocal openness and honest communication. Engaging in therapy is hard work, and I want to acknowledge the time, energy, and courage that it takes for you to commit yourself to this process. I look forward and am honored to work with you in your pursuit of growth, healing, and liberation. TOOLS IN MY THERAPEUTIC TOOLBOX Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Attachment Theory Couples Erotic Flow Creative Expression Eco-Therapy concepts Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Internal Family Systems concepts Intersectional Feminist Therapy Janina Fisher’s Model of Structural Dissociation and “Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma” framework Language of Emotions Mindful Self Compassion Narrative Therapy Polyvagal Theory Somatic therapy concepts Strengths- and Passion-Based

I am committed to offering a space where your whole Self is welcomed, without judgment and without pressure to be anything other than who you truly are. At Restorative Pathways, I help people reconnect with the wisdom of their body, soften patterns of survival, and remember the truth of their wholeness. Through somatic based therapy or trauma-informed bodywork, I support your return to a life shaped by self-trust, pleasure, and possibility. I am in person in SW Portland or virtual throughout Oregon. As an LMT for over 10 years I am trained in trauma informed Myofascial Release & Craniosacral Therapy and I have an accessible office with a wide, electrical lift massage table to make ALL bodies comfortable. As a counselor, I am trained in eating disorders from Lewis & Clark College, have clinical outpatient experience with teens, adults and elders with eating disorders. I have also finished training as a Body Trust provider and am awaiting final certification and am a certified Somatic EMDR practitioner.

I provide care that rejects the diet and weight-loss paradigm and centers around exploring your relationship to body, food, and movement. I view acupuncture and East Asian medicine from a weight-neutral, social-justice informed lens, and I also offer adjunctive eating disorder care by addressing symptoms of eating disorders and eating disorder recovery such as digestive issues, hormone dysregulation, insomnia, and anxiety. I am invested in providing safer experiences of healthcare so that individuals can connect with and trust their bodies.

I have training and experience helping people address a variety of eating disorder symptoms from a HAES perspective. I integrate a variety of approaches to also address trauma, mood, anxiety and addictions issues, including CBT, DBT, EMDR, and CPT.