Rebecca A. Kinman
Rebecca is a social work graduate student in her final year. Her approach to therapy involves the development of an equal relationship with her clients that involves intellect, a compassionate spirit, and a sense of humor in each session. In her spare time, Rebecca likes to travel, grow vegetables, spend time outdoors and hang out with her tween-aged daughter and quirky chihuahua.
Adam Marx
Adam is a third-year student in the counseling psychology master’s program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has previously been a life/executive coach and a user experience designer. Adam has a special interest in working with grief and loss.
Véronique Nyounai-Herrera
Véronique is a third-year student at Portland State University studying family, marriage, and couples counseling. As an intern, she offers individual and relationship counseling to clients seeking to manage school and life responsibilities, improve relationships, manage stress, develop personal insights, and more. Véronique’s specialty area of interest supports clients seeking to explore and improve their relationships with food, body image, and self-esteem.
Katrina Cairo
As a student of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Katrina’s approach to counseling focuses on exploring both the conscious and unconscious processes of our lives. She believes that with honesty and integrity we can explore your personal challenges in a way that offers meaningful insight into who you are and who you wish to become. She enjoys working with individuals and couples from a diverse array and backgrounds, and she maintains an attitude of empathy and acceptance regarding the unique hardships many of us face. She has experience with grief and loss, self-image, and uses a trauma-informed approach. If you are new to counseling and feeling overwhelmed, please feel free to contact her with any questions or concerns you may have.
Rebecca Frank
Rebecca is currently in the Professional Mental Health Counseling program at Lewis & Clark College, in pursuit of becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor. She is originally from the New England area, but since starting her family, is happy to call Portland her home. As a counselor intern, Rebecca places the cultivation of the therapeutic relationship at the forefront of her work. She strives to embody and integrate an open, non-judgmental, and empathetic approach that honors social location, cultural, and systemic impacts. She prioritizes safety and trust-building, particularly when working from a trauma-informed lens. Rebecca emphasizes both collaboration and a strengths-based perspective, as she believes that clients have innate abilities that can be fostered towards growth and healing. She applies an integrative approach to her counseling work, utilizing a theoretical base, while also drawing from additional lines of theory and intervention, which she believes makes more room for individualized care and treatment. Some of the primary frameworks that Rebecca utilizes are ACT, narrative, and psychodynamic theory, along with somatic psychology, feminist therapy, mindfulness and art therapy techniques, and MICBT/CBT. Some specific specialty areas that Rebecca addresses are anxiety, the chronic nature of the illness, whether it be mental or physical, and peripartum/postpartum concerns.
Misha Speck
Misha is a graduate student at Portland State’s Counseling program in the marriage, couples, and family track. Misha has lived in Portland for 13 years, where she moved as a teen from Denver, Colorado. Misha specializes in somatic, mindfulness, narrative, and feminist approaches to mental health counseling. Misha eventually hopes to establish a private practice aimed at serving the LGBTQ+ population.
Gabriel Boyer
Gabe is a third-year counseling psych student at Pacifica Graduate Institute for individuals and couples. He is influenced by healing perspectives that emphasize the relational aspect of life, that value emotion and body experience, that balance one’s history with the present moment, and that explore how systems at the familial and societal level impact one’s life. This includes relational psychodynamic, somatic, and multicultural therapy along with family systems theory and Buddhist psychology. He is particularly interested in supporting people with attachment struggles, shame, trauma, parenting, men’s issues, relationship challenges, including nontraditional relationship configurations, and people with queer identities or orientations.
Melissa Gorgon Clark
Melissa is in her final year of the Master of Social Work coursework at Portland State University. Melissa is passionate about clinical practice in relation to systematic oppression and specializes in trauma and neurodiversity. Melissa utilizes various modalities centered in talk therapy.