Connection, Repair, Transformation

About Dr. Pilar

With over 20 years of practice as a doctorate-level mental health professional, Dr. Pilar has carefully crafted, tested, and developed a unique approach to therapy.

Through clinical, supervisory, teaching, research, and life experience, her integrative approach combines emotion-based, experiential, internal family systems, transgenerational, somatic, and nature-based therapy—bringing equity issues into consideration in context & when timing is appropriate.  

“I became a therapist because I deeply value helping others.”
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A Holistic Approach

Some of the most rewarding work I do is to help co-create a balanced, integrated and joyful path forward.

Through a holistic lens, I work with couples, individuals and adult families from diverse backgrounds.

Ofrezco terapia en español y en ingles.

Integrative therapy

The cycle of our lives and the experiences within its phases can be stressful and challenging; change can be difficult, especially within the context of our genders, social class, sexual orientations, and races. My depth of experience with working through traumatic stress & resilience involves novel ways of approaching issues that are somatically informed, relational, and experiential.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Learning new communication skills to manage anger and decrease conflict

  • Grief work

  • Repairing family relationships
    divorce, single-parenting and
    family blending

  • Raising children to become
    healthy adults

  • Rebuilding trust between partners

  • Healing from infidelity

  • Creating sexual intimacy

  • Being with your body to learn how to listen to its stories, signals, & messages.

  • Addressing the impact of sexual abuse and other developmental and adult traumas

  • Being with your organic self, as you embody your true nature and your inherent belonging.

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My clients are from many diverse backgrounds and social locations. Together, we collaboratively identify problematic issues and unhealthy patterns, establish goals, and work in an open, nonjudgmental manner. This is a space to be your whole self, and all your parts are welcome.

I believe that our wounds form relationally and also heal through relationship with humans, and other-than-human beings.

Evaluations

Ofrezco evaluaciones psicológicas para inmigración para varios tipos de casos legales, incluyendo:

  • Perdón por Dificultades Extremas (I-601/I-601A)

  • Cancelación de Deportación

  • Asilo

  • VAWA (Ley de Violencia Contra la Mujer)

  • Visas U

  • Visas T

Integration & Harm Reduction

For those who have arranged their own psychedelic journeys, I am available to provide support both before and after to ensure you get the most from the experience. Learning to translate non-ordinary states of consciousness into actual changes in your life is a process.

Supervision & Training

I provide individual and group supervision for both LPCs and LMFTs. I am an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and an Oregon approved supervisor.

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