Laura Birchard, MA LPC Psychotherapy

04/06/2026

Just say NO VC backed, corporate therapist directories! Have you, a friend or family member had the experience of searching for a therapist or mental health medication prescriber and found it challenging to sort through the noise of large, often VC backed (i.e. profit driven "pump and dump" business model) online corporations that crowd the first page of search results, and have a strangle hold on Psychology Today results?

There is an alternative listing site orcounselors.com for therapists and counselors in Oregon. This directory is created by an Oregon therapist, and offers an alternative for small practices to the corporate backed predatory (on both clients and therapists) directories. Please share this with folks seeking to find a therapist in Oregon.

https://orcounselors.com/therapist/laura-birchard-ma-lpc-depth-psychotherapy-portland-or

Laura Birchard MA LPC Depth Psychotherapy, LPC, CADCI — Licensed therapist in 1318 NW 20th Ave.. View specialties, insurance accepted, pricing, and book an appointment.

03/18/2026

The Vernal Equinox is an invitation to engage in a new practice-- some thoughts on journaling, including prompts for getting started.

Some ideas to spark a journal practice to support wellness and healing, therapy Portland, Oregon

12/17/2025

https://www.laurabirchard.com/soulblog/2025/9/17/jna760y93uvyj0341kfjczc6ecr9ku-y9gcw

With various wellness products and media providing information about mental health, the question of what it means to be well can have generalities, but in the end, is an individual question we must answer for ourselves.

12/09/2025

Offering depth psychotherapy for teens and adults in Portland, OR. Now in network with Moda Insurance.

Reach out to schedule a 20 minute consultation with Laura Birchard MA LPC Psychotherapy Portland Oregon: Individual therapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, integration

04/30/2025

Have you heard the term quarter-life crisis ?
For many people in their 20s and 30s, this time of life can feel like a maze: Who am I becoming? What am I doing with my life? Why do I feel so lost when I’m “supposed” to be excited about the future?​ Why haven't I figured all this out yet?

Read below how therapy can help!

The Quarter-Life Crossroads: Therapy for Emerging Adults in the Liminal Space

04/11/2025

In a city that is defined by rivers, ARAS Archive invites us to dive into the archetypal symbolism of the river!

It's Archetypal Friday and our symbol for this week is river.

Human civilizations were first borne on the banks of the rivers of the world including the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Yellow River, Yangtze, the Mississippi, and the Tiber. Rivers flow like life-giving veins through land, delivering water, fertilizing soil, and easy transportation. Only with the advent of industrialization did the river stop being the main highway of human development. The river, while serving as a life-giving force, has a shadow which reflects how its great power can be unleashed in flood, endangering the communities and prosperity that the river brought about in the first place. With increasing technology, people attempt to control this force with damns, levees, and other methods, but sometimes these restraints are fragile or are destructive in their own way. The river also serves as a physical boundary, with its currents and width providing an obstacle that can either protect one from danger but also can strand someone far from home and safety. As an obstacle, albeit a surmountable one with the right materials, the river can take the form of a threshold, like the River Styx, the boundary of Hades. Thinking of a river as a natural border and demarcation of physical space in the world runs contrary to societies where the river forms the physical and spiritual center of a culture, where not unlike a watershed that feeds a river, all the strands and variations of a culture flow into or emit from one single life-giving source.

Image:
ARAS Record 5Cn.009
Constellation Eridanus, river god, n**e, horned, looking toward left, holding fish in left hand, vessel from which river flows in right hand. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.

04/10/2025

From The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on his Life and Work

04/07/2025

http://www.laurabirchard.com A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. -Jungian Analyst Thomas Moore

An introduction to Laura Birchard

03/31/2025

Are you well versed in or beginning with curiosity about Internal Family Systems or "parts work"? Discover the "roots" of IFS in depth psychological therapy. https://www.laurabirchard.com/soulblog/2025/3/30/the-interior-troupe-exploring-archetypal-psychology-active-imagination-sandplay-and-ifs-in-therapy

"Soul-making is the process of bringing the images of the soul into being. It is not a matter of changing the person but of changing the soul’s relationship to the images and to the world." -James HIllman, Revisioning Psychology

03/27/2025

Psyche is always calling! Let's listen.

I shall learn that my soul finally lies behind everything, and if I cross the world, I am ultimately doing this to find my soul.

C. G. Jung
Art: Max Ernst - Sea Birds

03/06/2025

https://vimeo.com/711840043?share=copy =0 Click the play button above to watch a 2020 lecture by Jeffrey Kiehl on Listening to Jung in these Troubling Times. Jeff Kiehl, Jungian analyst and climate change scientist, is also our upcoming presenter in March with a lecture on Embracing the Paradoxical...