Life Transitions Therapy

At Moving Forward Staying Present, we offer therapy for life transitions in Portland, Oregon for clients navigating change during periods of exploration, growth, and loss through the lifespan. Whether exploring identity shifts, career changes, existential stress, or areas of purpose and meaning, we are here to support you through those discoveries.

Life transitions can open questions about identity, belonging, purpose, relationships, work, family, aging, and the future. Some transitions arrive through choice. Some arrive through loss, rupture, change, or necessity. Even meaningful change can feel disorienting when the life you have known begins to shift.

If you are moving through any of these life chapters, it may be a good time to reach out for added support, reflection and guidance:

  • Stages of parenting from pregnancy to first child to empty nest

  • Relationship evolutions: Breakups Divorce/Separation/Remarriage New Relationship

  • Growth milestones like high school graduation, college,

  • Health and wellness areas

  • Breakup

  • Relocation

  • Moving Homes

  • Graduation

  • College Entry

  • Midlife Shift

  • Gender identity

  • Health Diagnosis

  • Chronic Illness

  • Disability Adjustments

  • Caregiving Role

  • Grief Journey

  • Bereavement

  • Aging Parents

  • Foster Parenting

  • Adoption Journey

  • Blended Families

  • Launching Adult Children

  • Becoming Independent

  • Relationship Repair

  • Family Expansion

  • Life Rebuilding

  • Major Loss

  • Fresh Start

  • New Chapter

  • Life Pivot

  • Role Change

  • Values Realignment

  • Reinvention

  • Personal Growth

  • Uncertain Future

  • Transitional Period

  • Developmental Shift

  • Fatigue 

  • Military Transition

  • Immigration

  • Cultural Adjustment

  • Faith Shift

  • Financial Changes

  • Recovery Journey

  • Empty Nesting

How Therapy Helps

Therapy can help you slow down and understand what this transition is asking of you. Instead of rushing toward an answer, we create space to notice what is changing, what matters, what you are carrying, and what you may be ready to move toward.

This work can help you clarify your values and needs, understand grief and uncertainty, strengthen self-trust, and move through change with support. Therapy is the place where you can experience direct support while moving through a transition and into the place you want to be

Our Approach

Our therapists may draw from CBT, mindfulness, ACT, ERP, Sensory-motor, Self-Compassion Training, somatic awareness, trauma-informed therapy, narrative therapy, and DBT-informed regulation skills. The work is collaborative and grounded in what you need: insight, practical tools, emotional processing, nervous system support, or some combination of these.

Our therapy office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of SE Portland. We also offer telehealth across Oregon.

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If this sounds like the kind of support you’re looking for, schedule a consult and we’ll help connect you with the right anxiety therapist.

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GETTING HERE

Location:

Our office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of Southeast Portland at 8083 SE 13th Ave, Suites 2 & 4. Your therapist will specify which suite they are in. Come on upstairs to the second floor, but please keep in mind we are not ADA accessible.

Parking:

There is plenty of free street parking in front of the building as well as in the lot in the back of the building, just behind OnPoint Credit Union (13th and Tacoma St). Park in a spot NOT labeled OnPoint Credit Union and walk up the stairs at the back of the building. Find your Suite: 2 or 4.

Public Transport:

From downtown

  • Take the southbound #40 bus towards Tacoma, get off at SE Tacoma & 13th, or

  • Take the southbound MAX orange line towards Milwaukie, get off at SE Bybee Blvd and transfer to the northbound #40 bus towards Swan Island. Get off at SE Tacoma & 13th.

From Concordia, Grant Park, Buckman, Hosford-Abernathy, etc.

  • Take the southbound #70 bus towards Milwaukie, get off at SE 17th & Tacoma. Walk four blocks west to SE 13th & Tacoma.

  • From anywhere else:

  • Google Maps can provide useful routes that include bus schedules.

By Bike:

From anywhere along the Willamette

  • Take the Willamette Greenway Trail along the river to the Sellwood Bridge, cross the bridge and take Tacoma St to SE Tacoma & 13th.

  • Take the Springwater on the Willamette, turn off and take Spokane St to Spokane & 13th.

From anywhere else