Relationship Therapy

At Moving Forward Staying Present, we offer relationship therapy in Portland, Oregon for individuals and couples navigating communication challenges, conflict, trust, intimacy, emotional disconnection, family dynamics, attachment patterns, and recurring relational stress.

Relationships shape how we understand ourselves, ask for care, respond to conflict, protect our needs, and experience connection. When relationship patterns feel painful or confusing, therapy can help you slow down and see what is happening beneath the surface.

Relationship challenges can look like:

  • Difficulty identifying or naming your needs

  • Feeling misunderstood or unseen

  • Avoiding conflict or escalating quickly

  • Repeating the same arguments or patterns

  • Struggling with trust, intimacy, or vulnerability

  • Feeling responsible for other people’s emotions

  • Saying yes when you mean no

  • Wanting closeness while also needing space

  • Relationship OCD

  • Experiencing collective grief

  • Parenting in relationship

  • Healthy or intentional relational endings

  • Opening or closing relational boundaries

  • Exploring non-manogamy and polyamory

  • Aligning values in relationship

  • Identity exploration

How Therapy Helps

Relationship therapy can help you understand the patterns you bring into connection and the experiences that shaped them. You may explore communication habits, family dynamics, attachment wounds, boundaries, values, trauma responses, and the difference between protection and connection.

This work can support clearer communication, healthier boundaries, stronger self-trust, and relationships that feel more honest, mutual, and emotionally connected.

Our Approach

Our therapists may draw from attachment-based therapy, relational therapy, trauma-informed care, somatic awareness, narrative therapy, couples therapy, and practical communication skills. Relationship work may happen in individual therapy, couples therapy, or both, depending on what kind of support you are seeking.

Our therapists support clients across romantic relationships, friendships, family relationships, workplace dynamics, queer and trans relationships, and identity-related relational stress.

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

Ready to start your healing journey?Request a consult call.

If you want support with communication, conflict, boundaries, or relationship patterns, schedule a consult and we’ll help connect you with the right 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