Not knowing is most intimate.
i help people to
date from a place of spontaneity and self worth
heal painful sex and recover body sovereignty
reclaim pleasure, desire and freedom in their sex lives
recover the power of their attachment system in their closest bonds
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Couples
I help couples slow down their cycles of conflict so that they can reengage the attachment system that powers their bond.
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Sex Therapy
I specialize in healing painful sex and vaginismus in women, recovering pleasure and arousal, and bridging differential desire in couples.
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Individuals
I do attachment work with individuals that focuses on long-term, unwanted singlehood and trouble in dating.
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Circles
I am currently filling spots in a therapy group for folks experiencing long-term, unwanted singlehood.
ABOUT NORA
LMFT
SHE / HER
what I’m doing here
I share power with my clients and collaborate with them so they can come home to their attachment needs, authentic sexuality, and inner knowing.
how I’m doing it
I help my clients decode the wisdom of their emotions and return to the homing device of their truth.
how I got here
I was called to my path as a relationship and sex therapist because my relationships were fucking HARD, and I felt like sex was a PR scam. My pain is the foundation of my offering to my clients. I stand in the circle of healers whose mission is to un-do aloneness.
my identities and what I’m about
I hold a lot of identities that are in close proximity to power in our current social structure. I’m a slender, white, middle-class born, CIS, heterosexual woman. I also know what it’s like to live outside of the cultural markers of success, and I try to remember that feeling from behind the cocoon of my professionalism. I worked for many years as a struggling artist and consciousness explorer, and I made money in restaurants and coffee shops. I am a fantastically bad waitress. It was a dining trainwreck.
I’d like to come immediately out from behind that professional cocoon. Without the silky protection, I'm a witch, ceremonialist, herbalist, visual artist and musician. What matters to me, like really, really matters to me, is living in alignment with what we might refer to as a soul, and being close to other souls in the process.
I’m all about Science with a capital S when it comes to our primate need to snuggle with another primate at night, our need to know the cave door isn’t going to close on us, and the freak-out we’re going to have if we think for a second that we’re being left out on the tundra. I use this Science every single day in my practice to make sense of all these suffering humans who fight with the person they want to be closest to, or who struggle to get close to anyone at all.
I am ALSO all about: the help available to you from your well and wise ancestors, and the imperative of becoming yourself on this earth in the time you are given here, cultural scripts be damned!
That’s what I’m about.
In The Flanders House
2926 NE Flanders St, Room 3C
Portland, OR 97232
In the Office
Monday - Friday
Phone
(503) 877-5189