Community
: a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common;
a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
Breath & Taxes continues to exist because of community, whether through self-care appointments, somatic yoga practices or a number of other services that bring awareness back to the body and heart.
This page was created to honor and amplify the people and businesses providing services that heal and connect local communities.
Mental Health & Coaching
Bluett Counseling
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Portland, OR
he/him/his
Specialties: Relationships and sexual IssuesPatrick Bluett is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Oregon and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. He specializes in working with relationship and sexual issues and sees individuals and couples in person and virtually from his Portland office. You can read more about Patrick and his approach and book appointments with him at his website.
Therapy by Hope
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Portland, OR
she/her/hers
Specialties: Anxiety, Perfectionism, LGBTQIA+ identity exploration, Disordered Eating/Eating DisordersHope is a foodie, plant-enthusiast, and devoted therapist. She has been working with children, teens, and adults in a variety of mental health settings over the last 9 years. Her style of therapy is authentic, compassionate, curious, and direct. Her work is grounded in feminist, consent-based, anti-oppression frameworks. This means she intentionally works to create an inclusive space for folks of all intersectional identities, with client consent at the foundation of everything she does. She is a queer affirming, anti-racist, sex-positive, Health At Every Size® or anti-diet grounded, disability justice oriented, and a strengths-based provider.
TherapySmith, Inc
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Los Angeles, CA
she/her/hers
Specialties: creatives, artists, black sheep, outsiders, seekers, neurodiverse, & LGBTQ+ folx.A "loveable weirdo" herself, Dr. Katherine Smith founded TherapySmith with the hope that diverse human experiences could be depathologized and understood instead of being seen as problems to be solved. Our therapists specialize in depth-oriented psychotherapy: You’ll explore dreams, free associations, and those curious quirks that make you you! It’s about cultivating self-awareness and understanding the complexities of your psyche. We’re committed to knowing you as a whole person, even as we treat problems of living like depression and anxiety.
Navie Sandhu
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San Francisco & Los Angeles, CA
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Specialties: Anxiety, Perinatal Mental Health (women and men), Healthcare professionals“Hi, I’m Dr. Navneet Sandhu, PsyD, MPH, PMH-C a licensed Clinical Psychologist (California) with a passion for helping people feel more grounded, connected, and empowered in their lives. I’m certified in Perinatal Mental Health and specialize in treating anxiety. If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in a loop of overthinking or endlessly analyzing situations without finding clarity, you’re not alone. These mental traps can feel exhausting and isolating. The good news? There’s a way through.
In our work together, we’ll focus on recognizing these patterns and gently guiding you back to the present, using evidence-based strategies tailored to your needs. Whether you're navigating anxiety, life transitions, or just feeling overwhelmed, I bring experience from working in settings like Kaiser, Sutter, the VA, and a Medical Center to support your growth.
Therapy with me is a collaborative process and we’ll untangle the hard stuff, celebrate the wins, and yes, maybe even share a virtual high-five along the way. If anything here speaks to you, I’d love to connect.”
Holly Wigmore
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Los Angeles, CA
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Seeking: individuals looking to work with IFS or address C-PTSD/comorbid diagnoses in OregonHolly Wigmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor with the State of Oregon and National Certified Counselor (NCC). Holly is a level one trained IFS therapist whose private practice focuses on supporting clients looking to resolve unsatisfying patterns in their lives. Holly has expertise in trauma processing and provides a non judgmental for clients grow into the best versions of themselves the can be.
Jennifer Kashani
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Los Angeles, CA
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Specialities: Career & Relationship Success for individuals and couplesDr. Jen Kashani is a psychologist who works with teens and adults navigating the complexities of relationships, identity, and career direction. Her approach is grounded in warmth, depth, and long-term connection. She offers a steady presence through life’s hardest moments. With her, you’ll feel safe enough to face what’s painful and free enough to speak your truth. Whether you're working through relationship patterns or career transitions, she helps you find clarity and confidence without losing your sense of self.
Laura Grossman Therapy
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Berkeley, CA
she/her/hers
Specialities: Queer and Trans adult individuals, couples, and groups“Hello! I'm Laura Grossman. I'm an individual, couples, and group therapist (and dog mom) who proudly identifies as queer. My passion lies in helping individuals and couples navigate life's ups and downs, especially those who identify as queer and trans. My practice is grounded in compassion, respect, and a deep understanding of the intersecting challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community.”
Chance Parker Counseling
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Portland, OR
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Specialties: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Complex PTSD, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Trauma, Dreamwork, Depth PsychotherapyChance is a deep dreamer, intuitive artist, and wholehearted licensed psychotherapist based in Portland, Oregon. She spent 5 years in community mental health before transitioning to private practice, where she’s worked for the past 4 years. Her approach is relational, trauma-informed, and compassionate—rooted in the belief that each person carries an intrinsic inner wisdom that can guide their healing journey. Chance blends Jungian depth psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing®, and attachment-based models to support clients in exploring both conscious and unconscious dimensions of the self. Her work often integrates dreams, symbolic imagery, and the language of the body, offering a soulful, embodied path toward healing and meaning-making. Her work with menstrual cycle-related challenges centers on honoring the body’s natural cycles and finding ways to support rather than control or suppress them. The space she offers is non-pathologizing, curious, and soulful—an invitation into deeper self-trust and self-discovery. Her practice is trauma-informed, spiritually open, and centered on the values of safety, consent, authenticity, collaboration, and respect.
Gramercy Psychological Services
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San Francisco, CA
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Specialties: Adults navigating ADHD, anxiety, grief, burnout, and life transitionsDr. Katiah Llerena is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of Gramercy Psychological Services. She also serves as the Assessment Core Director for several research labs at UCSF's Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Llerena integrates schema therapy, CBT, and emotion-focused approaches to help adults—particularly emerging adults and high-performing professionals—overcome anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, and relational trauma. Her style is collaborative, compassionate, and insight-oriented.
Immanent Grove Therapy
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Tacoma, WA
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Specialties: Internal Family Systems, relational therapy, somatic and mindfulness. Ideal clients are men navigating (in)fertility or pregnancy loss, identity issues, grief and loss, depression, anxiety, and mood disordersGraham Murtaugh, LMCH is a licensed psychotherapist in practice since 2018. Graham's specialization is working with men navigating (in)fertility and pregnancy loss, life transitions and exploring a healthier masculinity. Graham also works with all sorts of folks around anxiety, depression, relational concerns, trauma and the stresses of living in the current moment.
Graham is an Internal Family Systems-informed therapist who also uses relational, somatic, mindfulness , dreamwork and ritual practices to help support the therapeutic journey.
Graham accepts Regence, Premera and Lifewise insurance. He offers free 30 minute consultation to explore working together; please see his website for more information.
Connected Pleasure Coaching
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Gig Harbor, WA
she/her/hersKayla Moore is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified sex therapist-in-training, and the founder of Connected Pleasure Coaching. She helps magical women heal from patriarchal conditioning and reclaim their relationship to sex, intimacy, and sacred feminine power. With over five years of experience and hundreds of clients served, Kayla blends clinical wisdom with intuitive coaching to guide women into deeper pleasure, safety, and self-connection. She’s currently calling in new 1:1 clients and 10 founding members to co-create Sacred Sex—a transformational course designed to help women reclaim their relationship to sex through the lens of softness, safety, and soul.
Caduceus Counseling
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Nadine Flowers
Venice Beach, CA
she/her/hers
Specialties: Trauma Specialist, EMDR, Somatic Approaches“My approach is client centered and strengths based. The ethos of my work is sourced from a holistic and compassionate foundation and integrates evidence based interventions and self care practices (mindfulness, nervous system regulation) so that you can learn the tools needed to gain more mastery over your mental and emotional well-being.”
Nicci Ramsey, LPC
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Oregon & Arizona
she/they
Specialities: adolescents and adults, ADHD, autism, systemic oppression, supervision and consultation for people and therapists in Oregon and Arizona.“I am a dedicated mental health therapist and a lifelong learner. I truly believe that it is important to remain open in a field that is constantly changing and developing. I am grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of others’ lives and their process of learning, awareness, and change. I have experience across several populations and thrive while working with adolescents, adults, and families. I look forward to opportunities to collaborate with you and support you through your therapy process. I have a tremendous respect for ethics, being client centered, LGBTQIA2S+ affirming, culturally sensitive, and being anti-oppressive.”
A Change Within Sight
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Sarvenaz Sepehri, PsyD.
Sacramento, CA
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Specialties: Individuals and couples looking for relational changesTherapeutic Assessment is where psychological testing and therapy meet in the middle. People usually seek out an assessment because they have questions they want answered. For example, you might be wondering:
Do I have ADHD?
Why am I such a perfectionist?
How can I have longer lasting relationships?
How can I feel confident enough to try new things?
All of these questions are fair game and so many more. In fact, your curiosity will be the driving force behind this collaboration. We'll be co-pilots because no one knows you better than you, so your input will be essential. The tests we'll work on together are tools that will help us understand you through a refreshed lens. The answers to your questions will lend to a narrative about yourself that is more accurate, compassionate, and empowering.
SweeneyPsych
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Jocie Sweeney
Charlotte, NC
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Specialities: LGBTQ+ adults addressing issues of depression, anxiety, life transitions, identity, sexuality, trauma, stress, neurodiversity, grief, and work-life balance. A couple of our clinicians work with individuals as young as 13. The practice offers individual, group, family and relationship therapy“As the Owner and Operator of SweeneyPsych, PLLC, I carefully select clinicians based on their ability to center cultural humility in order to provide effective care to assist you with learning and applying the appropriate tools to move forward through life challenges to live a joy-filled life. We all embrace diversity and provide services to multiple populations in a confidential, non-judgmental environment. Every clinician in the practice specializes in working with LGBTQ+ adults and uses the Informed Consent Model for gender-affirming surgery letters. We often partner with Charlotte Trans Health (www.charlottetranshealth.org) to help more individuals receive affordable and affirming care. Please check out our website for more information on all of our awesome clinicians!”
Crybaby Counseling
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Pamela Ganem & Associates
Portland, OR
she/her/hers
Specialties: LGBTQ+ and BIPOC children, teens, individuals, families and couples.Crybaby Counseling is dedicated to creating a welcoming, supportive, and affirming space for LGBTQ+ community including those who also hold the intersection of: Immigrant, Refugees, BIPOC, and those who Identify as Gender expansive. We recognize the unique health and safety challenges faced by these groups and are committed to promoting social healing and systemic change. We also embrace dominant identities, offering identity development for those seeking to understand their “whiteness” and “privilege,” and support for friends, family, and parents of marginalized clients to bridge understanding in their relationships.
Beauty & Wellness
Midori Lashes
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Portland, OR
she/her/hersMidori is an award winning professional aesthetician who has been performing her trade since 1994. Her primary goal and philosophy resolves around you, the customer. Midori’s skills and expertise were initially learned and perfected in Japan, giving her a unique refined talent and superior customer care.
Tacoma East Asian Medicine
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Tacoma, WA
she/her/hersAmanda Anuraga is a heart-centered practitioner of Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine and a proud, woman-owned, regenerative business owner. She grew up in Tacoma, WA and completed her studies at the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine. She founded Tacoma East Asian Medicine in 2019. In 2020, the Connect Community Clinic was born from her yearning to support the health of protesters of the death of Manny Ellis, a man in her community who was killed while in police custody. She offers weekly, donation based care, with all funds still donated passed to his sister whom he was helping raise her children. Amanda believes that fighting for health equity supports social justice. This weekly clinic serves Tacoma’s diverse and unresourced populations and hopes to increase accessibility to holistic and alternative care. 5 years later, weekly offerings have been expanded to donation-based acupuncture, massage, physical therapy, pelvic health physical therapy, craniosacral therapy and more. In 2022 Amanda was nominated to South Sound Magazine’s 40 under 40 and in 2024 was voted Best Acupuncturist by the same magazine. Amanda now works with a team of acupuncturists and herbalists at Tacoma East Asian Medicine and is grateful for the opportunity to offer compassionate care to her surrounding community.
Gentle Point
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Portland, OR
they/them/theirsRyan Law is an acupuncturist and herbalist. They started Gentle Point in 2012 after graduating from the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine with a Masters in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine.
“Your body is your home, your vehicle, your tool, your expression, and your life. When you are ill or injured it can be hard to enjoy all that your life has to offer. I want to work with you to have a body you love living in. With East Asian Medicine we look at you as a whole to address your symptoms and their causes.”
Katie Rogers Nutrition
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Portland, OR
she/her/hersKatie is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist licensed to practice in both Oregon and Washington. Based in Portland, she offers personalized nutrition counseling rooted in a size-inclusive and trauma-informed approach. Katie specializes in supporting adults of all genders and backgrounds in healing from eating disorders and disordered eating. She also works with individuals seeking guidance for managing diabetes, gastrointestinal concerns, lipid disorders, and more. Her compassionate, evidence-based care is tailored to each client's unique needs and lived experiences.
Suniti Dernovsek
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Portland, OR
she/her/hers“My interest as a movement guide is to offer an embodied experience that respects each individual’s process. Through years of practice I am skilled at seeing bodies and directing attention to what is quiet or unanimated. When we strengthen our ability to pay attention we open up to more possibilities and we bring an experience into existence that did not previously exist. I view asana and all movement practice as creative research involving an open flow of information. We learn more about what we think we know and are in a constant state of surprise from all that we do not know.
I have been a student of dance, yoga and Buddhism for 20 years and I’ve been teaching since 2004. I teach a warm and generous style of movement that is influenced by my interest in contemporary and classical dance forms, Iyengar and Vinyasa yoga and mindfulness. I currently study with Michael Stone, Lama Padma Drimed Norbu, Wendy Hambidge and Todd Jackson. I bring my love of movement, fondness of detail and my own understanding of practice into my teaching.”
The People’s Yoga
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Portland, OR
Locations: NE Killingsworth and SE HawthorneOur mission from the beginning has been to offer an inclusive, non-dogmatic, and welcoming environment where individuals from all walks of life and financial backgrounds can experience the healing benefits of yoga.
Lilac Sugaring
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Portland, OR
she/her/hersJess is an Alaskan-born esthetician with 10 years of esthetic experience and the proud owner of Lilac Sugaring, a welcoming, inclusive self-care studio she’s run for the past 4 years. She specializes in body sugaring, custom spray tans, and other esthetic services, creating a space where everyone feels confident in their skin. When she’s not in the shop, you’ll find her with her two chihuahuas, sipping coffee or Redbull, crocheting something cozy, or daydreaming about swimming with manatees.
May Lily Head Spa
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Camas, WA
Try the Ultimate Tranquility- 105 minutes massage and ask for Julie! She’s the best!
Designers & Creatives
clownstoothh
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Portland, OR
he/him/his“Hello! I am a tattoo artist based in Portland and I love clean lines and anything beautiful and elegant. I believe in cultivating a safe, consent-forward space. My first priority is making you feel comfortable whether you're getting your first or 50th tattoo. If you're in the market for a new design, let's talk!” - James Lenius
**Nicole’s been tattoo’d by James and LOVES his work!
Wayform Studio
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Joe McNeill + Caitlin Ranson
Portland, OR
he/him/his + she/her/hersFounded in 2012, we adopted a ‘Say Yes’ attitude, intent on bringing excellent design to all facets of the built and digital worlds.
Our experience in commercial & residential architecture, graphic & brand design, event planning and floral design allows us to serve your needs in whichever design discipline you require.
From ADU’s to Identities to Zinnias, we have a breadth of design experience that can make your space sing.
