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

  • Portland, OR
    he/him/his
    Specialties: Relationships and sexual Issues

    Patrick 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

  • Portland, OR
    she/her/hers
    Specialties: Anxiety, Perfectionism, LGBTQIA+ identity exploration, Disordered Eating/Eating Disorders

    Hope 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

  • 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

  • San Francisco & Los Angeles, CA
    she/her/hers
    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

  • Los Angeles, CA
    she/her/hers
    Seeking: individuals looking to work with IFS or address C-PTSD/comorbid diagnoses  in Oregon

    Holly 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

  • Los Angeles, CA
    she/her/hers
    Specialities: Career & Relationship Success for individuals and couples

    Dr. 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

  • 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

  • Portland, OR
    she/her/hers
    Specialties: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Complex PTSD, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Trauma, Dreamwork, Depth Psychotherapy

    Chance 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

  • San Francisco, CA
    she/her/hers
    Specialties: Adults navigating ADHD, anxiety, grief, burnout, and life transitions

    Dr. 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.

Connected Pleasure Coaching

  • Gig Harbor, WA
    she/her/hers

    Kayla 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.

Nicci Ramsey, LPC

  • 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.”

Beauty & Wellness

Midori Lashes

  • Portland, OR
    she/her/hers

    Midori 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

  • Tacoma, WA
    she/her/hers

    Amanda 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

  • Portland, OR
    they/them/theirs

    Ryan 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

  • Portland, OR
    she/her/hers

    Katie 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

  • 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

  • Portland, OR
    Locations: NE Killingsworth and SE Hawthorne

    Our 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

  • Portland, OR
    she/her/hers

    Jess 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

  • Camas, WA

    Try the Ultimate Tranquility- 105 minutes massage and ask for Julie! She’s the best!

Seek presence in the body, compassion in the mind, and joy with others.