Counseling & Mental Health Therapy

Counseling and mental health therapy provides a safe, confidential space where a licensed clinician works with you to address emotional, psychological, and behavioral challenges that affect your well-being and daily life. Through evidence-based therapeutic approaches, therapy helps you build coping skills, manage stress or trauma, improve relationships, and support long-term mental health and resilience.

333 SW Taylor St, Portland

503-208-5272

amandamelbostad@creativeembodiedpsychotherapy.com

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Counseling & Mental Health Therapy in Portland, Oregon

At Village Movement Health, our therapeutic services provide compassionate, trauma-informed support for adults navigating anxiety, depression, stress, grief, trauma, relationship challenges, identity exploration, and life transitions. Using integrative approaches—including somatic therapy, mindfulness, relational therapy, and creative expression—our licensed clinicians offer individualized care that supports emotional healing, nervous system regulation, self-awareness, and lasting resilience. Therapy is tailored to help you deepen your connection to yourself, strengthen relationships, and develop sustainable coping tools in a supportive, collaborative, and confidential environment. Together, we work to process trauma, strengthen self-awareness, improve relationships, build effective coping strategies, and cultivate greater resilience, embodiment, and self-trust in everyday life.

Somatic, Relational & Trauma-Informed Therapy

Somatic, Relational Therapy offers a collaborative, trauma-informed space for adults seeking support with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, identity exploration, life transitions, and emotional overwhelm. Using an integrative approach that blends somatic therapy, mindfulness, existential-humanistic therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, and creative expression, sessions support deeper connection between mind, body, and emotions.

What Is Somatic, Relational & Trauma-Informed Therapy?

Somatic, relational, and trauma-informed therapy is an integrative approach that supports healing through the connection between mind, body, emotions, and relationships.

Somatic therapy focuses on how experiences are held in the body. It helps you notice and regulate nervous system responses, process stress and trauma through body awareness, and reconnect with a sense of grounding and safety.

Relational therapy emphasizes the role of connection in healing and focuses on collaboration. It explores patterns in relationships—both past and present—and supports new ways of relating to yourself and others with greater awareness, authenticity, and trust.

Trauma-informed therapy recognizes how past or ongoing experiences of trauma can impact emotions, the nervous system, and daily life. It prioritizes emotional safety, choice, and pacing, while supporting healing without re-traumatization.

Together, this approach offers a supportive, collaborative space to explore thoughts, emotions, relationships, and lived experiences that shape your well-being. In sessions, you can deepen self-awareness, process anxiety, grief, trauma, and life transitions, and develop more sustainable ways of coping and relating to yourself.

Using integrative, evidence-informed practices—including somatic therapy, mindfulness, relational approaches, and insight-oriented talk therapy—sessions are tailored to support emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and meaningful, lasting change.

Your Clinician

Amanda Melbostad, Professional Counselor Associate, 200YRT

Supervised by Justin Rock

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Location

In person sessions occur at 333 SW Taylor St, Suite 200, Portland OR, (roughly an 8 min drive from adidas campus).

There is potential for walk and talk therapy around the adidas campus on a case by case basis. Please reach out to discuss details if you’re interested.

Pricing & Insurance: Amanda Melbostad, Professional Counselor Associate

Accepts adidas Aetna plan (employees or adult family members on the adidas Aetna plan)

Out of Pocket Cost: $170 / Evaluation (plan of care), $150 / 50 min Ongoing Therapy session

Who this Therapy is for?

Somatic therapy supports adults seeking therapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, chronic stress, burnout, relationship challenges, identity exploration, and major life transitions. Therapy can be especially helpful if you are feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in patterns that are no longer serving you.

Working with a trauma-informed, relational, and somatic therapist, you are offered a supportive space to build emotional resilience, regulate the nervous system, improve relationships, and develop greater self-understanding and self-trust. Whether your goal is healing, personal growth, or support through a difficult season of life, therapy provides a collaborative environment to create meaningful and sustainable change.

Benefits of Somatic Therapy

Engaging in counseling and mental health therapy can help you:

Improve emotional regulation and resilience
Increase self-awareness and confidence
Build healthier relationships and communication skills
Develop long-term skills for managing stress and distress
Navigate personal challenges with greater clarity and support

My Somatic, Relational & Trauma-Informed Therapy Approach

My approach to therapy is collaborative, individualized, and grounded in somatic, relational, and trauma-informed principles. This means we work with the connection between mind, body, and relationships while honoring your lived experience, nervous system responses, and capacity for change at a sustainable pace.

I draw from integrative, evidence-informed practices including somatic therapy, relational therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, and experiential and insight-oriented talk therapy. Together, these approaches support both emotional processing and deeper awareness of how past experiences shape present patterns.

Sessions may support you in working through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, chronic stress, emotional dysregulation, identity exploration, and relational challenges. Our work also focuses on strengthening emotional regulation and nervous system awareness, increasing self-understanding, and developing practical and embodied coping skills that support long-term healing and resilience.

What to expect in Therapy

Your first session begins with a confidential, collaborative conversation to understand your lived experience, current challenges, and hopes for therapy. Together, we explore what feels most important and begin shaping a direction that reflects your needs, pace, and goals.

From there, your care is individualized and relational, with attention to emotional safety, trust, and connection. I offer a supportive, nonjudgmental space where you can explore patterns, process experiences, and develop greater clarity, regulation, and resilience. Our time together is designed to support both healing and growth in a way that feels grounded, intentional, and sustainable.

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