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About Bridge To Relationship

At Bridge to Relationship, we believe therapy should be transformative—not just about coping, but about real, lasting change. Led by Bridget Saladino, LPC, our team offers integrative, neuroscience-based, relational therapy that helps individuals, couples, and families heal deeply and thrive. We’re passionate about delivering compassionate, effective care that honors every person’s unique story and strengths.

Our Approach

At Bridge to Relationship, we’re deeply committed to creating therapy that’s compassionate, curious, and profoundly effective. We integrate diverse modalities—from Memory Reconsolidation and the Nurtured Heart Approach to psychedelic-assisted therapy—all grounded in the latest neuroscience. We believe therapy should feel safe, affirming, and free of judgment. Our style is warm yet direct, blending humor, gentle challenge, and deep respect for each person’s journey. We tailor every session to your unique needs and work at your pace. Whether you’re healing trauma, transforming relationships, or exploring new ways to thrive, we’re here to support real, lasting change.

Meet The Team

Bridge to Relationship team members share a commitment to transformative healing grounded in science, compassion, and respect. All employees are certified in the Nurtured Heart Approach and all of our therapists are certified in Memory Reconsolidation. Together, we bring a variety of additional specialties to support our clients in the ways that suit them best.

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Bridget Saladino (She/Her), LPC, M.Div., D.Min. (ABD), KAT, NHA AT, Practice Owner/Director

Bridget founded Bridge because she believes in transformation and that coping isn't enough. She built a $25M company, lobbied the legislature, and worked in 30+ countries before deciding real change happens in relationship. Bridget is an integrative therapist, certified mediator, and the founder of Bridge to Relationship. Before counseling full time, she co-founded and led a manufacturing startup from a garage to a global enterprise, ran a marketing firm, and worked as a lobbyist and a city communications director. That history is why she is impatient with therapy that only helps people cope: she has seen what people are capable of when the right conditions are in place. Her clinical work centers on three things. Talk-Free Therapy using the latest neuroscience in Memory Reconsolidation, often resolving painful memories in a handful of sessions. The Nurtured Heart Approach, in which she is a Certified Advanced Trainer, for transforming difficult family, parenting, and couple dynamics. And psychedelic-assisted therapy, including ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, for people ready for deeper work. She also brings rare depth in both women's and men's issues, shaped by doctoral study in international feminist studies and a master's in counseling and world religions. Bridget supervises and mentors the Bridge team and is building the practice's internship program. She is the parent of two young adults, has traveled to more than 30 countries, and brings presence, creativity, and bold-hearted strategy to everything she does.

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Wes Murph (He/Him), MA, Licensed Professional Counselor

Wes is an ecotherapist who works with adults, adolescents, and parents to create meaningful change and stronger relationships. He helps clients struggling with depression, anxiety, ADHD, self-esteem, anger, and relational conflict. Wes also supports parents in building deeper connections with their children and men in navigating anger and conflict to improve their quality of life. Wes integrates CBT, ACT, and DBT in his practice, always tailoring therapy to the client’s goals and needs. He offers walk-and-talk therapy (ecotherapy) in Portland parks, combining movement, time in nature, and conversation for a unique therapeutic experience that benefits both mind and body. Before becoming a therapist, Wes owned two businesses—one featured on The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan—and brings that entrepreneurial perspective to his work with clients, including business owners, creatives, athletes, parents, educators, and students. As a father, husband, coach, and lifelong learner, he values trust, humility, and transparency in every therapeutic relationship. Wes believes humility is a superpower and strives to create a safe, grounded, and collaborative space for growth.​​​​​​​​​​​

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Hilary Foreman (They/She), MA, Professional Counselor Associate

Hilary works with sensitive adults running on empty. Burnout, perfectionism, chronic stress, and the quiet complexity of midlife are her territory, approached nervous system first. Hilary is a somatic, trauma-informed therapist for adults who are highly sensitive, neurodivergent, or simply exhausted from holding it all together. Before therapy she worked as a photographer and a yoga teacher, then coached clients and emerging leaders at Lyra and BetterUp; she knows the high-functioning version of anxiety from the inside. Her toolkit is deep: Brainspotting (Levels 1 and 2), EMDR (Level 1), Rapid Trauma Processing, mindfulness-based somatic psychotherapy, Hakomi-informed work, and EFT fundamentals. She is a strong match for people who want embodied, mindfulness-based individual work, and for anyone navigating chronic pain, trauma, life transitions, or relational and communication struggles. Hilary holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and completed her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Antioch University with a certificate in gender-affirming LGBTQIA+ care. Her practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming, neurodivergence affirming, and anti-racist. Grounded, gentle, steady.

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LB Miller (They/Them), MS, NCC
Professional Counselor Associate

After more than a 10 years, LB sees the person and the system at the same time. They work with LGBTQIA+ and trans adults, neurodivergent folks, chosen families, and people in their 20s or 65+ figuring out what's next. LB is a relational, person-centered therapist whose work is always about relationships: with yourself, with others, and within a couple, polycule, or family. They draw on Relational-Cultural Theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, DBT skills, mindfulness, and self-compassion through a systemic, anti-oppressive lens that is neurodiversity affirming and Health at Every Size informed. Mixed-neurotype relationships are a particular interest. LB has spent more than a decade building trans-inclusive systems from the inside: founding a trans and gender-nonconforming peer support group in college, advising OHSU's Transgender Health Program, writing the first trans-inclusive language guide in a research department, and developing psychoeducation for parents of transgender people. They also coach neurodivergent students on executive function, which shows in their practical approach to ADHD and autism traits. Their background spans behavioral neuroscience research, evidence-based medicine, and frontline clinic work as the first point of contact for 2,000 patients at Central City Concern. LB is a recipient of Oregon Health Authority's Behavioral Health Workforce Initiative grant and holds an M.S. in Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling from Portland State University. Warm, grounded, client-centered.

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Taylor Adams (He/Him), MA Candidate Professional Mental Health Counselor

Taylor's calm was forged in children's psychiatric units. He's a natural fit for first-time therapy clients, ADHD and anxiety, and trans and nonbinary people who want care that affirms. Taylor spent years as a mental health specialist in child and adolescent psychiatric hospitals in Montana and Oregon, leading coping-skills and safety-planning groups and de-escalating crises for kids ages 5 to 17. Before that he was a behavioral technician supporting autistic youth, and before that a woodworker who ran a custom shop and managed a team. Steadiness is not a style he adopted; it's what he has built. He trained through Lewis & Clark's Transcendence Project, a specialized program for transgender and nonbinary clients, where he provides affirming counseling and writes referral letters for gender-affirming care. He is especially passionate about LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent communities and people healing from religious trauma, and he is a good first therapist: warm, collaborative, and unhurried with anyone who has never done this before. Taylor works with individuals, couples, and adolescents on anxiety, depression, ADHD, identity, and relationship patterns. He is a Professional Mental Health Counseling intern at Lewis & Clark College.

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Trevor Henthorne (He/Him), MS Candidate Professional Mental Health Counselor

Trevor set out to be an archaeologist. He still digs, now into the culture, history, and stories that shape anxiety, depression, and OCD, with warmth, mindfulness, and a little humor. Trevor studied anthropology and archaeology before finding his way to counseling, and that lens is still the foundation: he believes culture shapes our values, identities, and present-day experience, and he works comfortably with clients of any background, identity, or lifestyle. A decade of client-facing work and eight years running live and virtual events mean he is unflappable under pressure and completely at ease on telehealth. Trevor works one-on-one with adults navigating anxiety, depression, OCD symptoms, life adjustments, cultural issues, and relational trauma. He draws on mindfulness, narrative and Gestalt techniques, and solution-focused work, and with two years of experience leading yoga and mindfulness sessions, guided meditation and grounding are part of what he offers in the room, not just something he recommends. An advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, Trevor creates a space of validation, safety, and empathy with a welcoming, centered, and often funny presence. He is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling intern at George Fox University.

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Erin Kline (She/Her), MA Candidate Marriage & Family Counselor

Erin knows what actually helps people get better. After years in healthcare and a published paper on pronatalism in therapy, she works with couples and with women navigating what's next. Erin is drawn to intimate relationships and to women navigating identity, transition, and life stage: divorce, infidelity, co-parenting, and parenthood or the decision not to pursue it. She is a Marriage and Family Therapy intern at Northwestern University, where she trained in Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST), a relational, multi-modal approach that considers the full biological, psychological, relational, and societal context of a person's life. She also draws on EFT, structural and systemic work, and a feminist lens, and is completing Level 1 certification in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT). Before counseling, Erin spent years in healthcare with Eli Lilly, partnering with providers to improve patient outcomes, and earlier in student recruitment and academic advising. She co-authored a published article on pronatalism and the therapist's lens: how the cultural assumption that everyone should have children shows up in the therapy room, and how clinicians can check it. Erin works with adults, couples, families, and children. Warm, curious, integrative, and relaxed.

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Tulia Cascioppo (She/Her), MA Candidate Marriage & Family Counselor

Tulia learned attunement in families' hardest moments. Years of in-home work with autistic kids and teens shaped how she meets individuals, couples, and families now. Tulia spent several years as a Registered Behavior Technician providing in-home therapy for children and teens with autism and FASD, using assent-focused, play-based, and child-led approaches. She worked side by side with parents on routines and goals, supported teens through severe distress, and ran friendship groups and a check-and-connect curriculum for K–2 students. That work gave her a lived understanding of complex family dynamics, emotional regulation, and crisis response that most emerging therapists don't have yet. As a marriage and family therapist, she works from a systemic, strengths-based lens and is drawn to Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and somatic approaches. She is a natural fit for families with a neurodivergent child, parents who feel worn down, and couples and individuals who want a therapist who stays calm in hard moments. Tulia holds a B.S. in Psychology from Western Washington University and is a Couple and Family Therapy intern at Antioch University. She approaches therapy with openness, collaboration, and deep respect for each client's lived experience.

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Hayley Brumfield (She/Her), QMHA, MA Candidate
Addictions Counselor

Hayley knows recovery means seeing the whole person. After eight years in eating disorder treatment, she specializes in recovery, body image, chronic illness, and medical trauma. Hayley brings eight years of experience in eating disorder treatment across residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient levels of care, from meal support and crisis de-escalation to leading a recovery coach team and facilitating DBT, CBT, ACT, and process groups. Over those years she noticed a pattern: many people struggling with an eating disorder were also facing substance use, yet the systems meant to help them addressed each issue separately. That gap is what drew her to specialize in addiction, and her goal is to offer integrated care that honors the full scope of a person's experience. She is particularly passionate about supporting people navigating eating disorders and recovery, body image concerns, chronic illness or disability, and medical trauma. Her work is grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Gestalt Therapy, with an emphasis on self-understanding, emotional awareness, and present-moment experience. She believes every part of a person developed for a reason and deserves curiosity and compassion rather than judgment. Hayley is a Professional Mental Health Counseling intern with a specialization in Addiction at Lewis & Clark College. She earned her Bachelor's in Psychology from Portland State University, and is a Qualified Mental Health Associate (QMHA).

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Dr. Susan Hall (She/Her), LMHC, D.Min., Advisor, Supervisor
 

​​Susan has devoted over three decades to social services and mental health, guided by deep compassion and curiosity about human behavior. She began her career co-founding a shelter for women and children in Indiana before earning her Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School and a Doctor of Ministry in International Feminist Theology from San Francisco Theological Seminary. Passionate about making therapy accessible, Susan co-founded Seattle Therapy Alliance, a low-cost clinic for women, in 2009. Her work integrates trauma-informed care, relationship support, and innovative approaches to personal growth and healing. Becoming a mother in 2012 has further shaped her understanding of human development and family dynamics. Today, she feels honored to walk alongside clients as they pursue healing and transformation.

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Kathy Cox (She/Her), MS, Professional Counselor Associate

Kathy helps people come home to their bodies. For adults living with chronic pain, chronic illness, or trauma the mind alone can't resolve, she offers deep, unhurried, body-centered work. Kathy's approach is rooted in the Hakomi Method, a mindfulness-based somatic psychotherapy, and in Re-Creation of the Self through M.E.T.A., with more than two years of training in each. She integrates parts work (IFS), AEDP, and Coherence Therapy, along with specialized training in Trauma-Sensitive Movement and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy for Chronic Pain. She is the right fit for adults who want experiential, body-centered therapy rather than talk alone: people navigating chronic pain and illness, long-held trauma, anxiety, and neurodivergence, and those drawn to a longer arc of self-study. Nature, ecology, and spirituality are welcome in the room. Kathy holds an M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a somatic emphasis. Insightful, experiential, and grounded.

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Sydni Vaughan (She/Her), MA, NCC Professional Counselor Associate

Sydni talks about sex, intimacy, and infidelity without flinching. She helps couples and individuals of every relationship structure rebuild trust, desire, and connection. Sydni specializes in relational and sexual health: intimacy and desire, sex therapy, infidelity and repair, divorce, attachment, and the parenting and body-image pressures that shape how people show up in relationships. She works with adults and couples across all relationship structures. Her approach is integrative and direct, drawing on sex therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, self-compassion, memory reconsolidation for relational and sexual trauma, and the Nurtured Heart Approach, in which she is a Certified Practitioner. With more than a decade of therapeutic experience and her own perspective as a married mother of two, she brings both empathy and candor. Before becoming a Counselor, Sydni worked as a Behavior Intervention Specialist in schools, mentored youth in the juvenile justice system, and supported public health departments. She is a Nationally Certified Counselor. Compassionate, calm, direct.

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Haley Westervelt (She/Her), MS, NCC
Professional Counselor Associate

Haley studies how early bonds script the way we love. An EFT-trained couples therapist and ecotherapist, she works with partners, siblings, and anyone untangling family-of-origin stress. Haley's clinical home is couples work. She trained through the Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship and Fundamentals of EFT, and since 2024 her caseload has centered on helping partners identify and interrupt the negative cycles that keep them stuck while rebuilding emotional connection. She is equally at home with individuals navigating relational stress, anxiety, identity, sibling and family dynamics, religious trauma, life transitions, and grief. Her integrative approach weaves attachment theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodynamic thinking, and somatic and experiential practices, and she holds an Ecotherapies Certificate from Lewis & Clark, so the natural world can be part of the work. Her practice is trauma-informed and culturally responsive, attentive to how identity, systems, and social context shape experience. Before counseling, Haley built marketing and partnership programs for sustainable brands, a career spent listening for what people actually need. She holds an M.S. in Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling from Portland State University and is a Nationally Certified Counselor.

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Lillie Elkins (She/Her), MA Candidate Professional Mental Health Counselor

Former therapy skeptic, Lillie gets it if you're unsure. She works with teens and young adults on identity, breakups, and big feelings, after years advocating for kids in child welfare. Lillie's focus is late teens and emerging adults: the years of first breakups, identity exploration, figuring out family, and learning to regulate emotions that feel too big. She believes therapy should be collaborative and goal-focused, and she is drawn to narrative and relational-cultural approaches that treat clients as the experts on their own lives. She comes to counseling from three years as a legal advocate for children, adolescents, and parents in juvenile dependency cases, managing a caseload of 50 to 75 clients, conducting foster and reunified home visits, and speaking for kids in rooms full of adults. Before that she was a Registered Behavior Technician working with autistic children. She knows how systems can fail young people, and how much a single steady adult can matter. A self-described former therapy skeptic, Lillie understands how daunting a first appointment can be. She holds a BA in Psychology from Portland State University and is a Professional Mental Health Counseling intern at Lewis & Clark College, where she also serves as a graduate teaching assistant. Supportive, approachable, real.

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Jenny Secord (She/Her), MA Candidate Marriage & Family Counselor

A salon chair taught Jenny how much we long to be seen. She works with ADHD adults, couples, and LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, and non-monogamous folks who want a therapist who won't blink. Jenny spent eight years as a master stylist running her own practice, and her clients told her everything. She learned that people show up wanting to be seen without judgment, and she built a room where they could be. She brings that steady, grounded, creative presence to therapy. She works with adults, young adults, and couples navigating ADHD and neurodivergence, trauma and stress patterns, attachment injuries, identity, relational conflict, co-parenting, and complex family histories. Her approach is relational and systemic, drawing on narrative therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, somatic awareness, mindfulness, and memory reconsolidation, in which she has completed training. She has a growing interest in EMDR and psychedelic integration. Jenny is LGBTQ+ affirming, sex positive, and experienced with non-monogamous communities, offering inclusive, consent-based care. She holds a BA in Film Studies from UC Santa Barbara and is a Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy intern at Lewis & Clark College.

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Morgan Wilde (She/Her), MA Candidate Mental Health Counselor

What kept you safe now keeps you apart. Morgan works with couples, estranged families, adult siblings, and chosen family on the protective patterns that get in the way of closeness. Morgan's specialty is relationships in all their forms: couples, including mixed-neurotype and LGBTQIA+ couples; adult parents and children; siblings; friends; and chosen family. She is especially drawn to family estrangement and family dysfunction, and to the early attachment injuries and childhood trauma underneath them. She helps people identify the protective and survival patterns that once made perfect sense and now create obstacles to trust and closeness. Her approach is emotionally focused, attachment-based, IFS-informed, and trauma-informed somatic, and she is trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (Levels 1 and 2, with Level 3 underway). Non-pathologizing, warm, and direct. Before counseling, Morgan spent years as a trauma-informed coach helping people navigate survival strategies and relationship patterns that no longer served them.

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Elise Steinberg (She/Her), MA Candidate Marriage & Family Counselor

Elise helps families feel less alone with ADHD. Raised by anthropologists and trained in sociology, she brings a systems lens and a decade of work with kids to family therapy. Raised by anthropologists and trained as a sociologist before turning to counseling, Elise sees people as inseparable from the relationships and systems around them, which makes family work feel like home. She has personal experience navigating ADHD within her own family and is passionate about helping parents and children feel supported, understood, and capable as they work through its complexities together. Elise's approach draws from person-centered, existential, mindfulness-based, and somatic work, along with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She believes growth is possible for everyone, that healing happens in relationship, and that building psychological flexibility helps us face the parts of life that feel unacceptable. Attachment theory runs through everything she does, shaped by years of watching how secure connection changes what a child can do. Before graduate school, Elise worked with children in nearly every capacity imaginable, from infant care to leading Montessori aftercare classrooms to mentoring middle schoolers. She is a Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling intern at Portland State University. When she's not working, you'll likely find her reading, baking, crafting, or petting her cat, Azula.

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Kai Walsh (They/He)
Client Care Coordinator

Kai brings both heart and strategy to Bridge to Relationship, providing administrative support that keeps the practice running smoothly so clients and clinicians can focus on healing. With over six years of experience in digital strategy, communications, and operations, Kai is skilled at streamlining processes, coordinating projects, and creating systems that foster accessibility and efficiency. As the founder of The Queer Umbrella, Kai has led inclusive community initiatives and developed digital campaigns that uplift diverse voices. Their work is deeply informed by a commitment to equity, neurodivergent and disability inclusion, and affirming LGBTQ+ spaces. At Bridge, Kai ensures that the behind-the-scenes details are handled with care, supporting both practitioners and clients in environments that are welcoming, affirming, and grounded in purpose. When not working, you can find Kai shooting on film, working on a new passion project, or finding excuses to strike up French conversation.

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Dr. Mary Jane Wilt (She/Her), LPC, LMFT, NCC, PHD, Advisor
 

​Mary Jane specializes in helping adult survivors of childhood neglect, abuse, and trauma find lasting healing and resilience. She has advanced training in working with individuals, couples, and families impacted by sex addiction, as well as families navigating the challenges of ADHD. More recently, she completed training at the Integrative Psychiatry Institute to offer Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) and is licensed in Oregon to provide psilocybin facilitation, wrap-around services, and integration. Mary Jane considers it an honor to support clients on their journeys toward wellbeing, offering care that goes beyond credentials to create a deeply heart-centered experience. Drawing from her own personal path of healing from childhood abuse and rigid religious environments, she believes a counselor’s effectiveness is rooted in the work she’s done within herself. She’s passionate about helping clients reach the spectacular view waiting at the top of their own climbs.

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Sarah Ranney (She/Her), MS, Professional Counselor Associate

Sarah helps adults and couples break patterns, not just name them. A certified coach turned trauma therapist, she pairs Gottman and IFS with memory reconsolidation so change actually sticks. Sarah came to counseling after seven years as a certified life coach and eight years as a real estate broker, where she learned to sit with people through high-stakes decisions and hard conversations. It shows in her therapy: grounded, practical, and focused on lasting change rather than insight alone. She works with adults and couples navigating complex or developmental trauma (CPTSD), anxiety, depression, attachment wounds, grief, divorce, and life transitions. Her trauma training runs unusually deep: Memory Reconsolidation and an Intensive Trauma Treatment certification, integrated with Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, somatic work, and Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Level 1). She is also a Nurtured Heart Approach Certified Practitioner and facilitated women's groups for years. Sarah holds an M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and is a Nationally Certified Counselor. Compassionate, grounded, and nervous-system focused.

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C. M. Tollefson (He/Him), MA, NCC Professional Counselor Associate

C.M. helps men say what they were taught not to. A trauma specialist trained in EMDR, ART, and memory reconsolidation, he works with complex trauma and the grief and shame beneath it. C.M. is Bridge's deep-trauma specialist for adults. His work centers on complex and long-term trauma (CPTSD) and the nervous-system dysregulation that comes with it, using EMDR and Memory Reconsolidation alongside psychodynamic, existential, and Emotionally Focused approaches. Many clients arrive feeling stuck in recurring patterns, disconnected from themselves or others, or overwhelmed by grief, shame, anxiety, or self-doubt. His aim is to reduce distress while helping people reconnect with meaning, purpose, and their authentic selves. He has a particular interest in men's issues and in how systemic pressures shape what men are allowed to feel and say. That interest has philosophical roots: he holds honors degrees in both Psychology and Philosophy, with a thesis integrating Spinoza and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Before therapy, C.M. spent a decade as a bartender, learning rapport, rupture, and repair in real time, and he founded Cathexis Northwest Press, a poetry publisher he still runs. He holds a master's in Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling from Portland State University and is a Nationally Certified Counselor. Deep, grounded, trauma-specialized.

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Shannon Hoffman (She/Her), MA Candidate Marriage & Family Counselor
 

Youngest of four, Shannon has always studied families. She works with couples and relationships of every structure through conflict, communication breakdowns, and the aftermath of affairs. Shannon's focus is relationship repair: couples and partners, including consensually non-monogamous relationships, who need help with communication, conflict resolution, recognizing the cycle they're in, and building a different one. She also works with families and adolescents navigating family conflict. She is direct in a way clients find relieving: warm, strengths-based, and honest about what she sees. She is trained in Integrative Systemic Therapy through Northwestern University's COAMFTE-accredited program, holds a Queer Adjusted Systemic Lens certificate, is a Nurtured Heart Approach Certified Practitioner, and has completed training in Memory Reconsolidation. Her clinical training emphasizes multicultural competence, cultural humility, and social justice. Growing up the youngest of four in a small Midwestern town gave Shannon an early appreciation for how family dynamics and environment shape a person, and years leading a busy restaurant team taught her to read a room and hold steady in conflict. She holds a BS in Psychology from the University of Iowa and is a Marriage and Family Therapy intern from Northwestern University.

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Michelle Sorensen (She/Her), MA Candidate Professional Mental Health Counselor

Michelle spent 20 years in neuroscience labs studying how the brain changes. Now she helps adults and couples do the deeper work, beyond talk therapy, that makes change real. Michelle spent two decades as a research associate and lab manager at Oregon Health & Science University, publishing in behavioral neuroscience, immunology, and cardiac research. That work grounds her deep respect for neuroplasticity: the brain's capacity to reshape itself through new experiences, relationships, and insight. She is drawn to clients who want more than talk, and she is trained in Memory Reconsolidation and Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Levels 1 and 2). Her approach is relational, attachment-based, and trauma-informed, with a strong feminist and social justice perspective and a commitment to LGBTQIA+ affirming care. Since 2020 she has worked at Rose Haven, a day shelter for women, children, and marginalized genders, supporting people through poverty, trauma, and loss, and she served as a Spanish-language interpreter on a medical mission to rural Bolivia. A native Portlander, silversmith, and mom of two college students, Michelle is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling intern at George Fox University. Compassionate and insight-oriented.

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Morgan Diaz (He/They), MA Candidate Mental Health Counselor

A former child welfare caseworker and children's psychiatric lead for more than 10 years, Morgan helps autistic, ADHD, and OCD kids and teens feel understood. Morgan brings more than ten years of community-based work with children, including five dedicated to neurodivergent youth. He has been a child welfare caseworker for the Oregon Department of Human Services, the lead psychiatric technician at a children's residential facility, and an adaptive swim instructor for neurodivergent learners, and he holds Oregon's QMHA credential. He knows what it looks like when a kid is overwhelmed, and what helps. He specializes in children and teens navigating autism, ADHD, OCD, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm, and enjoys working with the whole family. Morgan believes therapy should welcome conversation but not rely on it: drawings, play, repetitive behaviors, and special interests can carry as much meaning as words. His approach is casual, collaborative, and child-centered, with a person-centered, psychodynamic, and DBT-informed foundation and a growing interest in play therapy. Morgan holds a master's in Communication and Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University and is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling intern at George Fox University.

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Che Flores (He/Him), MA Candidate Marriage & Family Counselor

Che goes for the story underneath the story. Bilingual in Spanish and English, he works with individuals and couples, and men especially, on what lives beneath anger and shutdown. Che is drawn to depth work: not surface-level behavioral fixes, but the protective stories and survival strategies formed early that still govern how we move through the world. Grounded in psychodynamic insight, trauma-informed care, and existential philosophy, he pairs profound empathy with honest, loving challenge. He has a particular interest in men's issues, including how covert depression, suppressed grief, and childhood trauma show up as anger, emotional shutdown, or relationship distress. His path here was not direct. He earned a degree in political economy from The Evergreen State College, worked in the service industry for more than a decade, and interned on congressional campaigns before finding his way to direct human connection: as a peer recovery specialist supporting people in acute crisis, as a volunteer on the Fireside Project's psychedelic support line, and as a camp counselor for adults with disabilities. He offers therapy in English and Spanish. Che works with adults, couples, and young children and is a Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling intern at Portland State University. Thoughtful, curious, steady.

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Ali Cooper (She/Her), MA Candidate Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counselor

Ali has guided hundreds through ketamine therapy. She works with people navigating relationships, transition, and meaning, blending IFS, somatic, and transpersonal approaches. Ali works with individuals navigating relationships, self-discovery, transition, and the search for meaning. Her approach is grounded in deep respect for the wisdom of each person's direct experience and their capacity to trust their own inner knowing. She holds her clinical frameworks lightly, as supports rather than scripts, so that each person's lived experience stays at the center of the work. Her training draws from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Restoration Therapy, and somatic, relational, and transpersonal approaches, with a particular focus on attachment and adult development. Her practice is a container for exploring developmental edges, the lesser-known parts of ourselves, relational and attachment dynamics, identity, existential questions, psychedelic integration, and spiritual growth and emergence. Since 2021, Ali has served as a senior integration coach and guide educator in ketamine-assisted therapy, facilitating preparation and integration sessions for clients working with anxiety, depression, OCD, and trauma, and training other guides. She is also a certified functional health coach and yoga teacher and holds a BFA in Textiles. She is a Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling Psychology intern at Naropa University.

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Isabella Culpepper (She/Her)
Administrative Assistant

​Isabella brings warmth, organization, and a global perspective to the Bridge To Relationship team. Over the past four years, she’s lived and studied in Costa Rica, Czechia, Italy, and Greece, developing cultural awareness, adaptability, and a genuine love for connecting with people. A certified Yoga Instructor after six transformative months in a Bahamas ashram, Bella blends mindfulness and wellness with practical skills honed in hospitality, client service, and event management. She’s currently pursuing a degree in Psychology in Athens, Greece, deepening her understanding of human relationships and well-being. Friendly and resourceful, Bella keeps the Bridge To Relationship office running smoothly—and when she’s not tending to client or office needs, you can usually find her soaking up the sun at the beach.

Join Our Team

Are you a passionate Therapist, Associate, or Intern who believes in transformative, neuroscience-based therapy? At Bridge to Relationship, we’re growing a team of clinicians dedicated to deep healing, innovative methods, and compassionate care.

 

We value:

  • Warm, authentic presence

  • Commitment to ongoing learning and new modalities

  • Inclusivity and cultural humility

  • Creativity and collaboration

 

We offer:

  • A supportive team environment

  • Opportunities for advanced training in areas like rapid trauma processing and family and couples work

  • Flexibility to create a caseload that fits your life

  • Competitive compensation and administrative support

If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you. Let’s build something meaningful together.

Get in touch!

You deserve therapy that truly changes your life.

Let’s start the journey.

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