HEALING • INTEGRATION • GROWTH

Embodied psychotherapy for adults in Oregon and California

WELCOME TO THE PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE OF KIP WILLIAMS, PH.D.

Maybe you’re carrying more than anyone around you realizes. Maybe you’re carrying more than even you realize.

Some of what you carry may belong to experiences you can name: the heaviness of loss; the aftermath of a rupture, violation, or sudden change; or the strain of navigating a world that doesn’t always make space for who you are.

Other layers can be harder to locate. They may live in patterns that have followed you through relationships, in ways of protecting yourself that once made sense, or in burdens you learned to carry within your culture or family long before you had words for them.

Over time, all of this can shape how you move through the world—how tightly you hold on, how hard you work to keep things together, what you expect from relationships, what you allow yourself to experience, and how safe you feel to simply and fully be who you are.

As a gay/queer therapist, I offer affirming care that honors the richness, resilience, and joy of LGBTQIA2S+ lives. My work is grounded in social justice and an orientation to collective liberation.

A HOLISTIC APPROACH

Many clients come to my practice seeking an alternative to conventional “talk therapy” and diagnosis-driven models of mental health. My approach is embodied, depth-oriented, and relational. Learn more about Integrative Mindful-Somatic Psychotherapy.

THIS WORK MAY RESONATE IF YOU WANT TO:

  • Move beyond insight into embodied, relational change.

  • Meet difficult patterns and emotions with more compassion.

  • Explore how family, identity, culture, and systems have shaped you.

  • Make room for meaning, spirituality, consciousness, and growth.

  • Cultivate more presence, choice, connection, and authenticity.

  • Integrate complementary practices such as mindfulness, breathwork, ecotherapy, therapeutic touch, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and ritual or ceremony.

THIS WORK MAY NOT RESONATE IF YOU WANT TO:

  • Focus mainly on venting or processing the events of each week.

  • Follow a highly structured, skills-based, or symptom-focused treatment protocol.

  • Keep therapy primarily intellectual or focused on gaining insight.

  • Focus mainly on controlling, eliminating, or overcoming uncomfortable emotions.

  • Keep therapy strictly talk-based, without somatic, experiential, or expanded-state practices.

  • Pursue psychedelic- or medicine-assisted experiences without preparation, relationship, and integration.

I created With the Flow to offer a sacred and trauma-sensitive space where grief can enter without frightening anyone, where pain doesn’t have to be fixed or figured out, and where what may have traveled through generations can finally be met with enough presence that something new becomes possible.

Flow isn’t the absence of difficulty; it’s the capacity for movement within it. This work is about meeting all your feelings, parts, and protective strategies with awareness and love—creating the conditions to relate to them differently. Not to be erased or conquered, but to be integrated.

The goal isn’t to be perpetually in flow, but to come back to the stream again and again. Some things may dissolve, some may settle, some may be carried downstream, and some may alter the shape of the banks forever.

WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER

Like the seasons of the year, our lives move through periods of emergence, growth, transformation, release, rest, and renewal. My individual work with clients unfolds through a seasonal course of therapy sessions organized loosely around the natural turning points of the year.

A typical therapeutic “season” lasts 3-6 months and includes around 6-24 sessions, although the length and rhythm of the work remain responsive to your needs and to what emerges along the way. You might enter a therapeutic season as:

  • a new client beginning an initial course of therapy,

  • a former client returning to explore something newly arising,

  • or someone who already has a regular therapist and is seeking a focused series of psychedelic-assisted therapy.

INDIVIDUAL THERAPY FOR ADULTS

  • In-person sessions are available at my office in NW Portland (Slabtown).

  • Teletherapy is offered by Zoom for clients located anywhere in Oregon or California.

  • Common areas of focus include anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, LGBTQ+ issues, and activist burnout.

SPECIALIZATIONS

  • Outdoor Ecotherapy sessions are available year-round on accessible nature trails in Portland.

  • Conscious Cannabis is a mindfulness-based approach for clients who want to shift their relationship with cannabis.

  • Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is available for clients interested in exploring expanded states of consciousness as part of their therapeutic journey.