Hello!

I’m Chelsea Kellogg (she/her/hers). I spend my free time gardening, cooking, doing yoga, and nerding out with my partner over our various shared interests (including our adorable pets). For those who find personality tests fun, I am an INFP and Enneagram 4 wing 5. I am white with European ancestors, female, fat (and not dieting or attempting to make my body smaller), differently able bodied, middle class, cis-gender, bisexual, female, living with an autoimmune disorder, and born and raised in the United States. As such, I hold identities that are both privileged and marginalized.

I believe that we all have identities, and our identities coexist with our bodies. These identities might carry pain, shame, grief, marginalization, historical/ancestral trauma, and systemic oppression. Our identities also carry tremendous power, pride, purpose, love, history, strength, beauty and so much more. I am aware that my identities offer me unearned privilege in many ways. This awareness is an ongoing process of constant unlearning, listening, and self-reflection, to which I am deeply committed. I welcome open conversation, feedback, and reflection regarding our shared or differing identities, cultures/sub cultures, and experiences in our work together as I believe this level of dialogue is integral to the healing work that is possible in therapy.

There are many times in our life’s journey when we need to lean on another for support. When I think about how to describe my style as a therapist, an image of someone holding a lantern as they walk along a dark road comes to my mind. Like a lantern, I will be a helper to you on your journey, there to illuminate a safer passage so that your unique strengths and wisdom become more visible, more accessible to you along the way.

This means I will motivate and challenge you with kindness and compassion rather than coercion or criticism. I will work to strike a balance between leading and following. I aim to be curious, non-judgmental, warm, imperfectly human, down to earth, and to model ways of being that are different than those preferred by colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy culture, and corporate America.

My approach involves several evidence-based therapeutic modalities that weave together mindfulness, relationship, emotion, memory, creativity, reflection, the present moment, the mind, and the body. I incorporate attachment work into every session and attachment theory is at the core of the therapeutic work I do. This means I place a strong emphasis on forming a therapeutic relationship that is compassionate, emotionally attuned, and loving.

I draw from the following therapy models and theories:

• Systems theories including feminist, family systems, queer theory, and critical race theory

• Emotionally Focused Therapy

• Gottman Method

• Attachment Theory & Interpersonal Neurobiology

• Psychodynamic Therapy

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Body Trust

• Somatic and Experiential Therapies

• Humanism

• Motivational Interviewing

• Non-violent communication

• Relational Life Therapy

As an associate, I am currently under clinical supervision with Silvana Espinoza Lau, LMFT. I will complete requirements for licensure by the fall of 2024.

Education and Training

• DBT Skills (in progress 2024)

• Substance Use and Addiction: Effects, Risks, and Harm Reduction Strategies for Clients, 2023

• Gottman Level 2 Clinical Training, 2023

• Gottman Level 1 Clinical Training, 2023

• 2023, ADHD, Executive Functioning, and Health Outcomes: Implications for Life Expectancy and Clinical Management (Digital Seminar)

• 2023, ADHD in Adults: Diagnosis, Impairments and Management with Russell Barkley, Ph.D. (Digital Seminar)

• 2023, Relational Life Therapy trainings including “Grandiose Women & Shut Down men”, and “Working With Men”

• 2022, Autism Assessment in Adults: Differentiating the Complexities of Autism from Co-Occurring Mental Health Issues

• 2022, Healing the Hidden Roots of Shame Workshop, Diane Poole Heller

• 2022, Polyvagal Theory, Principles and Practice

• 2022, Body Trust Retreat

• 2022, Foundations of Motivational Interviewing

• 2o22, ACT for Grief and Loss

• 2022, Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy Training

• 2022, ACT for Beginners

• 2021, M.A. Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy, Sex Therapy Track, Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling

  • 2020-2021, Externship in Medical Family Therapy, Behavioral Health Intern, Peacehealth South West Family Medicine

  • 2020-2021, Internship at Lewis and Clark Community Counseling Clinic, Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapist Trainee

• 2021, Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma with Janina Fisher, Ph.D.: Tools for Survivors and Therapists

• 2021, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with Pat Ogden, Ph.D.: Body Oriented Therapy Techniques for Trauma and Attachment

• 2021, Dissociation 101

• 2021, EFT: Attachment Science in Practice

• 2020, Non Violent Communication Foundations Class, Rose City NVC

• 2019, Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, Module 1, M.E.T.A. Institute

• 2017, Call to Safety, Basic Advocacy Training, Domestic and Sexual Violence Intervention

• 2014, B.A. English, Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin-Madison