Whether you’ve worked with a counselor in the past or you’re entering counseling for the first time, my goal is to help you discover the life that’s calling to you. Counseling can be an agent of transformative change in your life and an avenue for healing emotional wounds. Counseling is also an opportunity to discover the values closest to your heart, the ones that really inspire you to a life of full vitality.

I admire the courage it takes to embark on this journey of change, healing, and discovery. I believe that none of us are broken. Each of us finds ways to adapt to the challenges of our lives, and there comes a time when those adaptations no longer serve us. We may find the ground open up beneath us, engulfed by depression, anxiety, anger, terror, compulsion, panic, and despair. We may no longer recognize our lives, our worlds, or ourselves. We lose our guiding star.

As overwhelming as such life moments are, they also offer great potential for change. Only when the old ways of living are utterly exhausted do we willingly let them go.

Relendra Kaia, LPC

 
As your counselor, I will seek to learn the truth of your life and world through deep attention and respect, and I will foster your confidence and trust in yourself. The answers you seek are already within you. I am honored to guide you in uncovering them. My practice is centered in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and informed by complimentary traditions that affirm the value and gifts of every human being, including person-centered, narrative, transpersonal, and psychodynamic depth approaches.

I incorporate an embodied, somatic approach to inner understanding. I use mindfulness and emotional focusing methods to integrate the physical, felt experience of emotion and being with the mind and intellect in service of a holistic, unified experience of self. My holistic approach to the psyche recognizes the importance of a person’s inner world and their embodied experience, as well as a person’s past trauma and relationships with others and with the external world, including one’s beliefs regarding life, death, and metaphysical perspectives, whether spiritual or secular. All of these areas of life are addressed and incorporated in my counseling practice.

I am a licensed counselor in Oregon, Hawaii, and Florida, and have been in continual practice since 2014.