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Tranquil Roots

helping you find your path to a more hopeful future...

        ...because healing is possible.

 

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*Portland, OR based practice serving clients throughout Oregon, Washington state, and Oklahoma

Services

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Anxiety & Depression

I provide individual therapy services for people experiencing mood and anxiety issues. Whether you've been dealing with depression or anxiety for a long time or it's something that started recently, now is the best time to begin addressing it. Early treatment makes a difference, so don't wait until it gets worse. Click below to learn more about how I approach individual therapy.

 

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Trauma Treatment

Trauma treatment has changed a lot over the past few decades. I am a trauma specialist using EMDR, parts work, CBT, mindfulness, and somatic approaches. If you've had a bad experience working with trauma in the past, please know this: as a trauma specialist, I have the tools to treat trauma while minimizing the risk of being re-traumatized during treatment—a risk that can happen more often when a therapist isn't specialized in trauma work. Click below to learn more about how I approach trauma treatment.

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Buddhist Psychology

I think it's important to recognize and honor the teachings that form the roots of my therapy practice, which come from Buddhism. Buddhism developed effective healing practices over 2,000 years ago—long before Western psychology caught up. Click below to learn more about how this informs my practice.

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Meet the Therapist

Ethan Randall, MSW, LCSW, LICSW, CCTP

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Ethan Randall, MSW, LICSW, LCSW, CCTP

Why do I do this work?

I've sat on the other side, receiving therapy many times myself. My early experiences in therapy were not good. When I finally began finding my own path to healing, I wanted to create better experiences for others. I find that focusing on trauma (recognizing that trauma means "wound") helps get to the core issues for long-lasting healing.

What influences my practice? 

In short: Carl Rogers, PhD; Francine Shapiro, PhD; Jaimie Marich, PhD; Eric Gentry, PhD; Buddhist psychology and Thich Nhat Hanh.

When I began practicing Buddhism, I found some helpful mindfulness practices—working with the breath, parts work, and relationships. Then when I began deepening my knowledge of therapy, I found that these things are also evidence-based Western psychology practices. The main difference is that in Buddhism there is over 2,000 years of practice wisdom tied to it, whereas Western psychology is only a couple hundred years old. To learn more about how Buddhism has helped shape my thrapy practice, click here.

Tranquil Roots 

 

971-438-3088      info@tranquilroots.health