Lacy Cooper
Lacy is a native Oregonian who still gets frustrated by all the rain! She enjoys traveling, and has done relief work in many different countries. She enjoys meeting new people, cuddling with her kiddos and pets, biking, and trying to not kill her garden every year. She is passionate about building community in Portland and is active in the local food movement.
Lacy (she/her) believes that everyone wants to lead a life of value and fulfillment, and applies this belief to her therapeutic practices. She utilizes this principal for both individuals and couples in therapy. She enjoys being an active part of her client's therapy and is not a clinician who sits back and nods her head. She skillfully highlights client’s strengths, helps process past experiences, and teaches you new tools so you can feel fulfilled and satisfied in your life. She works with couples to teach partners how to build on the positives and re-establish a joint partnership where conflict occurs. Lacy also enjoys working "outside the box," and offers counseling support that tailors to each client's needs and goals. If traditional therapy is not a good fit for you, please contact her to discuss counseling support.
Lacy completed her Masterʼs degree in Clinical Psychology from Pacific University, where she received training in Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), and Exposure Therapy. She has experience treating depression, anxiety, and addiction issues. For couples, she utilizes Emotionally Focused Therapy. Lacy loves working with all populations including those transitioning genders and/or who identify as queer. She is currently a licensed professional counselor in the State of Oregon.
Lacy believes that all people want to feel loved, appreciated and safe. Using the therapeutic relationship, Lacy helps individuals work through lifelong patterns that prevent them from feeling this way and builds skills and techniques to stop these negative patterns from reoccurring.
Email her directly at Lacy@linkpdx.org
Jennifer Blair
Jennifer is a lover of wildflowers, forests, rivers and oceans. In her day-to-day you’ll often find her absorbed in nature through hiking or biking, invested in her newest craft project, listening to indie punk music, and daydreaming about a liberated future.
Jennifer (she/her) believes the therapeutic relationship can offer a sacred space to experience profound healing, safety, and connection. Healing also requires stepping outside of our comfort zones, being vulnerable, and challenging our own beliefs. She believes we are shaped by our personal experiences and social environments. These experiences may have caused us harm and created conditions where we embody adaptations for survival. These adaptations often separate us from our authentic selves, causing us to feel stuck, overwhelmed, or alone. As humans, we have inherent capacity for healing to move beyond historic patterns and into new ones that offer new truth, meaning, belonging, and safety. She aims to guide clients towards clarity, acceptance, and ultimately permission to come back to yourself in an honest and loving way. As a therapist and a person, Jennifer is compassionate, non-judgmental, strengths-based, and strives to meet clients where they are at. Jennifer wants each client to feel support is collaborative, transparent, and caring. She focuses on working with adolescents and adults.
Anti-oppression is an important focus of her personal and professional work. Jennifer hopes to cultivate an environment and relationship in which her clients feel that they can bring their whole selves into the room and be truly seen. She takes anti-racist actions, is LGBTQ+ affirming, body positive/neutral, sex positive, and spiritually open. Jennifer roots herself in trauma-informed, humanistic, and liberatory approaches. She works through an attachment lens, incorporating Polyvagal Theory, Somatic work, and Narrative Therapy. Her approach includes focusing on differentiation, expression of thoughts/feelings/wants/needs, learning to process and integrate traumatic experiences, improve emotional regulation, and learning how to set and hold healthy boundaries. Jennifer will often incorporate approaches from Narrative Therapy, EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Her experience includes providing support in diving into personal growth and healing, decreasing experiences of anxiety/depression, achieving greater nervous system health, navigating big life transitions, and healing from traumatic experiences.
“We must transform ourselves to transform the world” - Grace Lee Boggs
Contact her directly at Jennifer@linkpdx.org
Destiny Cantu
Destiny has called Oregon home for five years. During the colder months she enjoys taking dance classes, and doing DIY home projects. When the weather warms up she enjoys outside activities like river rafting, hiking, and taking lengthy walks throughout her neighborhood. Destiny is fascinated by the intricacies of the human experience, and loves to explore both the differences and similarities of individual people.
Destiny (she/her) believes the therapeutic relationship is the most crucial aspect of therapy. Authenticity and genuineness on the part of both the counselor and the client can encourage a safe and exploratory environment. She sees each client as an individual, taking into account personal identity, cultural background, family history, and environment when developing therapy plans and support.
Destiny’s therapeutic frameworks include Cognitive Processing Therapy, (CPT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and mindfulness-based techniques. She employs a mix of these strategies to help people change behaviors and ways of thinking that cause daily stress. While employing these techniques Destiny is passionate about remaining LGBTQIA2S+ affirming, sex positive, and culturally competent. Her goal is to help uncover strengths by providing tools and guidance in a safe space for all individuals.
She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health from Grand Canyon University. Major course work includes theoretical foundations, counseling skills, diagnosing and treatment, multicultural counseling, and counselor ethics.
Contact her directly at Destiny@linkpdx.org
Will Hamel
Will likes spending time outside with birds and fungi, listening to jazz, and making connections with other human beings. Outside of the therapy space, his days are filled playing the saxophone, reading, walking on Sauvie Island, and caring for his backyard chickens.
Will (he/him) believes that the therapeutic relationship provides a safe place to contact, reflect upon, and practice engaging with the most meaningful parts of our lives. This work often involves exploring our inner emotional world and creating new ways for our mind to organize information. Will brings focus to the contexts that frame our experiences (like culture, memory, and environment) to better understand what is inside or outside our control. He uses nonjudgmental, descriptive communication to expand awareness of the beliefs and behaviors we bring to relationships, and offers opportunities for growth through immediacy, mindfulness, and creativity.
Will holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Portland State University. His approach to therapy draws on attachment theory, narrative approaches, trauma research, and behavioral models like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). His experience includes working with depression, anxiety, grief, anger, addictions, and life transitions. Will offers a relationship of curiosity, warmth, and attentiveness to heal feelings of pain and nurture patterns of wellbeing and joy.
Contact him directly at Will@linkpdx.org
David Keller
David was born and raised in Oregon and continues to love living in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. In his free time David loves spending time with friends and family, crafting and playing with his dog. When the rains, come you can find him playing video games indoors where it’s nice and warm.
David (he/him) believes that each of us possesses an innate desire to push beyond our limitations to reach our full potential. Throughout our life we meet challenges that can make it feel difficult to access this ability for growth and change. David believes that within the safety and security of the therapeutic bond that client’s can confront the issues that are stuck points and move to a place of deeper understanding, growth, and healing.
David holds a Master’s degree in Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling from Portland State University. His approach to well-being is informed by Interpersonal and Attachment theories. This theory means that our relationships are central to who we are and how we experience our lives. By exploring past relationships and experiences, David can help uncover the patterns and beliefs that were learned in those relationships that now cause distress or inhibit growth. Together, we will explore new ways of being, develop new skills, and seek to form new patterns that will help you feel empowered to make positive changes in your life.
Contact him directly at David@linkpdx.org
Brittany Oxford
When Brittany is not trying out a different art material, or talking themselves into buying yet another book, they use their multiple whiteboards to help navigate life. Their partner and cat companions, often bear with them as they paint on the walls of their cottage.
Brittany Oxford (she/they) Unknowingly growing up as a neurodivergent kid in a small Montana town, they learned to mask their way through life. Brittany often felt like hiding in plain sight was the easier option. Moving to the Pacific Northwest to procure their education in Art Therapy, they learned to embrace their sensory sensitivities as strengths. They created an art process to help support their shifting identities, and build self-acceptance. She is a big believer in the power of creative rituals in our daily lives.
Brittany has worked with several populations, ranging from children to adults. They have primarily worked with folks that have experienced trauma, are neurodivergent, struggling with depression, anxiety, or intimate partner violence. They love helping to facilitate healing through co-creating a therapeutic art process with you, to support your story, sensory sensitivities, and goals. Brittany has the belief that we all have unique perceptions, narratives, and approaches that can come to life through the creative process.
Brittany likes to pull from several therapeutic modalities to support the needs of their clients. Ranging from narrative therapy, eco-psychology, and gestalt play therapy, with the framework of expressive therapies continuum. The art created is a unique form of self-expression. Their hope is that clients walk away from the time together empowered to create, heal, and connect.
Contact them directly at Brittany@linkpdx.org
Jade Wollman
In her free time, Jade enjoys thrifting, writing poetry, water aerobics, and playing with her two adorable parrots, Nico and Miru.
Jade Wollman’s (she/her) therapeutic approach is integrative and client-centered, tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of each individual she serves. She is warm, caring, and empathic, and holds the belief that although she may possess clinical expertise, clients are the experts in their lives. Jade possesses extensive experience in evidence-based modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Seeking Safety, and trauma-informed care. By integrating these approaches, Jade strives to empower individuals to overcome obstacles, build resilience, and achieve lasting positive change.
In Jade’s previous clinical roles, she has provided therapeutic services to adults with various mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, personality disorders, and trauma stemming from intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault (SA). Her strong communication and active listening skills allow her to establish positive rapport with her clients and create a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment for those she serves.
Jade holds a master’s degree in social work from UCLA as well as a Master of Public Policy degree from Pepperdine University. With many years of experience working in diverse clinical settings, including private practice, community mental health, nonprofit agencies, and a shelter serving survivors of IPV/SA, Jade has developed a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges individuals face when seeking mental health services.
Contact her directly at Jade@linkpdx.org
Gae Lynne Cooper
Gae Lynne has lived in Oregon while raising her family, and loves spending as much time as she can at the coast. In her free time you can usually find her heading to the beach. She also enjoys crafting, her 3 grandchildren, visiting wineries and is always up to go on an adventure with her friends or family.
Gae Lynne (she/her) provides administrative support to the Linktherapy team. Originally from Idaho, Gae Lynne moved to Oregon to go to floral design school. While starting a family, Gae Lynne began working for the State of Oregon as a side job to supplement the family income and ended up with a successful career as an Administrative/Executive Director for the State of Oregon.
After 30 years with the State of Oregon, Gae Lynne decided it was time for retirement and to spoil her 3 grandchildren.
She tried retirement but decided she enjoyed desired to still play an active part in something positive, worthwhile and fulfilling for the community. If you need assistance, please reach out to Gae Lynne, and she will find you the information you need. We are happy to have Gae Lynne want to be a part of the goal and vision of Linktherapy!
Contact her directly at Info@linkpdx.org