Social Worker and Life Coach
Portland Lifestyle Counseling Services
Free 30 minute consultationM. Joy Young, LCSW, social worker and life coach offers counseling and life coaching for depression, anxiety, stress, post traumatic stress, grief, caring for aging parents, and flower essence in Portland Oregon.
Are any of these true for you or someone you care about?
Feeling stuck, depressed, anxious or isolated?
Did someone in your life recently die and you are having a hard time moving on with your life due to feelings of grief and loss?
Did you experience a stressful or traumatic event and are feeling nervous, jumpy, on edge?
Did you survive a dysfunctional childhood with one or both of your parents abusing alcohol or substances and now you need to face issues from the past in order to move on with your life?
Are you caring for one or both of your aging or elderly parents and feel overwhelmed or frustrated?
I can help. I offer professional, reliable, and confidential services to help you feel better, experience greater emotional wellness, and achieve the personal and emotional success you want.

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If one or more of these is true for you or someone you care about beginning a counseling relationship with a trustworthy professional counselor can be helpful to:
- Reduce or eliminate symptoms of depression.
- Reduce or eliminate anxiety symptoms.
- Better manage and reduce stress.
- Reduce feelings of isolation that can come with grief and loss.
- Heal shame, guilt, and anger from childhood dysfunction or abuse.
- Reduce and better manage feelings of frustration that can come with caregiving.
What is most helpful in counseling?

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Research shows that the counseling relationship is one of the most curative factors in counseling or psychotherapy. People in counseling with a solid supportive counseling relationship generally feel better.
There are many counselors to choose from but only a few will be right for you.
At Portland Lifestyle Counseling distinctive service approaches include:
- Holisitic health and Wellness approach.
- Connection to your Inner Knowing.
- Consideration of the larger social and enviornmental context of your life.
If You Are Searching For A Counselor...
- Who can get to the root of your problem and reveal lasting solutions.
- Help you uncover your Inner Knowing.
- Reveal your unique answers.
- Help you connect to your truth.
- Help you discover what you know for sure about your life.
Then I invite you to begin a counseling relationship that can help you feel better, have more satisfying relationships, feel less depressed, less anxious, and connected to your own truth. Contact Joy for a FREE 30 minute consultation at 503-309-1163 or email at .
