Abby Goldsby

Abby (she/they) takes a compassionate, curious approach to difficult symptoms and internal experiences, honoring them as well-intentioned solutions formed to help you survive. Through relational safety and trust built on their own time, the past emotional learning at the root of the issues can be gently untangled and finally left behind. Her hope is that your work together brings clarity, inner peace, and a sense of wholeness.

 

Abby works with challenges stemming from complex PTSD and developmental traumas like emotional neglect and attachment wounds. She especially enjoys working with those who feel as if they are too self-aware and intellectualize as a primary survival strategy, “people pleasers”, chronic shame and self-worth challenges, relational difficulties, dissociative experiences, and strong inner conflict. They draw from therapy modalities that support transformative, deep change, including Internal Family Systems, Coherence Therapy, and Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment. Abby, who is queer-identified, also specializes in LGBTQIA+ issues and is comfortable working with those in alternative lifestyles as well as neurodivergence. They are mindful of the intersectionality of identities—including their own—and the impact of oppression in and out of the therapy room, and value the dignity and liberation of all.

 

Abby has been working within the mental health field since 2018 in a variety of settings, including residential treatment centers, crisis lines such as the Veterans Crisis Line, community counseling centers, and, most recently, school-based outpatient. She has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri and a Master’s degree in Professional Mental Health Counseling from Lewis & Clark College here in Portland.

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Outside of counseling, Abby enjoys spending time in nature with their rescue pit mix Linus, creative writing, and vegetarian cooking.