About Arielle

I meet my clients with humor and friendliness. I am direct and nerdy, and love to talk about history and data. I love to use stories, data and art to help my clients heal their trauma and cope with anxiety, ADHD and life changes. I truly believe curiosity and compassion are the keys to radical change.

I am committed to anti-racist and anti-colonial work, and draw from a feminist, queer-affirming & trauma-informed lens. As a queer therapist, I am strongly LGBTQ* affirming, and love working with my trans and nonbinary clients as they navigate other issues while being informed by those identities. 

I recognize that religious traditions are often powerful forces in my clients’ lives and I honor the affirming, inclusive and healthy relationships between my clients and their something bigger. I’m also a giant data nerd, and LOVE to read about new data scientists are collecting and analyzing about the human brain and how we heal from trauma.

When I’m not working, I am cooking, scrolling TikTok, reading novels and making art, or spending time with my friends playing board games and Magic the Gathering. I also love blues dancing, participating in my local Queer Jewish activist community and talking at my loved ones about obscure historical facts.

If you want the more therapy lingo version: I combine Internal Family Systems (parts work), Narrative Therapy (how we tell our stories informs who we are), & Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (many things can be true at once, and we can approach ourselves & others with curiosity and compassion). I’m training in EMDR and am already amazed at the changes it can create in my clients. I also like to pull from Interpersonal Neurobiology and other new research on brains! As a systems focused therapist, I like to think about how you fit within systems: your school, your family, your workplace, your relationships, and how you can show up as your favorite self in those spaces.

Education:

I attended Ursinus College where I have a BA in History with minors in International Relations, Gender & Women’s Studies and French. I have a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA with a specialization in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, and a Master of Arts (MA) in Marriage, Couples and Family Therapy from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Before starting Wandering & Belonging Therapy, I worked at an agency that served refugees and at a group practice serving mostly queer, polyamorous and neurodivergent clients in Portland, OR.

Social Location:

I am a white, Jewish, queer/bisexual, non-binary femme person. I grew up outside the US and moved here for college when I was 18 and identify as an Adult Third Culture Kid (ATCK). I have ADHD, which wasn’t diagnosed until I was 29, and I’ve experienced PTSD and clinically significant anxiety and depression. I currently live in Portland, OR, the traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Cowlitz and bands of Chinook, among others.