Ary Bryce (they/them)

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Ary Bryce (they/them)

Greetings! My name is Ary, and I identify as a Black nonbinary queer person with a chronic illness who grew up in New England and who has been in Portland now for nearly a decade. As a person with these intersecting identities, I can empathize with how deep-rooted stigma around getting mental health support can keep us from accessing the healing that we truly deserve. My mission is to support clients in understanding and addressing the systems that tie us to our trauma and keep us from being our brightest selves. I’m also a huge nature and animal lover with bears being a personal favorite.

I received my Bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2013 in Public Health and Education and decided to move to the West coast in order to continue my healing education with a stronger social justice focus and community. I graduated from Portland State University in 2022 with a Master’s degree in Social Work and am currently working towards licensure in Oregon. I’m experienced doing short-term solution focused counseling, relationship focused practices, and narrative therapy. I have experience and strength working with BIPOC identified individuals, queer and trans folks, individuals with PTSD, anxiety and depression, single parent households, and supporting families and individuals with building healthy relationships.

When we are in session together you can expect that I will be using a mixture of modalities to support you on your healing journey. I prefer to use a combination of narrative therapy, multigenerational family systems, and trauma centered psychotherapy while we are working together. This means that I know that you are the expert of your own experience. You can anticipate me asking you some questions about the dynamics in your community, what you value, and how you are feeling in your body. I like to think of myself as a feelings soundboard so that together we can talk through your experiences and figure out what themes are coming up and what kinds of things are keeping you from being your brightest self. You can also anticipate that as an anti-racist practitioner that I will embrace conversations about race, identity, and the ways that otherization can have traumatic impacts on our health and our experience in this life.  If any of this sounds like a good fit, then I cannot wait to connect!