Alt text: Kaci Schmitt, a cisgender woman with long brown hair wearing a red sweater and smiling at the camera.

My name is Kaci Schmitt (she/her). I am honored to be able to offer psychotherapy to adults in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, as well as all throughout the states of Oregon, Washington, and California via telehealth. I truly enjoy working with clients who are looking to process various experiences, transitions, and challenges in their lives, as well as gain knowledge, trust, and compassion for themselves and deepen their capacity for emotional wellness.

I received my Master of Science in Counseling from Oregon State University, and I regularly pursue training and education in the field of counseling. I am a National Certified Counselor, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Washington, a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Oregon, and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in California. I am a Level 2 Internal Family Systems (IFS) trained therapist and have deep respect for the emphasis of this model on bringing harmony to the entire person using the client’s inner wisdom and self-compassion.

I always knew that I wanted to work in a heart-centered way with people. I found that I loved working with teenagers when I initially became a teacher more than ten years ago in the suburbs of Atlanta. Having grown up in a small town in the South in the ’90s and early 2000s, I felt especially passionate about reducing barriers to equitable access to education and safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ youth.

When I visited the West Coast on a spontaneous solo road trip in 2012, I felt like I could deeply breathe for the first time. After a period of time deconstructing previously held beliefs about what my life would look like, I moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2013, in search of community more aligned with my political and social values. In 2014, I decided to pursue my dream to become a counselor. I worked as a school counselor for four years in Beaverton and Portland, Oregon. I opened my private practice in January 2019 and now see clients all throughout Oregon, Washington, and California using a secure telehealth platform.

I deeply believe that we all have an innate capacity to heal and that each person is their own best resource and source of wisdom, and that we often need a little help allowing ourselves to access and trust our intuition. We all have many (sometimes conflicting) parts of ourselves, and creating and restoring inner harmony can lead to healing trauma and increasing peace within our lives. I also believe that there must be space in therapy to process the things about our world (and about being human) that are painful, exhausting, and heartbreaking, all while cultivating a self-compassionate way of being in this complex world. Therapy allows us the opportunity to develop self-compassion and explore what we need to activate our own earned wisdom. I respect the process it takes to discover new things about ourselves and integrate what we have learned into our lives, and I encourage my clients to do so with great care for themselves.

Please feel free to reach out to me via email at kacischmittcounseling@hushmail.com or phone at 415-966-2361. I am happy to partner with you or refer you to other therapists as you navigate your journey to finding the right therapeutic fit.