Dr. Alesya Nazarova | Experiential Psychotherapy in Portland, OR
Working through what
remains unspoken
Experiential therapy asks us to sit with complexity.
Many of us come to therapy seeking quick fixes or simple answers. But our inner world rarely cooperates with our timelines. In our work together, we'll explore the deeper currents beneath your symptoms: the patterns, defenses, early experiences, and emotional learnings that continue to shape how you feel, relate, and move through the world.
This is an invitation to turn inward and understand yourself more fully.
What brings people here…
You may find yourself:
Repeating the same relational patterns, despite your best intentions
Living with a persistent sense of dissatisfaction you can't quite name
Feeling disconnected from your own emotional life
Curious about the forces that drive your choices and relationships
I'm Dr. Alesya Nazarova
I practice experiential psychotherapy, drawing from IFS, AEDP, Coherence Therapy, attachment theory, relational psychoanalysis, and Jungian depth psychology.
In our sessions, we'll attend closely to your inner experience, listening not only to words, but to what emerges through emotion, sensation, imagery, and intuition. Sometimes, simply slowing down and noticing what has remained outside of awareness allows something new to emerge. At other times, we may use experiential practices to deepen the process and work directly with patterns that continue to shape your life.
This work asks for curiosity and a willingness to turn inward. What it offers in return is the possibility of transforming what troubles you, not just understanding or managing it.
The Work
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Experiential Psychotherapy
The foundation of this practice. A space to explore what lies beneath the surface: your patterns, your defenses, your inner life.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS)
A form of experiential therapy for working directly with the parts of yourself that carry old wounds and protective patterns.
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Awareness & Meditation
Practices for cultivating awareness and presence, turning inward, and creating space for a deeper encounter with yourself.
About My Practice
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My practice primarily serves adults navigating:
Complex relational difficulties
Long-standing anxiety or depression
Questions of identity and meaning
The aftermath of developmental trauma
I particularly value working with individuals who are willing to turn inward and engage deeply with their inner experience.
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Sessions 50-minute sessions, typically 1–2 times weekly In-person and telehealth options available
Fees $175 per session. I maintain a limited number of reduced-fee slots for qualified candidates
Insurance I am in network with Aetna and Moda. If you have a different insurance plan, I can provide a superbill that you may submit to your insurance company for possible out of network reimbursement.
Initial Consultation I offer a complimentary 15-minute phone consultation to determine if we might work well together. This is not a clinical session, but rather an opportunity to discuss your concerns and my approach.
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Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology, The George Washington University
Postdoctoral Training, Cornell University
11+ years of clinical experience
I've trained extensively in psychodynamic, experiential, and mindfulness approaches, with additional specialization in relational trauma and personality patterns. Before entering private practice, I worked in psychiatric hospitals, community mental health, and university counseling centers.
The Process
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Focus
Each session begins with a specific issue or experience you bring to work on. Depth requires focus, so rather than moving between multiple concerns, emotions, or stories, we stay with one thread long enough to explore what lies beneath it.
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Awareness
Mindful awareness is a tool for inner exploration. By slowing down and observing your experience as it unfolds, we attend to emotions, sensations, images, memories, and inner knowings that normally operate outside conscious awareness. When we slow down and listen, the unconscious is often more accessible than we imagine, allowing us to discover what thinking alone may not reach.
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Depth
Whatever we see on the surface, whether a symptom, struggle, or recurring pattern, often has something underneath causing it to emerge. We follow the experience toward its root, uncovering the emotional learnings and protective responses that continue to shape how you feel and respond.
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New Experience
Becoming aware of the root of a pattern is only part of the work. Change happens through new experience. Experiencing something different allows old emotional learnings to shift and new possibilities to emerge.
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Integration
Change continues beyond the therapy room. Practicing new ways of feeling, relating, and responding in everyday life helps strengthen what emerges in therapy, allowing new patterns to become more established over time.
If You're Considering Experiential Work...
Experiential work is not for everyone. It requires a commitment of time, resources, and emotional energy. It asks you to turn inward and encounter parts of yourself you may have spent years avoiding.
But for those willing to engage deeply, it offers something increasingly rare: sustained attention to your interior life, space to experience yourself more fully, and the possibility of not only understanding what troubles you, but transforming it.
If this resonates, I invite you to reach out.