Complex Trauma Therapy in Oregon and Washington
Through safe, relational therapy, we explore the parts of yourself hidden beneath pain and survival patterns—helping you reconnect with your voice, your worth, and your capacity to heal.
Coming Home To Yourself
I'm Josiah Erickson, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Oregon and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Washington. I work with adults (18+) throughout Oregon and Washington, including Portland and the surrounding area , via telehealth who've been through complex trauma, dissociative experiences, religious trauma, and all the ways these show up in daily life.
Maybe you feel frozen, shut down, or caught in internal conflicts. Maybe you've wrestled with shame, unworthiness, or feeling unsafe in relationships. You might have been told you're "too much," "too difficult," or beyond help. I'm here for people who fall through the cracks—those others might overlook.
Welcome
Every person carries inherent worth, no matter what they've endured. Even in the midst of trauma, pain, or shame, every person is a meaning-maker with the capacity for connection, healing, and hope.
Complex Trauma Lives in Relationship
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Complex trauma isn't a single traumatic event that happened once. It's what occurs when you've lived through ongoing, inescapable harm—often starting in childhood or within relationships that were supposed to be safe. Sometimes this harm comes from systems that were meant to protect you: families, schools, churches, or other institutions.
When safety, trust, and connection are consistently absent, it changes how your brain and body work. It affects how you see yourself, your sense of who you are, how you manage emotions, connect with others, focus, remember things, and make sense of your world. Sometimes this includes addiction, which is often a normal part of how people adapt to survive unbearable circumstances.
You didn't choose this. Your responses show how wise and resilient you are—you found ways to survive what shouldn't have happened to you. And you don't have to figure it out by yourself.
Trauma damages our ability to trust and connect with others, but connection is also the pathway back to healing. People heal when they feel truly safe with someone who gets it—not through worksheets or quick fixes, but through actually connecting with another person who won't judge you for your struggles.
I meet you exactly where you are, however you show up. This includes your relationship with your own body, which often bears the weight of trauma. You can't do the hard work of healing if you're constantly worried about being misunderstood or rejected, or if your body doesn't feel safe in the therapeutic space.
Because trauma healing isn't linear, I use a flexible approach that moves through safety and stabilization, processing difficult experiences, and rebuilding your life. We work at your pace, this isn't about pushing through or "getting over it." It's about building something new together, honoring both the practical and spiritual dimensions of healing.
Healing Happens in Relationship Too
Areas of practice
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PTSD
Dissociation
Trauma-Related Voices
Shame
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Religious Trauma
Interpersonal Trauma
Attachment Dysruptions
Anger
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Trauma Related OCD
Anxiety
Depression
Inner Conflicts
How We Work Together
My approach creates trust, careful attunement, and meaningful shared experiences that repair what was broken. Through this kind of safe relationship, you gradually move from isolation and disconnection toward healing, not because someone fixed you, but because you experienced what it feels like to be truly seen and valued.
But here's what actually matters: you deserve someone who believes you can heal, no matter what you've been through or what anyone has told you about yourself. Healing isn't something that happens to you, it's something we create together, with someone willing to stick around through the difficult stuff. You are more than your symptoms, your diagnosis, or your worst experiences. Your story deserves to be witnessed with compassion, not judgment. No matter how hopeless things feel right now, change is still possible.
I offer individual therapy to adults living in Oregon via telehealth, creating a space where your story matters, your goals guide our work, and you can begin the journey from pain and disconnection toward hope, healing, and coming home to yourself.
I use an integrated approach that uses multiple framework and modalities including:
Psychodynamic and attachment theories
EMDR and Flash techniques
Clinical hypnosis and ego state therapy
I have advanced training through the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), EMDR certification, and Clinical Hypnosis training through the Oregon Society of Clinical Hypnosis.