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Michaele Dunlap, PsyD

Northwest Portland

Michaele’s page on the OregonTherapyOptions website

818 NW 17th Ave. Suite 11
Portland, OR 97209

Fax (503) 227-3836
Office Phone  (503) 227-2027

Office Settings: Private Practice (solo)

Professional Focus

  • Respectful and supportive therapy for those experiencing difficult life changes, loss, depression, anxiety, stress, troubling relationships, and health problems complicated by emotional problems.

  • Supporting individual, couple and family recovery from alcohol and drug abuse or dependence.

  • Helping people overcome disordered eating,

  • Helping people recover from traumatic experience, including assaults or abuse in childhood.

  • Improving couple and family relationships; pre-marital counseling, remarriage and step-family.

  • Creating strategies for business and organizational growth and the enhancement of human relationships and decision processes, particularly couple and family owned businesses.

  • Supporting men's and women's growth in the process of recovery from chemical dependence.

Specialties

  • Relationship Issues

  • Anxiety

  • Family Conflict

Issues & Problems I work with

  • Addiction

  • Adoption

  • Alcohol Abuse

  • Child or Adolescent

  • Chronic Pain

  • Codependency

  • Depression

  • Divorce

  • Emotional Disturbance

  • Family- owned & Small Business Issues

  • Grief

  • Infertility

  • Infidelity

  • Life Coaching

  • Parenting

  • Peer Relationships

  • Self Esteem

  • Substance Abuse

  • Trauma

  • PTSD

  • Complex/Developmental PTSD

 

Therapy

  • Eclectic

  • Family / Marital

  • Family Systems

  • Gottman Method

  • Integrative

  • Interpersonal

  • Motivational Interviewing

  • Narrative

  • Neuro-Linguistic

  • EMDR

  • ACT

Populations Served:

  • Adolescent 15-19

  • Adults

  • Couples

  • Family

  • Elders

Education & Training

Highest Degree Earned: Psy.D
Discipline: Psychology

  • BA Psychology at Reed College, 1979;

  • MA Counseling Psychology at Lewis & Clark College 1985;

  • Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacific University, 1989.

  • Business, Community and Professional Organization Development; Development of professional peer-support program; Chemical Dependence and Recovery treatment; Inpatient Dual Diagnosis; Private Practice since 1991.

Specialty Training: 

  • Certificate of Proficiency in the Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders - American Psychological Association.

  • Training in modern analytic work, cognitive therapy, guided imagery, hypnosis, systems interventions, Gottman and Emotion Focused, and several other approaches to marital counseling, alcohol and drug dependency interventions and recovery therapy.

Professional Affiliations & Activities:

  • American Psychological Association

  • Oregon Psychological Association

  • IMHPA Executive Director

  • Mentor Research Institute - President