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Laney Kibel, LCSW

SW Portland

Laney’s current availability and practice details are available at her linked page on OregonTherapyOptions

1020 SW Taylor #820
Portland, Oregon, 97205

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 and PTSD

 

Therapy

  • Individual Therapy

  • Couples Therapy

  • Family Therapy

  • Group Therapy

  • Adolescent/Teen Therapy

Populations Served:

  • Adult,

  • Couple

  • Gay

  • Lesbian

  • Lesbian Couple

Education & Training

Highest Degree Earned: MSW
Discipline: Social Work

  • BA Pace University, 1979;

  • MSW Social Work, Portland State University.

  • My focus in graduate school was on maternal and child health. I spent years working with parents and children. My private practice includes adults, children/adolescents, couples and families. 

Specialty Training: 

I trained in Gestalt therapy. I participated in a year long training group with Ron Kurtz on Hakomi therapy.

Professional Affiliations & Activities:

  • National Association of Social Workers

  • Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute,committee member

  • AMHA-OR

  • American Mental Health Alliance Oregon - Past President