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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
24hr Phone  (503) 227-2027 #1

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

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 Group since 1992.

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 marital counseling, alcohol and drug dependency interventions and recovery therapy.

Professional Affiliations & Activities:

  • American Psychological Association

  • Oregon Psychological Association

  • OPA Colleague Assistance Panel

  • AMHA-OR Board Member

  • American Mental Health Alliance USA - President

  • Mentor Research Institute - President