About Kelly Murray
I am a native Oregonian and my education includes a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Lewis & Clark College (2008) and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Portland State University (2005). I obtained my license from the Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists in 2011. I have been in private practice since 2013. Before private practice, I worked in residential treatment centers, community mental health agencies, research, and taught as an adjunct professor at Lewis & Clark College.
I use psychodynamic, jungian, expressive, somatic, attachment-based, EMDR and parts work to individualize treatment.
My style is warm, relational, and direct.
Currently in Janina Fisher’s Advanced Trauma Training: Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment for Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorder(s).
I have participated in a bi-weekly Depth Psychology Consult group with early childhood trauma psychologist/analyst Donald Kalsched Ph.D. since Sept 2020.
Level 1 Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment with Janina Fisher via Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (2023-2024).
Levels I and II of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute’s trauma and developmental trauma training (2015-2019).
EMDR Basic Training in 2019 and year-long supervision and certification (2020).
I have trained in Hakomi through M.E.T.A. (2016) and with the Hakomi Institute of California in Berkeley, CA (2016).
I have Gestalt training through the Gestalt Therapy Training Center Northwest with Steve Zahm Ph.D. and Eva Gold Ph.D. in Portland, OR (2014-2015) as well as other Gestalt training at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.
I am intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Behavioral Tech LLC from 2012-2013.
200-hour yoga teacher training certification with Tiffany Cruikshank in 2010.
I am licensed as Professional Counselor in both Oregon and Washington. As a member of the Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists, I am required to complete 40 credits of Continuing Education in Counseling Psychology/Ethics every two years.
Personally, I enjoy music, playing guitar and bass, reading, films, parenting, yoga, pilates, qigong, travel, acupuncture/Chinese medicine. I have been engaged in my own psychotherapy for a long time.