About MacPherson

mack-FUR-son (she/they)

A little about me

My journey here wasn’t linear. Before I trained to be a therapist, I spent years as an acupuncturist, an herbalist, a massage therapist, and a yoga therapist, sitting with people whose bodies held pain, trauma, and stories that talk therapy alone never quite reached. That work taught me that healing rarely happens through insight alone. It happens in the body, at a pace the body can actually trust.

I have lived with chronic illness and chronic pain for many years, and through a very severe exacerbation a few years ago. I am recovering from childhood relational trauma, and each year feels better than the last.

Outside of sessions, I host a podcast on the experience of safety in relationships (new season coming soon - I hope!), spend a fair amount of time in disability justice and critical phenomenology, and can usually be found experimenting with new ideas or projects that don't always turn out the way I planned, and get celebrated when they do! I’m a foster parent, and enjoy time with my family and our sweet, elderly, vocal cat.

Credentials and training

  • Gendlin Focusing Coordinator (in training)

  • Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT)

  • 1000 hour Certificate in Yoga Therapy, International SomaYoga Institute, Yoga North

  • 500 hour Certificate in Advanced Therapeutic Yoga, Integrative Yoga Therapy, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

  • 200 hour Certificate in Yoga Instruction, Essential Therapy NYC

  • 800 hour Certificate in Massage Therapy, Pacific College of Health Sciences

  • MAEd, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Seattle University

  • MS, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pacific College of Health Sciences

  • BA, Psychology and Communication, Lewis and Clark College

Primary approaches: Focusing-Oriented Therapy, Somatosensory Psychotherapy, Narrative Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy, Relational Cultural Theory, and Person Centered Therapy

Professional memberships: Chi Sigma Iota, Association for Humanistic Counselors, American Counseling Association, Washington Mental Health Counselors Association, International Association of Yoga Therapists

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