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SMALL MOVES INWARD COUNSELING

By “feeling our feelings,” we create space for curiosity, connection, and understanding. Through making small yet daily moves to go inward, we exist in the presence of who we are today and what is becoming.

Thank you for visiting Small Moves Inward Counseling. I hold a deep belief that all beings inherently deserve belonging, safety, and connection. Oftentimes, shame, anger/rage, grief, apathy, guilt and overwhelm can be parts of us that need attention, care, and tending to allow for us to move more fully into our lives with more curiosity and compassion.
Our work together will begin with the belief that you are the expert of your own life through your lived experiences, communal connections, and intergenerational & ancestral knowledge. My hope in working with you is to explore what brings you to counseling and how that interacts with your ability to live a life of purpose, honors your healing and boundaries, and your unique offerings in the world.

I work with clients seeking support with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, identity exploration, parenting, disruption of diet culture, living counter to status quo, & navigating life transitions.

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My style is relational, conversational, works to recognize the “ALL” in small scale change. My approaches include story-telling, humor, and the occasional swear word. I use frameworks rooted in liberation and justice, trauma healing, and sustainable practices of care.

My training is in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness Based CBT, Motivational Interviewing, & Internal Family Systems (IFS).

About Me: My name is sheena ino (she/they). I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). I reside on Clackamas and Cowlitz land known as Portland, Oregon. I’ve had the honor of working for over 15 years in social work which includes counseling, advocacy, & systems navigation with those affected by intersecting forms of oppression, experiencing complex mental health needs, houselessness, domestic violence & sexual assault, coping through substances, and eating disorders.

From identity to culture to growing up with divorce and blended family, I am a person who learned to find home within the “in-between.” I am a multiracial east Asian person (Okinawan, Japanese, Irish, and German). I am a person that holds settler colonial privileges. I come from a lineage of internment/imprisonment and survival of war. I live in an intergenerational home and am a caregiver to two young people in my life.

I am a deep feeling Sagittarius who fully accepts all the sag stereotypes. I typically prefer: being outside, podcasts, concerts, making art, reality tv, current news/politics, calling my grandmas, tending to my ancestor of a home, and eating food with people I love.

Why “Small Moves Inward”?

Small: Recognize the “ALL” in small scale change. Cited from adrienne maree brown’s book “Emergent Strategy”

Moves: Move or to be in movement towards your “parts” (from IFS language) or towards a direction that centers your values through small daily actions

Inward: Go inward. Take time to explore your inner landscape-your feelings, your body sensations, your inner knowing that is guiding you.