Yulya is a queer psychotherapist with a somatic approach, specializing in working with creatives, change makers, chronically ill and disabled folks, and fellow ADHD and autistic folks. She works from a harm reduction and explicitly anti-racist, queer/trans-affirming, sex positive, poly and kink affirming, fat/body positive, and anti-oppressive lens. Yulya is deeply honored to support individuals navigating:

• life adjustments & transitions
• disability and chronic illness
• neurodivergence (especially autism & ADHD)
• anxiety
• depression
• trauma & PTSD
• cultural strengths within systemic oppression
• religious abuse & spiritual trauma
• grief and loss
• sex and sexuality
• relationship to race, culture, gender, sexuality, & identity
• spirituality & spiritual exploration
• relationship to body, food, & eating 

Residing in Portland, Oregon, she is a Russian born New Yorker who respectfully honors practicing social work as a white settler on colonized land belonging to Indigenous communities and First Nations people. 

Yulya identifies as a sacred activist, politicized healer, student of spirit and ritual, creative misfit, and dynamically disabled spoonie. Her experiences as a neuro-queer, Jewish immigrant in diaspora have sparked her passion for journeying alongside clients exploring acculturation issues, personal identities, and the deep wounds of systemic oppression.

For the last two decades, Yulya has practiced at the intersections of oppression, grief, trauma and ancestral healing, and liberation. She believes that healing happens in relationship and within community. 

She invites clients to bring the many parts of themselves, as well as their spiritual traditions, culture, rituals, and ancestral wisdom and practices into the therapy space. 

Yulya’s professional passions include interpersonal neurobiology, mind-body connections, relational and community building, creative expression, intergenerational healing, anti-oppressive multicultural practice, and resilience.

Yulya accepts OHP and most private insurance. Appointments with her will be exclusively telehealth. Text 503.217.4457 to be added to her waitlist for a new patient consultation!