About

Magnolia Medlin, MA, Professional Counselor Associate

  • Do you feel ready to explore and heal what’s getting in the way of you living your most joyful, creative, connected life?
  • Is depression keeping you feeling weighed down, dull, and purposeless?
  • Is anxiety keeping you on high alert and living from a place of fear and busyness around the clock?
  • Are habitual thought-loops and tensions in the body keeping you in a perpetual state of mistrust, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or judgement towards yourself and others?

In my practice, I use a blend of Somatic Experiencing®, Voice Dialogue parts work, and mindfulness-based present-moment inquiry to create a compassionate, curious, and attuned space for inner exploration and healing.

So often, these experiences of depression and anxiety are the result of an impulse getting “stuck” in the system and not being able to fully move, release, and complete its cycle.

In working with me, you will learn how to track and nurture your nervous system and to support life energies to move more freely through your body. When we move from stuckness into flow, depression and anxiety become a thing of the past.

I work with Voice Dialogue Parts Work, a similar approach to Internal Family Systems, to disentangle the knot of different “selves” or competing perspectives that can dominate our lives.

Together, we make space for the critic, the pleaser, the know-it-all, the fearful child, etc etc., and get to know their deeper desires and needs. In our work together, you come to the embodied understanding that you contain these perspectives, but they are not who you are, fundamentally.

To Make an appointment email me any time.

I spent two years training at a Buddhist monastery, and I bring a strong flavor of curious, mindful inquiry practice into my work with clients.

My goal is to help you strengthen and increase your awareness of how thoughts, memory-images, and body sensations create your inner reality, and transform liits Into opportunities for something new and wonderful to happen.

With greater awareness comes greater choice, and with greater choice, there is greater freedom, joy, and creativity available in life.

In working with me, clients have experienced:

  • An empowering sense of trust that your body can fully move through challenging experiences without getting stuck in an ongoing lethargic freeze state or a hyper-activated flight/fight state
  • A newfound sense of compassion and curiosity for your inner world
  • The ability to express from different “parts” of your inner landscape, freeing up creative life energies
  • The ability to de-identify from challenging thoughts and emotions and hold them in a space of compassion, care, and even humor.

I am particularly drawn to working with girls, women, and female-identified folk of all ages.

I am an expressive arts therapist, usIng a wide range of creative practices, to tap into the deep reservoirs of creative wisdom inside of you. Together we can explore:

  • Embodied parts work,
  • Dream exploration,
  • Writing exercises,
  • Sound and singing,
  • Visual art and collage,

I offer individual and couples therapy, as well as an online Women’s Parts Work Therapy Group.

My website is currently in development,

Please email me directly: magnoliamedlin@gmail.com

Training

  • BA, Comparative Literature, Stanford University
  • MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, University of the Cumberlands
  • Somatic Experiencing Year One Practitioner Training, 2023 (ongoing)
  • Voice Dialogue Parts Work Facilitation Training, 2020-2021, Voice Dialogue Institute of Seattle
  • Training in Expressive Self-Discovery Healing Arts through Tamera Healing Biotope, 2024
  • Essential Light Institute Healership Training in Bioenergetics, 2023-2024
  • Great Vow Zen Buddhist Monastery residency and training, 2017-2019
  • School of Lost Borders Vision Fast and Council Process training, 2016

Fees

$175 per 55-minute session. I offer a few sliding-scale spots, so feel welcome to inquire if finances are an obstacle for you.

Insurance

In addition to private pay and cash payment, I can accept and bill most Oregon Health Plan (OHP) plans such as CareOregon, Trillium, and other OHP carriers in Oregon. I am not in-network with any commercial plans. You may be able to use your Out of Network Benefits depending on your specific insurance plan details and deductible status.

To set up your free 15-minute phone consultation

Email me magnoliamedlin@gmail.com

Call or text me 336-520-0318

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