Clare Gilgannon (she/her)

Therapy Intern

Clare is currently working toward her Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University. Her academic background includes bachelor’s degrees in wildlife ecology and geography from Oregon State University, both of which inform her therapy practice through our collective humanistic connections to landscape, wilderness, and wildlife.

Clare believes every person carries a powerful story that shapes their identity, perception, and relationship with the world. Her therapeutic work is grounded in a person-centered narrative approach that helps explore the stories we have inherited, the ones we have created, and the ones we are ready to release or rewrite. Emphasizing self-compassion and a nurturing therapeutic alliance, she helps examine and gently deconstruct the influences that have shaped client experiences and identify new possibilities for meaning and personal growth.

Clare takes a holistic, trauma-informed approach to healing by recognizing the connection between mind, body, emotions, and environment. She integrates somatic experiences into therapeutic work to foster awareness of the body and nervous system, promoting attunement to self and release of stored emotions and trauma.

Clare’s worldview is firmly grounded in anti-racism, de-colonialism, queer allyship, and sex positivity, and she honors each person’s unique identity and lived experience. Clare strives to create a therapeutic space that is collaborative, affirming, empowering, and rooted in authenticity and autonomy. Clare is a descendent of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, and she is particularly interested in giving voice to those who have been silenced by the injustice of colonialism or political marginalization in the United States.

In her free time, Clare enjoys playtime with her two cats, reading, board gaming, planning road trips, biking around town, weightlifting, and paddleboarding any river, lake, or pond she stumbles upon.