Haymarket Pole Collective’s Mental Health Resources

Hello! Welcome to Haymarket Pole Collective’s list of mental health providers. Most of these providers are located in Portland, OR. If you would like help connecting to care and especially navigating insurance, email anna@haymarketpole.com.

A PDF of these resources is available by clicking the button below.

Mental Health Providers in Portland, OR

Here is a partial list of mental healthcare providers that might be a good fit for erotic service providers of color in Oregon. We would also recommending using this resource, https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/, to find a therapist who is a good fit.

Rosemarie Hemmings, PhD, LCSW.

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer, transgender, and sex worker allied

  • Insurance accepted: Sliding scale. BlueCross and BlueShield, Cascade Health, Medicare, Moda Health, Optum, Providence, UnitedHealthcare

Andrea J. Wright Johnston

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer, transgender, and sex worker allied

  • Insurance accepted: Blue Cross, Blue Shield, BlueCross and BlueShield, Cigna, Empire, Optum, Providence, Regence, UMR, United Behavioral Health, UnitedHealthcare, Out of Network

Shadee A Hardy

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer, transgender, and sex worker allied

  • Insurance accepted: Sliding scale. Oregon Health Plan (OHP), PacificSource, Out of Network

Rachelle McCloud

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer, transgender, and sex worker allied

  • Insurance accepted: None, private pay only

Shaylee Graham

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer, transgender, and sex worker allied

  • Insurance accepted: Sliding scale. Moda Health, Providence, Reliant, Out of Network

Sofia Jasani

  • Website

  • Identity: Woman of color

  • Explicitly queer, transgender, and sex worker allied

  • Insurance accepted: Unclear, but sliding scale

Zainab Lavender Abdullah

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer, transgender, and sex worker allied

  • Insurance accepted: Unclear, but sliding scale

Heather Leilani Simpson

  • Website

  • Identity: Woman of color

  • Explicitly queer, transgender, and sex worker allied

  • Insurance accepted: Unclear, but sliding scale

Ruth Tessema

  • Website

  • Identity: Woman of color

  • Explicitly queer and transgender allied

  • Insurance accepted: Unclear, but sliding scale

Rita Schenkelberg

  • Website

  • Identity: Woman of color

  • Explicitly queer and transgender allied

  • Insurance accepted: Sliding scale, Oregon Health Plan (OHP), PacificSource

Danette C. Gillespie-Otto

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer and transgender allied

  • Insurance accepted: Kaiser (in-network)

Andrea Rosemarie Redeau

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer and transgender allied

  • Insurance accepted: Sliding scale. PacificSource, Providence, UnitedHealthcare, Out of Network

Triune Health & Wellness, LLC

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer allied

  • Insurance accepted: Unclear, but sliding scale

New Springs Counseling Service

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer and transgender allied

  • Insurance accepted: Sliding scale. Cigna, Providence, UnitedHealthcare

CéShaun Hankins

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer and transgender allied

  • Insurance accepted: Out of network

Lanette Ambers, Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Insurance accepted: Sliding scale. Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CareMark PPO, Cigna, FEI Behavioral Health, First Choice Health, MHN, Moda Health, Optum, Peace Health, Providence, Regence, Tuality Health & Associates

Sharnissa Secrett LCSW, Cemented Rose Therapeutics

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Insurance accepted: Health Share/Care Oregon

LaTrece Gaither

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Insurance accepted: Unclear, but sliding scale

Talks with June

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer and transgender allied

  • Insurance accepted: Sliding scale. Moda Health, PacificSource, Reliant

Ava M. Stone, PhD, PC

  • Website

  • Identity: Black woman

  • Explicitly queer allied

  • Insurance accepted: Anthem, Beech Street, BlueCross and BlueShield, First Choice Health, Medicare, Moda Health, Optum, PacificSource, Premera, Providence, Regence, UnitedHealthcare

Jessie Kaleikau

Catherine Braxton

  • Website

  • Identity: Black non binary person (they/them)

  • Personalized Sessions & Classes in  Restorative Body Movement; Workshops in Trauma Informed Sexual Healing; One on One Guidance in Restoring Orgasmic Self; Tarot & Oracle Readings

Health Systems- Takes OHP

  • Quest Center for Integrative Health

    • Primary Care, counseling, psychiatry, acupuncture + other programs like nutrition and yoga counseling, and chronic pain programs

    • 503-238-5203

  • Cascadia Behavioral Health

    • Counseling, primary care, psychiatry + other programs

    • 503-674-7777

    • Provides mental health, alcohol, and drug treatment, case management and medication management to people with OHP Plus. Also provides free services for those with gambling addictions.

  • Owl’s Nest

    • 503.281.1166 // info@owlsnestnorth.com

  • Albertina Kerr Centers

  • Lifeworks Northwest

  • Lutheran Community Services

  • Plaza 24 Hour Crisis Walk In Clinic

  • Goose Hollow Mental Health/Parent Education and Support Workshops

  • OHSU Avel Gordly Center for Healing

    Sliding Scale