Through partnerships with local organizations and expanded services offered at the counseling center, we strive to provide new experiences to facilitate personal growth and wellbeing.
Making Space for Our Community
The Community Counseling Center is committed to serving the Portland metro area as a community resource in addition to being a provider of accessible mental health care.
The Art Therapy Gallery at the Community Counseling Center features a rotating selection of featured exhibits by art therapy faculty, graduate students, and visiting artists.
Imagine a Future Without Gun ViolenceCurrent Exhibit
Join us for a powerful, community-led art exhibition amplifying the voices of Portland youth and community members who are envisioning bold solutions to gun violence and uplifting hope and healing.
This exhibition is the result of a semester-long collaboration. Vision Quilt trained Lewis & Clark Art Therapy graduate students and faculty in its nationally-recognized curriculum. These leaders then guided local workshops, culminating in community-created artworks, data analysis, and storytelling from Parkrose High School seniors and the wider Portland community.
What to Expect:
Artworks exploring the root causes and impacts of gun violence
Visionary storytelling, poetry and trauma-informed dialogue
Student-led discussion and multimedia installations
A safe space for community connection, healing, and change
The Art Therapy Studio at the Community Counseling Center serves as both a hands-on classroom for graduate students in the art therapy program, as well as a space for graduate students, faculty, and the community to come together and create art. Weekly open studio sessions welcome the public into the studio to participate in art making as a therapeutic experience, whether starting a new project from the gentle prompt provided or continuing a piece of work from a previous session.
All studio sessions are free and open to the public. Registration is required. Participants must be at least 18.
Art for Social Change Open Studio Sessions
Art in relationship transforms lives, builds community, examines social constructs, raises critical consciousness and creates a more just society. We are resolved to create spaces for healing, dialogue, and building community to use art to challenge oppression and achieve our collective liberation to work with oppressed communities to decolonize and dismantle systems of oppression on our campus and beyond.
These sessions focus specifically on exploring social, racial, or political current events. We create art and dialogue about the impact of these events on our communities and work together toward social change.
Open Studio is a community art studio weekly meeting where individuals are invited to create art and find community. Participants may begin a new piece using a gentle prompt offered at the beginning of each session or work on their own new or ongoing pieces. Expect a short introduction, then choose to work in silence or engage in conversation with others who choose to as well, and participate in a short recap on the making process at the end of the session.
Virtual open studio sessions are offered on select dates. Visit the registration page for the full schedule.
We are happy to provide services to post-911 service members, veterans, and their families as part of the Returning Veterans Project.
Transgender and Nonbinary Mental Health Pilot Program
We have launched a program that provides specialized and affirmative counseling services to transgender and nonbinary (TNB) clients, in partnership with the TransActive Gender Project. Our trainees understand and will address the multifaceted aspects of trans experiences, and can help TNB clients navigate their paths with confidence and strength.
Walla Walla University
We have partnered with the WWU School of Nursing to provide mental health and relational health services to students in the nursing program. WWU students are free to contact us to schedule appointments for services.
Center Location 4445 SW Barbur Boulevard Portland, OR 97239
Appointments 503-768-6320
Center Director Nori Gruber, LPC, NCC, CCMHC 503-768-6321
