Gerry McNamara (she/her)

LMFT
Accepting Clients

Gerry McNamara, LMFT is a licensed therapist based in Portland, Oregon, working with individuals, couples, and families for over 18 years.

Counselor in Oregon

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

The largest part of her practice is one-to-one work with adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, burnout, life transitions, grief, self-esteem, and the slow work of figuring out who you are when the script stops working. Many of her clients are thoughtful, analytical adults who feel a little frustrated that they can't just think their way out of what they're feeling. They work with that, not against it.

My Background and Approach

Before becoming a therapist eighteen years ago, Gerry worked as a mechanical engineer. She loved the precision of that work, but the most interesting problems she kept running into were human rather than technical. She followed that passion and went back to school to become a licensed therapist. Gerry has deep experience with families and couples, drawing on Gottman and attachment-informed approaches for relationship work. Her individual work integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Internal Family Systems, psychodynamic exploration, and trauma-informed pacing. The common thread is collaboration: she's not interested in keeping anyone in therapy forever; she's interested in helping you understand what's going on, find tools that work in your real life, and develop enough self-knowledge to keep doing the work without her.

Techniques I Use

Other Techniques
  • Attachment Theory
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Depression Relationship Issues
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Out of Network
  • Aetna
  • Cigna
  • Anthem
  • First Choice Health
  • MODA
  • Optum
  • PacificSource
  • Providence Health Plan
  • Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • First Health
  • Samaritan Health Plans
  • Carelon
  • Regence BCBS of Oregon
  • UHC/Optum
  • Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS)
  • Moda
I offer online counseling in the following states:

At A Glance

  • Experience: 18 years of practice
  • Rate: $250 - 250/session

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