DONNA ROY, LPC, CHT, Administrative and Clinic Director, M.E.T.A., LLC
DONNA ROY, LPC, CHT, Administrative and Clinic Director, M.E.T.A., LLC, is a licensed professional counselor, certified Hakomi therapist, and a certified Hakomi teacher. She has a thriving private psychotherapy and consulting practice in Portland, Oregon, where she administers and teaches in M.E.T.A. trainings, and is an adjunct faculty member in Portland State University's Department of Counselor Education. She has special training in couples, marriage and family therapy, experiential dreamwork, and clinical supervision.
Donna comes to counseling with a rich international background. She lived and studied for a year in Germany in college, was a Peace Corps volunteer for three years in South Korea in the 1970s, and worked for a year in Bangladesh with Save the Children as part of her master's degree studies in intercultural administration. These experiences lead to her work with refugees on both the east and west coasts of the U.S., and to an intercultural communication consulting and training business.
As an activist, she has always cared deeply about people and their gifts and about facilitating interpersonal understanding and intrapersonal awareness.
After a 20 year career in international non-profit management and intercultural communication, Donna had an epiphany about fulfilling another lifetime dream: to become a psychotherapist. This epiphany lead her (via a circuitous and personally customized route) to apprenticeships in altered state dreamwork and shamanic healing, to training as a Hakomi therapist, to graduating with an MS in counseling from Portland State University (2003), and, finally, to licensure (2007) as a licensed professional counselor (LPC).
In 2008, Donna and colleague Jon Eisman formed M.E.T.A., LLC, as an umbrella organization whose mission it is to train counselors and psychotherapists and others in mindfulness-based therapy approaches.
Donna also authored a chapter entitled, "Body-Centered Counseling & Psychotherapy", included in Capuzzi and Gross's textbook, Theories and Interventions in Counseling and Psychotherapy, published by Prentice Hall.
Donna has two grown children (who are also inveterate travelers) and lives with her husband of 30 years and a menagerie of animals. She makes regular trips to her home state of Maine where her parents still reside, practices yoga, loves a good science fiction movie as well as the poetry of Hafiz.
