Catherine Griffith, M.S., graduated from Portland State University's Clinical Mental Health Counseling program and has completed M.E.T.A.'s two-year Comprehensive Training. She also holds a Master's degree in Conflict Resolution from Portland State University, a program that includes courses on mediation and negotiation. Catherine's focus during her graduate program was on social justice.
In support of her work with individuals, Catherine co-facilitated a mindfulness-based group for adults, called "Mindful Eating." She is committed to meeting clients where they are, understanding their present experience, and helping them discover how their past influences the present. She specializes in working with individuals and facilitating the expansion of self-awareness, while honoring each person's uniqueness and integrating a celebration of this into the counseling process.
Elizabeth Dissin, MA
Elizabeth Dissin, M.A., graduated from the Counseling program at Southwestern College (Santa Fe, NM), with a concentration in grief, loss and trauma.
She has completed training in Levels I (Treatment of Trauma) and II (Attachment, Development, and Trauma) with The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She is in her first year of M.E.T.A.'s Comprehensive Training. Elizabeth has co-facilitated numerous groups for adults, teens and children, including grief support, anger management, and trance meditation.
Trusting in each individual’s internal wisdom and inherent wholeness, Elizabeth views her role as leading clients to their own discoveries by holding space for and accompanying clients on their unfolding journey. She utilizes mindfulness to assist clients in learning about their habitual, automatic responses through direct experience in the present moment, and in challenging and transforming maladaptive patterns for a more fluid and expanded sense of self.
Pearl Waldorf, MS Ed
Pearl Waldorf, MS Ed is completing her Master's degree in The Integral Counseling Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is a certified special education teacher, has an M.S in Education and has supported students with special needs to build academic, social emotional and adult living skills for 10 years. Additionally, she has facilitated the professional development of adult learners in a wide range of education, self-awareness and diversity related topics. She is in her first year of META’s comprehensive training.
For Pearl, living our unique spark in the world is a human imperative. And therapy is the process of clearing internal barriers to the expansive, choiceful living of that spark. Through deep listening and observation, curiosity, and a process of co-creation, therapy becomes a safe container where new ways of knowing and being are possible. Pearl is inspired widely by Buddhist Psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, and presence and attachment-based psychotherapies. Your work together will be creative, enlivening and grounded in an intuitive process, which honors who you are today while gently pressing towards greater expression of your highest potential.
Jon Fox, QMHA
Jon Fox, QMHA, is a third-year Master's student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University and a first-year student in M.E.T.A.'s Comprehensive Training. He also has experience working with adults with chronic and severe mental illness and individuals in crisis.
Jon has a collaborative approach to counseling where he joins clients in discovering their unique strengths and inner resources to lead a courageous, healthy, and fulfilling life. He strives to help clients find meaning and purpose by using mindfulness approaches to deepen their awareness of the specific ways they experience themselves, others, and the world around them. He is committed to guiding and supporting clients in cultivating compassion and acceptance towards themselves and others, so that they may feel empowered to make positive changes in their lives.
