Lauren Donelson Jones, LMFT

Lauren Donelson Jones is a licensed marriage and family therapist and astrologer who works through Internal Family Systems and offers preparation and integration for psychedelic experiences. Her website places her practice in Portland, Oregon, with sessions in person there and by telehealth across Oregon and Washington.

Approach

She is a certified level 2 IFS therapist, a status that included a review of her session recordings by a lead trainer at the IFS Institute, and she is licensed in Washington and Oregon. She often weaves astrology into IFS work, starting from a birth chart reading, and also brings reiki, plant medicine and her own intuition into sessions. In psychedelic preparation she helps clients get to know their parts, including those that feel excited, anxious or doubtful, and integration can mean reprocessing trauma that surfaced or finding meaning in what has changed. She does not give guidance on using psychedelics and does not facilitate sessions where they are taken.

Who it is for

Her clients tend to be deeply feeling, intuitive people who doubt that intuition, struggle to say no or name their needs, and feel stuck despite the tools they gained in earlier therapy. Her practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming and poly aware, with a fat-positive stance; she works with couples as well as individuals, and supports clients through infertility and IVF, which she knows from her own life.

Practical details

Her office is at 4 S Hamilton Street in Portland’s John’s Landing. IFS therapy, with or without astrology, costs $250 for 55 minutes, a healing intensive of five to six hours $1,200, and a stand-alone reading for someone not in therapy $350. She does not take insurance but can provide a superbill and accepts FSA and HSA payments. A free 15-minute consultation comes first.