Sprout Therapy PDX

Are you a procrastinator?

Do you tell yourself you "work well under pressure"?

Do you think, "That won't take long, I've got plenty of time!"

Are you a constant ball of stress that always has something due RIGHT NOW but you for some reason didn't start it when you should have and why did you do that, why do I always do this, what's wrong with me!

Just us?

So how do you get out of this cycle?

It can be really hard to break an ingrained habit so set yourself up with some tools ahead of time.

Recruit a friend to check on your progress. (And by check we mean hound you night and day if they have to. JK, or not)

Tell yourself you only have to work on it for 5 minutes. You can pretty much do anything for 5 minutes, and usually, you'll keep going once you get started.

Put reminders everywhere. Sticky notes on your mirror, alarms on your phone, whatever it takes to remind you to do the thing. But don't be mean to yourself, that will just make it harder. Leave positive, encouraging reminders.

How do you battle procrastination? Let us know in the comments!

We love this quote!

Just be yourself—who else are you gonna be!?

Founder Emelie Blank on the ethos of Sprout Therapy PDX:

When I began Sprout in 2017, I learned the term “boutique mental health,” a term some clinicians use to describe a private practice that serves lower acuity cases, clients typically higher on the socio-economic spectrum, and clients that have private insurance or are private pay.

Part of this model sat well with me—I wanted to create a therapy clinic that could provide consistent care to their clients, where skilled therapists have meaningful and long-term relationships with their clients, in a comfortable and modern setting, with small enough caseloads that they can truly focus on YOU and your needs for the time they sit with you.

The part that didn’t sit well with me was the idea I had heard so often of the goal of private practice being to serve privileged populations.

Let’s be real—if you came here, as many do, with prior experiences working with therapists in larger agency settings, let me guess what you experienced: burnt-out clinicians with huge caseloads, high therapist turnover, infrequent sessions, florescent lighting, and an institutionalized space. You might not have known much about your therapist prior to meeting them and may have struggled to feel safe enough to be truly yourself in a setting where you don’t know what values your therapist might have.

As a white, cisgender, straight-passing q***r lady, I saw an opportunity to use my privilege, education, and experience to create a practice that takes the good things from “boutique mental health” and applies to the populations who really need it.