Welcome to the PBC

We’re excited to announce the creation of the Portage Bay Clinic, a psychotherapy clinic that offers accessible, affordable, and impactful therapy to adults, teens, and couples in the greater Seattle area. We are thrilled that you’ve visited our site and hope you’ll continue to check out our blog to learn about who we are, what we do, and how we can help you and your loved ones live more meaningful, fulfilling, and healing lives.

The PBC is a collective of depth-oriented psychotherapists. What this means is that we believe it is hugely important for us to develop a trusting and safe relationship with all of our patients, and to focus our work on deeply understanding their personal struggles and how they came to be. In our view, better understanding these things makes it easier to see how they can be different, and how they can change for the better. The phrase “depth-oriented” refers to the kinds of therapy that value emotional insight and relationship: these include psychoanalytic, humanistic, existential, and attachment-oriented forms of therapy.

We seek to help individuals who have lived through traumas of all kinds and severities. In our view, learning how to live with - and not against - one's wounds makes it easier to live with them, and allows a person to develop healthier lives and relationships in the process. That work can take time, but it is always meaningful and often transformative.

Our clinicians are here to work with individuals from all socioeconomic, cultural, and gendered backgrounds and identifications.

If you have any questions about us or what we offer, please don’t hesitate to get in touch, and we hope to hear from you soon.

-Jeff Grant, Ph.D.

Director & Founder, Portage Bay Clinic