Welcome to The Empowered Healer Project LLC & Social Club!
We are so glad you are here!
The Empowered Healer Project LLC was created to meet several needs for healthcare professionals.
1.) A private club and social community just for licensed counselors and therapists, with activities and community gatherings.
2.) An online coaching program designed specifically for healthcare professionals.
Meet the EHP Leadership Council
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Hartshorn, LPC, is the owner of www.fullcirclecounseling.com, and owner/ organizer of the www.empoweredhealerproject.com. She is based in Portland, Oregon. With over three decades of experience in the fields of mental health and addiction treatment, she has honed her clinical experience in treating licensed healthcare profession
Elizabeth Hartshorn, LPC, is the owner of www.fullcirclecounseling.com, and owner/ organizer of the www.empoweredhealerproject.com. She is based in Portland, Oregon. With over three decades of experience in the fields of mental health and addiction treatment, she has honed her clinical experience in treating licensed healthcare professionals. Elizabeth is an approved clinical supervisor with the Oregon Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists. Her extensive experience includes adjunct faculty for the counselor education department at Portland State University, presenter forTelehealth Certification Institute, one of the largest continuing education platforms for mental health professionals, and expert consultant for attorneys defending licensing board complaints.
Driven by her own dark night of the soul, Elizabeth has honed her clinical focus on treating licensed healthcare professionals. She created the Empowered Healer Coaching Program and the Empowered Healer Project to prevent professional isolation for healthcare professionals. Additionally, she publishes content on Substack for healthcare professionals which is designed to extend her reach and impact.
Outside her professional endeavors, Elizabeth treasures her time spent engaging in the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest, dancing, enjoying the foodie culture of Portland and it"s entertainment. She enjoys meaningful connection with her colleague friends and spending time with her grandson, who she fondly believes to be the sweetest & cutest boy in the world.
Shannon
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Dr. Shannon Frank-Richter is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) holding five clinical licenses across four states. She is board certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as both a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a Certified Clinical Mental Healt
Dr. Shannon Frank-Richter is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) holding five clinical licenses across four states. She is board certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as both a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC), and is a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).
She specializes in neurodivergent-affirming care, with advanced expertise in providing psychotherapy to adults with Level 1 autism and ADHD (AuDHD), as well as interstate counseling via multistate licensure, with ethical cross-jurisdictional practice. Her peer-reviewed research, Nature Healing Mental Stress: What U.S. Healthcare Can Learn from Other Nations, published in The Pacific Journal of Health (2024), examines ecotherapy and mindful nature immersion as evidence-based approaches to stress reduction and their implications for U.S. healthcare.
In her free time, she enjoys spending time with friends and family near and far, traveling with her husband, Dr. Robert Richter, hiking, and exploring the forests and coastline of the Pacific Northwest with their two rescued Bichon–Poodle mixes.
Deborah
Elizabeth
Deborah
Deborah A Johanson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 29 years of experience in a variety of settings who specializes in sex and intimacy therapy with couples and individuals. Because of the complexity of who people are and their life experiences she works from an eclectic perspective, having trained in a number of
Deborah A Johanson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 29 years of experience in a variety of settings who specializes in sex and intimacy therapy with couples and individuals. Because of the complexity of who people are and their life experiences she works from an eclectic perspective, having trained in a number of different modalities, is trauma informed and addresses those complexities within this framework. Along with a 2-year certificate in sex therapy, she is a Diplomate in Sexology, has certification as a Tibetan Buddhist 5 Element Tantra Practitioner (Teacher), and is a Reiki Master. She is also a Clinical Supervisor.
In addition to her work world, Deborah loves to dance, garden, and spend time with friends and family. She values racial and social justice, integrity, depth, honesty, and vulnerability.
Lisa
Natalie
Natalie
Lisa Motley is a LCSW specializing in working with individuals who have experienced anxiety, depression, and childhood/adult trauma. She has extensive experience working with clients across the life span in the human service field for over 15 years. She currently serve clients 18 years and older. She understands how difficult opening up
Lisa Motley is a LCSW specializing in working with individuals who have experienced anxiety, depression, and childhood/adult trauma. She has extensive experience working with clients across the life span in the human service field for over 15 years. She currently serve clients 18 years and older. She understands how difficult opening up can be and knows that finding the right person to talk with is important. Her approach to psychotherapy is humanistic and draws upon various treatment modalities to help her clients heal and meet their goals. She uses a gentle, strength-based, trauma-informed approach to help bring about awareness, meaning and solutions to life's challenges. As a holistic multicultural practitioner, she believes in treating the whole person—biopsychosocial-spiritual—to address and help heal trauma.
Natalie
Natalie
Natalie
Natalie Seibel is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon and Washington and has over 18 years of clinical experience. She works with individuals, couples, and mother–adult daughter relationships, specializing in supporting women navigate life transitions and identity shifts. She sees peri/menopause as a rite of passage to reclaimed s
Natalie Seibel is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon and Washington and has over 18 years of clinical experience. She works with individuals, couples, and mother–adult daughter relationships, specializing in supporting women navigate life transitions and identity shifts. She sees peri/menopause as a rite of passage to reclaimed sovereignty that no woman need traverse alone. She also integrates inner child work, energy healing, and intuitive insight into her practice as a Reiki Master and Spiritual Doula.
When not guiding others through their healing journey, she can be found curled up on the couch with her current dark romantasy read, working her way through Westside coffee shops to find the best matcha, traipsing in nature with her dog and husband, or engaging in new endeavors like learning how to play pickleball.
CONNECT
TRANSFORM
CONNECT
Connect With A Community Just for Counselors & Therapists! After a successful year long experiment in connection to prevent social isolation, The Empowered Healer Community is establishing as a private social club just for counselors and therapists!
The mission of the Empowered Healer Project Social Club is to create a secure, meaningful,
Connect With A Community Just for Counselors & Therapists! After a successful year long experiment in connection to prevent social isolation, The Empowered Healer Community is establishing as a private social club just for counselors and therapists!
The mission of the Empowered Healer Project Social Club is to create a secure, meaningful, and sustainable community where Oregon-licensed mental health professionals can connect as whole people, “human first, therapist second” to support one another as colleagues, and strengthen both personal well-being and professional resilience. The EHP Club exists to reduce professional isolation by offering private social gatherings, peer-to-peer support opportunities, shared learning experiences, and community-centered activities that are not clinical supervision, therapy, formal consultation, continuing education, business solicitation, or political organizing. Through our shared commitment to Connect, Empower, and Transform. We foster collegial friendships, mutual encouragement, personal growth, professional sustainability, and a sense of belonging that helps members weather the systemic strains affecting healthcare and the mental health profession. We are a community of excellence, not perfection and strive to uplift each other and our profession!
EMPOWER
TRANSFORM
CONNECT
We are an Empowered Radical, Welcoming Community that upholds professional integrity.
Showing up as “Human First, Therapist Second” by cultivating an open, accepting space where we can show up as ourselves first, in a welcoming, non-competitive space where private practitioners openly share resources, insights, support, activities and
We are an Empowered Radical, Welcoming Community that upholds professional integrity.
Showing up as “Human First, Therapist Second” by cultivating an open, accepting space where we can show up as ourselves first, in a welcoming, non-competitive space where private practitioners openly share resources, insights, support, activities and events with a “can-do” attitude amongst colleague friends. We offer meaningful social gatherings, Fireside Circle peer to peer support, and opportunities to become an ambassador to our mission in the Leadership Council. As licensed therapists navigating this changing landscape of private practice and healthcare, our focus is on self and community empowerment by eliminating professional isolation and providing a supportive community of collegial friends.
TRANSFORM
TRANSFORM
TRANSFORM
If you value freedom, independence and autonomy of practice, and desire professional friendship connection, join us! Transformation never happens alone. Here are real comments from EHP community: "This is an amazing and vital space for therapists to connect." "After every event, I found that I received what I was looking for". " I enjoy t
If you value freedom, independence and autonomy of practice, and desire professional friendship connection, join us! Transformation never happens alone. Here are real comments from EHP community: "This is an amazing and vital space for therapists to connect." "After every event, I found that I received what I was looking for". " I enjoy the space we meet in and the structure of the community ". " I look forward to the connection rather than traditional networking". " Being seen by a therapist friend lands differently than being seen by a family member or friend with love". " "I need this community; it's my tribe, I've arranged my schedule so I can come more regularly "
" There's a sense of belonging that
keeps me coming back".
We're not for everyone, but we might be right for you. We are a unique, welcoming community designed to prevent professional isolation through connection, empowerment and transformation!