Beth Bogdon
LPC
I guide people into a deeper relationship with their own inner knowing — not by providing answers, but by creating space for what is already present to be heard. My work lives at the intersection of body, story, and contemplative practice, through recorded classes, talks, and writing.
Welcome
We don’t always understand why we feel the way we do—why the same patterns show up in relationships, why certain struggles persist, or why we feel stuck in ways we can’t quite explain. It’s natural to want answers, to try to make sense of it all.
And sometimes, the most honest place to begin is not knowing.
In this work, we don’t rush to make things different. We slow down and listen to what’s here. We make room for what doesn’t yet have clear language. Often, what’s most important begins to reveal itself not through effort, but through attention.
Life’s invitation is often to slow down—even in the most difficult times. When that feels unbearable to do alone, the therapy relationship helps hold the tension, bearing witness as we descend into what is not yet known.
My Approach to Therapy
Many people arrive carrying a quiet sense of feeling uncertain, unwanted, or unknown — and with it, the familiar effort of trying to figure out what needs to change.
This work begins somewhere different. Rather than moving away from difficult feelings, we turn toward them. Emotions, dreams, and body experiences are approached as meaningful — not problems to fix, but communications from a deeper layer of the self.
Some people are drawn to working with dreams and images. Others find meaning through sensation and felt experience. Transformation tends to happen not through forcing change, but through bringing gentle attention to what is already present.
Contemplative Sessions
These sessions are not therapy and are open to anyone.
Sometimes what arises in practice wants to be met in conversation. These 45-minute sessions offer a space to bring what is present — what has surfaced, what feels alive, what doesn't yet have language. Contemplative and embodied in approach. Available as needed, without the structure of ongoing appointments.
Contemplative & Embodied Offerings
These offerings are not therapy and are open to anyone drawn to this kind of inner work.
Embodied Listening
A quiet invitation — to slow down, listen inward, and come into contact with what is already here.
Each practice includes guided embodied listening and time for integration. The practices draw on embodied imagination, quiet reflection, and sometimes journaling or drawing — not to analyze experience, but to remain close to what is alive.
New here? Start with a free seven minute practice.
The Practices
Standing in the River · An Introduction to Embodied Listening
The river is always there. It doesn’t need to be created.
This longer practice is a beginning — an orientation to embodied listening before moving into deeper work. We explore what it feels like to stand in the river, notice when we’ve been pulled away, and find the rhythm of returning. Not perfectly. Just honestly.
Includes a companion reflection guide with prompts, somatic exploration, and a drawing invitation. Yours to keep and return to.
$40
Pair One · Doing & Presence
What Do I Do? A practice of meeting urgency and responsibility
Most of us know this question intimately — the weight of it, the urgency beneath it, the loneliness it can carry. This practice offers a way of meeting "What do I do?" without needing to answer it. Through embodied listening and gentle attention, we turn toward the feeling of the question itself rather than away from it.
When Nothing Needs to Be Done A practice of listening and presence
This practice invites a shift from doing into listening — from managing experience to being with it. It offers a way of staying with what is here, sensations, emotions, and the texture of the moment, as it arises and changes, without effort or striving.
Includes a companion reflection guide with prompts, somatic exploration, and a drawing invitation. Yours to keep and return to.
$60
Pair Two · Love
Love, Part I: The Seeker An exploration of how love becomes something we pursue
We learn early to pursue love — to earn it, secure it, hold onto it. This practice gently explores how that seeking was formed and how it continues to shape the way we move in our relationships. Through guided inquiry and embodied reflection, we begin to notice the seeker — with curiosity rather than judgment.
Love, Part II: Love Itself An invitation beyond effort or striving
If our experience of love has been shaped by relationship, longing, and loss — what might love be underneath all of that? This contemplative practice opens toward that question, not to answer it, but to feel into it. Includes guided heart-centered practice and journaling prompts.
Includes a companion reflection guide with prompts, somatic exploration, and a drawing invitation. Yours to keep and return to.
$60
Getting Started
Therapy
Individual therapy $185
In-network insurance:
PacificSource
Moda
If something here speaks to you, reach out. I'd love to connect.
Contemplative Sessions
Available as needed, without the structure of ongoing appointments.
45 minutes · $150