About Evergreen Wellness Therapy
meet Stassi
I’m a feminist therapist.
I don’t start by asking what’s wrong.
I ask why this feels so hard in the first place.
I work with high-achieving, high-responsibility women whose competence has made them indispensable — and quietly exhausted.
Women who hold everything together.
Who are relied on, deferred to, leaned on.
Whose lives are organized around anticipation, emotional labor, and being the one who notices.
From the outside, it often looks like success.
From the inside, there’s very little room to exhale.
My work helps women see the systems they’re operating inside clearly — and change the internal rules that taught them to overfunction in the first place.
This isn’t about doing less through willpower.
It’s about no longer organizing your life around constant self-sacrifice.
We work where these patterns actually live: the nervous system and learned survival strategies. Through parts-based, Internal Family Systems–informed work and intentional deconditioning, we create choice where there used to be reflex.
I don’t offer quick fixes or occasional check-ins.
I work with women who are ready for steady, honest work that changes how their lives are organized — not just how they cope inside them.
If something here already feels familiar, you’re in the right place.
PHILOSOPHY
Many women arrive here exhausted — not because something is wrong with them, but because of what has been asked of them for a very long time.
Women are taught early to be capable, responsible, and emotionally available. These expectations are rarely named, but they quietly shape lives around anticipation, care, and self-monitoring.
Over time, overfunctioning becomes normal.
Burnout becomes predictable.
The solutions offered are usually individual and superficial.
Rest more. Try harder. Take better care of yourself.
But when you return, the structure is still intact — waiting for you to hold it together again.
This work begins by naming that reality clearly.
It isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about clarity.
Safety.
And reorganizing a life that no longer requires your constant endurance.
When the structure changes, everything else can too.
EDUCATION AND LICENSE
Columbia University, Teachers College
Master of Education: Psychological Counseling
Master of Arts: Mental Health Counseling
Specialization: Multicultural Counseling
University of Oregon
Bachelor of Science: Psychology and Business
State of Oregon
Licensed Professional Counselor
License Number: C5784