About River’s Way
River’s Way is a community mental health clinic based in Portland, Oregon. We serve a diverse population of individuals, couples, and families at River’s Way. Clients come to us with a wide range of issues including trauma, depression, anxiety, addictions, sexual issues, and body symptoms.
Our therapists are pre-licensed interns, who come from different specializations, and different graduate institutions both locally and internationally. They are trained to work with the whole person, mind, body, and spirit, believing that within each person is the power to grow and heal from their issues if we can follow their process, and with a keen awareness that within our issues lies the potential solution. We respect and support diversity and deep democracy within the person and the world.
Our clinic director, Dr. Gary Reiss, is a Process-oriented Psychologist and utilizes this lens to train interns and assist their work with clients. This depth approach integrates dreamwork, body symptom work, relationship work, inner work, family work, movement work, meditation, art, creative expression, and work with addictions and extreme states into a single approach.
We treat each client as a unique individual, and our approach emphasizes empathy as we address the client's issues. We believe in helping the client find and follow their own deepest wisdom, and emphasize not only fixing problems but also connecting with your deepest self, because there lies the power to make one’s life meaningful and leads to sustainable change for yourself and the world.
Clinic Supervisors
Gary Reiss, LCSW, PhD - Clinic Director
Dr. Gary Reiss holds an LCSW, PhD., and is a certified trainer in Process-oriented Psychology. Gary has a private practice in Eugene and Portland, Oregon, and teaches Process oriented Psychology worldwide for more than 35 years. His specialties include family therapy, sex therapy, working with coma patients, Worldwork in hot spots in the world, organizational development, and integrating Process work with different spiritual traditions. Gary is the director of the nonprofit The International Peace Group. He is the founder and director of the Rivers Way Community Clinic in Portland, Oregon. He has published 14 books including Healing History, The Dance of Sex; Dreaming Money, Families that Dream Together, Love, Power, and Wisdom, Process Oriented Facilitation, and Getting off the Wheel, a Process Oriented Approach to Personal and World Liberation.
Ingrid Rose, PhD, LPC, Dipl. PW
Ingrid’s guiding inspiration for her life work stems from her history of growing up in South Africa, where as a child, perceiving the injustice around her, she decided early on to devote herself to individual and social change. Ingrid has been in private practice for more than 35 years working with a large range of presentations, as well as being a clinical supervisor and international group facilitator. She has taught at college level, and has had extensive experience teaching Processwork to many groups in Portland, Oregon, and all over the world. She has a long history of yoga and meditation practice and a strong interest in shamanism, adding to the depth of her work.