Hi, I'm Kim (She/Her)!

Filtering Light Counseling LLC welcomes you!

I help adolescents, young adults, and adults uncover their potential, so that they can live the life they were meant to live - instead of a life they're expected to live.

I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, located in SE Portland, Oregon. I am happy to announce I am now fully offering in-person support at my ecotherapy site with a Geodesic Dome office!

I'm passionate about helping you realize your inherent value and understand your experiences, with the primary goal to learn skills to launch this value into your daily life.

This practice welcomes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, the spectrum of abilities, and other marginalized individuals, by valuing diverse lived experiences, honoring the client’s wisdom, and myself having personal accountability to actively engaging in my own anti-racism, anti-ableism, and anti-discriminatory education/work.

In our sessions, you'll find that I approach therapy with a balance of fun and depth. I love to incorporate ecotherapy and mindfulness, while also focusing on active skill building (such as DBT skills, social skills), and recovering from history of trauma. We will explore anxiety, depression, and other dysregulating thoughts, to see why they are occurring and what actions you can take to make your life feel fulfilled. With curiosity, we will identify how you process emotions and your perceptions, and with that information create plans of how to move forward with awareness, confidence, and skill.

Lets have those real, raw, vulnerable, conversations that you might have difficulty bringing to friends or family.

Individual Clients or Group members that align with my specialty: are those recently starting to identify or explore neurodiversity and are figuring out how neurodivergence explains their past while also looking to repair and improve their future, are parents who have a neurodivergent child/teen/young adult and seeking support as parents or for their child, or individuals who are looking to individualize therapeutic skills and navigate complex expressions of emotions and relational experiences. I also specialize in supporting suicidal ideation, which often can result from exhaustion with trying to fit into a neurotypical system and difficulty navigating self without understanding neurodivergence.

We all lose track of our inner light sometimes, and I believe it is honorable to ask for help in finding your way back to yours.

Learn more about me here.

and here:

https://www.portlandtherapycenter.com/therapists/kimberly-zeszutek

Oh the joy when the flowers first pop open to say hello! Pictured: bearded iris, poppy, lupine.

Built the tomato trellis today and celebrated all the seeds (like these cucumbers) popping up to say hello! Last year I tried out three different tomato support styles and this was my favorite. This is how I get ready for my clients during the work week- what a fun project! I also laid down more mulch. #pdxgardens #filteringlightcounseling #tomatoplant

The ecotherapy backyard office! It’s a dream come true and nourishing for my provider psyche. I got a tan “during work” this week. #filteringlightcounseling #neurodivergenttherapy #hardwork

The day I dreamed of is finally here. Filtering Light Counseling’s Ecotherapy site is open in Portland Oregon! Im enjoying and integrating the urban backyard therapy space I created for myself and my clients to experience natural aspects of health and healing. #filteringlightcounseling #neurdivergent #autismtherapist #ecotherapy #healingpowerofnature #mindfulnessinnature #outofthebox [ID: video pans from a wood fire stove past a chair to a window facing gardens, Kim lays down and looks out the window smiling].

This neurodivergent affirming space has everything ready and accessible around the seat to facilitate change and address sensory needs. Pictured is the designated spacious client chair, with a yoga pillow underneath, basket with fidgets, and basket of different textured blankets. We will be able to move and shift around for different settings, including going outside. #ecotherapy #pdxtherapy #neurodivergenttherapist #neurodivergentaffirmingcare

Ding dong! Tomorrow is the opening day for the ecotherapy backyard office and #filteringlightcounseling! [ID a fence holds a deer skull and below it is a sign that Kim painted that says Filtering Light Counseling with a RING doorbell to the right]

Recognizing that this dome and ecotherapy site is the traditional and ancestral territory of the Cayuse, Umayilla and Walla Walla; Clackamas; confederated arrives of Grand Ronde; and Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. I honor this site as an alternative from western psychology settings and back to the green natural healing environment which the Indigenous knew it so well. #filteringlightcounseling #pdxtherapist

Finished planting the entrance of the dome - scroll for the before photo. I’m really excited to see how this fills in. The colors are giving me big feels and fairy vibes 🧚🏼‍♂️🧚🏽. #filteringlightcounseling #springplanting #welcome

A fun view I caught of goat zoomies as I sat inside the dome. Imagine this during a therapy session. What joy! #filteringlightcounseling #pdxtherapy #neurodivergent #whataview

Well all, this last piece of construction is teaching me lessons of patience and flexibility. Today, I reflected and am recognizing opening day needs to be delayed a bit more. Learning concepts such as “with one project starting you get 3 more”, navigating through portland spring weather, and honoring my own physical and mental health needs. Cheers to progress and doing things well with mindfulness and patience! #filteringlightcounseling

Guard Cat. I put this platform up for him to help when he climbs over the fence, and he likes to sit on it because it is a good view of the entire property and a view into the home to communicate to me. Good job Buddy Bean. [ID: view out a kitchen window to a fluffy brown cat sitting on a fence platform. First photo he looks out to the yard, second he is looking intensely into the window]

Sealing and filling the ecotherapy Dome with rugs and other furnishings. It’s really coming together!

I believe in

decreasing barriers and helping you find opportunities to reach your goals.

My services:

Individual Counseling

These 45 minute sessions are ideal for adolescents, young adults, and adults.

I believe in co-creating the therapeutic environment with you, and balancing tangible life skills with emotional processing.

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Group Counseling

FIRE Circle - Session are Active! This is a group designed for Neurodiverse and identify with the Autism Spectrum. Together, we recognize our own potential by exploring assumptions we have about ourselves, as well as assumptions placed on us by others.

- ON HOLD - ROOT Circle is a 6 week adult group designed to expand and dismantle rigid thought patterns, decrease assumptions of our world, and increase every day pleasant and mystical experiences.

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