Salt + Heart Therapy serves couples and individuals.

Couples Therapy

Salt + Heart Therapy is a space for couples who want more than surface-level solutions.
We help partners move from disconnection, resentment, and shutdown to deeper understanding, emotional safety, and real intimacy.

Using a blend of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Method, we support couples in getting honest, staying soft, and rebuilding trust — even after years of conflict or distance. Whether you’re stuck in reactive cycles, struggling to communicate, or healing after betrayal, you don’t have to navigate it alone.

Salt + Heart is also a deeply affirming space for LGBTQIA+ individuals, couples, and relationship constellations. We are committed to social justice, inclusive care, and creating a therapeutic home for those who have been marginalized or misunderstood. Amanda Halbert, AMFT, has completed specialized training in Ethical Non-Monogamy (ENM) through the Empowering Pathways Continuing Education Program and is trained to support polyamorous, open, and non-traditional relationship structures with nuance, respect, and clinical competence.

We’re here to hold space for the hard stuff, challenge the stuck stuff, and celebrate the vulnerable, courageous work of real love — in all the ways love can look.

Common concerns we help couples with include:

• Communication problems — frequent misunderstandings, reactive cycles, shutdown, or withdrawal

• Recurring conflicts that never seem to resolve

• Emotional distance or disconnection

• Betrayal or infidelity recovery

• Trust issues or fear of being vulnerable

• Jealousy or insecurity within the relationship

• Different conflict styles (pursue–withdraw patterns)

• Feeling more like roommates than partners

• Lack of intimacy — emotional or physical

• Frequent criticism, defensiveness, or blame

• Resentment from unmet needs or past hurts

• Navigate substance abuse and the relationship

• Navigating life transitions (moves, parenthood, job changes, illness, grief)

• Blending families and co-parenting challenges

• Attachment wounds showing up in the relationship

• Recovering connection after long-term conflict or distance

• Breakup/divorce contemplation and discernment counseling

• Support for ENM couples — communication agreements, jealousy work, differentiation, navigating needs, and strengthening connection across multiple partners

  We focus on helping partners:

• Understand the deeper emotions and needs beneath conflict

• Create emotional safety and secure connection

• Repair trust after big or small ruptures

• Communicate honestly without attacking or shutting down

• Rebuild intimacy and closeness

• Break out of reactive or avoidant cycles

• Strengthen empathy, attunement, and teamwork

• Develop rituals of connection that sustain long-term intimacy

• Navigate the unique dynamics of non-monogamy with clarity, care, and intention

Let’s turn your relationship into a secure base - Salt to ground you. Heart to hold you.

If you’re interested, please schedule a free 15 minute consultation call to discuss working together.

Individual Therapy

Salt + Heart Therapy is a space for individuals who are ready to understand themselves more deeply, break old patterns, and build a life that feels grounded, empowered, and aligned with who they truly are.

Whether you’re navigating anxiety, heartbreak, self-doubt, burnout, trauma, or repeating relationship patterns you’re tired of reliving, you don’t have to figure it out alone. Together, we look beneath the surface — to the emotions, protective parts, and early experiences shaping how you move through the world today.

Using a blend of attachment-based therapy, inner child work, and EFT-informed individual work, we explore not just what is happening, but why it makes sense — and how to shift it with compassion rather than shame.

In our work, you’ll learn to:

• Understand your triggers and emotional patterns

• Rebuild trust with yourself

• Strengthen boundaries rooted in self-worth

• Heal old relational wounds and internalized beliefs

• Communicate your needs with clarity and confidence

• Cultivate secure attachment within yourself first

This is a space to tell the truth, soften the self-criticism, and build a relationship with yourself that feels steady and safe — the kind that transforms every other part of your life.

Salt to ground you. Heart to hold you.

If you’re interested, please schedule a free 15-minute consultation call to explore working together.

Fees:

Salt + Heart Therapy is a private-pay practice and does not accept insurance. However, we will be happy to create a super bill for you to submit to your insurance for reimbursement.

Couples therapy session: $135/hr

Individual therapy session: $120/hr

Office:

Salt + Hear Therapy offers in-person and virtual sessions.

Our office is located at: 23 NE 60th Glisan, Portland.

Booking Policies:

No refunds are permitted.

If you need to reschedule, you must do so at least 24 hours prior to your scheduled appointment. If you miss the window, you will forfeit your session and will be charged 1/2 session fee. If you need to cancel your session, you must do so at least 48 hours prior to your scheduled appointment. If you miss the window, you forfeit your session and will be charged the full session fee.

Late arrivals: There will be a 10-minute grace period for late arrivals to the session. If the client does not arrive within the 10-minute grace period, the session will be canceled and no refunds or rescheduling will be permitted.

Please read my full consent and client waiver form upon booking, and by clicking the consent checkbox, you are agreeing to all of my therapy session terms and conditions.