Paige Orendor, BA
Internship
- Paige is fulfilling internship hours towards the degree of Masters of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy at Whitworth University
- Paige is enrolled in a COAMFTE-accredited program
Population Specialty
- Children (ages infant – 11)
- Adolescents (ages 12+)
- Adults (ages 19-55)
- Individuals
- Couples
- Families
Treatment Interests
- Divorce (children and family)
- Anxiety
- Grief
Training Interests
- Attachment Based
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Family Systems
- Humanistic
- Trauma Focused
- Person-Centered
- Play Therapy
- Psychodynamic
Population Ally
- Bisexual Allied
- Body Positivity
- Gay Allied
- HIV/AIDS Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Queer Allied
- Sex-Worker Allied
- Single Mother Allied
About Paige
Paige is a graduate student working towards a Masters of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy at Whitworth University. She receives weekly supervision by her university professors and directly supervised by Site Supervisor and Senior Therapist, Dawn Craig MS, LMHC. Paige is practicing under the license of Ms. Craig who is licensed in Washington as a Mental Health counselor.
Paige ascribes to a Person-Centered theory within a Family Systems framework. She supports her clients in discovering their strengths drawn upon to survive and thrive throughout the life. She helps her clients process how life is tiring or challenging them in new ways and to help them with things they would like to change or shift while also exploring how our family context impacts our emotional and relationship process.
Paige’s Interest Areas
- Adoption
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Disorders
- Child and Adolescent
- Codependency
- Depression
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Family conflict
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Life Transition
- Marital and Pre-marital
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self-Harming
- Sexual-Abuse
- Stress
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Women’s Issues
A Message from Paige
Life’s challenges can prove overwhelming at times, but you do not need to overcome them alone. I believe everything we feel, do, and struggle with makes sense in the context of our close relationships, personal histories, and environment where we live. Life often presents us with seemingly simple dilemmas and conflicts that, when explored, tend to reveal a more layered, complex, and thorny history of unresolved feelings and experiences. We are often taught to “move on” or not “dwell in the past,” however this can lead us to become more stuck and more conflicted, feel ill-equipped and powerless, blame ourselves when our feelings feel misplaced or “too big”, or let worry and fear hold you back from living an authentic life.
Whatever you are feeling today, therapy is a safe place for all parts of you to be welcomed, seen, respected, and understood. Through my therapeutic approach, I will work with you and/or your family to help explore where you are now and help to create and meet future goals. I am compassionate and resourceful and will always provide effective tools and strategies to help tackle various everyday obstacles in life, from crisis intervention to support after a long week. I strive to be a great listener that values personal relationships within a non-judgmental setting. Seeking personal growth is courageous and vulnerable. I would be honored to hear your story and work alongside you to imagine and build a new way of being, one step at a time.