Le Adams-Schoen, MA, LPC

Le Adams-Schoen, MA, LPC works as a therapist, supervisor, and consultant and lives  in Eugene Oregon with their wife and 9 year old son. Le is white, non-binary, gay, able bodied. Le loves to hike, paddleboard, and watch stand-up comedy.

Le’s life long quest has been to try to make sense of their feelings and why this world  felt so difficult to navigate. Through the ongoing journey of accepting and de-shaming  sexuality and gender fluidity, Le began seeing that society has terrible impacts on  human dignity and ability to thrive, which are related to living in a caste system: racism,  transphobia, homophobia, sexism, pillaging relationships with the lands, need to hoard  power and wealth, using other humans as objects to gain power and wealth, all under a  narrative of goodness, righteousness, and love.  

Professionally Le found emotionally focused therapy as a hopeful place for transforming  relationship with self and others.  Le trained with Dr. Sue Johnson and then the EFT  trainer in Oregon, which lead to PCEFT (Portland community EFT) board membership  on the equity, justice, and inclusion team.  While grateful for the roadmap and  conceptualization of EFT, Le knew EFT would not encompass them and their family  within its skill set.  What has come out of those years of advocacy are relationships with  Karen, Tsz Yin, and other members who experienced similar pain within the model.   Le’s wish for these trainings are that they begin with cultural context necessary to  prevent that sense of othering and disconnection, also to bring the self of every  therapist as an integral part of the training from the beginning.

Karen A. Neri, JD, MA, LPC, LMFT

Karen A. Neri, JD, MA, LPC, LMFT is a relational and integrative systems-oriented  therapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She identifies as a cishet,  immigrant, Southeast Asian, Filipina-American woman in an inter-ethnoracial  relationship. She works primarily with BIPOC-identifying clients on issues involving  attachment wounds, relational disconnection, and trauma through a social justice  lens. She was first drawn to EFT in its capacity to humanize, connect, heal the self in  relation, and to use emotions to transform experiences of suffering. Within the EFT  community, she found solidarity with colleagues, Tsz Yin and Le. A component of her  work is teaching, supervision, and research as a doctoral student at Antioch University  New England’s CFT program. Her current research interests include the intersection of  identity politics, privilege, power, racial trauma, and multi-ethnoracial relationship  systems. Prior to becoming a therapist, she practiced family law. Karen remains  involved within the legal community through educational workshops/presentations or  group facilitation on mental health, relational well-being, and equity. In her spare time,  she loves being outdoors with her spouse and favorite sentient fur-beings, Rex and  Riley. 

Tsz Yin Szeto-McNatt, LMFT

Tsz Yin Szeto-McNatt is a LMFT at Grace Abounds Counseling in Portland, Oregon.  She identifies as a cisgendered, heterosexual, 1.75 generation immigrant, and an able bodied Christian in an interracial marriage. She can speak conversational Cantonese  and makes a concerted effort to relearn her native language. Tsz Yin’s experiences as  an immigrant in an interracial marriage while also raising bi-cultural boys have afforded  her a lens to understand the impact of racial inequity and social inequities. Specifically,  she utilizes a social justice lens to explore the impact of various systems of oppression  in the way in which we relate to the world and each other. Tsz Yin utilizes this lens to  serve primarily BIPOC and multi-racial individuals, families and relational systems.

Tsz Yin became interested in EFT as a way to structure, organize and better understand  how emotions are used to relate and connect to others. It has provided her the ability to  deconstruct and make sense of her own upbringing. Through her work with Karen and  Le, it became clear that the model has a limited view of culture. As she nears the end of  EFT certification, she continues to examine the ways in which EFT can more effectively  address attachment wounds and unmet needs for clients of various ethnicities. Tsz Yin  is a former educator of 17 years and has taught various college counseling courses.  She is also completing requirements to serve as a supervisor. She is an approved supervisor.