Roe Cohen Jules, PMHNP

• Location:
  Telehealth sessions across the state of Oregon

  & In-Person sessions at 1835 SE 50th Ave. in Portland, Oregon

• Education:
  Master of Science, PMHNP, Frontier Nursing University
  Bachelor of Science, RN, Linfield University

• Certifications + Apprenticeship:
  Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
  Integrative Psychiatry Incubator with Dr. Elana Miller
  Integrative Pelvic Care + Somatics with Dr. Kathryn Kloos
  Birth Doula with Mother Tree and Rosemary Midwifery

Welcome, I’m Roe.

I’m a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, a parent, a trans person, and a human, just like you.

I think you’re rad. I think it’s hard out here. And I believe healing is possible. That it’s a messy, slow process that doesn’t require you to be fixed or tidy to be worthy of care.

I came to this work through rupture. Through years of overwhelming body dysmorphia, long nights in the hospital as a labor nurse, a marriage that looked right but felt wrong, and a body that kept breaking the silence. Through somatic work, ceremony, pelvic floor therapy, and the wild grace of queer love, I started the process of untethering from what no longer fit. I gave birth. I got pregnant again. I got divorced. I picked up the bones of a life that could actually hold me. I bought a farm, leaned deeper into the study of medicine and somatics. And somewhere in the thick of it, I met myself, grief-slick, laugh-wild, angry and vital, and began practicing care from that place.

As a trans parent, I know how narrow and unsafe perinatal care can feel, and how the binary culture of parenthood can erase the fullness of our queer families. My work is an offering into this gap: a space to exhale, to let your guard soften, and to remember that your very existence is already reshaping the world.

So if you’re standing at a threshold, wondering if you can bear what your body already knows, if you can speak the truth you’ve buried, if you’re allowed to want something more alive, I want you to know: I’ve been there. I won’t flinch. If you are grieving a life that is too small, reckoning with what you inherited or internalized, and choosing to come home to yourself, this practice is for you. 

Queer
perinatal
mental health
care

Kate Cohen Jules, LMT

• Location:
  In-person sessions at 1835 SE 50th Ave. in Portland

• Education:
  Licensed Massage Therapist #26887, East West College of Healing Arts 
  Master of Fine Art in Creative Writing, Warren Wilson College
  BA Cultural Studies + Psychology, Franklin University

• Certifications + Apprenticeship:
  Integrative Pelvic Care + Somatics with Dr. Kathryn Kloos
  Thai Massage Training with Zoltan Gyorgyovics
  Full spectrum + Death doula

Hi, my name is Kate.

I am a grief tender, somatics practitioner, and bodyworker. Raised in a family shaped by addiction, I walked with death from a young age. I know what it feels like when grief bottled becomes cement in the chest, when grief moved brings an unparalleled clarity. Since that young age, I have been offering my hands to support freedom. To help the body shake, find sound, and settle.

My somatic work began in yoga, because the practice of attending to my body gave me ground. Gave me ways to move what couldn’t be resolved with words. I then studied Thai massage, which taught me how to move lines of energy in the body, how to listen to the palms of the feet to find what is stuck in the abdomen, to hear what pulls from the knee into the neck. I offered this bodywork as a doula, to parents and new babies. I learned alongside skilled midwives to attend to birth and the rich mess of postpartum time. Birth work invited me in to death work, and I supported people in the process of grieving and laying their loved ones to rest.

After receiving one session of somatic pelvic floor therapy, I accessed healing that I thought might never be possible for my body. I had been studying systems of power, how to rearrange them and write about them, and with a prayer for collective liberation and a personal experience of transformation, I returned to the site of the body. I enrolled in mentorship immediately, where I apprenticed to somatic abdominal and pelvic work.

All that lives in the fascia of the belly ! And how quickly it can rearrange.

These modalities are traditionally of direct service to clients in conception, pregnancy, postpartum, and pregnancy loss. They also offer unique medicine to those who have experienced sexual or gender violence, re-establishing safety, agency, and sensation in the pelvis.

I feel honored and delighted to accompany fellow queer and Trans clients in gender-liberatory repair, a kind of bodywork that time travels and reorganizes the nervous system around the current well self, recovering consent, dignity, and joy. This work is about aliveness, and refusing the systems that taught us we weren’t worthy of celebration.

Outside of sessions, our two bright, feral children offer Roe and I daily teachings about staying in our animal freedoms, changing our minds, crying big tears, and laughing beyond rationality.

We offer this practice for them, for the future ones and the ones who came before, toward a world of people remembered to their safe, free, well bodies.

Perinatal
bodywork
+
Pelvic
floor therapy

Myofascial
release
+
Somatic
dialogue

Trauma
+
PTSD

Abdominal
massage
+
Scar tissue remediation