Blythe Utz

Blythe Utz, M.S., is a Marriage and Family Therapist Associate with the Center for Transformative Healing under the supervision of  Emily Johnson, M.Ed., LMFT. Blythe offers telehealth only.

Clients work with Blythe to cultivate emotional balance and resilient relationships, increase self-trust and authenticity, and build a toolbox of skills and resources to address life’s challenges. She specializes in recovery from the psychological and relational injuries of narcissistic family systems, middle-age-related transitions and changes, complex trauma, anxiety, and depression.

Blythe offers a holistic, collaborative, and attuned style of therapy supporting clients' self-exploration, healing, and expansion. She works with several evidence-based treatments including narrative, somatic, attachment, and internal family systems (IFS) therapies, and incorporates mindful self-compassion, humor, spirituality, and metaphor in her interventions.

Blythe’s goal is for therapy to be a place for respite and repair for clients. A place to unfurl, be raggedy, and feel sincerely welcomed however you are on any given day. Even though therapy won't always be easy, Blythe believes that the therapeutic process is most effective when it is restorative and connecting, especially while digging deep into the hard things.

Blythe holds a master’s degree in couples and family therapy from the University of Oregon, a bachelor’s degree in interpersonal communication from Portland State University, a graduate certificate in ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and she is a trained and practiced meditator through Resolutions NW in Portland, OR. In her free time, Blythe enjoys writing, singing, laughing, and learning from nature on her teeny-tiny homestead.