meet our creatives

  • Percy Hawkes (any pronouns)

    Founder, Licensed Therapist, Community Gatherer

    Percy founded PQHC in response to a long-standing dream to gather like-mindeds in a queer-centric, multi-identity-intersectionality space of profound belonging. Admittedly a tall order. They facilitate multiple groups, and see couples, families, and individuals of many identities in English and Spanish. He grew up in Central, South, and North America in various countries and was previously a music teacher and registered nurse.

  • Robyn Cullen (she/her)

    Licensed Therapist, Reiki and Brainspotting Practitioner, Community Gatherer

    Robyn describes herself as a white, cis-gender, queer woman in a hetero-passing relationship, who is able-body presenting, non-religious spiritual, tarot-dabbling, divorced and ecstatically remarried cottage witch on a journey to create safe, sacred, decolonized and antiracist spaces in her life and business. She is licensed as a therapist in both Oregon and California, and founded the PDX Helpers and Healers, with nearly 500 members.

  • Gary Conachan III (he/they)

    Professional Counselor Associate

    As an ex-evangelical queer person, Gary is passionate about partnering with LGBTQIA+ adults to help them live authentic and fulfilling sexual, relational, and spiritual lives. He is also a member of AASECT, the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.

  • Kaia Stamiris (they/she)

    Licensed Professional Counselor

    Kaia is a queer, gender nonconforming, sober person who is originally from the Midwest and has working class roots. They are passionate about serving the LGBTQIA+ community creatively and collaboratively.  They employ a client-centered approach that blends mindfulness, humor, and boundary work, and draws on concepts from polyvagal theory, Internal Family Systems therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.  Kaia is an ally to transgender/nonbinary and neurodivergent clients, and is critical of white supremacy, diet culture/fatphobia, and ableism.  She has a grounded approach that helps clients to improve their relationship to self, body, and others.

  • Jupiter (Elliot) Townley (they/them)

    MS, NCC, LPC

    Jupiter works with clients around the intersections of structural and personal trauma, working with complex trauma alongside queerness, transness, and neurodivergence. As an existential counselor at heart, they focus on the uniqueness of each person and how we make meaning out of a chaotic and painful and beautiful world. Jupiter considers counseling to be part of a larger vocation of living in heartfelt connection - alongside counseling, they also build deep relationship with natural spaces & plants, engage in political activism, make a lot of art, and practice buddhism and witchcraft. Identity-wise, Jupiter is a white, variably able-bodied, polyamorous autistic genderqueer singlet* with lived experience healing from complex trauma. On weekends they may be playing D&D, talking to their garden, reading fantasy novels, or having some Floor Time.

    *Singlet refers to a person whose identity is [mostly] cohesive into a core sense of self ("Me," "I," etc.). This contrasts to "plural" folks or "systems" clinically described by Dissociative Identity Disorder or Other-Specified Dissociative Disorder, where one body may contain many distinct senses of self.