Aute PorterLMFT
Santa Barbara, California Telehealth
“I'm a mixed-race, racially ambiguous cis-woman. Part of my journey to becoming a therapist lies in my own experiences of culture with my Tahitian-immigrant mother, and my white-Californian father, and feeling pulled between two vastly different ways-of-being.”
Aute Porter is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Santa Barbara, CA. She is a mixed-race, racially ambiguous cis-woman of Tahitian, British, and French heritage. Her therapeutic approach is integrative, relational, decolonial, and liberation-focused, incorporating modalities like IFS, attachment, and somatic experiencing to support multiracial, multicultural, and marginalized individuals, as well as interracial/intercultural couples.
SpecialtiesAnxiety and perfectionismMixed-race, POC, and children of immigrantsComplex relationship dynamics and relational traumaInterracial and/or intercultural couples
ApproachesInternal Family Systems (IFS)AttachmentSomatic ExperiencingFamily SystemsSelf-compassionArtistic expressionPACT