Amirah is so excited to move into this role of leading a team of compassionate providers who share her desire to re-establish reverence for this sacred and transformational moment in people's lives!

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Rose Otter is a Professional Counselor Associate with a Master’s Degree from Bushnell University. She has spent the past 14 years supporting families as a Birth and Postpartum Doula and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). Rose’s path to becoming a therapist grew from years of sitting with families during some of the most meaningful, vulnerable, and challenging moments of their lives. She has worked extensively in perinatal care and founded an organization in Portland, Oregon, providing postpartum doula and lactation support. While perinatal care has always been at the heart of her work, her own experience of motherhood deepened her understanding of how profoundly this transition can affect emotional well-being—and how often people are left without the support they need.

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Rose’s therapeutic approach is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in person-centered, trauma-informed care. She believes clients are the experts in their own experiences and approaches therapy with curiosity, respect, and compassion. Her work draws from evidence-based approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and EMDR. She also incorporates attention to the mind-body connection, and the strengths, values, relationships, and resources already present in each person’s life.

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Rose has completed Parts 1 and 2 of EMDR training and is currently working toward EMDR certification. Her training through the Touchstone Institute included specialized education in perinatal mental health and the application of EMDR to perinatal experiences. She continues to participate in ongoing consultation through the Touchstone Institute to deepen her clinical work in this area.

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Rose is particularly passionate about supporting individuals through the perinatal period and the many transitions, experiences, and emotions that can accompany it. She recognizes this as a profound period of change and growth, often referred to as matrescence—the process of becoming and growing into motherhood. This may include navigating anxiety, infertility, pregnancy or infant loss, difficult or traumatic experiences, intrusive thoughts, overwhelming emotions, or experiences from the past that continue to affect how someone feels in the present. Rose strives to create a therapy space where clients feel supported, understood, empowered, and celebrated. She helps clients better understand their experiences, navigate challenges, and reconnect with their own strengths and wisdom. Her goal is to provide a space where clients can slow down, feel understood, and develop a deeper connection with themselves as they move through the changes and uncertainties of the perinatal period.

Kathryn Maitas is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon with a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northwestern University. Since graduating in 2021, she has worked in nonprofit, criminal justice, and private practice settings, supporting adults through a wide range of life experiences and challenges.

Kathryn is bilingual in English and Spanish and has experience working with adults navigating anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, and life transitions. At the heart of Kathryn’s approach is the belief that therapy should be a place where people can show up as they are and feel genuinely heard, understood, and supported. Her approach is
person-centered and trauma-informed, drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and other evidence-based practices. Her style is warm,
collaborative, and nonjudgmental, and she works to create a trusting relationship where clients can explore their experiences with
curiosity and compassion while developing practical tools for meaningful change.

As a mother of three, Kathryn has a personal appreciation for just how transformative the experience of pregnancy, postpartum, and raising children can be. She understands that motherhood can hold so many things at once—joy and love alongside overwhelm, uncertainty, grief, anxiety, and enormous change. She has a deep respect for the maternal experience and is passionate about supporting women through all of its complexities.

Kathryn is currently pursuing specialized training toward her Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) and is thrilled to join
Genesis Perinatal and support women and families throughout the Rogue Valley.