Porshai Nielsen, CSW

_{Porshai is a Certified Social Worker who completed her Master of Social at the University of Utah in May of 2025. She is a certified Utah Crisis Worker with a strong background in mobile crisis outreach and acute care settings. Prior to graduate school, Porshai worked at Primary Children’s Hospital on the NeuroTrauma unit, gaining invaluable experience supporting individuals and families navigating terminal illness, traumatic brain injuries, and palliative care. Porshai specializes in grief work, including disenfranchised grief and the loss of loved ones or pets. She also works with clients experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, and women’s mental health concerns such as pre/postpartum challenges and PMDD. Her therapeutic approach is rooted in compassion and evidence-based practices, including EMDR, CBT, DBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, Mind-Body Bridging, and is informed by an abolitionist lens. Outside of work, Porshai is an avid reader (with a goal of 100+ books a year), a lover of cycling and hot yoga, and an adventurer on a mission to visit all the wonders of the world—she’s already halfway there.}