Emotionally Focused Therapists in Ashland, OR

I help individuals find fulfillment and couples to thrive in their relationships. I love supporting women and families through pregnancy and motherhood. Inner peace is about understanding and finding acceptance for who you are and how you came to be this person. We will identify your strengths and use them to transform negative patterns that are holding you back or keeping you down. I teach somatic awareness and mindfulness to help you improve your ability to witness yourself, leading to more insight. I work with couples on communication, sexuality, co-parenting, making agreements and becoming each other’s best support person.

My focus is on helping people discover their innate sense of Self and purpose in life. Energies necessary for vitality, joy, and love can sometimes become blocked by trauma and its effects—including anxiety, panic, depression, or PTSD, and when one considers all that is happening in our world these days, simply coping can seem to push us to our limits.

I am passionate about supporting adults getting unstuck from their inner burdens so they can 'live their why' more fully and thrive. I often support clients working in health & helping professions to release patterns of feeling overburdened and 'never enough.' Many of us are 'wounded healers' coping with inner struggles while caring for our world and working for righteous causes. Together, we can build immediate tools to cope with stress while also growing understanding of how past patterns may still be influencing your present difficulties. This helps release 'the old' and empower you with the tools to create a purposeful future.

TAKE THE FIRST STEP! It's never easy, but when you do take that first, safe step into healing and transformation, you will find the energy for change and lasting solutions. I offer a free 15-minute phone consultation to help you decide if we're right for each other. I specialize in anxiety and depression and their effects on relationships, including marriage, partnerships, family, and the workplace.

As a psychotherapist, people enter my office looking to improve their lives and relationships. Some are in crisis while others may simply need a trusted ear. Whatever the case, my goal is to provide a nonjudgmental sanctuary where clients are able to share their story and achieve their personal goals. Every client is a gift that motivates me to continue to learn and grow in the career that I love. I look forward to the opportunity to work with you and welcome you to the Ashland Center for Couples.

My psychological counseling approach is an in depth, psychodynamic, very engaged therapeutic relationship that addresses the body/mind connection both verbally and somatically. It is known in medical research that we hold our feelings in our body and as stress and tension build up, we have problems and symptoms that respond to therapeutic intervention. When our emotions go unheard, unexpressed, or even unfelt, our symptoms can worsen over time, developing our personal and interpersonal problems and often actual disease and disorders - such as pain, insomnia, muscle tensions, and indigestion.

You care about your growth and healing journey; you’re invested in helping yourself uncover and sort through your "issues." You’ve tried to figure it out, tried to find the right path, yet you continue to feel stuck, frustrated and/or overwhelmed. Perhaps you've even resorted to blaming yourself for your “problems.” The challenges that you experience are not your fault, they never were. They exist from the intricate system of protection that was originally and organically designed to keep you safe against perceived threats, but has reached its limit of effectiveness and is now causing the very issues it is trying to prevent.

Are you seeking deeper self-awareness, emotional healing, and a life infused with authenticity and vitality? As a somatic therapist, I guide clients on a transformative growth journey through somatic (body-centered) practices. Our bodies hold innate wisdom for emotional liberation and heightened consciousness. Through mindfulness, and embodied exploration, we'll attune to your body's narratives, unveiling core beliefs that shape your experiences.

I offer body centered, mindfulness based therapy for individuals wanting to get at the source of their symptoms whether that be anxiety, depression, or relational difficulties.

I believe that everyone can heal, and my goal is to facilitate healing for clients through the therapeutic process. People tend to heal and thrive in a therapeutic environment in which they fell listened to and understood, and that provides them with genuineness, sincerity, openness, acceptance and unconditional positive regard. I hope to match my approach to each client, specifically to their needs. At my office, I have 2 counseling rooms - one for children and one for teens and adults.

I believe all of us are doing the best we can with what’s in front of us. I also believe we all deserve support, guidance, and someone to understand our dark moments, our lost moments, our hard-to-figure-out moments. That’s why I’m here. I have worked as a licensed therapist with all types of humans for over 12 years. I’m down to earth, experienced, and hard to surprise. I can both firmly challenge distorted beliefs while also bringing incredible compassion for just how hard things are sometimes. I believe in the necessity of humor and value of creative expression as a way to be heard, especially when you can’t find the right words.

Hello and welcome to my profile. Brene' Brown, Ph.D. wrote, "Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen." Finding a therapist and allowing ourselves to "be seen" takes courage. So, I'd like to applaud you for taking this initial step.

Currently accepting new clients. We promise to return all calls and emails and if FourEight isn't the right fit for your needs, help you identify a care approach that does, free of charge. We strive to be your partner on the path to wellness!

I work with individuals and couples who are experiencing difficult life transitions by helping them to turn their challenges into sources of individual growth and strength. I use a Psychodynamic/Integrative approach, utilizing Mindfulness, Cognitive therapies, Imaginal/Dreamwork, and EMDR. My areas of focus include Grief and Loss, Depression, Anxiety, Panic disorders and Midlife Transitions. I also have specific experience with Cult Recovery and Spiritual Crisis issues. I offer online and phone sessions for anyone who would like to work with me from their home, and have found this to be an extremely beneficial platform for therapy.

I work with clients skillfully to safely facilitate access to their own natural wisdom. I work specifically to craft the interpersonal space that supports growth in my clients. You may feel somehow broken, incomplete, or even bewildered. I remember these feelings from my own experience of healing and I use these experiences and vulnerabilities to guide my work as a therapist. Though the relationship is based on unconditional acceptance, my clients undergo remarkable transformation. I provide the skills of expert listening, empathy, clear boundaries, and genuineness to my clients.

I now offer Psilocybin Experiencing and Micro Dosing. Research has shown and I have seen treatment resistant addiction conditions respond rapidly to psilocybin treatment, often in one session! I also provide assistance in dealing with what triggers your cravings, repair of relationships, and healing of traumas that resulted from using or may have contributed to beginning using in the first place. I also work with complicated grief from the loss of a loved one to overdose, suicide, or other traumatic losses. I have over 50 years of personal recovery.

I provide counseling for a wide-range of challenges including: anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, gender and sexuality, self esteem/self worth and relationship issues. I am a relational counselor and prioritize collaboration and empowerment in my work with my clients. Additionally, I often work with those who have been impacted by trauma and I have specialized training in trauma-specific models of care (ie. brainspotting and other somatic resourcing models), for both acute and longer-term recovery supports. I embrace a social justice/anti-oppressive framework that values equity and inclusion in the therapeutic process.

Life satisfaction is mostly about relationship, don't you agree? I help people have emotionally open and compassionate relationships both with themselves and with others. I work with individuals and couples on this. Individually, so much of life satisfaction and personal effectiveness is based on how well you understand yourself (mindfulness), how you treat yourself (compassion), and how you advocate for your desires. With others, relationships are built through mutually respectful listening and co-creating mutually delightful interactions. I see relationship as a spiritual path.

I provide counseling services to adults of all ages who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, chronic pain, interpersonal difficulties, as well as workplace issues. I am trained to work with victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. My therapeutic approach involves open-minded and caring collaboration with my clients to help transform adversity into empowerment. I provide both brief and long-term therapy.