Mindfulness-Based (MBCT) Therapists in Eugene, OR

Are you seeking support coping with a difficult time in your life, adjusting to changes, healing from trauma, dealing with a difficult work situation, balancing responsibilities, or grieving a loss? Do you long to create fulfilling relationships in which your needs are met? Have you found that your coping strategies are not working as well as they used to? Maybe you feel limited in some way and want to break free. Allow me to offer you a safe space to explore your struggles and assist in creating a healing path. I will listen to you and place great value on understanding your unique needs.

Feeling confused or stagnant....overwhelmed or uncertain about your next steps? It can be challenging to navigate the chaos around us during difficult periods. As a licensed psychotherapist, change agent, and strategic life coach, my goal is to assist individuals in uncovering the underlying reasons behind their challenges. By gaining fresh perspectives and enhancing self-awareness, I help people find their own new insights and an enhanced understanding of themselves. Through a blend of empathy, understanding, and even a great deal of humor, I guide individuals to overcome the barriers to living their best life.

Currently accepting individuals for telehealth. My approach to therapy is wholehearted and views clients contextually, recognizing people as interconnected with and influenced by everything from biology and belief to society and the natural environment. I use a bio-psycho-social-spiritual lens to understand my clients holistically. Rather than seeking to identify what is wrong, I seek to understand what needs may not be met and collaborate with clients on meeting those needs. This approach sparks inspiration, creativity, and openness and invites into the therapy process a client’s deep and vast wisdom.

Welcome. Willamette Sky Counseling is a small private practice committed to making your health and well-being a priority. My team and I are a group of client centered, trauma informed masters level therapists and psychotherapists providing compassionate mental health care throughout Oregon. Our therapists provide therapy in English, Spanish and ASL. We welcome diverse people, ideas and perspectives.

I lend support by taking a personalized approach to each unique situation. My counseling practice integrates holistic mind and body-oriented therapeutic approaches and depth psychology. I can help you move past your blocks, calm your fears, and experience your truest self. My experiential approaches are guided by your values and aims.

Each client comes with unique struggles and with unique hopes and longings in the search for meaning, relatedness, healing, creativity, and growth. We all have a life to live. When that life is stymied - by inside forces or outside events - you might feel stuck or lonely, experience anxiety, depression, anger, grief, chronic pain, or restlessness. You might also struggle with life changes, illness, stale relationship patterns, addictions or spiritual issues. My aim is to get to know you well and help you develop a conscious, vital relationship with the powerful forces that seek life and growth and with those that get in your way.

My intention is to co-create a healing space for: identity dialogue, deconstructing social systems and norms, culturally relevant ritual, reconnecting to ancestral wisdom, climate grief, displacement grief, adoption grief, ambiguous grief, tending soul wounds, creating community care and community centered practices.

Have you experienced a traumatic event in your past that is affecting your current life? Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, or grief? My goal is to create a safe space for you to heal from unresolved trauma or loss, establish healthy coping strategies, identify patterns, thoughts, or beliefs that are keeping you stuck, and create new patterns to help you achieve an optimum state of health and well-being in your life. Asking for help can be scary and overwhelming, and I admire your courage in taking this first step. We all need support as we navigate life’s challenges, and I would love to accompany you on your journey.

As a therapist and a person, I value authenticity over “perfection,” and I value honest conflict over dishonest harmony. For this reason, I particularly enjoy working with individuals who are interested in uncovering their truth. There are so many reasons why people may lose connection to themselves, their own needs, goals, and strengths. Whether that is due to mental illness, addiction, codependency, trauma, abuse, grief, chronic pain, conflicting societal pressures or rules, something else or all of the above, there is a way to work through it. You are not alone, and you are capable of the change you seek.

My ideal client is anyone that is aware they would like to live a more fulfilling life, motivated to make changes, be open to new ideas and possibilities and learn to approach those possibilities with curiosity. They are willing to face their fears and have the desire to learn to trust themselves. They are able to accept and receive compassionate support, but feel empowered to communicate what is true for them, what works for them, what their needs are, etc.

When life is overwhelming asking for help is the first step. I am a licensed clinical social worker and have specialized in addiction and substance use disorders with over 25 years of experience. I enjoy helping people make positive changes in their lives, incorporating positive psychology with traditional psychodynamic, solution focused and cognitive-behavioral methods.

I have throughout my career developed and implemented Women's Outpatient Treatment, Trauma-informed treatment, Seeking Safety groups, Better Boundary groups, Co-occurring groups, Smoking Cessation groups, providing assessments for mental health, and ASAM Assessments. This has also required building community liaisons and partners with referrals to treatment facilities that provide inpatient/outpatient services and reporting to third-party referrals such as Corrections, Child Welfare, DMV, and other Mental Health organizations.

Easily schedule now by visiting erinhugheslcsw.clientsecure.me. I am a licensed Therapist with a background in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University in Oregon and Utah. My counseling style is pretty laid back. I have been described as supportive, caring, and compassionate, with a pretty good sense of humor. I like to focus on identifying your strengths and helping you to maximize them to overcome your obstacles. I'm here to help you sort through the things that are difficult right now, and offer you a safe place to be open and honest without fear of judgment.

As your therapist, I want to help you learn how to identify and achieve your goals in life.Unfortunately, many of us have been told that we are “a problem," and this can impact our beliefs around what we think we deserve. Oftentimes, these things do not serve our greater good but someone else's and to our detriment.I enjoy working with clients to disband these harmful beliefs, so that we may no longer see ourselves in this way but instead those beliefs and oppressive systems as the problem.By doing this, you can re-write your life story so that you can set yourself up for success in meeting your goals and rebuilding your self-worth.

Supporting others on their healing journey is an absolute joy and privilege that I take seriously. Some of the more common issues I work with include depression/anxiety, self-esteem building, family/cultural dynamics, relationship issues, college/life transitions, and complex trauma. My approach is gentle and structured. I actively and deeply listen to my clients while providing empathy and care. Providing my clients with warmth and a safe healing space is very important. I enjoy working with young adults, couples, multicultural clients, children aged 4-11, and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Currently accepting new clients! I believe in creating a safe, nurturing, and supportive environment to allow for an individual to explore, address, and heal. I value the counseling relationship and trust that occurs within the counseling room. I wholeheartedly believe in the individual's capacity to heal and come from a humanistic perspective that places emphasis on the individual to gain empowerment and heal from life's challenges. I utilize trauma informed, person centered, culturally informed techniques and I am committed to traveling on the client’s journey.

My first goal in therapy is to build a trusted partnership through honest feedback, empathy, and adaptive support. I provide a safe space for clients to explore, understand, and work through difficult experiences. Together, we work to clarify goals and enact processes that build insight, reduce distress, and change unwanted patterns. Clinically, I approach well-being from an Ecological Model perspective; and often use Humanistic, Cognitive-Behavioral, and Motivational therapies in my work with clients. However, how therapy looks varies with each person based on their unique needs, cultural contexts, and current circumstances.

Accepting New Clients! When you feel overwhelmed and frustrated, it's like trying to keep your head above the water. Life can get busy, basic every day tasks become difficult, relationships get strained, and the wear and tear of your different roles becomes harder to juggle. Our big feelings can make it feel impossible to get ahead of ourselves. There may be times when we feel so lonely, even in a crowded room. Sometimes we get stuck and we don't know where, or who, to turn to. Sound familiar?

Accepting new clients! My personal philosophy is that through human connection, we can foster the motivation needed to take brave steps toward seeing an old pattern through a new perspective to create positive change. Therapy serves as a road map, illuminating the path so the client can make conscious choices. My attitude is one of respect and acceptance of each client's self-image and world-view allowing for the creation of a safe, therapeutic container.