Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Therapists in Hood River, OR

In our sessions, you will learn to be present with and understand patterns, beliefs and emotions and develop an increased ability to cope with stress and challenges. I will introduce you to practices that help you develop the ability to tune in to your inner world so that you can build skills to better regulate and respond to—rather than react to—experiences and avoid going into a flight, fright or freeze response. As you progress in this empowering process of exploration and gain insight into your needs and hopes, you will discover new choices and decisions.

While none of us are free from life's many stressors and occasional deep wounding, we can change the way we relate and cope with them, and lessen their negative effect on us. I help teens and adults learn how to observe their unhelpful patterns, and get to the root cause of what blocks them from fulfillment. With compassion, mutual trust, and a little humor, let's transform your life, and finally break out of the unhelpful patterns that have held you back.

WHEN YOU JUST NEED SOMEONE TO HEAR YOUR STORY. I am a faith-based counselor committed to helping my clients find solutions for the places they may feel "stuck". My training allows me to work with young children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Together we would utilize a collaborative approach to help you meet your goals. I am a professional counselor associate in both Oregon and Washington.

Relational Therapist. Oregon only. Terri (she, her, hers)

I provide modern, compassionate psychotherapy for adults and college age individuals. My approach helps you think about your thinking, align your life with your values and leave behind unhelpful patterns of behavior. I draw from mindfulness based therapies, resulting in less emotional reactivity and a higher quality of life. For next steps head to my website sarahverducci.com and fill out a new client interest form.

Many of us come to therapy disconnected and depleted, confused about who we are and what we want, and unfulfilled in our relationships or work. We hope that therapy will bring us insight, a renewed sense of connection, and resolution to the things we have been struggling with. I strive to be the therapist that I have needed, a guide who could help me navigate my own inner terrain, who could help me make sense of my experiences, learn better ways to cope, to understand and accept myself.

Working in the field of human services since 1988, I bring an understanding and experience around the issues of relationships, sexuality, depression, anxiety, teen life issues and transitions. I work with these issues because our culture does not address them in helpful ways. I help and encourage you to develop tools and skills for success in your life. Using tools from a mindful, humanistic & cognitive/behavioral orientation, we work together to help you focus on your situation and what will work to create change/healing in your life. I work with individuals and couples.

If you are struggling with relationships in your life, maybe with your intimate partner/spouse or family members, or perhaps at work, you might feel the need to talk with someone. I am a psychotherapist practicing in Oregon and Washington, and in Europe. I enjoy assisting people in the exploration of new ways to manage challenges that invariably arise in life. If you struggle with anxiety or depression, or if you are experiencing activation related to past traumatic events I can help you learn new ways of relating to yourself and to others.

If you are here, I want to help! I believe that therapy is meant to empower clients to know that they are capable of change and living a fuller, more integrated life. I work with adolescents and adults, utilizing a bio-psychosocial-spiritual approach in therapy with the goal of creating a safe haven for clients. This simply means integrating the many parts of a person into therapy in the hope of improving one’s emotional, spiritual and physical well-being. I also aspire to explore the impact of significant relationships and the influence of larger social systems on a client's sense of wholeness and ability to achieve desired growth.

Therapy can be a compassionate space for insight, personal development, and healing. Each one of us has our own unique history and growth process. My goal is to support your overall mental, emotional, and relational health. I work with a range of experiences including anxiety, trauma, shame, and grief. I also specialize in: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD); trauma including dissociation, disembodiment, panic, and fear; an intrusive inner critical voice / part of ourselves; and helping couples identity and repair unhealthy relationship patterns and coping mechanisms related to these experience.

Together we can co-create a safe space of curiosity and self-compassion. Here, we find opportunities to identify and understand the origins of and what triggers the patterns, beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors that don’t serve you. I am inspired by our inherent connectedness and its profound power to make individual, familial, communal, societal, and earthly changes towards a world with a lot more love and belonging. I am honored to hold this collaborative space for adults of all ethnicities/races, genders, sexual orientations, shapes and sizes, abilities, nationalities, and occupations.

Often by the time an individual is entering my office, they have become bogged down and overwhelmed by stress in their life. It is my goal to help quiet the mind (and the busy, stressful world) enough to get in touch with the heart and find true healing. I am a down-to-earth therapist - essentially just another being walking this path of life and trying to find fulfillment in it. I deeply value the time spent with clients as they navigate their lives, figuring out their stressors and their innermost needs that are not being addressed & being with folks as they seek a more centered, authentic and empowered life.

I work with individuals with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), individuals with early childhood trauma (PTSD, anxiety, depression), and LGBTIA+ individuals. You're here because you imagine a future version of you that feels liberated. Future You worries less, spends more time doing the things you used to enjoy, and feels connected with yourself and others. You want to stop ruminating, escape the the cycle of people-pleasing, anxiety, depression, and have more fulfilling relationships. You're here because you're ready for change, and I'm here to help!

Sometimes we have a nagging thought that something isn't going right in our lives or we notice a pattern that keeps happening over and over, but we wait so long to call and get help. Making that call can be so hard, but it is so worth it. Whether you have trauma, anxiety, depression, or difficulty in relationships - whatever is bothering you, a collaborative therapeutic relationship can help you learn the skills to cope with what life brings you and get you feeling better about yourself and your path. We all want to feel connected, heard, and understood and deserve a safe space to figure things out with a therapist who listens.

When I was in the 9th grade, I was one of two students from every class that were selected by their classmates to become Natural Helpers. We received training in the skills of active listening, mediation and problem-solving. Little did I know that this experience would lead me to where I am today, as a counselor and therapist for the last twenty-two years. In my work in residential treatment, outpatient clinics and pain management practice, I have thoroughly loved getting to watch people of the ages 13 to 95 have epiphanies, adopt new perspectives, change unhelpful thought patterns, and begin to love and know themselves again.