Medicare Therapists in Oregon

I Am Available For New Clients Immediately! I love encouraging clients who need guidance in their relationships, parenting, and substance use. The Clinical Practice Also Offers Medication Management with a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner! My Practice Offers Telehealth Sessions All Across The State Of Oregon!

Youth, families, and young adults facing challenges such as communication breakdowns, behavioral concerns, anxiety, and trauma-related difficulties are looking for a safe space to express themselves, learn coping skills, improve relationships, and develop healthier patterns of interaction. I want to help clients foster resilience, enhance emotional regulations, strengthen bonds, and promote overall well-being.

Feeling anxious or overwhelmed with life? Need someone to turn to for relief, someone who can walk beside you through difficult situations and help with new ways to cope for a better experience in life and in your relationships. I am here to support you and help you safely explore aspects of your life and emotions. I receive clinical supervision from Lakeetra Catchings LPC

There's little doubt that seeking assistance to deal with a life problem or even to expand upon our strengths can be a daunting task. While taking this step does require courage, I believe that my task is to make this step an easier one for my clients. My focus is to build a strong relationship with clients while providing the necessary therapeutic support to make life changes easier and to increase their confidence that seeking help is exactly the right thing to do.

I am currently full and unable to take new clients. Are you ready to embark on a journey to discover, lovingly accept and joyfully express your essence? I use somatic and mindfulness approaches to help you discover your deep connection between the body and mind, offering you a holistic path to emotional well-being that integrates traditional Western psychotherapeutic approaches. I work on creating a safe and empathetic space where you can explore your experiences, uncover your strengths, and learn how to let your essence shine.

We are all life students evolving from our collective experience, your experience has led you here. As the art/science of psychotherapy evolves, I promise to provide you with the most effective psychotherapeutic methods available. I bring compassion, humor, focus, years of clinical experience and an exceptional array of treatment tools to our session. Energy psychology (based in physics), is a relatively new, focused approach that often provides a faster, deeper resolution, than "talk therapy" alone offers. Choosing to take this journey means that you will be successful in changing your life experience!

As of January 1, 2022, my private practice is closed to new patients. I do not anticipate a change in this status as my work has largely shifted to local employee assistance. For over 20 years, it has been my privilege and pleasure to help adults and adolescents with mood, anxiety, and trauma issues. If you have seen me in the past, you are welcome to contact me about returning to therapy. My services include individual, family, and experiential group therapy. Office convenient to Albany, Lebanon and Corvallis, Oregon. Please call or email, for more detailed information.

Welcome to support for the second half of life! If you are dealing with changing health, self-reinvention, or aging, you have found a therapeutic home. Meeting is convenient: You can see me at the Sage Center, at an Assisted Living or Skilled Nursing facility, or work by video or phone - I have provided telehealth since 2005. You can expect compassion based on 40-years experience including career and retirement counseling, LGBTQ advocacy and counseling, inpatient gero-psych, work at care facilities and work with first nations people in 3 countries will allow us to get to the issues quickly and with deep understanding.

Technically, I am a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT). Relationally, I am an empathetic listener and encourager. I listen and then collaborate with you to discover the opportunities for progress and growth. I believe immediate change IS possible albeit often in small steps. Change can lead to improvement. Improvement brings more change and the cycle continues. Breaking out of the old dead-end cycle and entering a cycle of growth and change is what I am all about.

Raising healthy and happy children with ADHD can be a big job, but the good news is that you do not have to do it alone. There is a lot that can be done to help! ADHD is a complex neurodevelopmental condition that impacts each child differently. ADHD has little to do with how "smart" your child might be, but it has a lot to do with your child's ability to regulate their attention, mood, and behaviors. When symptoms of ADHD lead to lower self-esteem, mental health concerns, behavioral challenges, or academic struggles, it is a good time to seek professional help.

We are passionate about personal growth and self-actualization which can emerge through the therapeutic process. We believe everything that occurs in life is not by accident, but are in fact lessons to be used in grasping one's own meaning of life. Although we tend to favor experiential approaches, our theoretical orientation focuses on an integrative style of therapy. We begin with the client gradually building a foundation of acceptance and trust that is both affirming and non-judgmental. A successful therapeutic relationship is built upon making a connection through engagement allowing a client the freedom to just "be."

Mental health concerns for aging persons can become crippling. Older adults who experience depression and anxiety will likely continue to do so until its addressed through assessment, diagnosis and treatment by a clinician. Symptoms that indicate depression and anxiety in older adults can include feeling sad or down, feeling lonely, tearfulness, excessive fears and worries, decreases in appetite and weight, extreme mood changes, withdraw from friends, family, and social events, and frequently talking abut death. Now accepting new patients!

Hello! Thank you for thinking about inviting me on your journey! It is courageous work to explore the depths of who we are, why we are, and how we want to be in this world. I truly believe that we are all our own best healers and that we all have the inner resource necessary to be our most authentic self. I find infinite value in working with people to create an oasis where people can explore which aspects of vitality can elicit healing and how to balance the strength that comes from struggle.

Making the decision to go to a counselor/psychotherapist is a true act of courage. I honor you for taking this courageous step. I specialize in working with individuals struggling with all types of addictions ie alcohol,drugs,sex,food,gambling. I view addictions in a broader sense to include self defeating thought patterns, love/relationship addiction, hoarding, internet use, procrastination. Addictions are about avoiding pain and getting trapped in a repetitive cycle of thoughts and behaviors that result in more pain and regret. I provide my clients with a roadmap to follow as they seek to reclaim their self-esteem, integrity and joy.

The therapeutic relationship is crucial to the healing process, whether the problem is with external relationships, traumatic experience, or one's relationship with the self. I use psychoanalytic principles and relational dynamics to explore the internal conflicts and patterns that are at the root of emotional, psychological and relational problems. I am also sensitive to spirituality and the existential problems inherent in being human, and how these affect us all. I have a special interest in the psychology of twins and intersubjective relating in general.

A healthy life includes a balance of the mind, body and spirit. But what if you’re struggling to maintain that balance? Life certainly has a way of disrupting our world through unwanted events like grief, trauma, infertility and other difficult, very personal emotions. If you are struggling, we are here for you.

I work with adults of all ages, couples, adolescent, and families who are having trouble in their lives with relationships, struggling with daily life, and need someone to help guide them. It is my belief that there is an opportunity for everyone to thrive and to remain connected with others in the process. My approach is to first get to know you in order to build a strong therapeutic relationship. Once that is established, we then work on a common goal to help improve your daily functioning. I will collaborate with you to assure that the treatment you are getting is what you are seeking.

I have been in the pursuit of helping people achieve a richer life and closer relationships for over 30 years. Through those years I have continued to add intense training and expertise in psychology. I work from a supportive, non-judgmental position which gives you the freedom to design goals, get feedback, and try out new thoughts and behaviors that help you achieve success. I hold a Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University (www.alliant.edu). I am a licensed Psychologist in the State of Oregon.

Conifer Wellness offers a wide variety of services. We provide therapy for individuals, couples, adolescents, and children. We understand how mental and physical health play on each other, so therapy can include discussing your medical conditions, providing education, and working to manage chronic conditions, if you like. You can request counseling that is brief and targeted, or it can be long term. Just let us know. We treat anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, ADHD, relationship issues, phobias, anger management, and more. Other services we provide include a variety of diagnostic assessments/evaluations and skill-based group therapies.