Online therapy for Beaverton clients.
Online therapy for Beaverton adults. The Nike and Intel orbit shows up here a lot. Engineers, product managers, designers, the kind of analytical mind that comes to therapy already half-mapping its own anxiety.
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What Beaverton clients are actually walking in with, and what the local context looks like up close.
Beaverton is the densest concentration of analytical adults in the practice. Most of my Beaverton clients work at Nike's WHQ campus, at one of the Intel campuses a short hop west in Hillsboro, or at one of the tech-adjacent startups that's grown up around them in the last decade. A smaller slice work in healthcare or law, but the dominant story here is tech. Geographically the demographic spreads out along the MAX Blue Line and the Cedar Hills Crossing / Canyon Road corridor, with the Asian and South Asian food and grocery stretch on Canyon and TV Highway as a cultural marker most longtime residents will recognize. The presenting issues come with the territory. Burnout shows up a lot, and not the cartoonish kind. The flat, low-grade version where you're still hitting deadlines but you no longer remember why you cared. Anxiety attached to performance, and to the gap between how the LinkedIn bio describes the job and how a regular Wednesday actually feels. Trauma, often from earlier than they expect to be talking about it. And the relational drag that grows when both partners are running at 120 percent and the marriage is the thing that has to take the shock. On the insurance side, Cigna shows up most often on intake forms for Beaverton clients (the Nike behavioral arm routes through Evernorth, so don't be thrown by that). UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Regence, and Providence round out the local mix. I bill all of these directly when in-network.
Beyond Beaverton, the practice covers the surrounding Oregon communities including Hillsboro, Tigard, Portland, and Aloha. Anyone in Oregon can be a client of the practice, so Beaverton is one node in a wider statewide reach. The full list of Oregon cities I serve is on the therapy locations page.
Practical, multi-modal, grounded.
What sessions tend to look like specifically for Beaverton clients. The clinical approach is the same statewide; the way it lands in each city is not.
The Beaverton clients I see have usually already read three books and tried two apps before they call. They know the vocabulary. They know what cognitive distortions are. They've been gentle with themselves and harder on themselves and they're tired of having opinions about their own mental health. What they need from a therapist isn't more vocabulary. It's someone who can sit in the room with them and notice what the gentleness and the harshness have in common, and walk them into the thing underneath. I work multi-modal: CBT for what responds to it, psychodynamic for what doesn't, attachment work for the relational substrate that runs both. The engineering background helps. We can talk about pattern, system, signal, noise, and you don't have to translate to a softer language for me to follow.
Questions I get asked about working with a Beaverton therapist.
I work at Nike and have Cigna. Are you in-network?
Yes. Cigna is the carrier I bill most often for Beaverton clients, and most of the Nike plan tiers go through it (the behavioral-health arm is called Evernorth, so don't be thrown if your benefits portal routes through that name). I bill them directly. You pay your copay or coinsurance at the session and the rest is between me and them.I'm an engineer. Will therapy feel too touchy-feely for me?
I'd say no, but you should check it against your own gauge on the consult call. Before I was a therapist I was a mechanical engineer at NASA, which means I think in systems, I'm comfortable being explicit about what we're doing and why, and I don't reach for therapy jargon when a plain word will do. A lot of Beaverton clients describe sessions as the first time the words made sense.Burnout is the word, but I'm not sure that's actually what's going on. Can we figure that out?
That's exactly the kind of thing therapy figures out. Burnout is a useful label but it's not a diagnosis, and when people use it they often mean two or three different things at once: chronic exhaustion, the loss of meaning at work, anxiety that's slowed into depression. We sort which of those is doing the heaviest lifting before we decide how to intervene.I want couples work. My partner and I are both burnt out. Where do we start?
On the consult, we'd look at whether couples work is the right entry point or whether one of you needs individual work first. Burnt-out couples sometimes don't need couples therapy yet; they need each of you to have ten percent more in the tank before the relational work can move. Sometimes they do need couples work, and we can start there. I'm Gottman-trained for the couples piece.
What I help with for Beaverton-area clients.
Anxiety therapy
Practical, multi-modal anxiety therapy for analytical adults in Beaverton and across Oregon.
Read moreDepression therapy
Depression therapy for Beaverton-area adults who are tired of being tired and want to understand what's underneath.
Read moreCouples therapy
Gottman-trained couples therapy. Practical, structured work for communication, conflict, intimacy, and the slow drifts.
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