Online therapy for Eugene clients.
Online therapy for Eugene adults. Academics, healthcare workers, and the professional belt that surrounds the University of Oregon. Anxiety, depression, trauma, and the mid-life work that follows.
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What Eugene clients are actually walking in with, and what the local context looks like up close.
Eugene is anchored by the University of Oregon and PeaceHealth Sacred Heart (the University District campus in Eugene itself, with the larger RiverBend hospital just across the river in Springfield, which locals are particular about distinguishing). Lane County government, Lane Community College, Bi-Mart's Eugene headquarters, and the smaller tech and healthcare orbit fill out the rest. Most of my Eugene clients are academics, researchers, healthcare professionals, or government employees, often anchored to South Eugene, College Hill, or the Friendly neighborhood. There's also a steady population of mid-career professionals who moved here from larger cities for the trade-off (lower density, real seasons, the river) and have a complicated relationship with how the move turned out. The presenting issues are weighted toward anxiety, depression, trauma, and the kind of mid-life recalibration work that comes up when the academic-or-professional script has played out further than the client expected. Couples and family work both come up, especially for academic couples where both partners are running careers under the weight of the U of O tenure clock or the healthcare system's scheduling. Insurance-wise PacificSource shows up the most often in Eugene, which makes sense because PacificSource is headquartered here. Regence and Providence are next, with Aetna and Cigna for clients whose employer is national. I'm in-network with the major Oregon carriers and bill them directly.
Beyond Eugene, the practice covers the surrounding Oregon communities including Springfield, Junction City, Coburg, and Cottage Grove. Anyone in Oregon can be a client of the practice, so Eugene 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 Eugene clients. The clinical approach is the same statewide; the way it lands in each city is not.
With Eugene clients we're often looking at things the academic or healthcare context made it easy to defer. The overwork the institution rewards. The relational compromises that come with a career on a long timeline. Sometimes the realization that the institution isn't going to pay back the years you've put into it. I draw from CBT for the parts of anxiety and depression that respond to direct intervention, psychodynamic work for the deeper material, and attachment-informed work for what's underneath the relational patterns. For couples I work from Gottman. The pace is collaborative.
Questions I get asked about working with a Eugene therapist.
I'm a U of O faculty member. Will you understand the academic career strain?
Yes. Eugene academic clients are a regular part of the practice, and the specifics (the tenure clock, the conference rhythm, the institutional politics that look opaque from outside) come up enough that I'm fluent in them by now. Therapy isn't about validating that academic life is hard; it's about figuring out what your specific version of it is doing to you and what to do about it.I have PacificSource. Are you in-network?
Yes. PacificSource is the carrier I see most often in Eugene, partly because their HQ is right there. I bill directly, you pay your copay or coinsurance at the session, and the EOB shows up in your benefits portal. The full carrier list lives on the insurance page if you want to verify yours.Eugene to Portland is 110 miles. Why are you the right therapist for me at this distance?
The distance is exactly why online makes sense. For most presentations (anxiety, depression, trauma, couples, family work), telehealth holds the same depth as in-person, which means geography stops being a filter on who you can work with. If you've struggled to find a good multi-modal therapist locally in Eugene, the broader Oregon pool opens up.I'm a grad student. Can I afford this?
Depends on your situation. The first stop for most UO students is University Counseling Services, which is free or low-cost for enrolled students. If you've maxed out the sessions there, or want to work with someone outside the campus system, we can check on the consult whether your specific UO student health plan tier lists me as in-network. If you're paying out of pocket, the self-pay fee is $250 per session and that's the same for grad students as anyone else, with a small number of reduced-fee slots that I sometimes have available.
What I help with for Eugene-area clients.
Anxiety therapy
Practical, multi-modal anxiety therapy for analytical adults in Eugene and across Oregon.
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Depression therapy for Eugene-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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