Online therapy for Hillsboro clients.
Online therapy for Hillsboro adults. Intel's Oregon home and the densest concentration of technical talent in the state. Engineers, researchers, scientists, the people who come to therapy frustrated that insight doesn't follow the same rules code does.
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What Hillsboro clients are actually walking in with, and what the local context looks like up close.
Hillsboro clients are heavily Intel, or Intel-adjacent. Process engineers, design engineers, validation engineers, software engineers, scientists with PhDs from anywhere on the planet. A lot of clients on H-1B or O-1 visas. A lot of first- and second-generation Americans whose families came to Oregon for the semiconductor industry. The campus names that come up in session (Ronler Acres, Jones Farm, D1X) and the residential anchor of Orenco Station are the day-to-day geography for most of them. The cultural mix is unusual for a Portland-metro suburb. South Asian, East Asian, and Latino families are the dominant non-white groups, and the cultural piece sits inside therapy in a way it doesn't in other Portland suburbs. The presenting issues tilt toward anxiety, depression, and trauma. Imposter syndrome shows up often, especially in clients who outperformed every standardized expectation set for them and still wake up at three a.m. convinced they're getting away with something. Couples work shows up when both partners are running technical careers and the household scheduling has become a denial-of-service attack on the marriage. Cigna is the carrier I see most often on Hillsboro intake forms, with the behavioral arm routing through Evernorth on claims and benefits. UnitedHealthcare (administered through Optum on the behavioral side) is next. Some clients on more specialized international or hybrid plans need the out-of-network superbill route, which I can provide.
Beyond Hillsboro, the practice covers the surrounding Oregon communities including Beaverton, Aloha, Forest Grove, and Cornelius. Anyone in Oregon can be a client of the practice, so Hillsboro 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 Hillsboro clients. The clinical approach is the same statewide; the way it lands in each city is not.
With Hillsboro clients the engineering-to-therapy translation does most of the early work. Before I was a therapist I was a mechanical engineer at NASA, which means we can name what's happening in a session as a system being studied, not as a black box you have to trust me about. For clients with advanced technical degrees, that translation is the difference between staying in the room and leaving after two sessions. I draw from CBT for the parts of anxiety and depression that respond to direct intervention, psychodynamic work for what's underneath the symptoms, and attachment-informed work for relational patterns that don't budge to logic alone. For couples, Gottman gives structure to conversations that have been going around the same loop for years. Sessions are collaborative.
Questions I get asked about working with a Hillsboro therapist.
I work at Intel. Is therapy with you covered by Cigna?
For most Intel plans, yes. The Cigna behavioral-health arm is called Evernorth, so claims and benefits often route through that name. I bill directly, you pay your copay or coinsurance at the session, and the EOB shows up in your benefits portal a few weeks later. If your specific plan tier turns out to be out-of-network, I can superbill for partial reimbursement.I'm on an H-1B and I worry about therapy showing up on my immigration record. Should I be?
It's a fair question and one I get often. Insurance billing requires a clinical diagnosis on each claim, and that diagnosis sits on your insurance record. Whether immigration ever sees that depends on the specific situation and is worth talking to an immigration attorney about, not your therapist. If keeping mental health off the insurance record matters to you, self-pay is the alternative at $250 per session and nothing goes to insurance at all.Do you work with clients whose families are not American?
Yes, often. Hillsboro clients frequently come from Indian, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, or Latino families, and the cultural piece sits inside therapy. The deals you made as a child about how to be in the world were partly shaped by which world you were in. We talk about that openly rather than pretending the dominant-culture frame is neutral.I'm a researcher and I want to know what evidence backs what we're doing. Is that a fit?
It is. I'll tell you what each intervention is, what the evidence looks like, and where the honest limits of that evidence are. Some of these interventions have strong RCT support (CBT for anxiety and depression, Gottman for couples). Some have decent but smaller evidence (attachment-informed work). And some of what makes therapy actually move people isn't well captured in any trial design, and I'll say that part out loud too.
What I help with for Hillsboro-area clients.
Anxiety therapy
Practical, multi-modal anxiety therapy for analytical adults in Hillsboro and across Oregon.
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Depression therapy for Hillsboro-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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