Online therapy for Tigard clients.
Portland-based LMFT serving Tigard and the surrounding area online. Eighteen years of experience with anxiety, depression, trauma, mid-life transitions, grief, couples, and family work.
Request a free 15-min consultation →Real therapy without the commute.
Tigard is one of the cities the practice serves directly. Online means there's no driving into Portland for therapy, which makes weekly sessions actually fit into a real schedule.
Tigard sits at the south end of Portland metro and the practice covers a lot of clients from there. Online sessions remove the commute to Portland for therapy, which matters when you're already losing time to the bridge every day.
Sessions are fifty minutes, on a HIPAA-compliant video platform. The schedule is weekly for most clients, with some moving to every other week as the work settles. Practical reality: online removes the friction (commute, parking, childcare gap) that keeps a lot of people out of therapy entirely.
Beyond Tigard, the practice covers the surrounding Oregon communities including Portland, Lake Oswego, Beaverton, Tualatin. Anyone in Oregon can be a client of the practice, so Tigard is one node in a wider statewide reach.
Practical, multi-modal, not woo.
Same multi-modal approach the main practice runs on. Tigard clients get the same depth of work as anyone else, and the same orientation: useful tools, real understanding, no woo.
I draw from cognitive behavioral therapy for the practical pattern-interrupting, psychodynamic work for what's underneath, and an attachment-informed lens that takes relational history seriously. For couples and families I work from Gottman and attachment frameworks.
Before I was a therapist, I was a mechanical engineer at NASA. The engineering shows up in how I work: I think in systems, I'm comfortable with the body as part of the system, and I don't do woo. For clients with technical or medical backgrounds, that translation matters.
Eighteen years of practicing. The thread is that I'm not interested in keeping you in therapy forever. The work is collaborative and aimed at helping you keep doing it without me.
Questions I get asked about working with a Tigard therapist.
Do you have an office in Tigard?
No. The practice is online-only. Sessions are on a HIPAA-compliant video platform from wherever you are in Oregon. Most clients find that online sessions hold the work just as well as in-person, with the added benefit of no commute.Does insurance cover therapy from Tigard?
Most likely. I'm in-network with most major carriers including Regence, PacificSource, Moda, Providence, Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare. For in-network plans, you only pay your copay or coinsurance. For out-of-network plans, I can provide a superbill for partial reimbursement. The full carrier list and out-of-network details are on the insurance page.What if I'm not sure online therapy works for me?
That's a normal place to start. The first conversation is a free 15-minute phone consult, and we can talk through whether online is a fit for what you're working on. For most presentations (anxiety, depression, trauma, couples, family work), telehealth holds the same depth as in-person.What if my issue isn't one of your specialties?
Reach out anyway. Eighteen years has covered a lot of ground. If something isn't a good fit, I'd say so and try to point you to a colleague who'd be better. The consult is partly for figuring that out.
Specific work I do for Tigard-area clients.
Anxiety therapy
Practical, multi-modal anxiety therapy for analytical adults in Tigard and across Oregon.
Read moreDepression therapy
Depression therapy for Tigard-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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Ready to talk it through? Let's see if we're a fit.
Send a message, or set up a free 15-minute phone consult. You can reach me by email, call, or text. I'll get back to you within two business days.