Online therapy for Wilsonville clients.
Online therapy for Wilsonville adults. The southern edge of Portland metro, where the suburbs meet the river valley. Anxiety, depression, trauma, and the relational work that often comes with.
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What Wilsonville clients are actually walking in with, and what the local context looks like up close.
Wilsonville sits at the south edge of the Portland metro belt, where I-5 crosses the Willamette at the Boone Bridge (locally the most-cursed bottleneck in the south metro). The demographic mixes corporate professionals working at Siemens EDA (the former Mentor Graphics, acquired by Siemens in 2017), Xerox Wilsonville, Collins Aerospace, and the smaller engineering and tech firms along I-5, with families that moved here for housing math and schools, plus the older retiree population anchored around the Charbonneau neighborhood south of the river. Most of my Wilsonville clients are mid-career, working in technical, professional, or corporate roles, with the analytical bent that draws people to therapy that names what it's doing. The presenting issues skew toward anxiety and depression, often the slowed-down version that's been running long enough you've forgotten you're not supposed to feel like that. Mid-life recalibration shows up often, especially in clients in their late thirties and forties who built a life that worked and are now sitting inside it wondering whose plan they were following. Couples work, family work, and trauma all show up in their share. PacificSource, Regence, and Cigna are the carriers I see most often for Wilsonville clients. UnitedHealthcare and Providence next. I bill all the major Oregon carriers in-network.
Beyond Wilsonville, the practice covers the surrounding Oregon communities including Tualatin, West Linn, Sherwood, and Canby. Anyone in Oregon can be a client of the practice, so Wilsonville 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 Wilsonville clients. The clinical approach is the same statewide; the way it lands in each city is not.
Wilsonville is far enough south that for many clients, in-person therapy in Portland would mean a forty-minute round trip on top of the session. Online makes weekly therapy actually compatible with a real workday. Sessions are fifty minutes on a HIPAA-compliant video platform, and they hold the same depth as in-person for most presentations. The approach is multi-modal. CBT for anxiety and depression when those respond to direct intervention. Psychodynamic work for what's underneath the symptoms. Attachment-informed work for relational patterns that don't move to logic alone. Gottman for couples. Therapy is collaborative and oriented toward something you can keep doing without me, not toward you needing me indefinitely.
Questions I get asked about working with a Wilsonville therapist.
I work at Siemens EDA, Xerox Wilsonville, or one of the I-5 corridor employers. What insurance shows up most?
PacificSource and Cigna are the two I see most often for Wilsonville corporate clients, with UnitedHealthcare coming in for those on national-employer plans. I bill them all in-network. The full carrier list lives on the insurance page.Is online therapy actually different from sitting in a room with someone?
Different in some ways, the same in the ways that matter. The screen does change the sense of being in a room together, and some clients notice that more than others. What it doesn't change is the depth of what we do. For most presentations (anxiety, depression, trauma, couples, family work) the research and my own clinical experience are clear that telehealth holds.I'm not sure I'm depressed or just tired. Is that something to bring in?
Yes. Some Wilsonville clients show up exactly at this question and it's one of the most useful things to look at together. The line between exhaustion, anhedonia, and a real depressive episode is not as obvious from inside as it seems like it should be. We look at sleep, energy, motivation, and what's been changing over time. From there it's clearer what therapy needs to do.Sherwood, Canby, and Newberg are nearby. Do you see clients from out there too?
Yes. Anyone in Oregon can be a client of the practice, and Sherwood, Canby, and Newberg all sit within easy driving distance of Wilsonville. The license is statewide, the practice is online, and the geography matters less than the fit between us.
What I help with for Wilsonville-area clients.
Anxiety therapy
Practical, multi-modal anxiety therapy for analytical adults in Wilsonville and across Oregon.
Read moreDepression therapy
Depression therapy for Wilsonville-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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