Individual Therapy

Willamette Health & Wellness offers individual, couples, and family therapy services.

What is psychotherapy/counseling and is it right for you?

Our clinicians focus on goals to promote health, healing, personal growth, and change. If you are experiencing emotional distress, struggling to find solutions to life’s problems, or you want to change patterns of thinking or behavior that stand in the way of making the most of your life and relationships, our therapists can collaborate with you on your journey toward your personal goals. 

You may be new to the experience of therapy or you may have had various experiences with therapy in the past. You may be dealing with the effects of trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, addiction, ADHD or other complexities of life. Research shows that the best outcomes of therapy come from a strong connection with your therapist, development of clear personal goals, and your comfort with how we will work with you to reach those goals. We believe that therapy is a very personal experience and thus must be tailored to who you are and what you need. After your initial assessment with us you can decide if we are the right fit for your needs.

Our therapists and psychiatric nurse practitioners are trained in a variety of modalities including:

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Child–Parent Psychotherapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems Model, Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS), Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Solution Focused Therapy. Our clinicians are informed by the models of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Jungian, Attachment, and Psychodynamic Theories.

Couples Therapy

Sometimes couples or families wish to use therapy to help them through rough spots or change aspects of the relationship that are challenging.

How is couples counseling different from individual therapy?

Typically couple’s therapy equally involves the individuals in the relationship. The therapy is not focused on one person but the relationship as a whole. Because there is not an “identified patient” many insurances do not pay for relationship/couple’s therapy.  

If a couple is not sure if they should pursue couples counseling or engage in treatment with a focus on the individual partner needs, this will be discussed in the initial assessment visit. Your therapist will assess your current concerns and discuss the therapeutic benefits of couples versus individual therapy and provide you with information to assist in making a decision. Both/all  partners are integral in this decision and the therapist will also provide recommendations. By the end of the visit a decision will be made collaboratively about a treatment plan including whether individual or couples/relationship counseling will be pursued. 

Family Therapy

Sometimes an entire family unit needs help and support finding their way through patterns that create conflict and dissatisfaction with the relationships they have with each other. One of the important benefits of having family members meet as a group with a trained family therapist, is the therapist’s ability to both identify and communicate unhealthy patterns or ongoing areas of conflict that family members continue to repeat despite each members desire to make things “better”.

Family therapy can also provide a more supportive environment for family members that have been resistant in the past to therapy. The focus during family therapy is on the family unit as a whole, every member plays an important role in ongoing family dynamics. It may encourage family members that seem resistant to therapy to know that the family therapy process is not about finding who the “bad one” in the family is. More importantly, the work asks each family member to examine how they might change to better support the members in their family.

While our therapists at Willamette Health & Wellness are trained in a number of Family Therapy models, we also acknowledge that every family is different and unique.

Our therapists have the skills and the flexibility to provide a treatment plan that will help your family strengthen communication, improve connection with each other, and solve problems together as a family.