Divorce Therapists in Jefferson Westside, Eugene, OR

CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS. Please email to reach me. If you’re struggling with life stress, major transitions, anxiety, eating/body/exercise issues, depression or other mental health concerns, you deserve the time and space to process. I’ve specialized in eating disorders, substance use and comorbid disorders for the past decade and would love to help meet you wherever you fall in your journey toward getting well. I have also served as director at several adult and adolescent eating disorder residential programs which lends to my knowledge of the field at every level of care.

My father worked as a caseworker in New York and my mother is a registered nurse. Is it any wonder that I often attract caring clients seeking to balance stress (sometimes PTSD) as they strive to assist others. Many of my clients are caregivers- looking after family members, counselors, pastoral care workers, shamanic practitioners or healers. The rest tend to be people seeking tools to make sense out of their lives and their experiences. I provide a calm port in the storm of life. Care For The Caregiver is a place to receive support while learning to reach your goals.

Are you tired of feeling the way you do? Would you like to experience more peace, joy, and vibrancy in your life but you aren’t sure how to do that? Maybe you feel a little stuck. I will listen with great empathy and admiration, help you hear yourself more clearly, teach you to laugh at how ridiculous you can be, and remind you that you are perfectly normal. I believe you can experience the fullness of life that you long for. And, it is my great joy and privilege to help you grow in the confidence, self-kindness, and self-trust that are required for the journey.

Seeking clarity and understanding about life's journey is at times easy and at other times challenging. Reaching out for support and having a desire to grow and expand emotionally is not always an easy path though it is full of depth and rewards. I have been working in social service for over 15 years, meeting clients in their unique place and assisting with them with process that brought them to therapy.

We'll work together to explore your strengths and use them to create the life you want. Deepen your relationships, stay connected to your kids, heal emotional wounds, live with less fear and more confidence. Realize your potential for happiness.

I specialize in guiding and assisting you during major life transitions using a holistic mind-body approach. The goal being to achieve increased clarity enabling you to make the best decisions for your personal journey. I understand that life is full of transitions that often come with many challenges that can bring up feelings of anxiety, self-doubt, and a lowering of self-esteem. These feelings can leave you stuck in a world of worry where it is impossible to even visualize a desired future. My holistic mind-body approach allows you to internally integrate the changes you desire to create in your life.

I most enjoy working with you, someone motivated to improve. I’ll help you cope effectively with depression, anxiety, bipolar, and trauma disorders and I have for 20 years. You’re individual, couple, family, or groups. Adolescents and adults are preferred. I will help you with stress, horrifying traumas, deaths, diagnoses. Struggling with perinatal mood difficulties, eating disorders? I can help. I’ll teach you skills that enable and empower you to feel happy, stable, and independent again. I’m published on Amazon as Erica L Hernandez. My book is apocalyptic: Evasion, which addresses how to cope with grief.

Hello, welcome to the next step in your healing journey. My goal in helping you in your journey is to build a therapeutic relationship that allows you to envision the life you want to live and work together to get there. In addition to mental health counseling, I specialize in using somatic/movement therapies and acupuncture to guide you through awareness of your body, mind and soul. This process allows you to see your daily patterns of living and recognize if they help or hinder your ability to live the life that fulfills you. I best serve LGBTQIA, neurodivergent clients and under served clients.

Therapy is an investment in the quality of your life. I enjoy working with clients who want to improve their relationships; the effectiveness of their parenting; the satisfaction of their career path; the ability to perform confidently in arts/athletics/academics; to recover well following a difficult change or transition; or generally, to feel more contentment and less distress on a daily basis.

Each client comes with unique struggles and with unique hopes and longings in the search for meaning, relatedness, healing, creativity, and growth. We all have a life to live. When that life is stymied - by inside forces or outside events - you might feel stuck or lonely, experience anxiety, depression, anger, grief, chronic pain, or restlessness. You might also struggle with life changes, illness, stale relationship patterns, addictions or spiritual issues. My aim is to get to know you well and help you develop a conscious, vital relationship with the powerful forces that seek life and growth and with those that get in your way.

I work with a wide range of people. My clients like deep work, As a Process Oriented therapist and teacher I use dreamwork, symptoms work, bodywork, movement, relationship work, conflict work, inner work and meditation, art and creativity, and many other methods based on the individuals client's process. I work with individuals, couples, and families. I have helped develop Process Oriented family therapy; Process Oriented sex and intimacy work; Process Oriented personal and historical trauma work; Process oriented coma and brain injury work, I have written 11 books on these topics. My work integrates mind body and spirit.

I have been honored to work with individuals and couples who have improved their communication, boundary setting, and coping skills through practice, dedication, and the power of a restorative and healing therapeutic relationship. I have often been amazed and inspired by the clients I have seen who uncover their potential, and overcome obstacles that they once thought were insurmountable. We both influence and are influenced by our environments and relationships. The same way we are molded by these experiences, we can also create self change through support, tools, and the power of intention.

PLEASE NOTE THAT MY PRACTICE IS CURRENTLY FULL. My style is interactive and my goal is to create a collaborative, therapeutic relationship. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, I help clients identify issues they need to manage or resolve in order to achieve the quality of life they are seeking. I have a deep regard for the role one's spiritual life may have assisting with one's overall well-being. I respect the uniqueness of each individual and the drive to achieve a sense of wholeness and self-expression. With this in mind, I strive to bring compassion, focus and direction to the work we do together.