Female Therapists in Eugene, OR

Are you a woman seeking support coping with a difficult time in your life, adjusting to changes, healing from trauma, dealing with a difficult work situation, balancing responsibilities, or grieving a loss? Do you want to create fulfilling relationships in which your needs are met? Have you found that your coping strategies are not working as well as they used to? Maybe you feel limited in some way and want to break free. Allow me to offer you a safe space to explore your struggles and assist in creating a healing path. I will listen to you and place great value on understanding your unique needs.

As a Professional Counselor Associate, I will use my skills and voice to help empower my clients. I look forward to a long career in the mental health field where my community members, especially people of color, veterans, women , and individuals needing a cheerleader and advocate in their corner, can receive the care that they deserve. I want to understand the whole person and hope that everyone will soon be able to see themselves for who they are and not by what society or their diagnosis tells them. Seeking mental health treatment is a big step and I want to celebrate each person’s journey.

"We all have our stuff." I heard a wise woman say this years ago. We might feel overwhelmed by all the expectations of life - of adulthood. We might be carrying the weight of something terrible that has happened in our lives. We might feel deeply alone - even when we are around other people. Maybe we feel out of control or lacking discipline, struggling to break habits that we know are bad for us. Whatever the case may be, you are not alone. Lots of people come to therapy. Lots of people feel much better after trying it.

I support people to learn why they relate to themselves and others the way they do and to interrupt unhelpful patterns. I am passionate about helping people heal from the past, build healthy relationships, and finally feel good enough. I specialize in working with college students and parents, especially women and people who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. Many of my clients have participated in therapy before and found it to be useful but describe eventually hitting a plateau. I'm excited to help you to build off this work and level up. I also pride myself in thoughtfully welcoming newcomers to therapy.

Our environment influences how we see ourselves in the world; it shapes our internal narratives and our relationship with ourselves and others. As a BIPoC, immigrant therapist, it is my honor and duty to provide a safe space for BIPoC folx and immigrants and seek to help each person see their own power and heal their wounds. I seek to help individuals who may be working on healing from radicalized trauma and various forms internalized oppression in order to become the person they were meant to be. Understanding our own history and connection to our ancestors helps us to understand who we are today and helps us heal our Soul.

All of us face experiences in our lives where we can benefit from the support and connection that therapy provides. Scientific evidence demonstrates that a strong and consistent therapeutic relationship is restorative, healing and emotionally regulating. As a therapist, I believe in connecting with clients, human-to-human, and I regularly feel a deep sense of understanding for those with whom I work. There is so much noise around us that it is often difficult for us to hear our own truth. I offer a compassionate, heart-centered space to help you to deeply trust your own inner strength and core values.

Life is a journey without a clear roadmap. We hit bumps, wrong turns, and flat tires along the way. Worry, sadness, and confusion can be a natural response to these problems we encounter. Sometimes it is difficult to know which direction is the best or even if we want to continue the journey. I am here to help you find your way, to find acceptance, and feel strong enough to face the obstacles to your travel. If you are feeling, overwhelmed, steeped in sadness, uncertain, panicked or worried about almost everything or just one thing, I can help.

As a transpersonal counselor, it is my goal in working with women to approach and integrate their highest human potential. Inside each of us is our highest self, and together my clients and I work toward what is their own, unique potential. I find that holding the space for my clients to reach a place where they believe in themselves, encourages them to step into those experiences that may be holding them back. Together we walk through fear, anger, sadness, shame, guilt, or grief. Whatever feeling, emotion, or problem that brought them to me together on the other side we find the potential that was hidden inside.

I work with top performers that are set on improving their relationships. These relationships include with a partner, child, parent, and even oneself. The relationship could be with coping behaviors, such as with work or a substance. I’m speaking to those of you that are highly critical. You likely had challanging times in your youth. These challenges pushed you to the top in your field. Yet they also primed your nervous system to see annoyance, threat, or frustration more easily. You might be afraid therapy will end your edge. I honor your edge. It’s a great gift. Our work together will support you in widening your options.

I work with women , and teens who are experiencing symptoms of depression, anxiety or complications from traumatic experiences.

Many clients come to me after years of talk therapy that hasn't helped them fully heal. I specialize in experiential models of therapy, specifically, EMDR Therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, that provide opportunities to find lasting healing from past trauma, as well as, other difficulties including anxious and depressive experiences, uncomfortable transitions, relationship struggles and other life challenges. These methods are creative, emergent and always a product of collaborative treatment planning. My work with clients is goal-directed and active.

My style as a therapist is warm, empathetic and compassionate, while also being direct and active in the therapy process. I strive to be flexible and collaborative in my approach with each client in order to help meet my client’s goals. I am trained in a variety of evidence-based therapy approaches and primarily use a combination of emotion-focused, solution- focused, and cognitive behavioral therapy, allowing clients to process underlying thoughts and feelings while also looking towards positive lasting solutions to make changes and improve quality of life.

I help women and their partners recover from anxiety and trauma, learn to trust themselves, and create the love relationships and friendships they long for. I also help folks in intimate partnerships learn to communicate about hard topics, recover from the betrayal of affairs, and grow more intimacy. If you are exhausted from the constant anxiety of trying to be perfect or you feel hopeless about finding a partner or getting your needs met in the partnership you are in...read on!

Informed by 20+ years as an innovation consultant, life and sex coach, Andrea currently serves clients as a Marriage and Family Therapy Intern with Kelle DeBruin Counseling. In previous private practice, Andrea helped women , men and couples resolve obstacles to intimacy and satisfying sex lives. As a clinician, she aligns with challenges faced by diverse communities including LGBTQ+, open relationships/polyamory, kinksters and sex workers. Bilingual in Spanish with a Master’s in Latin American Studies from UCLA, she appreciates opportunities to work with Latinx clients.