Therapists in Hood River, OR

You've taken the first step to wellness by looking for a therapist. It can be difficult to find just the right match. You're ready to make a change - I can assist you. My desire is to help you understand core issues that are creating challenges in your life, find ways to cope more satisfactorily, make your desired changes, discover new options and make informed choices. I believe that the fit between client and therapist is important in making changes. I enjoy coming alongside people who have decided it's time to live life to the fullest and overcome issues holding them back.

My practice focuses on where you feel you need support. I take a holistic and individualized approach with each client. As we work together, we will utilize a combination of therapeutic approaches to best support you, your needs and goals.

I have enjoyed being a therapist for many years. My work is grounded in mindfulness, neuroscience and teaching techniques that have proven to help people thrive. I specialize in helping people eliminate problematic anxiety and repetitive cycles of depression using a very action-oriented style, which helps people get the results they are looking for quicker than traditional models. Whether you are working with me individually, listening to my podcast, or taking my self-paced online class I teach people about how to take the healthiest actions at the right time to massively improve their lives.

My focus is Perinatal Mental Health, from pregnancy and birth to the postpartum period, as well as women's issues across the lifespan. I approach therapy from an integrative, strengths-based perspective, and believe taking care of your emotional and spiritual well being is as important as your physical health. The transition to parenthood can have unexpected challenges, leading to feelings of depression and anxiety. We will come up with a plan to address those challenges together, incorporating evidenced based practices, mindfulness, and movement if desired. Babies are always welcome at your session.

Good mental health is a key to overall well being. With the many challenges of living in the world, counseling can help to navigate life’s ups and downs. I offer individual and family therapy for adults and teens 13 years and up. I utilize a variety of modalities, including EMDR, CBT, DBT, Non-Violent Communication and anger management. Whatever brings you to counseling, I look forward in assisting you to move through it and overcome it. As a Christian, I consider faith a great strength and support in meeting life’s challenges and I enjoy integrating it in counseling with clients that are interested.

I love to see people who are exploring helping themselves achieve a better space in their life. Many people are suffering, yet they aren't quite sure the next steps. I have experience working with many issues that can make you feel as if you have lost your path or wanting something more out of life. I try to adapt my style to your particular needs and take a collaborative approach, yet guided to therapy sessions. Sometimes we need a safe place to process our thoughts.

Hi, I’m Mackenzie. Im an attachment-based therapist who first is human. Do you often feel alone in your emotions and private thoughts but worry it might be too much for a partner or family? You’re not alone and a lack of intimacy (“into me you see”) is a chronic condition of our times. Are you in a rut or joyless routine and know there has to be more? I long to join you in this space and will laugh and cry with you, as you unearth and discover your most inner authentic voice and wisdom. When you encounter blocks (usually fears), I’ll be there with you to hold your hand and discover an unseen new path together.

While none of us can totally escape from life's many stressors and occasionally deep wounding, we can change the way we relate and cope with them, and lessen their negative effect on us. I help teens and adults learn how to observe their unhelpful patterns, and get to the root cause of what blocks them from fulfillment. With compassion, mutual trust, and a little humor, let's transform your life, and finally break out of the unhelpful patterns that have held you back.

Sometimes we can be unkind to ourselves, feel disconnected in our relationships or overwhelmed by life's problems. I believe counseling is a learning process. I will work with you to develop a compassionate understanding of who you are and new insight about areas in your life where you want support to change. I am passionate about working with individuals and families to support mental health and healing from addiction. I believe our well-being is informed by a healthy connection to family and community. In the therapy process I incorporate perspectives including relationship attachment, developing insight through mindfulness and understanding the effects of trauma.

With the right person therapy can be collaborative, creative, deeply effective, and can help with immediate problems or long-standing struggles. People are naturally vibrant and healthy, but our access to this vibrancy often becomes blocked as we are forced to adjust to life's challenges. I help people gain awareness of how and why they have lost access to meaningful parts of themselves, find ways to remove blocks to emotional growth, and move towards a life that feels more connected and alive. This work can be highly effective both with individuals and couples.

I believe that the experiences we go through in life shape us, the people around us impact us, and I believe that the process of growing is a life long journey. I practice psychodynamic therapy informed by person centered ways of relating. That’s just a fancy way to say that I think your life impacts who you are, how you behave and feel, and that an empathetic, supportive relationship is the best place to work on the change you want to see.