Parenting Therapists in Cal Young, Eugene, OR

I work with preteens, teens, adolescents, and parents to navigate the challenging transition of childhood to early adulthood. I believe in the importance of relationship. We aren't ourselves when we feel uncomfortable, so my work centers on establishing a working relationship that fosters connection, collaboration, and mutual understanding. I believe that “you are the expert on you” and work to understand my client’s personal values and life perspective. Once I have a sense of who you are, we will begin to identify behavior patterns and increase awareness to focus on making meaningful changes that are right for you.

Please email for new patient requests in order for me to be able to respond promptly. It takes a great deal of courage to seek support. I believe that healing can occur in a safe, warm, and supportive place where we can explore different areas of our lives. I am honored to be part of that journey for individuals who want to explore healing in a place where they feel safe, seen, and heard. I have experience working with depression, anxiety, life transitions, perinatal mental health, parenting challenges, woman issues and I have a passion for working with college age populations. I am bilingual and bicultural and speak Spanish.

I approach counseling in an eclectic manner employing a variety of treatment options that best meets the client "where they are" and assists them as they move to "where they want to be." Support, insight, and motivation techniques are used to encourage each person to connect with their own natural (internal) wisdom and strength. With over 25 years in private practice, I have the training, the skills, and the experience to address concerns related to relationships, parenting, work/career transitions, recovery from illnesses such as a cardiac event and breast cancer, and issues of depression and anxiety.

My office has 5 therapists accepting Pacific Source (OHP and Commercial) clients. We have immediate openings for adults and a waitlist for children and teens. We work with individuals, families, and couples of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds. We have training and experience working with individuals with ADHD, grief and loss, DID, psychosis, on the autism spectrum, in foster care, co-parenting, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, PTSD, parenting skills, school problems, defiant behaviors and family reintegration. We have a clinician fluent in Spanish with much experience conducting therapy in Spanish.

4/2024: Waitlist: kids/teens/adults. Our mission is to match you with one of our highly skilled therapists with expertise and specialized training in the area you seek support. Charissa Schmidt, LPC serves child through adult clients. Kelton Monroe, LCSW provides care for adults navigating various life transitions. Christine Guza, LPC, specialties include adults experiencing chronic pain, medical conditions, and trauma. Dr. Corrina Falkenstein, PhD supports clients ages 10 and up experiencing ADHD, depression and anxiety. Janell Hunt, LMFT, specializes in play therapy with clients ages 3 - 9.

I provide compassionate, creative, and collaborative individual and family therapy that supports people as well as families in navigating through difficult situations in their lives. My goal is to help adults recognize and utilize their personal strengths as well as develop insight about them self to create lasting change that will enhance their life. When working with children and families, I create a safe place for children and adolescents to express their thoughts and work through their emotions. I collaborate with parents, teachers, and medical professionals to develop individualized treatment and support.

Practice Currently Full My work with clients is flexible and tailored to your needs. Some folks appreciate concrete coping, relaxation, non-violent communication, or parenting tools. Others seek support in finding their calling, maximizing relationships, understanding family of origin patterns and cycles, better understanding their thoughts, emotions, or choices, or uncovering and integrating central parts of the self. From simple study habits to finding your true path, I hope to find ways to connect, heal, and integrate.

Counseling for children, adolescents, adults and families; specializing in the treatment of young children and their families.

I am currently only accepting certain clients for my waitlist. I do have spots available for my Parenting Classes. I specialize in helping children, teens, and adults manage and decrease their anxiety. While anxiety can be a part of daily life, at times it becomes debilitating or distressing. I work with my clients to find a way to balance daily stress while still finding enjoyment in life. I utilize evidence-based practices that are based on science and measurable goals. I like my clients to feel involved in the process of choosing goals and measuring their own progress and successes.

It takes true courage to reach out for support. It’s my belief that we are each on our own unique journey through life. Choosing to work with a therapist can be significantly helpful with making sense of and navigating the layers of challenges, uncertainty, loss, transition, and traumatic circumstances that are experienced throughout life. I feel deeply honored to be a source of support and a witness to my clients’ journeys toward increased understanding, healing, growth, clarity, a greater sense of connection and wellbeing. Important to me is to offer a space with kindness, warmth, non-judgement, safe connection, and inclusivity.

In my work as a therapist I find satisfaction in helping individuals find peace. Our world may have reasons to feel unsettled. However, there are also many reasons for hope. I find it very rewarding to witness family relationship growth, such as when a parent and child connect. My goal is to be a resource for those suffering from life stressors, normalized grief processes, and loss. Therefore I encourage conversations about areas of strength, successes that are often overlooked, and relational healing that can take place. I often incorporate a solution-oriented approach in working with children, teens, parents, and couples.

Difficulty communicating with or feeling heard by your partner, parent, or child? Encountering a major transition? Want to set firmer boundaries, develop more self compassion, learn to manage anxiety, or process trauma? I can provide insight, reflection, and a compassionate and supportive space to explore your inner landscape and begin healing. I believe the tools you need to grow and thrive are already within you. You deserve an authentic therapeutic experience so you can discover and refine those tools. I strive to tailor your experience by offering a wide range of healing tools that feel genuine and actionable.

Hello there! I'm Ashley Carr (she/her), therapist and owner of Midnight Counseling Services. My main focus is on helping Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples in their healing journey. I am equally passionate about supporting and guiding individuals from all backgrounds who seek empowerment and strength through therapy.

I delight in working with children and families as a therapist. Kids are so wonderful and I love supporting them and their relationship with their parents. This includes helping clients gain coping skills to face this world today, skills to manage anxiety, depression, to verbally express needs, and to manage behaviors. This includes supporting parents through family therapy, working on parenting strategies, and including parents in the therapy process as their child develops skills. I enjoy seeing connection and family growth in those I work with.

Are you someone who is committed to helping others? Maybe you work for a non-profit or organization that serves vulnerable communities. Maybe you’re a parent, an activist, a teacher, a nurse, or a social worker. My passion as a counselor is supporting the helpers: giving you the space you need to heal, cope, and grow so that you can continue to do the important work you believe in—in a way that’s sustainable for you.

> > Accepting New Clients < < You want someone who is compassionate and responsive, who is open and respectful, and who isn’t afraid to go with you into difficult places. That's my goal: to be on your side, to be with you, and to be real—so you have the support needed to move through and to flourish. Our work begins by creating a unique space—a safe space—so you can stretch out and explore more fully. We'll connect the dots using parts work, turning towards feeling and body experience, and exploring dynamics in the present—tools that support deeper connections, address root issues, and create meaningful change.

My primary focus as a counselor is working with individuals in transitionary phases of their lives to regulate anxiety, depression and trauma responses that can occur with change and other life stressors. As a mental health counselor, I strive to facilitate awareness of the mind-body connection. The impact of everyday stressors and past experiences on physical and emotional health is often overlooked. Identifying thought patterns and behaviors that impact your interactions in the world and overall feelings about self can help you to work toward living your authentic life in contentment and joy.

People come to counseling to alleviate some suffering or to get clarity on some confusion or path choice in their lives. I work with my clients to co-invent ways for them to accomplish these and other goals they may have. If you come as a couple I will strive to help you decode the mystery of what brought the two of you together and what your spirits need now, together and individually. These days I also work a lot with families who have kids with social and recreational screen media dependence. Please see my book on Amazon on this topic.

Feeling overwhelmed, stressed or anxious? Sometimes the demands of modern life can make us feel out of control. When we are suffering, we tend to look at all that is wrong in our lives. We can lose confidence and make judgements and assumptions about ourselves or our situations that focus mainly on the negative. The coping strategies we adopted in childhood can become our defensive mechanisms in adulthood and we can often find ourselves repeating old patterns of behaviour that don't work but we don't know how to find a way to break the cycle.