Services

What IHelp With

Children, teens, adults, seniors, couples and families. In person at the Eugene office or by telehealth anywhere in Oregon. Weekend appointments available.

Before You Start

What a First Session Looks Like

Mostly listening. I will ask what brought you in, what you have already tried and what you would like to be different. You are not expected to arrive with the right words for it.

Whichever area below fits, the shape of the work is the same: your pace, your priorities, and an approach chosen with you rather than off a shelf.

Focused Pages

Focused Pages, by Question

Autism Therapy for Adults

You have probably spent a long time managing yourself so other people stay comfortable. That is the thing we start with.

Autism Therapy for Children

I work with children as young as four. At that age the work happens on the floor, with toys, and with you in the room more often than not.

Autism Therapy for Teens

Adolescence asks an autistic teenager to do the hardest social work of their life, on someone else's schedule, in a building designed for noise.

ADHD Therapy for Adults

You are not disorganized because you never tried. You have probably tried harder than most people you know, at things they never had to think about.

ADHD Therapy for Children

By the time most families call, the child already has a reputation. Undoing that is part of the work.

ADHD Therapy for Teens

Middle and high school hand a teenager with ADHD six teachers, seven deadlines and one planner, and then call the result a motivation problem.

Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy

Affirming is a word that has been put on a lot of websites. Here is what it means once the door is closed.

Autistic Burnout Therapy

The skills that used to be automatic stop working. That is the part that frightens people most, and it is the part I want you to know about first.

Late-Diagnosed Autism and ADHD

Something explained forty years in an afternoon. Now you have to decide what to do with everything that came before it.

Affirming Therapy and ABA: How My Work Differs

If you are researching this, you are probably deciding something for your child or for yourself. Here is a straight answer rather than an argument.

Therapy for Children After Abuse or Neglect

Nothing happens fast here. A child who has been hurt does not owe anyone their story, and a room that demands one is not a safe room.

Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse

A lot of people arrive here decades late, apologizing for taking up space with something old. It is not old to your nervous system.

Co-Parenting Support

Two households, one child. You do not have to like each other for this to work. You have to become predictable to your kid.

Therapy During Divorce and Separation

Divorce is an administrative process wrapped around a grief nobody scheduled. Most people are managing both on the same Tuesday.

Parenting Support and Coaching

Every behavior your child is showing you is an active communication. Their little bodies can't always have the words. So when they're behaving some way, they're telling you something. Now it's your turn to figure out what that is.

Reunification and Co-Parenting Support

Rebuilding a relationship between a child and a parent after a stretch of time apart, at the pace the child sets, with both households prepared for what that actually asks of them.

Foster Parent Support

Support for the person doing the caring. I have been a foster parent, and I know that the household holding a placement usually has nowhere to put any of it down.

Autism Assessment in Eugene, Oregon: What I Do and Don't Provide

If you came here looking for an autism evaluation, I want to answer that in the first sentence rather than the last: I do not provide one.

ADHD Testing in Eugene, Oregon: What I Do and Don't Provide

I do not test for ADHD and I do not diagnose it. Here is what I would tell you on the phone, written down so you do not have to make the call to find out.

Good to Know

Scope of Practice

I do not treat personality disorders. If that is what you are looking for, I will say so early and help you look elsewhere.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon and work only with people located in Oregon. Private pay only; superbills are provided for out-of-network reimbursement.

Start with a free 30-minute call