The Northwest Catholic Counseling Center

Lutheran Community Services Northwest is a nonprofit human services agency that serves several communities throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. It provides a variety of services to adults, adolescents, children, families, schools, businesses and congregations. The agency specializes in mental health counseling, crisis intervention, foster care, transitional housing, alcohol treatment, violence prevention and adoption services. It also provides English language assistance and other educational and recreational activities to youth. Additionally, the agency offers case management and coordination services for refugees. It conducts orientation classes in schools, banks and clinics. Lutheran Community Services Northwest, with a location in Portland, Ore., also organizes cycling events, dinners, champagne galas and other fundraising events.

SpecialtiesAre you feeling overwhelmed with issues happening in your life and need a caring, emphatic counselor to help you through them? Would you like to have a counselor with 27-1/2 years of experience who has had excellent results with the clients she has had the pleasure of helping? If so, I will be delighted to help you to determine what you need to do to resolve those issues with effective, evidenced-based strategies. I counsel adolescents, teenagers, couples, individuals, and families. I specialize in helping couples, teenagers, blended families and have advanced training in structural family therapy. I work with a broad range of issues that include depression, anxiety, anger, domestic violence, broken relationships, divorce and utilize EMDR (which is counseling that desensitizes traumas and reprograms the memory to a more favorable response), bipolar disorder and substance abuse. If you are looking for a Christian counselor, I am the one for you, however, this will not be imposed u