The people you would actually be working with

David founded The Psychotherapy Associates of Oregon and runs it. He is the clinical supervisor for its Professional Counselor Associate, and provides internal supervision to its Marriage and Family Therapist Associate, whose licensure supervision sits with an outside supervisor. He brings twenty years in behavioral health, fifteen of them as a credentialed counselor, in roles including crisis counselor, treatment program counselor, program director, clinical supervisor, operations director, trainer, consultant, and adjunct professor at graduate and undergraduate level.

His three credentials are worth reading separately, because between them they cover the work this practice does not refer out.

• CGAC II is a Certified Gambling Addiction Counselor at the second level. Very few clinicians in Oregon hold it. It is why the gambling work here is a specialism rather than something taken on.
• CADC III is the top tier of Oregon’s alcohol and drug counselor certification.
• LPC is his Licensed Professional Counselor license, and it is the one that covers everything else: EMDR for trauma and moral injury, Gottman-informed couples work, and the emotional and relational side of brain injury, stroke and other health crises.

“Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship issues, or the effects of trauma?”

Cynthia works from a warm, collaborative starting point, with a focus on psychological flexibility, trauma recovery, and living according to your own values rather than someone else’s. She holds a BA in psychology from Chestnut Hill College and an MA in clinical mental health counseling from American International College, and trained in a nonprofit setting with adults carrying complex trauma.