COUNSELING FOR KIDS, TEENS, ADULTS AND COUPLES
Support for Every Age
& Phase of Life
Get connected with the right therapist for your needs
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
Supporting Portland’s wellbeing — from toddlers to later adulthood.
At Oak Hills Counseling Center, we are committed to ensuring clients of all ages have access to skilled clinicians both in person or virtually online. We help you connect with clinicians who offer a wide range of therapy services to support children, teens, adults, couples, groups, and families. Whether you’re just starting out or well into your nineties, we’re honored to be part of your journey and to serve our Portland community with heart.
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Some of the Challenges Our Clinicians Help You Manage
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Anxiety is something many people experience—it can include things like constant worry, a racing mind, or tension in the body that just won’t ease up. Over time, it can make everyday life feel overwhelming and exhausting.
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Depression can feel like carrying an invisible weight—draining energy, clouding perspective, and making it hard to feel connected or hopeful. It often affects sleep, appetite, focus, and motivation, leaving even the simplest tasks feeling daunting.
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ADHD is more than having a hard time paying attention. It can show up as forgetfulness, difficulty following through, restlessness, or feeling constantly “scattered.” Over time, these challenges can affect school or work performance, strain relationships, and chip away at confidence and self-esteem. Many people with ADHD also struggle with overwhelm, procrastination, and feeling frustrated that they’re “not reaching their potential.”
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Life has a way of throwing changes at us—some we expect, and some we don’t. Retirement, a new career path, moving to a new place, ending a relationship, or even just realizing life doesn’t feel the way you thought it would. It can leave you feeling unsettled. Transitions like these can stir up big emotions and make you question where you’re headed or who you are now.
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Substance use can start for many reasons—coping with stress, emotional pain, trauma, or simply navigating life’s pressures. Over time, it can begin to interfere with work, relationships, health, and your sense of self, leaving feelings of shame, isolation, or loss of control. Recovery is not just about stopping substance use—it’s about understanding the underlying factors, rebuilding routines, and restoring connection to yourself and others.
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Childhood trauma can leave lasting marks that show up in adulthood in ways we might not always recognize. It may affect how you relate to yourself and others, creating patterns of mistrust, self-doubt, or difficulty forming close connections. Trauma can also manifest physically—through tension, chronic stress, or heightened alertness—making it hard to feel fully at ease in your body or in your life.
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Being a teenager today can feel like you’re being pulled in a million directions at once. Maybe you feel pressure to fit in—whether it’s how you look, the clothes you wear, or even what you say and do around friends. It can feel like you’re expected to always be “on,” keep up with a busy social life, experience things like drinking, drugs, or sex—even if you’re not really sure you want to. Emotions can hit harder than they used to, and it’s not always easy to know how to deal with stress. It can often feel like you’re carrying it all alone.
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Every relationship and family faces struggles at times. Stress can build from money concerns, the pressure of life transitions, differences in values, or the weight of mental health challenges. Sometimes it’s a breakdown in communication or feeling like trust or respect has been shaken. Even parenting differences or issues like addiction can leave families and couples feeling stuck. When these pressures go unresolved, they often show up in the way people relate.
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Being neurodivergent—whether through, autism, dyslexia, or other cognitive differences—can shape how you experience the world in unique and sometimes challenging ways. While neurodivergence brings strengths like creativity, problem-solving, and deep focus, it can also create struggles with organization, social connection, emotional regulation, and navigating environments designed for neurotypical ways of thinking. These challenges can affect school, work, relationships, and self-esteem.
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Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and LGBTQIA+ individuals often face unique challenges that impact mental health and overall well-being. These can include systemic discrimination, racism, homophobia, transphobia, microaggressions, family rejection, and barriers to accessing affirming care. The weight of these experiences can contribute to stress, anxiety, depression, identity struggles, and feelings of isolation.
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Early childhood is full of growth, exploration, and big emotions. It’s normal for kiddos to test boundaries, have tantrums, or act out as they learn to navigate their feelings. However, sometimes behaviors go beyond what’s typical for a child’s age—frequent aggression, extreme difficulty following routines, or intense emotional outbursts—that can affect daily family life, social development, and early learning experiences.
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Grief is a deeply personal experience that can arise from the loss of a loved one, a relationship, a job, or even a sense of identity. It can show up as sadness, anger, guilt, confusion, or physical symptoms like fatigue and restlessness. Grief doesn’t follow a set timeline, and it can affect your relationships, daily routines, and overall sense of stability.
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Bipolar disorders sometimes feels like living on an emotional rollercoaster—shifts in mood, energy, and focus may feel unpredictable and disruptive. For some, this can mean intense highs with racing thoughts, impulsivity, or little need for sleep (mania or hypomania). For others, it can bring deep lows of exhaustion, hopelessness, or loss of interest in daily life. These cycles can strain relationships, affect work or school, and leave you feeling unsteady or out of control.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) develops after experiencing or witnessing overwhelming events such as combat, abuse, accidents, or disasters. Trauma overwhelms the body’s natural stress response, and with PTSD, that alarm system stays “stuck on.” The brain and body continue to react as if the danger is still happening, even long after it has passed.
How we connect
Our clinicians offer both in-person sessions at our Portland office or secure telehealth appointments you can join from home.
“Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.”
Find us
Our office is easy to access from all of
SW and NW Portland. We are conveniently
located near the freeway where Portland meets Tigard, Lake Oswego & Beaverton.
7110 SW Fir Loop, Suite 145
Tigard, Or. 97223
Hours - By Appointment
Sunday–Saturday
8am–9pm
Phone
971.245.2859