Meet Willa

Licensed Professional Counselor #C9732

Hi! My name is Willa. I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Oregon and the owner of Wildflower Counseling LLC.

I would love to connect to see if we could be a good fit for counseling! I offer free 15-minute phone consultations to prospective clients.

Please reach out via email for more information.

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  • Oregon State University -

    BS Psychology; Minor in Human Development and Family Sciences

    Pacific University -

    MA Applied Psychological Sciences

  • I have over four years of experience providing mental health services across a variety of clinical settings:

    • Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care

    • Intensive Outpatient /Partial Hospitalization Eating Disorder Treatment

    • Outpatient Mental Health Counseling

  • Outside of my work as a therapist, I enjoy spending time outdoors, attending live theater, and getting lost in mystery or romance novels. I love to cook, play video games, and am exploring more artistic outlets like watercolors and crochet. My partner and I are proud cat parents to three —Fern, Fig, and Clementine— who bring plenty of joy to our lives.

Areas of focus

    • I typically work with ages 13 and up, but may make exceptions when clinically appropriate.

    • The majority of my clinical experience is with individuals under 35, but I welcome clients of all ages if you think we might be a good fit.

    • Generalized Anxiety

    • Social Anxiety

    • Health Anxiety

    • Obsessive-compulsive tendencies

    • As a person who also lives with multiple chronic health conditions, I understand first hand the physical and emotional toll it can take on day to day life.

    • I have experiencing supporting individuals with IBS, Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, PCOS, Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, Hashimoto's Disease, Lupus, Diabetes Types 1 and 2, Endometriosis, Juvenile Arthritis and more.

    • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

    • Autism Spectrum

    • As a neurodivergent-identifying therapist, I understand that the traditional approach does not always work.

    • Emotional eating

    • Constant thoughts and preoccupation with food, weight, and body shape

    • Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

    • Binge Eating Disorder

    • Anorexia Nervosa

    • Ongoing struggles with negative body image and low self-esteem

    • Maladaptive perfectionism

    • Self-defeating behaviors

    • People pleasing tendencies

Clinical approach

  • I prioritize our relationship in my therapeutic approach, and consider it the strongest intervention I can offer. I empower you to lead your own healing process (and yes, I will still help you!). I create a safe space for you to explore emotions, improve self-awareness, and achieve self-actualization. Our therapist-client relationship also acts as a model for healthy interaction, focusing on empathy, genuine connection, and mutual respect.

  • Explore the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. I apply CBT interventions with a flexible and human approach.

  • Practice mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills. Increase your capacity to balance opposing ideas ("dialectics"). Build a life that you consider worth living.

  • Explore values, increase present moment awareness, and practice acceptance around your experiences. Become a curious and open-minded observer of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Identify avoidance and find more ways to commit to value based action.

  • Engage in collaborative, goal-oriented discussion around readiness for change. Be empowered to create change in your life through exploring the meaning, importance, and consequences of your actions.

Meet my team of administrative assistants

Fig

Fern

Clementine