Help with Mental Health through Counseling and Therapy
Whether you’ve experienced a loss, want to develop a closer relationship with your partner or would like to explore personal growth opportunities, our mission is to help you live the happiest, healthiest life possible.
Contact us today to schedule an appointment or be matched with a counselor who can help you start your journey toward great self-fulfillment.
How Counseling Can Improve Your Quality of Life
We all experience difficult situations, feelings, relationships and thoughts. An important part of moving forward and continuing to grow despite these difficulties is learning healthy habits and coping skills.
Cascade Health Counseling can help you examine the factors contributing to your difficulties, identify what you have the power to improve and develop a plan to make the changes you want to see. For instance, we can help you:
✅ Identify negative thinking patterns or self-talk that make you feel bad and learn ways to interrupt and redirect your thoughts.
✅ Look at habits that aren’t serving you well and make healthy changes.
✅ Learn to accept yourself and recognize your strengths to improve your self-confidence.
✅ Improve your communication skills.
✅ Manage stress in healthy ways and become more mindful.
✅ Improve problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
✅ Deepen your relationships.
✅ Address a specific concern or condition such as depression, anxiety, addiction or anger management.
Types of Counseling Services
Cascade Health offers the following supportive, solution-focused counseling services:
Individual counseling to address a wide range of issues, concerns, mental health conditions and growth opportunities. These may include working with you through life transitions, grief and loss, depression or anxiety, a serious illness, goal setting and motivation, autism, elder issues, parenting and more.
Individual Counseling
Marriage and couples counseling to help you better understand and communicate with each other, resolve issues respectfully and work toward a deeper, more satisfying connection.
Marriage and Couples Counseling
Child and family counseling to work on behavioral issues, develop healthy boundaries and routines, decrease sibling conflict, navigate developmental changes, address diagnoses such as ADHD, autism and fetal alcohol syndrome and better connect with each other.
Child and Family Counseling
Addiction and Substance Abuse Counseling
Addiction and substance abuse counseling to help you explore unhealthy behaviors, develop a plan for treatment and support you in your recovery. This type of counseling is appropriate for substance abuse issues, problem gambling, disordered eating and other behavioral issues negatively affecting your life.
Life and leadership coaching to help you identify your values and self-purpose, set and focus on your goals, create a plan to achieve them and take incremental action toward greater self-fulfillment in your life, health or work.
Life and Leadership Coaching
We also provide workplace services to help improve the work environment and strengthen teams. These services include conflict resolution, supervisor consultations, team building sessions, individual counseling, leadership skill building and critical incident debriefing. To explore workplace options, please visit our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) page.
When to Consider Counseling
There are countless reasons you may wish to see a counselor or coach. Some are obvious, like getting help when you’re depressed or have lost someone you love. But you may also wish to enlist the help of a counselor when you just haven’t felt like yourself for a while. It can be helpful to have someone listen without judgment and help you come up with a plan, no matter what’s bothering you.
While there’s no right or wrong reason to see a counselor, here are a few examples that may help you decide if it’s the right time for you:
You are dealing with significant life events such as moving, marriage, becoming a parent or experiencing a loss.
You experienced a trauma and would like help processing it in healthy ways.
You have an illness or injury with which you’re having a difficult time coming to terms.
You are feeling anxious or are having intrusive thoughts.
You have lost interest in things that you used to enjoy or feel yourself withdrawing from other people.
You are having a difficult time regulating your emotions, such as anger, resentment or sadness and find yourself lashing out at others or crying uncontrollably.
You feel fatigued, even though you may be sleeping more than usual.
You feel stressed or overwhelmed.
You feel hopeless or unmotivated.
You are coping with uncomfortable emotions or situations in unhealthy ways, such as drinking or self-medicating.
You want to improve your relationships.
You want to overcome obstacles like perfectionism or lack of motivation to reach your goals.
You don’t feel as happy or satisfied as you think you should — or could — be.
FACT: Counseling helps you learn how to deal with parts of life that aren’t easy in healthy ways. Wanting to improve your life and grow doesn’t mean you’re crazy or weak — it means you have the strength and maturity to recognize that you want better for yourself.
Misconceptions About Counseling
People who go to counseling are crazy or weak.
Everyone will know I’m seeing a counselor and think there’s something wrong with me.
FACT: Like medical care, counseling is completely confidential, and your information will not be shared with anyone unless you authorize it. If you access counseling through your company’s EAP program, your information will not be shared with your employer — they will not even know you saw us.
My problems are really embarrassing, and I don’t think I can share them with anyone.
FACT: Our counselors have years of education, training and experience working with people from all walks of life with all manner of problems. Counseling is a safe space and your counselor will not judge you. We are here to validate and help guide you through difficult feelings.
I just want to work on one situation, but counselors always pry into things I don’t want to talk about.
FACT: Your counselor will not pressure you to talk about anything you don’t want to. If you are ever uncomfortable with your counselor’s questions or feel overwhelmed, you can ask them to stop, and they will listen. It is up to you how much you want to share. When you are ready, your therapist is there to listen without judgment.
My problems aren’t that big of a deal. I should just deal with it myself.
FACT: No matter how big or small your concerns, they’re yours and they’re valid. Our counselors will listen non-judgmentally and help you work through whatever is bothering you.
✅ Medicare
✅ Medicaid/Oregon Health Plan
✅ First Choice Health Network
✅ Health Net
✅ HMA
✅ Moda
✅ PacificSource
✅ Providence
✅ Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield
✅ United Behavioral Health
Insurance for Counseling
Cascade Health Counseling accepts insurance plans from the following companies:
If your organization offers EAP benefits through Cascade Health, you and each qualifying member of your household may be able to access 3 to 6 solution-focused counseling sessions per issue per year. Your employer will never be made aware that you have contacted us.
If you do not have insurance, we offer discounted self-pay rates and other options for reducing the cost of getting the support you need
If you are interested in self-pay or would like help verifying your insurance coverage or EAP benefits, please contact us at (541) 345-2800.
How to Schedule a Counseling Appointment
To schedule an appointment, or if you think you might benefit from counseling but are unsure, please contact us. We are here to answer your questions and empower you to decide if you’re ready to move forward.
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Cascade Health cares for people in Lane County, Oregon, including Eugene, Springfield, Cottage Grove, Junction City, Creswell, Monroe, Veneta, Noti, Blue River, McKenzie Highway, Harrisburg, Sweet Home, Oakridge, Coburg and Lowell.
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We do not require a referral to see a counselor. However, some insurance plans may require a referral to pay claims. Please call us at (541) 345-2800 and we can help you determine if your insurance requires a referral.
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Yes. We want you to be as comfortable as possible and matching you to the right therapist is important. When you call to make an appointment, please share your preference with the scheduler.
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Yes, unless you and your counselor decide that another staff member may be better suited to help you.
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You should feel comfortable and satisfied with your counselor. If you are not, please contact the receptionist to discuss your options. Your care may be transferred to another counselor in our office, or we can make a referral to another practice.
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People choose to stay in counseling for different lengths of time. You may come with a finite problem you want help working through and attend a few sessions, or you may spend a much longer time working through trauma or depression. Some people come to address a specific issue but continue to attend periodically over the years as a “mental health check.” In short, it is up to you how long you continue counseling.
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Yes, you may. We are happy to check your insurance benefits to see if your counselor is covered by your plan. If they are not, you may continue seeing your counselor on a self-pay basis.