Cascade Health Counseling & EAP Team
Gretchen Carmack, Registered Associate
Counselor
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Gretchen holds a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. She works primarily with children, but also enjoys working with adolescents and adults. Gretchen is experienced at using play therapy to foster healthy social-emotional development in children through exploring emotions, developing coping skills, and building resilience. Her integrative approach incorporates person-centered therapy, solution-focused therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. In her free time, she loves spending time with her family and friends, playing with her pets, reading, and road trips.
Kyra Freeburg
Counselor & Leadership Coach
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Kyra works in dual roles as both a counselor and leadership coach. After 15 years working in the tech field, Kyra completed a master’s degree in counseling, a field she's now worked in for 20 years. She believes in collaborating with her clients using a person-centered and cognitive-behavioral therapeutic approach. She helps clients to gain self-awareness and self-acceptance, and identify unhealthy old patterns of behavior that no longer serve them. Kyra enjoys working with adolescents, young adults, adults and seniors in search of more balance, healthy boundaries, and self-compassion. In counseling and coaching, she helps clients address anxiety, life transitions, depression, grief and loss, relationship struggles, communication, skill building in emotional intelligence and career development. She enjoys reading, nature walks, writing and spending time with friends exploring Oregon.
Shannon Gentry, Registered Associate
Counselor
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Pronouns: she/her
Shannon holds a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She sees couples and individuals ages 12 and up, but she says her favorite group to work with is teens and young adults ages 15 to 25. Her priority is to provide a safe space for clients to feel heard, seen, and respected. Shannon believes the client is the expert of their own life and enjoys facilitating clients’ growth and understanding of themselves and their environment. Her clinical approach incorporates elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (trauma therapy), Solution-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Feministic counseling. Shannon also recognizes the value of spirituality in healing and will work with her clients to incorporate any faith-based discussions of any religious leaning at the client's request.
Shannon works with clients experiencing a range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, ADHD, life transitions, and LGBTGEQIAP+ concerns. Shannon practices gender-affirming care and is a member of the Society for Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (SAIGE).
In her free time, she enjoys reading, playing video games, saving small towns from goblins and orcs in Dungeons & Dragons, and finding ways to try and get more pets into her house.
Lainey Gibson, QMHP
Student Intern
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Lainey is a Marriage and Family Therapy intern and qualified mental health professional who strives to create a warm, collaborative space where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered. She enjoys working with teens, young adults, couples, and families, and is especially interested in helping clients navigate anxiety, ADHD, depression, and life transitions. Lainey approaches therapy through a systemic lens, grounded in the belief that our relationships, environments, and lived experiences shape who we are. She is training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a model that emphasizes emotional connection, secure attachment, and healing through relationships.
Originally from the Oregon coast, Lainey finds grounding in time spent outdoors—whether running, hiking with her dog, or being near the ocean. She also enjoys painting, ceramics, yoga and breathwork, and brings a holistic perspective to her work with clients.
Miriam Herrmann, Registered Associate
Counselor
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Miriam holds a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She works with adults, young adults, and couples, and her clinical focus includes anxiety, depression, perinatal and postpartum concerns, ADHD, grief and loss, trauma, and relationship issues.
She seeks to provide unconditional positive regard and to hold space for each person to seek wholeness. She invites clients to explore how past relationships and unconscious patterns shape present emotions and ways of being in the world. Through this shared exploration, clients gain insight into their inner lives, cultivate greater self-understanding, and begin to engage life’s larger questions of meaning, purpose, and choice. Through compassion and deep listening, she seeks to support clients in their journey toward healing.
Outside of work, Miriam enjoys baking, swimming, time in nature, singing, and spending time with family and friends.
Susan Isaacs, LCSW
Resource Counselor
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Not accepting new clients at this time.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Susan has worked at Cascade Health Counseling & EAP since 1997. She provides guidance for conflict resolution and organizational development, as well as critical incident and grief debriefings in the workplace. She is a mediator, trainer and facilitator. For 16 years, she was the bereavement and volunteer coordinator for Cascade Health Hospice. She has extensive experience providing bereavement support and grief counseling to children, adults and groups. She visits worksites to help groups of both employees and supervisors respond to the news of a death of a colleague or family member’s diagnosis with a terminal illness.
Cayla Letasse, QMHP
Student Intern
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Pronouns: she/her/hers
Cayla is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling intern who works with adults, college students, and young adults navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, and the pressures that come with performance, achievement, and major life transitions. She supports clients who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure of who they are or where they’re headed, and takes a collaborative approach to therapy that emphasizes emotional awareness, self-trust, and self-compassion.
Cayla’s work is grounded in relational and emotion-focused approaches, with attention to attachment, boundaries, and the ways guilt and self-criticism shape how people understand themselves and others. She integrates cognitive and acceptance-based strategies to support emotional regulation and overthinking, and brings cultural and systemic awareness to identity exploration across diverse lived experiences, including adoption and LGBTQIA+ identities.
Outside of therapy, Cayla enjoys crafts, concerts, and spending time with her dog, Luigi.
Abby Moore, QMHP
Student Intern
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Abby is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern and a qualified mental health professional who works to create a collaborative and supportive experience for her clients. She enjoys working with children, teens, young adults, and adults to help them navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, Autism, and major life transitions. Abby works to support her clients who are struggling with boundaries, feeling dysregulated, and overall feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Abby utilizes a person-centered and emotionally focused approach that focuses on a collaborative experience that emphasizes self-empathy and care, healthy attachments and boundaries, as well as emotional connection. She is also training in cognitive-behavioral therapy and play therapy models, to support self-awareness and changing unhealthy thought and behavioral patterns, as well as supporting children in their socio-emotional development and self-regulation skills. Outside of working with clients, she enjoys ballroom dancing, playing piano, baking, napping with her cat, and reading.
Jennifer Moorhead, LPC, CADC
Counselor
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Available for telehealth appointments only at this time.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Jennifer is a licensed professional counselor and certified drug and alcohol counselor II, with more than 25 years of experience in these fields. She works with children, adolescents, adults and seniors individually. Her areas of expertise include depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, intellectual and developmental disabilities, trauma, grief and traumatic brain injuries. Jennifer’s therapeutic approaches include cognitive behavioral therapy and systems therapy. She has a master’s degree in counseling and educational psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy from the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her undergraduate degree in behavioral health and science from the University of Utah. Jennifer has always made spending time outdoors a priority. When not working with clients, she enjoys playing with her family and animals, birdwatching, hiking, playing board games and reading.
Christina Pecue, QHMA, CADC1
EAP Training Coordinator
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Pronouns: she/her/hers
Christina brings over a decade of experience supporting individuals and groups in mental health, recovery, and workplace settings. She began facilitating community support groups in 2011 and has since built a practical, real-world approach to helping people navigate stress, change, and difficult situations.
Her background includes leading crisis response and debriefing efforts, facilitating workplace trainings, and supporting teams through high-stress and critical incidents. Christina has also worked in substance use recovery as a CADC, bringing a grounded understanding of behavior change, motivation, and the realities people face in maintaining recovery.
In her current role as an EAP Training Coordinator, she develops and delivers workplace trainings focused on mental health, communication, stress, and resilience, and coordinates services to meet organizational needs. Her style is direct, practical, and focused on helping people understand what’s actually happening in the moment and how to respond in a way that works.
Outside of work, Christina enjoys creating art, reading, spending time with family and her cat, being in nature.
Sarah Jane Petersen, LCSW
Counselor
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Sarah Jane has worked as a clinical social worker since graduating with her master’s degree in social work in 1994, minus the few years she stayed at home to parent her young twin daughters. While her girls were at South Eugene High School, Sarah volunteered in the Career Center as a college and career counselor for 4 years. She has extensive experience working with end-of-life issues in palliative care and hospice. Sarah Jane enjoys working with teenagers, young adults, and adults facing life transitions, including people who identify as Queer (LGTBQIA+). She uses a client centered, trauma informed, strengths-based approach to help people discover more about themselves, create healthy boundaries and develop self-compassion. She also facilitates a cancer support group. She is trained in Hakomi mindful somatic psychotherapy, these principles of loving presence and mind-body holism inform her counseling work. In her free time, Sarah Jane enjoys reading, dancing, yoga, camping and exploring the beauty of Oregon.
Wendy Popp, Registered Associate
Counselor
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Wendy holds a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Wendy strives to provide a warm and welcoming environment where clients feel inspired to share about their current and past experiences. Using person-centered and cognitive-behavioral therapies, she helps client gain insight and empowerment in discovering their best self in an environment emphasizing empathy and positive regard. Wendy works with adolescents, adults, families and first responders. Her clinical focus includes anxiety, depression, trauma, grief/loss, self-harm, mindfulness, relationship, and family issues. During her spare time, Wendy enjoys hanging out with her family, especially her grandkids.