Turning Tides Counseling
Contact UsCompassionate, welcoming multi-dimensional assistance for individuals, couples/relationships, addictions, family. Video and outdoor options including Willamette River nature setting. 20+ yrs experience, evidence-based and proven outcomes. Assists relationship challenges, creating boundaries, trauma, loss, isolation, stress, addictions, depression, anger, anxiety, life transitions, ecotherapy. LGBTQIA+ affirming, experience/care, social justice cert. Group offerings, referrals. Specialties include addictions, relationship, wellness, PTSD, DBT, EFT, IFS, trauma/EMDR, boundary-setting, socialization. Nature-based options include kayak counseling, wilderness, and climate presentations.
Evidence-based mental health trauma-informed, community aware, level II Gottman relationship certification, wellness instructor, addictions counseling license, social justice credentialed, culturally immersed, expert with Eugene area resources/services. Video appointments available by FaceTime, Skype, and Zoom. Nature appointments within Eugene city limits in lake, river, and wilderness settings.
Strength-based, motivational, DBT, behavioral, cognitive, mindful skills that can include cultural, social, spiritual, and/or family focus. Kind, attentive listening with gentle but assured guidance as we build deeper awareness and a spectrum of internal and external resources. EFT, socialization/relational, dialectical, and somatic techniques taught.
What Is Ecotherapy?
Ecotherapy is another name for nature therapy. Moreover, ecotherapy is sometimes referred to as green therapy. Mental health experts, including counselor Howard Clinebell and psychologist Theodore Roszak, developed this approach. Hence, ecotherapy applies the health benefits of nature to ease anxiety, stress, and depression. These nature-based interventions are sometimes combined with clinical modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
A growing body of research validates that healing with nature works. For example, participants engaged in one of three activities. One group walked in an urban area. Another group walked in a nature preserve. And a third group sat quietly while listening to music or reading.
Subsequently, researchers assessed their mood. Therefore, they found that the participants who walked in the nature preserve reported less anger and more positive emotions than either of the other groups. Another study, conducted at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, found that taking a walk in nature reduced depression scores in 71 percent of participants.
Specialties:
Addiction
ADHD
Alcohol Use
Anger Management
Antisocial Personality
Anxiety
Behavioral Issues
Bipolar Disorder
Bisexual
Borderline Personality (BPD)
Child
Chronic Illness
Chronic Impulsivity
Chronic Pain
Chronic Relapse
Codependency
Coping Skills
Depression
Dissociative Disorders (DID)
Divorce
Domestic Abuse
Domestic Violence
Drug Abuse
Dual Diagnosis
Eating Disorders
Elderly Persons Disorders
Emotional Disturbance
Family Conflict
Gambling
Grief
Hoarding
Impulse Control Disorders
Infertility
Infidelity
Internet Addiction
Lesbian
LGBTQ+
Life Coaching
Life Transitions
Marital and Premarital
Medication Management
Men’s Issues
Mood Disorders
Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
Peer Relationships
Personality Disorders
Psychosis
Racial Identity
Self Esteem
Self-Harming
Sex Therapy
Sexual Abuse
Sexual Addiction
Sleep or Insomnia
social justice certified, community resources
Spirituality
Stress
Suicidal Ideation
Teen Violence
Thinking Disorders
Transgender
Video Game Addiction
Weight Loss
Women’s Issues
Age
Adults
Elders (65+)
Participants
Couples
Family
Communities
Bisexual Allied
Body Positivity
Cancer
Gay Allied
HIV / AIDS Allied
Lesbian Allied
Non-Binary Allied
Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
Queer Allied
Racial Justice Allied
Transgender Allied
Veterans
Contact Information:
Mike Meyer. LCSW, CADC I, QMHP, SJS. 541-222-0632. meyercounseling@gmail.com
Jill Leffingwell. LCSW 541-654-7733. Leffingwellcounseling@gmail.com
Rates:
Individual therapy: Many insurances accepted, Medicaid, Cigna, Medicare, United Healthcare, and some forms of Medicaid are not available to accept. Cash sliding scale, $50 to $120, 55 minute sessions.
Kayak Counseling: Cash only, $165 per 60 minute session on the lake. Deposit and counseling agreement forms requested before appointment.
Workshops: Climate Change and Mental Health. $200-450 sliding scale for 2 hours plus any transportation costs. Am available to offer workshops to benefit select non-profits.