About Elisa
Elisa Doebler-Irvine is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 28 years of clinical experience. She practices in Oregon and offers care to adults navigating stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her background includes work in outpatient settings, residential treatment, forensic assessment, consulting, and university teaching.
She holds a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Lewis & Clark College and a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from Kansas State University.
Background and approach
Elisa also completed a two-year post-graduate program in Clinical Human Sexuality at the Menninger Clinic. Those studies inform how she looks at both individuals and their close relationships. Her style is collaborative and respectful.
She takes a client-centered stance while drawing on psychodynamic ideas and cognitive-behavioral tools depending on what a person needs in the moment. Sessions tend to focus on clarifying what keeps a problem going and finding alternatives that actually work long term.
She pays attention to the systems around a person - family, social life, and culture - and how those systems shape feelings and behavior. She also uses positive psychology ideas to help people build small habits that increase day-to-day well-being and resilience.
Elisa has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma, addiction, parenting stress, eating and body image issues, grief, intimacy problems, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her approach aims to reduce distress while helping people find more satisfying ways of living.
Approach and online options for counseling
Elisa uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy as core tools in online sessions. Client-centered work means the conversation follows the person's concerns and values, helping them feel heard and guiding decisions that fit their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on practical skills - changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors - which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.She also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship-focused work when needed, offering clear exercises and communication techniques to help partners handle conflict and rebuild connection. Together with the client, she will choose which approaches fit best based on goals, personality, and the issues at hand. That choice is collaborative and may shift as progress happens.
Online therapy offers options that fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option and may suit shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for frequent brief support or for people who prefer writing as a way to process. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still working on anxiety, relationships, and life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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