About Jared
Dr. Jared Gorfinkel helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. They also support people facing relationship strains, family conflict, questions about gender and LGBT issues, and struggles with self-esteem.
Jared greets new clients with a calm, open approach so people can talk honestly about what feels hard right now. Sessions focus on understanding what brought someone here and finding small, practical steps forward. Conversations are warm and straightforward.
Background and approach
Jared listens for patterns that make daily life harder and works with each person to test new ways of responding. Jared uses a mix of talking approaches depending on the person's needs. Some sessions look at current thoughts and behaviors to reduce worry.
Other times they pay attention to long-standing relationship patterns and past experiences that still affect how someone feels today. Over seven years of clinical work in Oregon, Jared has supported people facing trauma, parenting challenges, chronic health concerns, and difficulty with intimacy or attachment. Their experience includes addressing shame, isolation, and issues tied to alternative sexual cultures such as kink and BDSM.
People who meet with Jared can expect a collaborative process. Goals are set together and adjusted as life changes. Jared identifies as non-binary and provides care in English with Oregon licensure as OR Psychologist 3476.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as an individual. The therapist reflects what is heard and helps people clarify their priorities and values, which can relieve pressure when life feels overwhelming.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep anxiety and mood problems going. Sessions often include practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and build better habits.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jared will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then adapt methods over time. That way the plan grows from what actually helps rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are good for full conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging let people send updates or get support between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy days and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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