Wayne Hoagland , LPC

Wayne Hoagland is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon with 12 years of clinical experience. He practices from a trauma-informed perspective and integrates somatic methods, focused mindfulness, and self-inquiry to support people who are seeking meaning and greater freedom in their lives.

He works with a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas of focus include abandonment, body image, control issues, dissociation, feelings of emptiness, forgiveness, guilt and shame, hospice and end-of-life counseling, life purpose, obsessions and compulsions including OCD, panic disorder and panic attacks, paranoia, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia.

His clinical style draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), client-centered and existential approaches, mindfulness therapy, somatic and trauma-focused techniques, and Internal Family Systems. He aims to meet people where they are and to proceed one step at a time using gentle inquiry and present-moment tools. He works with international clients but is not currently accepting new clients.

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