Welcome to
Willamette Valley Family Center

Dr. Eric Bergreen has created a safe, secure and private space for patients to visit, talk about and figure out their thoughts and concerns. From daily life issues to enhancing psychological performance, even just a confidence boost, he is a trusted advisor and an experienced practitioner who really cares about his clients.

Dr. Bergreen uses theories and techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Psychology, Positive Psychology, and Performance Psychology to help individuals reach their therapeutic goals. He believes it’s important to keep focused on what you want in life (positive) rather than what you don’t want (negative). The result is improved confidence and new ways of thinking that lead to an improved quality of life.

“We all have challenges in life, whether it be managing our moods, dealing with stress and anxiety, or improving our relationships. The trick is understanding how our thinking is holding us back from being our best version of ourselves. Thinking Differently = Doing Differently.”

Dr. Bergreen’s work with private clients, inpatient care, professional athletes, and military soldiers has taught him how important a collaborative, supportive working relationship is to the therapeutic process. With a jovial personality and an analytic focus, his sessions are a great space to relax, get a plan and act on ways to improve your life. A winning combination is trust, motivation, and the willingness to try.

Dr. Bergreen specializes in sport/performance consulting for athletes, students, and business professionals. He works with children (ages 14 and older), adults, and couples.

Dr. Chien is a licensed psychologist who specializes in working with children, adolescents, and their families. She offers a goal-centered, collaborative approach to therapy, using your child’s unique strengths and needs to identify challenges and develop skills to meet them. She provides a safe environment where both you and your child will be heard and supported, while giving caring, honest feedback to help you explore issues, reduce conflict and problematic behaviors, and increase happiness for both you and your family.

Dr. Chien has extensive training in several evidence-based treatments, including Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and Functional Family Therapy. As a trained School Psychologist, she also understands the challenges parents and their children face within the school system. Dr. Chien uses this experience to craft personalized care for school concerns. She works closely with parents, providing coaching and family support.

“We all have challenges in life, whether it be managing our moods, dealing with stress and anxiety, or improving our relationships. The trick is understanding how our thinking is holding us back from being our best version of ourselves. Thinking Differently = Doing Differently.”

Compassionate care can create a profound and lasting positive impact, no matter how challenging the circumstance. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or to learn more about my work with clients.

Dr. Cooley is a licensed clinical psychologist. His practice is split between providing general clinical services and providing evaluation and consultation services for clients involved in the legal system and their attorneys. He provides evaluation and consultation in the following areas: aid and assist issues; criminal responsibility; dangerous offender; future dangerousness; extreme emotional disturbance; parenting capacity; and death penalty mitigation.

Dr. Deshler is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been offering psychological counseling for individuals, couples, children and families for more than 20 years. If circumstances in your life or the lives of someone you know are causing you to consider talking with a therapist and you have questions about how psychotherapy can be helpful please explore Dr. Deshler’s web site:

http://www.safeplacetotalk.com

In addition to providing general clinical services for individuals, couples and families. Dr. Deshler has special interests in parent training, divorce issues and blended families.

If you are considering scheduling an appointment to see Dr. Deshler, and want to briefly talk with him before you come in, then please contact the office support staff and they will take down your name and number so that he can contact you.

“I create a comfortable environment in my office where people feel safe to share. It is my belief that each of us is unique in our histories and in the strengths that we bring to a situation. Part of the experience of therapy is to identify the strengths and successes we have had in our lives and to discover how these things can impact the current concerns we are facing.”

Dr. Dykstra is a licensed clinical psychologist with experience treating a broad range of clients, and has taught graduate clinical psychology. She works with adolescents, adults and couples. She has had advanced training in faith or religious issues and diversity issues.

Dr. Farley provides general psychiatry and medications management with adults. He provides consultation to physicians and to our psychology staff.

Since 1995, I’ve provided outpatient psychotherapy at Willamette Valley Family Center, LLC. As a licensed psychologist, I utilize a variety of evidence based treatment approaches, including behavioral, cognitive behavioral, social learning, interpersonal, family systems, solution focused, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. I tend to take a very practical approach to therapy and emphasize one’s own personal responsibility in the healing process.

work with children, adolescents, families, adults, couples, and older adults in helping each person regain effective life functioning. Treatment begins with an assessment of your current life functioning, what is working in your life and what isn’t. We want to build on your strengths while providing new tools and skills for areas of concern. Together, we will design a plan of treatment that creates the motivational, mental, emotional, behavioral, and psychological changes which you want for your life.

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Dr. White was born and raised in Massachusetts, where she attended Gordon College and received a B.A. in Psychology. She moved to Pasadena, Ca. to attend Fuller Theological Seminary, and received her Ph.D in clinical psychology and M.A. in theology. She received specialized training in work with older adults, caregivers, victim of trauma and visually impaired persons. She was instrumental in the development of an elder abuse intervention program in Pasadena and served as Assistant Director of The Center for Aging Resources, a clinic that comprised five programs for older adults across a continuum of care.

In 1991 Dr. White moved to Oregon and joined Willamette Valley Family Center in 1992. Since that time she has provided general adult and older adult clinical services to both women and men. Her clients deal with a variety of issues including anxiety, depression, victimization/trauma, caregiver stress, adaptation to chronic illness or disability, grief/loss, faith issues and life transitions.