Welcome
Awaken Counseling, PLLC serves individuals and families across Oregon, Washington, and New Jersey, providing thoughtful, compassionate therapy rooted in evidence-based care. Founded in 2013, the practice was created with a clear mission: to offer the kind of care that feels grounded, supportive, and genuinely helpful. Therapy at Awaken Counseling is designed to help patients better understand themselves, navigate life’s challenges, and create meaningful, lasting change in a way that feels practical and empowering.
A Philosophy Centered on Compassion and Clarity
At the heart of Awaken Counseling is a commitment to providing therapy that is both human and clinically sound. Care is delivered with warmth, respect, and intention, while remaining focused on clarity and forward movement. Therapy is not about quick fixes, but about building insight, emotional awareness, and practical tools that patients can use in everyday life. This balanced approach helps therapy feel supportive without becoming overwhelming or abstract.
Rochelle’s Areas of Focus
Rochelle works with patients who are seeking deeper self-understanding and emotional growth. Her work often supports individuals experiencing anxiety, difficulty identifying and translating emotions into action, and major life transitions. She also provides care for patients navigating infertility, financial stress, premarital concerns, self-exploration, and family attachment wounds. Her approach emphasizes helping patients connect insight with action so that therapy leads to meaningful progress rather than remaining purely reflective.
Ebonie's Areas of Focus
Ebonie works with individuals navigating anxiety, panic symptoms, depression, and other mood-related challenges, helping them better understand and manage overwhelming emotions. She also supports clients through grief and loss, creating space for healing while honoring each person’s unique experience. Ebonie has a strong focus on building self-esteem and exploring identity, helping clients develop a more confident and authentic sense of self. She is experienced in working with substance use and recovery, as well as trauma using EMDR, and takes a thoughtful, client-centered approach to these areas. In addition, Ebonie enjoys working with teens, providing age-appropriate support to help them navigate emotional, social, and developmental challenges.
Dr. Williams' Areas of Focus
Dr. Williams works with individuals navigating trauma and PTSD, as well as depression, anxiety, and other mood-related challenges, helping clients process difficult experiences and build effective coping strategies. She also supports those facing life transitions and ongoing stress, guiding them toward greater clarity, resilience, and emotional balance. In her work with relationship and couples concerns, Dr. Williams helps clients improve communication, strengthen connection, and healthily navigate conflict. She has extensive experience treating substance use and co-occurring disorders, providing integrated, compassionate care that addresses the full picture of each client’s needs. Lastly, Dr. Williams has access to and experience with a wide range of mood, substance use, and personality assessments for diagnostic support.
Therapy That Supports Real Change
Awaken Counseling strives to offer therapy that feels clear, practical, and emotionally supportive. Sessions are guided by evidence-based practices while remaining flexible to each patient’s unique needs. Therapy is viewed as a collaborative process, helping patients make sense of their experiences and develop tools that support healthier relationships, improved emotional regulation, and greater self-awareness over time.
Beginning the Therapeutic Journey
Whether navigating anxiety, relationship concerns, addiction, or life transitions, therapy at Awaken Counseling is designed to meet patients where they are. Care is provided with the belief that meaningful change is possible when insight and compassion work together.
Patients seeking thoughtful, evidence-based therapy are encouraged to schedule an appointment with Awaken Counseling, PLLC serving Oregon, Washington, and New Jersey. To begin the process and explore supportive, practical care, an appointment can be made by calling 503-410-3048.
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