Dr. Nicole La Verne, PsyD, LPC, MAC, CADC III, ACS, CCHt
Dr. Nicole La Verne is an Organizational Leadership Psychologist, CCE Approved Clinical Supervisor, Oregon Board and ACCBO approved clinical supervisor for LPC, LMFT, CADC I,II, & III, and a licensed therapist and Transpersonal Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. Dr. La Verne specializes in helping individuals and systems achieve their greatest potential.
With over 20 years experience in the Behavioral Health and Addictions field, Dr. La Verne has the ability to recognize those areas that keep us all stuck in old behavior and systemic processes and has the ability to guide those seeking growth, whether individuals or organizations, to a better state of well-being, productivity, and performance. She also serves those seeking licensure and certification with the Oregon Board of Professional Counselors and ACCBO for addictions.
Dr. La Verne integrates complementary methodologies and techniques to offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each client. With compassion and understanding, she works with each individual and organization to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing. She has a practice in Lake Oswego, OR.
Education:
PsyD – Doctorate of Organizational Leadership
M.A. Counseling Psychology
B.A. Behavioral Health with minor in Human Resource Management
License, Certifications & Awards:
LPC, MAC, CADC III, ACS, CCHt
Additional Training:
Various additional trainings, including post-graduate training as a Certified Clinical Transpersonal Hypnotherapist, DBT, MI, sexual abuse recovery, addictions, and many more.
Professional Activities and Memberships:
Organizational Development Network
Golden Key International Honor Society
Executive Board Member for Non-Profit Organization – Current
Roxana Tripp, LPC
Roxana is a Bilingual Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Oregon. She uses a person-centered approach to therapy, listening without judgment while being encouraging and supportive. Frequently used modalities include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Exposure Therapy, and more.
She is passionate about creating a safe and warm environment while working with individuals, couples, and families from all different walks of life. Roxana looks forward to the possibility of working with you in therapy to create a personalized approach and aid with reaching your highest potential. She welcomes Spanish and English-speaking clients.
Education:
Master of Science in Psychology
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Associate in Arts in Psychology
License, Certifications & Awards:
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
Additional Training:
Various additional trainings, including post-graduate training using CBT and DBT with different age groups and backgrounds. Extensive training with goal-setting, communication skills, social skills, stress management, and relaxation techniques. Experience with co-occurring disorders and creating integrated treatment approaches.
Beth Stoner – Registered LPC Intern #R5255
Beth holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Services and a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She believes each person desires health and wholeness and has the potential to make healthy choices towards positive change. She is a registered Licensed Professional Counselor Intern in Oregon who has had experience with diverse populations. She has worked with those experiencing severe mental illness, substance abuse, behavioral issues, relationship issues, grief, trauma, and more. She utilizes a trauma-informed and person-centered approach to therapy including DBT and CBT interventions and more. She hopes to assist client’s in their self-discovery of inspiration, strengths, and individuality. Helping client’s to positively navigate the complex aspects that life offers.
Experience:
Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare
The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center
Rose Villa Retirement Center
OHSU
The Ant Farm ~ Youth Advocacy Center
Additional Training:
DBT Skills Training
First Aid, CPR, AED certified ~ American Heart Association
Child CPR, AED, infant CPR certified ~ American Heart Association
Supervisor:
Dr. Nicole La Verne, PsyD, LPC, MAC, CADC III, ACS
Heidi Purvis, M.A., NCC, Professional Counselor Registered Intern #R5245
The emotional support, mind and body connection, communication, and freedom an individual feels, and expresses, are important aspects to how meaning and purpose are experienced in life. Using an integrative mindful, trauma informed, person centered, Adlerian, REBT, CBT, and MI approach I collaborate with clients to deepen their strengths, and discover ways of emotionally connecting with themselves, others and the world. Through these non-judgmental approaches clients are encouraged to explore and create meaning socially, culturally, individually, and relationally.
Change is overwhelming and many often experience pain. Creating safety and support throughout the counseling process as clients learn about themselves and develop meaning, purpose, and emotional awareness is the underlying purpose in my therapeutic approach. Life is hard. Connecting meaning, purpose, and emotions are important pieces in developing skills and coping with life’s ups and downs.
Experience:
Heidi has 2 years of post-graduate experience working with young adults in college transition, minors in a school setting, and individuals in the community. Through these opportunities she have attained valuable experience in crisis management, and group work.
Education:
Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
License & Certification:
Continuing training toward Oregon Licensed Professional Counselor certification
First Aid and CPR Certified
Additional Training:
Collaborative Problem Solving Tier I
Emotion Focused Couples Therapy
Intro to Trauma
Suicidality, Self-Harm, and Crisis Intervention
Professional Memberships
Nationally Certified Counselor with the National Board for Certified Counselors
ACA Member
AMHCA Member
Supervisor:
Dr. Nicole La Verne, PsyD, LPC, MAC, CADC III, ACS

Linda Hampton, LMFT
Linda is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of Oregon. She has 18+ years of experience in the behavioral health care field and believes in a therapeutic relationship that promotes personal growth and goal attainment. Linda ascribes to a “Wellness Model” of therapy that emphasizes the importance of hope and strength. She sees therapy as a collaborative endeavor between client and therapist that elicits newfound perceptions, options, and resolutions.
Education:
M.A. Marriage & Family Therapy
B.A. Social Science/Psychology Concentration
License, Certifications & Awards:
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)
Candidate Supervisor – OBLPCT Supervisor Registry
Clinical Fellow of the American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT)
Additional Training:
Intersubjectivity Psychoanalysis: Live team training with David Manock, PhD, LMFT, M.Div., M.S., MFT, OBLPCT Registered Supervisor and Founder – Northwest Institute for Integrative Counseling and Training (NWIICT) Salem, OR
Professional Activities and Memberships:
American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT)
American Counseling Association (ACA)
Oregon Counseling Association (ORCA)
Monica Meyer Pankow
Monica is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of Oregon. Monica believes therapy is a collaborative process between the client(s) and therapist and believes therapy should be client directed. Monica aims to provide a safe and supportive space, free from judgement, where clients can explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Monica provides therapy through a systemic approach focusing on who the client is and how they interact with their environments. Monica also employ a strengths based approach and believes that clients have internal strengths and tools in which they can rely on. In therapy Monica tends to use the following theories and models of therapy: Solutions Focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Gottman, and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.
Education:
Master of Science in Human Development and Family Studies (Marriage and Family Therapy) – Colorado State University
Bachelors of Science in Psychology – North Dakota State University
License, Certifications & Awards:
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Additional Training:
Monica has attended various additional trainings since beginning to practice in 2009 including post graduate training using CBT, Trauma-Focused CBT, other trauma focused trainings, training in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality, training in Gottman theory, and various additional trainings in providing therapy to individuals, children, teens, adults, couples and families.
Alex Franjola, M.A, QMHP, NCC, Professional Counselor Registered Intern R5681
Healing happens in relationship. The quality of our lives is directly related to the quality of our relationships with self, others, and the larger world. When these connections or channels of communication become impacted by stress, it can profoundly affect our emotional, mental, and physical health. Emotional wellness is the process of being able to oscillate from experience to experience with integrity, growth, resilience, meaning, and connection. Effective therapy is achieved through mutual collaboration and therapeutic alliance fostered between the counselor and the individual.
I utilize evidence- and practice-based therapy techniques to assist my clients in meeting their initial treatment goals. I tailor and customize strengths-based treatment plans to align with each client’s individual needs and hopes. My approach is person-centered and integrative; incorporating psycho-education, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), trauma informed care, solution-focused therapy, family systems theory, Gottman’s couples therapy, along with narrative and expressive modalities such as art and play therapy (PCIT Informed).
I have focused on enhancing client capacity-building and self-efficacy throughout my professional career. I am bilingual (English/Spanish) and incorporate working within each individual’s respective cultural framework(s). I have developed a diverse network of mental and behavioral health providers towards enhanced community support and referrals for my clients. If I am not the right resource, I connect clients to the resources they seek; it takes a village, after all.
Education:
WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY -M.S IN CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING, 2017.
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY— B.A IN GLOBAL STUDIES AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 2010.
Professional Training
During my undergrad years, I worked in Latin America and India with several human rights organizations focusing on grassroots initiatives for vulnerable/ 1 Alexandra Franjola marginalized populations. From 2011-2014 I worked as a mental health counselor for adolescents/young adults in wilderness, rites of passage, and horticultural residential treatment programs in HI, AK, MT, NY and CT. From 2015-2018 I was a residential counselor in long- and short-term treatment programs and therapeutic boarding schools focusing on relapse prevention and mental/behavioral health. I moved to Oregon in 2018 and became the primary therapist of a short-term residential program serving youth and families involved with the juvenile legal system. Since 2019, I have worked as the primary outpatient child and family therapist for a community-based nonprofit organization.
License, Certifications & Awards:
Continuing training towards Oregon Licensed Professional Counselor Certification
– PCIT (Parent Child Interaction Therapy)
– TF-CBT (Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
– ASIST Suicide Prevention Response and Assessment.
– PMT, CPI & CPR/First Aid Certified. Former Wilderness First Aid Responder.
Additional Training:
-Level 1 training completed for: Gottman Couples counseling methods, Crisis Counseling, Sexuality and Gender Counseling, Drug & Alcohol Relapse Prevention Training, Offense Specific Counseling and Gary Landreth’s Play Therapy Non-Directive Methods.
– Extensive Rites of Passage, Wilderness and Horticultural/Eco-Therapy trainings.
Professional Activities and Memberships:
Nationally Certified Counselor with the National Board for Certified Counselors
American Horticultural Therapy Association