Dean Williams, LPC, LMFT

Dean Williams is an Oregon-based Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 11 years of clinical experience. He works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and concerns tied to parenting, sleep, self-esteem, and addiction. He also lists codependency and attachment issues among his focus areas.

He takes a practical approach that mixes changing thoughts, accessing feelings, and shifting behaviors. Sessions often include learning skills from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral strategies to manage impulses and difficult moods. He also uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most to each person.

Dean offers career counseling alongside therapy. In career work he helps people clarify what’s holding them back, explore motivation, and build steps toward a meaningful career plan. That work looks at family influences, decision making, and identifying strengths that support change.

In relationship work he helps individuals set clearer boundaries and resolve recurring conflicts that drain energy. He draws on attachment-based ideas and elements of the Gottman Method to talk through patterns in emotional connection and communication.

Sessions aim to teach concrete skills so people can try new ways of relating and coping between meetings. He blends short-term techniques with longer-term reflection so clients can both manage immediate symptoms and build more reliable habits over time.

How his approaches translate to online work