Peter Powers, PhD, Psychologist
My training and experience has prepared me for working with a wide variety of psychological conditions and life circumstances affecting children, adolescents, and adults. Early work in publically funded agencies, involvement with schools and an strong belief in the potential and strengths of children and families has narrowed my interest to those groups, though I continue to work with a small number of couples and individual adults. I have lived and worked in Eugene since the year 2000, opening a private practice here in 2001. Prior to that I worked in Washington state as a psychologist (and am still licensed in that state) for a small, semi-rural community mental health center providing services primarily to children and adolescents.
Contact & Location
Office Phone: (541) 683-5567
Fax: (541) 344-7595
After-Hours Phone: (541) 543-3269
511 EAST 12TH AVENUE
EUGENE, OR 97401-3608
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Therapy Approaches
- ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Family or Marital Therapy
- Family Systems Therapy
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness
- Psychological Testing
- Schema Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Concerns & Issues I Help With
- Academic Concerns
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit Disorder ADD/ADHD
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Compulsions
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Evaluation
- Fear
- Grief and Loss
- Insomnia
- Learning Disabilities
- Men’s Issues
- Obsessions
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD
- Panic
- Parenting
- Phobias
- Relationship Concerns
- Stress Management
- Testing and Evaluation
- Trauma (PTSD)
- Worry
My Focus
All treatments attempt to change or reduce factors presumed to underlie or control problems. My focus is first to fully understand an individual client's, family, or couples perspective/world view and then respectfully collaborate with them to process and make changes necessary to lead a more meaningful and functional life. People do the best they can and often need better skills to be more effective in the world. While clients may not have caused all of their problems they have to solve them anyway. Treatments focused on specific, measurable, indicators of change using empirically based interventions are most likely to succeed. As an invited guest of the individual, couple, or family my aim is to find ways to actively help and then to leave (end treatment) once objectives are reached. This often involves a short-term episode of care (6 to 20 weekly to every other week sessions) that can, if necessary, be followed by a longer period of maintenance (monthly or quarterly) sessions.
Groups I Work With
Assessment/Psychological Evaluations of children, adolescents, and adults to age 60 (not involving child custody or other forensic issues); Marital(couples) therapy; Individual and Family Therapy for children and adolescents; Facilitating adaptation and remediating negative consequences for children and adolescents following parental divorce; note: both parents must consent to treatment and sign an agreement excluding use of therapy records or testimony in any legal proceedings); ADD/ADHD; Defiance/Anger Problems (non-forensic); Parenting; Sleep Disorders; Autism and Developmental Disabilities
Additional Information
New client forms can be downloaded and printed (see below)
Insurance Accepted
- Aetna
- BlueCross/BlueShield
- Check with me about billing other companies.
- Coventry
- First Choice
- First Health
- LifeWise
- Medicare
- ODS
- PacificCare
- PacificSource
- Providence
- Regence
- Samaritan Health
- TRICARE
- TriWest
- United
Education
PH.D. COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGYLicenses
PhD
Psychologist
Professional Memberships
American Psychological AssociationOregon Psychological Association
Lane County Psychology AssociationLOGIST'S ASSOCIATION
Oregon Mental Health Associates
Files Available
Accessibility
Bus Line
Handicapped
Age Ranges
Adolescents
Adults
Children