Psychotherapy, Performance Coaching, Consultation & Training
I help individuals, couples, families, business professionals, and athletes identify and address what limits success in daily life, relationships, career, and athletic performance.
Debbie Bensching
LCSW ACSW MSWAC LICSW
ASCH Approved Consultant
Psychotherapy
Safe, confidential, and supportive direction to resolve challenges, address problems, and live a meaningful and satisfying life.
Performance Coaching
Build on existing strengths and clear any performance blocks to support peak performance outcomes.
Consultation & Training
For clinical guidance, individual professional development, or business operations.
Telemental health video conferencing is available in Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii. In-person sessions are available in Portland, Oregon.
We all want to be successful in life.
One of the hardest parts of achieving our goals and dreams is dealing with the obstacles that arise and affect us in our daily lives.
Through psychotherapy and performance coaching, I will help you identify and address what is limiting your success in daily life, relationships, career, and athletic performance.
It’s hard enough to admit something isn’t working, let alone ask for professional help.
I’ve organized this website to help you learn more about me and how I can help you resolve challenges, address problems, and get the most out of life by reaching your full potential.
I Have Specialized Training and Experience With…
Trauma Impacts
Healing from chronic, acute, or developmental traumatic events psychological and physical abuse, sexual assault, neglect, maltreatment, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Addiction
Substances, drugs, alcohol, smoking cessation and behavioral issues, recovery related to addictions, or impacts from a loved one who struggles with addiction.
Communication Skills
Mastering effective communication skills and having constructive ways of communicating have implications for our jobs, relationships, how our needs are met, and our satisfaction in life.
Relationships
Marriages/domestic partnerships, divorce, parent/child, family, and co-workers, codependency and Adult Child of Alcoholics (ACOA).
Anxiety, Stress, and Depression
Mood disorders (including anxiety, stress, and depression) are a group of emotional difficulties that have as their distinguishing characteristic an experience of mood, or emotional state, that is unusual for the circumstances.
Grief and Loss
Although loss is part of life, and grieving is a natural reaction to it, many people are unsure how to grieve properly or how to support a person who is grieving. There are many ways to grieve or deal with loss. What matters most is that we allow ourselves to grieve in some form.
Resources
Hypnosis Works
Hypnosis is a familiar word to many people. Hypnosis is commonly misrepresented and misunderstood. What is Hypnosis? Hypnosis Is: a state of inner absorption, concentration and heightened, focused attention. It is like using a magnifying glass to focus the...
Accurate Self-Appraisal
The foundation for how we think... about situations, about our selves in situations, about others comes from our self-appraisal because it is the lens through which we view our experiences and our self. This lens shapes our perceptions of our self and others. It...
Stress: What’s All the Fuss?
I’m stressed out… The word stress is common enough, it’s part of everyday language. In a 2006 APA survey, nearly half of respondents reported concern with the amount of stress they have in their lives. We frequently hear about stress management being important, but...