Elaine Korngold, LPC

My name is Elaine Korngold and I counsel individual adults and couples online and in-person in my private practice, Ask Counseling LLC, in Oregon. I help people process complex emotions, build resilience, and adopt new behaviors as they deal with issues related to: 

• Existential, developmental, or other Trauma and Acute Traumatic Stress,
• ADHD, Autism, Neurodiversity – support options include psychotherapy and ADHD and Autism assessments;
• Relationship struggles for newer couples or for those married or together for a long time, 
• Finances for individuals or for premarital or married couples,
• Career, 
• Life transitions, including parenting, grief and loss, or immigration adjustments.

For individual adults, I integrate Brainspotting therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy / Parts Work in my practice to treat a wide variety of conditions including anxiety, depression, neurodiversity, ADHD and Autism-related issues, phobias, chronic pain, PTSD and complex trauma, low self-esteem, money and career struggles, or relationship challenges.

For monogamous heterosexual, neurodiverse, and gay and lesbian couples, I integrate the following approaches:

• Gottman Method Couples therapy. Gottman Method Couples therapy is evidence-based not only for heterosexual couples, but also for gay and lesbian couples, offering successful results in improving relationship satisfaction. Gottman Method includes a unique and comprehensive in-depth, clinical assessment of the couple’s relationship focused on identifying healthy and unhealthy friendship, intimacy, and conflict patterns, making it ideal for deep therapeutic work. I am also one of the few clinicians authorized to offer Gottman Love Lab analysis to couples to help identify and repair complex relationship challenges between partners in real time.
• IFS Couples Therapy, known as Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) therapy based on parts work helps heal deep emotional hurts that are triggered in intimate relationships.
• Neurodiverse or mixed neurology couples learn new skills by practicing tools from my Neurodiverse Couples Counseling Certification that improve the quality of their relationship and their communication.
• Premarital or married couples needing Financial Therapy practice engaging in difficult money conversation while managing conflict in healthy ways.
• Prepare/Enrich is an assessment used primarily for premarital, engaged, or married couples looking for structured, skill-building feedback. It covers communication, conflict resolution, finances, sexual expectations, spiritual beliefs, and family/friends relationships, and includes personality profiles and custom questions based on life stages.

By focusing on each person’s and each couple’s unique strengths, we develop practical, creative, and immediate solutions, and build self-reliance and confidence. In sessions, I incorporate body awareness, grounding, and self-care.

Making a life change is not trivial at any age, and you may wonder if it is even possible. Fortunately, according to neuroscience, our brains have the capacity to learn, grow, and change in every stage of life, and in that, there is hope. You can teach an old dog new tricks!

In our initial sessions together we will develop your unique, clear, and measurable treatment plan that includes your personal goals, the behaviors you want to change, the negative beliefs that hold you back, and the difficult past events and traumas that you want to overcome. As we proceed with treatment, we will track and re-assess these periodically, until your objectives are met and your therapeutic journey is complete. You will always know where you are in the treatment process.

In a space free of shame and judgment, we can address your life, work, money, or relationship issues, with psychotherapy customized for your individual needs. At Ask Counseling, you can ask Elaine Korngold anything! I look forward to working with you.