About Jaye
Jaye Bahre is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience in mental health. She brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship challenges. Jaye centers the conversation on each person's goals and strengths.
Before becoming a counselor, she spent years listening to people in fast-paced jobs and raising three children. That background shaped how she connects with others and values real-life solutions.
Background and approach
Jaye moved into mental health work in 2005 and has worked across forensic and community settings in the Pacific Northwest. Her style is client-centered and mindfulness-based. She teaches skills, uses journaling, and practices exercises aimed at coping and distress tolerance.
Jaye describes her role as part teacher and part guide, helping people learn tools they can use outside of sessions. Jaye works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, bipolar and ADHD challenges, intimacy and sexual culture topics, and communication or control issues. She also supports people navigating identity and LGBT-related concerns.
Sessions are collaborative; she helps clients set clear goals and then coaches toward them. Her background includes group work and years in forensic mental health, followed by community health roles in Oregon and surrounding areas. Outside of work she enjoys outdoor adventures with her wife, mushroom growing, art projects, and caring for a dog.
She looks for practical steps clients can commit to between sessions and celebrates the progress those steps create.
Approach and online options for practical skills
Client-centered therapy places the client's needs and preferences at the center of work. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration to help people identify what they want to change and what matters most to them. This approach is useful for building motivation and tailoring steps to everyday life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses simple exercises and homework to shift unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT gives clear strategies to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, known as DBT, teaches practical skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It can be valuable for managing intense emotions, improving communication, and reducing destructive behavior patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals and preferences, adjusting tools as progress unfolds. This makes therapy feel more like a shared plan than a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people maintain face-to-face connection, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text is useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats help therapy fit into busy schedules and different day-to-day needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English