Kevin Wilbanks, LCPC, LPC
Therapist in Oregon
Kevin Wilbanks is a licensed counselor with more than three decades of experience.
- Licensed inGeorgia, Oregon, Idaho, Utah
- LicenseLPC003349, C 8383, LCPC-7888, 13964079-6004
- NPI 1194894485
- Experience32+ years
- LanguagesEnglish
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About Kevin
Kevin Wilbanks is a licensed counselor with more than three decades of experience. He focuses on helping people reduce anxiety, manage stress, and improve relationships. Kevin is straightforward and listens first so clients feel heard and understood.
He draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Kevin also uses client-centered and cognitive approaches to help people make practical changes in thinking and behavior. Sessions emphasize calming the body, naming emotions, and trying small steps that build confidence.
Background and approach
Kevin has worked in a variety of settings, including supporting the United States Armed Forces mission worldwide. He has led a counseling practice and supported people through grief, trauma, parenting struggles, anger, and major life transitions. His background includes long experience with adoption and foster care, abandonment concerns, blended family issues, and caregiving stress.
In sessions he helps clients notice how past relationships shape current problems and then practices new ways of interacting. He offers tools for managing overwhelming feelings and for improving communication. The focus is on clear, practical skills you can use between sessions.
People come to Kevin for help with depression, relationship breakdowns, parenting strain, and patterns of avoidance or codependency. He aims to work side-by-side with each person to set realistic goals and build steady progress toward them.
Credentials
- LPC (Georgia)
- License LPC003349 · expires September 2026
- LPC (Oregon)
- License C 8383 · expires February 2027
- LCPC (Idaho)
- License LCPC-7888 · expires February 2028
- LCMHC (Utah)
- License 13964079-6004 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1194894485 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kevin lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kevin names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Attachment-informed care and practical therapy online
Kevin blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods to help people understand how past relationships affect current patterns. Attachment-based work looks at long-standing ways of relating and helps people try new, healthier interactions in their everyday life. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people can explore their goals at their own pace. Cognitive behavioral techniques offer concrete steps to change unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors in real situations.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Kevin will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. That way sessions stay practical and focused on what the client wants to change, whether that is managing anxiety, improving communication, or reducing reactive anger.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit counseling into life. Video lets people use visual cues for relationship work, phone can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is low, and text or chat supports shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel while working toward clearer thinking and better coping.
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Frequently asked
What issues does Kevin commonly address?
He works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, anger, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem concerns.
What is his therapeutic style like?
He uses a listening-first, collaborative style that combines attachment-based ideas with client-centered and cognitive methods to help people change patterns and try new behaviors.
How much experience does he have?
Kevin has 32 years of experience working as a counselor in clinical and community settings, including supporting military-related counseling work.
What credentials does he hold and where is he based?
He holds LCPC and LPC credentials and practices from Oregon.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Kevin offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
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