About Kevin
Kevin Wilbanks is a licensed counselor with 32 years of experience who focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, parenting, trauma, anger, and self-esteem. He aims to build a dependable, respectful relationship where people feel heard and understood. Kevin uses straightforward coaching and hands-on strategies to help people move from feeling stuck to making useful change.
He listens first, then helps identify patterns that keep problems repeating. He teaches ways to calm the body and mind so decisions feel clearer.
How Kevin works
He also works on changing unhelpful self-talk and beliefs that get in the way of goals and relationships. Kevin combines relationship-focused techniques with problem-solving tools. He draws on attachment ideas to look at how past connections shape present feelings.
He also uses cognitive and skills-based methods to give practical steps people can use between sessions. His training and long career include work with a variety of life challenges, including grief, parenting struggles, blended family issues, caregiver stress, cancer-related stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and aging issues. Kevin has worked with military-related missions and in rural counseling settings during his career.
Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients. He is based in Oregon and holds the credentials LCPC, which is Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor. Outside of work he enjoys hiking, fitness, drumming, travel, and reading.
Kevin lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Kevin works with
The areas below are the ones Kevin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- 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
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 32 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns of trust and closeness. It helps people understand why they react the way they do in relationships and find new ways to connect and feel safer with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can ease anxiety and depression and improve decision-making.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process so the plan can be adjusted as progress is observed and goals evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone talks can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins during a busy day, and text messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family life, or travel without losing the continuity of care.
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