Core Values Counseling · Hillsboro, Oregon

Elizabeth Gann, M.A.

Professional Counselor Associate · Couples & individual counseling

You are more than the place where you feel stuck.

Elizabeth works with couples and adults who want to change unhelpful relationship patterns, manage anxiety, or navigate a difficult transition. Her style is warm and accepting, with practical tools, honest challenge, and a steady eye for the strengths you already bring.

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Get to know Elizabeth
Complete a short intake form, then ask the Core Values Counseling team about fit and availability.
Elizabeth Gann

Elizabeth Gann

Works with

Couples · Adults · Men & Women

Focus

Relationships · Anxiety · Transitions

Approach

Gottman · Strengths · DBT

Location

Hillsboro · Oregon telehealth

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You do not need certainty before you begin.

Tell the intake team you are interested in Sabrina. They can explain her co-therapy model and discuss availability, fees, and in-person or Oregon telehealth options.

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Or call (503) 869-8108
About Elizabeth

Start with what is right about you.

Elizabeth works with people who feel stuck in painful relationships or habits, couples who want more communication and connection, and adults managing anxiety or a major transition. She often works with men seeking support or an outside perspective as they navigate relational or life changes.

Clients have described Elizabeth as warm, open, respectful, smart, challenging, and good-humored. She considers it an honor to hear someone’s story and accompany the work of change. In a session, she might guide a relaxation exercise, help you clarify your values, or explore a relationship pattern that has been years in the making.

Elizabeth can also integrate a client’s faith or religion into treatment when desired. Her personal familiarity with homeschooling, private schools, religious faith, and military and veteran family life helps her understand the particular pressures these communities can carry.

“It is good to be me here with you.”

Working with Elizabeth

Best fit

Couples wanting to reconnect, partners considering discernment, and adults navigating anxiety or change.

Session style

Collaborative, warm, compassionate, practical, and willing to challenge.

Ways to meet

In person in Hillsboro or by telehealth across Oregon. Couples meeting online should be in the same location.

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How Elizabeth helps

Move from stuck patterns toward clarity and connection.

Elizabeth combines empathy with an organized path forward. She helps clients understand what is happening, use their strengths, and practice skills that make change possible beyond the counseling room.

01 · Connect

Couples counseling

Whether you are preparing for marriage or exhausted by recurring conflict, Elizabeth uses Gottman Method interventions to help you manage differences without gridlock and strengthen friendship, appreciation, and understanding.
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02 · Clarify

Discernment counseling

When one partner is considering divorce and the other is unsure, Elizabeth offers a structured process for understanding how the relationship reached this point and gaining confidence about the path forward.
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03 · Repair

Affair recovery

Infidelity can shatter trust. With compassion and emotional steadiness, Elizabeth uses the Atone, Attune, Attach model to address the injury, understand its context without excusing it, and support the work of rebuilding.
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Her approach

Compassionate does not mean directionless.

Elizabeth looks for resilience, gifts, and what is already working. She pairs that perspective with evidence-based tools and a treatment plan shaped around the client’s pace, values, and hoped-for future.

Gottman Method couples therapy

Elizabeth has completed Gottman Levels 1 and 2 and advanced training related to affairs, trauma, addiction recovery, and partner aggression. She uses the framework to build connection, manage conflict, and repair trust.

Self-compassion & solution-focused work

For individual clients, Elizabeth helps quiet harsh self-criticism, identify hope, and take realistic steps toward a preferred future.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills

DBT-informed tools can strengthen distress tolerance, emotional regulation, mindfulness, and effectiveness in relationships—especially when insight alone has not been enough.

Collaborative goals

You clarify your values and what you hope will change. Elizabeth suggests a path, and you move through it together at a pace that respects your life and readiness.
Her approach

Compassionate does not mean directionless.

Elizabeth looks for resilience, gifts, and what is already working. She pairs that perspective with evidence-based tools and a treatment plan shaped around the client’s pace, values, and hoped-for future.

Gottman Method couples therapy
Elizabeth has completed Gottman Levels 1 and 2 and advanced training related to affairs, trauma, addiction recovery, and partner aggression. She uses the framework to build connection, manage conflict, and repair trust.
Self-compassion & solution-focused work
For individual clients, Elizabeth helps quiet harsh self-criticism, identify hope, and take realistic steps toward a preferred future.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills
DBT-informed tools can strengthen distress tolerance, emotional regulation, mindfulness, and effectiveness in relationships—especially when insight alone has not been enough.
Collaborative goals
You clarify your values and what you hope will change. Elizabeth suggests a path, and you move through it together at a pace that respects your life and readiness.
Background & training

Preparation for both relationship repair and personal change.

Elizabeth’s training supports work with couples in distress as well as adults facing anxiety, transition, and relational pain. She brings particular familiarity with military and veteran family life and faith integration.
  • Master of Arts in Counseling, Western Seminary, Portland.
  • Bachelor of Arts in History, Hillsdale College.
  • Oregon Professional Counselor Associate, R11876.
  • Gottman Method Levels 1 and 2.
  • Advanced Gottman training in affairs and trauma, addiction recovery, and intimate partner aggression and abuse.
  • Discernment Counseling training, Doherty Relationship Institute.
Finding the right fit

You may feel at home here if…

You are working through…

  • Recurring couple conflict or diminished connection.
  • Ambivalence about whether to remain married.
  • Anxiety, self-criticism, or an overwhelming transition.
  • The effects of infidelity or broken trust.

You value a counselor who…

  • Notices strengths as carefully as problems.
  • Is warm, open, respectful, and appropriately challenging.
  • Offers tools instead of insight alone.
  • Can welcome faith into counseling without assuming it.
Background & training

Preparation for both relationship repair and personal change.

Elizabeth’s training supports work with couples in distress as well as adults facing anxiety, transition, and relational pain. She brings particular familiarity with military and veteran family life and faith integration.

Master of Arts in Counseling, Western Seminary, Portland.

Bachelor of Arts in History, Hillsdale College.

Oregon Professional Counselor Associate, R11876.

Gottman Method Levels 1 and 2.

Advanced Gottman training in affairs and trauma, addiction recovery, and intimate partner aggression and abuse.

Discernment Counseling training, Doherty Relationship Institute.

About Elizabeth

Start with what is right about you.

Elizabeth works with people who feel stuck in painful relationships or habits, couples who want more communication and connection, and adults managing anxiety or a major transition. She often works with men seeking support or an outside perspective as they navigate relational or life changes.

Clients have described Elizabeth as warm, open, respectful, smart, challenging, and good-humored. She considers it an honor to hear someone’s story and accompany the work of change. In a session, she might guide a relaxation exercise, help you clarify your values, or explore a relationship pattern that has been years in the making.

Elizabeth can also integrate a client’s faith or religion into treatment when desired. Her personal familiarity with homeschooling, private schools, religious faith, and military and veteran family life helps her understand the particular pressures these communities can carry.

“It is good to be me here with you.”

Working with Elizabeth

Best fit

Couples wanting to reconnect, partners considering discernment, and adults navigating anxiety or change.

Session style

Collaborative, warm, compassionate, practical, and willing to challenge.

Ways to meet

In person in Hillsboro or by telehealth across Oregon. Couples meeting online should be in the same location.

Start the intake process
Take the next step

You can bring both the struggle and the strengths you already have.

Tell the intake team you are interested in Elizabeth. They can discuss fit, current availability, session options, and fees.

Request an intake call
Or call (503) 869-8108
Questions about working with Elizabeth

What clients often want to know.

Does Elizabeth provide discernment counseling?
Yes. She works with couples in which one partner may be leaning toward divorce while the other hopes to preserve the marriage. The goal is greater clarity and confidence about the next direction, not pressure toward a particular choice.
How does Elizabeth work with couples?
She uses Gottman Method tools to help couples manage conflict, improve friendship and appreciation, and rebuild trust. She works collaboratively and tailors the plan to the couple rather than treating every relationship the same way.
Can Elizabeth help after infidelity?
Yes. She uses the Atone, Attune, Attach framework to help partners address the injury, understand relationship context without blaming the hurt partner, and develop greater openness and connection.
Can faith be part of counseling with Elizabeth?
Yes, when the client wants it to be. Elizabeth has experience integrating faith or religion into mental health treatment while keeping the work focused on the client’s own beliefs and goals.
Does Elizabeth offer telehealth?
Yes. She offers telehealth throughout Oregon. For online couples counseling, she asks that both partners join from the same physical location.
Take the next step

You can bring both the struggle and the strengths you already have.

Tell the intake team you are interested in Elizabeth. They can discuss fit, current availability, session options, and fees.

Request an intake call
Or call (503) 869-8108
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