Core Values Counseling · Hillsboro, Oregon
Sabrina Walters,
LMFT · LPC
Gottman Certified Therapist, Trainer & Consultant
Heal what has hurt. Understand what keeps happening. Build a relationship that can thrive.
Sabrina helps couples move through entrenched conflict, betrayal, emotional distance, and major relationship decisions. She brings more than 20 years of experience, active guidance, and an unwavering belief that meaningful change is possible.
Sabrina accepts clients who are open to co-therapy with a developing clinician. You receive two engaged therapists for the cost of one.
Sabrina Walters
Works with
Couples · Individuals
Specialties
Affair recovery · Discernment
Approach
Gottman · EFT · EMDR · IFS
Experience
Licensed since 2006
About Sabrina
A direct guide—and a steady holder of hope.
Sabrina works with couples across the relationship spectrum: partners in deep distress after infidelity, addiction, or financial conflict; couples who feel more like roommates; parents navigating family strain; and healthy partners who want a thoughtful relationship check-up.
She is grounded, knowledgeable, and compassionate. Her role is not to choose sides. Each partner matters, and so does the relationship between them. Sabrina helps create enough safety for the conversations that have become too painful, reactive, or circular to manage at home.
Her work asks for honesty, humility, and personal responsibility. Insight matters, but change becomes durable when new ways of thinking and relating are practiced beyond the counseling room.
“I am a hope monger. I will hold hope for your future until you can hold it again yourselves.”
Working with Sabrina
Best fit
Couples ready for an active therapist and meaningful work, including affair recovery and relationship crossroads.
Session style
Warm, direct, balanced, deeply engaged, and culturally responsive.
Important to know
As Clinical Director, Sabrina works through a co-therapy model with a newer clinician.
How Sabrina helps
Serious help for relationships at meaningful crossroads.
Sabrina combines structure, relationship research, and emotional depth so couples can understand both the cycle between them and the wounds each person carries into it.
01 · Rebuild
Couples counseling
02 · Repair
Affair recovery
Using the Atone, Attune, Attach framework, Sabrina helps establish truth and safety, understand relationship vulnerabilities without blaming the hurt partner, and gradually restore emotional and physical connection.
03 · Decide
Discernment counseling
Her approach
Inside-out healing. Practical relationship change.
Sabrina integrates relational and trauma-informed methods rather than forcing every concern into one model. Together, you define the destination, map a path, and track whether the work is creating the change you came for.
Gottman Method & Emotionally Focused Therapy
EMDR & Internal Family Systems
Culturally responsive care
Clear goals and active practice
Her approach
Inside-out healing. Practical relationship change.
Sabrina integrates relational and trauma-informed methods rather than forcing every concern into one model. Together, you define the destination, map a path, and track whether the work is creating the change you came for.
Gottman Method & Emotionally Focused Therapy
EMDR & Internal Family Systems
Culturally responsive care
Clear goals and active practice
Background & training
Leadership grounded in more than two decades of clinical work.
Sabrina is Clinical Director and co-owner of Core Values Counseling. Her advanced training spans couples therapy, affair and trauma treatment, addiction recovery, partner aggression, sex therapy, supervision, EMDR, and IFS.
- Graduate degree, George Fox University (2004).
- Oregon Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, T0546.
- Oregon Licensed Professional Counselor, C1890.
- Gottman Certified Therapist and Advanced Gottman Trainer/Consultant.
- EMDR trained; additional training in IFS and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
- Professional memberships: AAMFT and AACC.
Finding the right fit
You may feel at home here if…
You are facing…
- Repeated conflict, emotional distance, or lost intimacy.
- The trauma and uncertainty that follow an affair.
- A decision about separation, divorce, or rebuilding.
- Childhood wounds or triggers that affect the present.
You value a therapist who…
- Is warm and compassionate without being passive.
- Speaks honestly and confidently guides hard conversations.
- Maintains a balanced space where both partners matter.
- Brings resilient hope when you cannot yet feel it.
Background & training
Leadership grounded in more than two decades of clinical work.
Sabrina is Clinical Director and co-owner of Core Values Counseling. Her advanced training spans couples therapy, affair and trauma treatment, addiction recovery, partner aggression, sex therapy, supervision, EMDR, and IFS.
Graduate degree, George Fox University (2004).
Oregon Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, T0546.
Oregon Licensed Professional Counselor, C1890.
Gottman Certified Therapist and Advanced Gottman Trainer/Consultant.
EMDR trained; additional training in IFS and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Professional memberships: AAMFT and AACC.
About Sabrina
A direct guide—and a steady holder of hope.
Sabrina works with couples across the relationship spectrum: partners in deep distress after infidelity, addiction, or financial conflict; couples who feel more like roommates; parents navigating family strain; and healthy partners who want a thoughtful relationship check-up.
She is grounded, knowledgeable, and compassionate. Her role is not to choose sides. Each partner matters, and so does the relationship between them. Sabrina helps create enough safety for the conversations that have become too painful, reactive, or circular to manage at home.
Her work asks for honesty, humility, and personal responsibility. Insight matters, but change becomes durable when new ways of thinking and relating are practiced beyond the counseling room.
“I am a hope monger. I will hold hope for your future until you can hold it again yourselves.”
Working with Sabrina
Best fit
Couples ready for an active therapist and meaningful work, including affair recovery and relationship crossroads.
Session style
Warm, direct, balanced, deeply engaged, and culturally responsive.
Important to know
As Clinical Director, Sabrina works through a co-therapy model with a newer clinician.
Questions about working with Sabrina
What couples often want to know.
Does Sabrina provide discernment counseling?
How does Sabrina approach affair recovery?
Will Sabrina take sides in couples therapy?
Can Sabrina use EMDR with individual clients?
Yes. Sabrina integrates EMDR and IFS-informed parts work for trauma, anxiety, triggers, and unresolved wounds. Suitability and pacing are considered collaboratively.
Why does Sabrina use a co-therapy model?
As Clinical Director, Sabrina accepts clients who are open to a newer therapist joining the work. This supports clinician development while giving clients two attentive therapists for the price of one.
Take the next step
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.
Core Values Counseling
Evidence-informed counseling and relationship support for individuals, couples, and families in Hillsboro, the Portland metro area, and throughout Oregon by telehealth.
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