A Space to Slow Down and Feel Like Yourself Again.
At Compass Proactive Health, Misha Castro, integrates insight-oriented therapy with evidence-based skills, exploring both past and present — your relationship with yourself, with others, and your environment — while building practical tools for right now.
With a strong foundation in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Misha will work with you to identify deeper patterns and past experiences to understand what’s driving present challenges. Misha is a compassionate, safety first practitioner that recognizes how past experiences shape current well being.
What is Counseling?
Counseling with Misha Castro is a confidential, one-on-one space for adults who want to understand themselves better and feel more in control of their emotional lives. Misha works with people navigating anxiety, depression, stress, life transitions, and relationship challenges — blending insight-oriented conversation with practical, evidence-based skills from CBT and DBT.
Sessions are held in person or via Telehealth, available to anyone in Oregon. The work explores both what's happening right now and the deeper patterns beneath the surface, with the goal of helping you feel more grounded, more resilient, and less alone in what you're carrying.
Whether you're in a season of real difficulty or simply feeling like something isn't quite right, counseling offers a place to slow down, make sense of it, and move forward.
How Does Health Coaching Work?
Misha's approach weaves together two threads: understanding and doing. On one side, she uses insight-oriented and psychodynamic methods to help you explore what's beneath the surface — the patterns, past experiences, and relationships that shape how you feel and respond today. On the other, she draws on practical, evidence-based tools from CBT and DBT to give you real skills for managing anxiety, regulating emotions, and handling stress in the moment.
Sessions are one-on-one. There's no rigid formula — the work adapts to what you're carrying. Some weeks that means sitting with something hard and making sense of it. Other weeks it means learning a concrete tool and putting it to use before the next session.
The goal isn't just insight — it's change you can actually feel.
Who Benefits from Counseling?
Counseling supports adults who are navigating emotional or mental health challenges and want real, lasting change. It's especially helpful for anyone looking to:
Manage anxiety, stress, or overwhelm: Counseling provides tools and strategies to reduce anxiety, calm a busy mind, and build greater emotional steadiness in daily life.
Work through depression or low mood: Therapy helps you understand what's driving how you feel and develop the skills to shift patterns that keep you stuck.
Navigate a major life transition: Whether it's a career change, relationship shift, loss, or identity question, counseling offers a grounded space to process and move forward.
Build emotional resilience and self-awareness: Through reflection and evidence-based skills, counseling helps you respond to life's challenges with more clarity and less reactivity.
Set and achieve personal goals for long-term well-being: Counseling supports you in identifying meaningful goals and creating a path toward lasting change.
Wherever you are right now, counseling with Misha offers a confidential, compassionate space to slow down, make sense of what you're carrying, and begin moving toward the life you want.
How is a Counseling Different from Other Practitioners?
Counseling with Misha goes deeper than advice or wellness coaching. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Misha uses evidence-based therapy — CBT, DBT, and psychodynamic approaches — to address the root causes of anxiety, depression, and emotional distress, not just the symptoms.
Part of an Integrated Approach to Wellness in Eugene
At Compass Proactive Health, counseling with Misha is part of our integrated care model. Paired with services like acupuncture, physical therapy, and massage therapy, counseling helps you address both the mental and physical dimensions of your wellbeing — creating a truly whole-person path to health.
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