Comprehensive Care For Your Relationship

Douglas Johns, LCSW

I'm a relationship specialist and my practice has been exclusively with couples since 2014; that's important.

Couple therapy is inherently different from other types of therapy. Effective couple therapy keeps the focus on the client-couple’s relationship patterns which takes skill to consistently follow, maintain, and interpret. Although couple therapy is sometimes characterized as the most difficult form of therapy, I love what I do. I like to believe that enjoyment is evident in my work and in my clients' experiences.

My primary orientation with couples is Collaborative Couple Therapy. Over the years I've also dove deeply into Existential Psychotherapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, and Buddhist Psychology. I earned my Master of Social Work Degree in 1992 and, after several years working in community mental health care, started a private family therapy practice in 1998.

In 2011, after training with Les Greenberg (originator of Emotion Focused Therapy), I was motivated to sharpen my skills with couples. Then in 2013 I met my mentor, the originator of Collaborative Couple Therapy, Dan Wile. Over the following six years I traveled regularly to Oakland, California for ongoing training with Dan, until his death in 2020. I pledge to bring that same dedication to supporting your relationship.

Below is a selected list of continuing education I have attended specific to couple therapy:

2025

01/09/25 Terry Real, LCSW, The Relationship Repair Breakthrough, Online Training

2023

03/19/23 Hayley Hoffman, LPC, Doing Imago Relationship Therapy In The Space Between, Washington, D.C.
3/18/23 Tammy Nelson, Ph.D., Modern Monogamy, Open Marriage, Polyamory, And Swinging, Washington, D.C.

2021

09/30/21 Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., Sex, Desire & Attachment: New Science & Strategies to Transform Couples' Sex Lives, Online Training

2019

09/27/19 Karlaina Brooke, Psy.D., When Sex Hurts: Restoring Sexual Health and Pleasure . . ., Portland, OR
09/27/19 Karlaina Brooke, Psy.D., One Size Fits None: Culturally Competent Sex Therapy . . . Portland, OR
05/18/19 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
03/23/19 Terry Real, LCSW, Relational Life Therapy Training, Washington, D.C.

2018

04/21/18 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
03/23/18 Sue Johnson, Ed.D., Harnessing The Power of Emotion . . . EFT, Washington, DC
03/24/18 Esther Perel, MA, LMFT, Learning from Affairs . . . Infidelity & Intimacy, Washington, DC
01/27/18 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA

2017

09/16/17 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
06/10/17 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
05/06/17 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
04/01/17 Gottman Institute Seven Principles Leader Training, Seattle, WA
02/25/17 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA

2016

12/3/16 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
10/26 - 10/27/16 Gottman Institute Couples Therapy Two Day Workshop, Portland, OR
10/07/16 Karlaina Brooke, PsyD, Couples, Dilemmas and Sex, Portland, OR
09/24/16 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
06/11/16 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
05/07/16 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
02/20/16 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA

2015

10/31/15 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
05/09/15 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
02/07/15 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA

2014

09/13/14 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
01/18/14 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA

2013

11/23/13 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Training Group, Oakland, CA
09/27 - 09/28/13 Dan Wile, Ph.D., Collaborative Couple Therapy Two Day Intensive, Portland, OR

2011

10/14 - 10/16/11 David Schnarch, Ph.D., Crucible Therapy Two Day Workshop, Seattle, WA
04/08/11 Les Greenberg, Ph.D., Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Portland, OR

2002

01/25 - 01/26/02 John Gottman, Ph.D., Marital Therapy: A Research Based Approach, Seattle, WA

Concierge Couple Therapy is a service of Compassionate Enterprises LLC, Portland, Oregon providing in-home based couple therapy Copyright © 2023-2025 -- All Rights Reserved. Accessing this website in no way constitutes an implied or explicit contract for services between Compassionate Enterprises LLC, or Douglas Johns, and any person or entity. All contents are for informal information purposes only. Please speak directly with a qualified professional regarding any health concerns you have. For information on Douglas's office based practice please go to www.MarriageCounselingPDX.com

Comprehensive Care For Your Relationship

Douglas Johns, LCSW

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