Ivy Medow, LPC

Ivy Medow is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oregon with four years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for everyday challenges like work stress, self-esteem, motivation, and major life transitions. Ivy emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and steady encouragement during the first steps of care.

She commonly helps people coping with caregiving demands, aging-related concerns, disability, and compassion fatigue. Her work also touches on isolation, life purpose, midlife shifts, and issues tied to identity and discrimination. Ivy pays attention to the emotional strain of hospice and end-of-life situations and to the needs that follow traumatic brain injury.

Ivy uses goal-focused sessions where she and the person meet to set clear targets and small steps. She draws on mindfulness practices to ease stress and on motivational interviewing to build readiness for change. Narrative techniques help people reframe difficult stories, and solution-focused methods keep work practical and forward-moving.

Her approach is collaborative and rooted in self-care as a daily practice. Sessions tend to center on what a person wants to change and what feels manageable right now. Ivy explains options plainly and helps plan concrete next steps between meetings.

She works with people from diverse backgrounds and tries to create a respectful space for difference. If you want to explore coping with aging, caregiving stress, or a transition at work or home, she can help you map a path forward.

How Ivy's Approaches Fit Online Care

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce stress and ground daily routines. It can help with feelings of overwhelm from caregiving, seasonal shifts, or burnout by offering short practices people can repeat between meetings.

Motivational Interviewing focuses on building a person’s own reasons for change. It uses gentle questions and planning to increase confidence and follow-through, which can be useful for work goals, self-care routines, or decisions about caregiving and aging-related needs.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ivy will talk with you about goals, habits, and what feels doable. She helps choose and adapt methods so they fit your life and priorities rather than imposing a fixed plan.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, or reduce travel time after appointments. These practical benefits often help people stay consistent with steps they and the therapist agree on.