About Us
Our practice and practitioners
The Therapists
Cascadia Family Therapy Founder
Joella Long
Joella has more than a decade of experience working with clients from all walks of life in Oregon and Washington.
Before starting her own private practice after graduate school, she worked in the private sector for entrepreneurs— adding to her unique skillset advanced training in Solution Oriented Therapy, Experiential Therapy and addiction.
She is passionate about working with strong driven women 20-60 on finding their authentic voice and empowering them to build a life they love. Using talk therapy, Joella is able to highlight client’s innate strengths and skills and identify opportunities for growth. Joella’s extensive experience as an entrepreneur makes her gravitate towards tangible goals, practical steps, and identifiable outcomes that outline steps for clients to begin taking immediately.
When not working with clients or on the business itself, she can be found trail running, skiing, or lifting weights— all of which recharge her to be at her best for her clients.
Joella Long founded Cascadia Family Therapy in Bend Oregon in 2015 with the dream of offering a vital resource to the community she fell in love with on a family vacation in 1992.
Central Oregon’s beautiful landscape draws people from all over the world and though we may all brag that “your vacation is my life” it doesn’t exclude us from the social, emotional and psychological struggles human beings face. Joella is passionate about gathering themes and data in her and her clinicians work to continually improve at serving the community.
Cascadia Family Therapy’s mission is to provide culturally informed systemic mental health care with the heart of a teacher empowering our clients and clinicians with the skills and tools to live their best lives.There isn’t time in session for long winded complaints or arguments between you and your family members. We are focused on pinpointing and highlighting the exact interactional pattern or patterns that may be leading to symptoms like depression, anxiety or general relationship struggles.
Why To See Us: Reason #1
We believe that systemic racism, culture, socioeconomic status, language, trauma, the environment you live in and were raised in, all play important roles in mental health. We believe seeing the whole you provides space for healing.
Why To See Us: Reason #2
All of our clinicians participate in continued education to ensure you receive the best treatment possible.
Why To See Us: Reason #1
We see relationships as an important resource and factor in mental health.