Mohammad Bader
Practical, culturally aware counseling for life challenges
LPC, LMHC Oregon
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Grief
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English, Arabic
About Mohammad
Mohammad Bader is a licensed counselor who aims to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and other life challenges. He practices in Oregon and communicates in English and Arabic.
Background and approach
He brings 25 years of experience to his work and creates a calm, respectful space for clients to talk through what matters to them. He focuses on practical change that fits daily life.
Sessions often look at thoughts, feelings, and patterns that get in the way of coping and connection. He uses several well-known approaches, including the Gottman Method for relationship skills, acceptance and commitment therapy to build values-based action, and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking.
Mohammad pays attention to culture and identity in counseling. He supports people working through prejudice, discrimination, immigration stress, and multicultural concerns.
He also has focused experience with first responder issues and with people exploring gender dysphoria and related concerns. Other areas he helps with include parenting challenges, sleep problems, addiction, anger, low self-esteem, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.
He aims to meet each person where they are and tailor work to the client's goals and life circumstances. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person's needs.
Mohammad frames therapy as learning useful skills, trying new behaviors between sessions, and checking what helps. He explains tools plainly and helps people practice them in ways that fit their routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Mohammad uses the Gottman Method to teach practical relationship skills and communication habits that reduce conflict and improve connection. Gottman-based work often focuses on specific behaviors and small daily changes that couples can practice to feel more understood.He also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-driven steps even when uncomfortable feelings are present. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify and change patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and depression, and to develop concrete coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Mohammad works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life situation. That collaborative process helps shape sessions so they feel relevant and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or texting can support quick reflections or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or shift schedules while still getting structured support.
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Experience
25+ years
Licensed in
Oregon, Washington
Languages
English, Arabic