About BrightSpire Health

At BrightSpire Health, we believe that serving our local community starts by sustaining a healthy community within our team. We cultivate a culture that upholds the highest standards regarding clinical integrity and quality of care, and we nurture it by offering a supportive, compassionate, and empowering environment that places emphasis on healthy human connection above all else. Period. 

Our passion to build authentic relationships originates by recognizing the resiliency that has led each member of our team to pursue a career within behavioral health. We strive to create a practice that invites careers at BrightSpire, and promotes professional growth opportunities from early years through retirement. We utilize the most current measurement resources to ensure that these standards are met. While fully embracing that quality clinical care starts with clinicians and clients who share a mutual belief that growth and change are possible, an effective therapeutic relationship will remain centerstage through the journey.  

BrightSpire Leadership

BrightSpire Health was cofounded by two united and driven therapists, Katy Schaefer, LCSW, CADCI, and Jacob Dickinson, LPC, LMFT. Together, they have over three decades of combined experience providing direct care to clients, and over two decades combined in clinical and operational leadership.  

Katy and Jacob have had the privilege to work together for 14 of these years. Their roots run deep in the behavioral health landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Having grown in skill and leadership under the direction of exemplary stewards within a 20+ year premier grassroots company and legacy, Western Psychological and Counseling Services, the goal of BrightSpire Health is simple: We will continue to provide quality and highly effective care to clients. We will nurture and empower providers and administrative staff. We will build loyal, steadfast relationships and partnerships in the region while evolving with the needs of this beloved community. 

Most recently, Katy and Jacob served together as Regional Clinical Directors overseeing 300+ clinicians and supported the operations of 22 behavioral health clinics in NW Oregon and SW Washington. It was through this experience that a shared vision organically formed between them regarding how to achieve the most effective clinical practice standards while creating the healthiest organizational culture. 

BrightSpire Health was formed from a mutual desire to create a group practice that honors and values both the therapist and the client, the administrative staff that is the glue of the practice and remain committed to the humanness that forms healthy relationships.  

Core Values

Therapy must be guided by the most rigorous ethical and clinical standards, and delivered with compassion, authenticity, and respect.  

Clinical integrity is the core foundation of every organizational, clinical, and administrative decision made.

Healthy connection requires honoring the dignity of the other, engaging respectful inquisition, and creating safety for personal expression.  

Mission

Our mission is to promote health and wellness for our clients, our team, and support the pursuit of the greatest life fulfillment possible for all. We aim to be the premier outpatient mental health agency within the Pacific Northwest utilizing the most effective standards of practice, and providing the highest quality of service to the community. 

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