Dr. Justin Panneck, LPC

Dr. Justin Panneck is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a PhD in health psychology who blends clinical training, research, and experiential methods to support personal growth and resilience. He spent six years as a nature-based therapist on a 70-acre farm in Canby, Oregon, where he incorporated outdoors-based practices such as forest archery, shelter and fire building, guided mushroom foraging, nature art, and specialized ceremonies and rituals into therapeutic work. Over the last four years he has worked in private practice, combining those field-based skills with traditional counseling methods.

His background includes a Master of Counseling, a Master of Education, and doctoral research focused on coping mechanisms, alternative healing modalities, and the ethnopharmacology of Amazonian plant medicines such as ayahuasca. He has also explored the potential of psilocybin mushrooms and supports clients in preparation and integration for experiences they pursue independently. That scholarly foundation informs his interest in optimal living, neuro-cognitive restoration, and peak performance strategies including flow state work, behavioral health supports like nutrition and movement, and approaches to reprogramming unhelpful patterns.

Dr. Panneck specializes in coaching and psychotherapy for stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, career issues, life transitions, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and sleep difficulties. Additional focus areas include chronic pain and illness, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose, panic and phobias, sexuality, and social anxiety. He offers men’s work and rites of passage programming and is interested in forming men’s groups and retreats.

His clinical approach is eclectic and integrative, drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, EMDR, Imago Relationship Therapy, Jungian perspectives, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Somatic Therapy. He has also worked as a behavioral health consultant alongside physicians and nurses, combining motivational interviewing, nutritional education, breathwork, and Eastern movement forms. Dr. Panneck has presented on topics such as consciousness expansion, shamanism, Jungian archetypes, and entheogenic healing at venues including Southern Oregon University, the Happiness Institute, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Anthropology of Consciousness.