Philip Kolba

Most people contact Philip Kolba when something they’ve been quietly tolerating finally demands attention — a relationship fraying at the edges, a career that’s stopped making sense, or a feeling of being stuck that no amount of willpower seems to fix. A Licensed Professional Counselor based in Portland, Oregon, Kolba works with individuals, couples, and families navigating the friction points where personal wellbeing and professional life collide. His clients include clinicians, lawyers, service members, scientists, academics, and tech workers — people accustomed to solving problems who find that the skills that serve them at work don’t always translate into the relationships that matter most.

He works across a range of concerns: anxiety, depression, adjustment difficulties, personality disorders, grief, internet and gaming addiction, career transitions, and the slow erosion of intimacy that happens when couples spend months in the same house but increasingly in separate digital worlds. His therapeutic toolkit draws from DBT, CBT, emotion-focused therapy, and EMDR, with a solutions-focused orientation throughout. He also holds specializations in LGBTQ+ clients, expatriates, service members, narcissistic personality disorder, and tinnitus treatment.

Kolba offers fully online sessions — encrypted, schedule-flexible, and continuous across moves or relocations — so the work doesn’t reset every time life changes address. He holds a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Lewis & Clark College and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of Toronto, and contributes to the field through research, psychometric tool development, and peer-review.