Counseling Practice – Lasting Impact Counseling LLC
Lasting Impact Counseling LLC is a private counseling practice based in Bend, Oregon, founded in 2011. The practice is operated by Dan Hicks, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC-C1059, licensed 1995), who holds a Master’s degree in Counseling from Oregon State University (1990) and a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physical Education (1980).
The practice serves adolescents, individuals, and couples. Specialty areas include marriage and family issues, sexual abuse trauma, individuals with childhood trauma, dissociative disorders, and those seeking spiritual or faith-based counseling. A distinctive focus of the practice involves sports counseling, with Hicks drawing on an extensive career supporting high school and college athletes working through fears, self-esteem concerns, and performance-related issues.
Hicks’s professional background includes prior private counseling practice in Corvallis, Oregon from 1990 to 1998, followed by sports counseling work at Oregon State University with thirteen different men’s and women’s sports programs. He later served as head wrestling coach at California State University, Fullerton from 2002 to 2011. His athletic background includes two NCAA Division 1 wrestling championships in 1978 and 1979 and induction into Oregon State University’s Hall of Fame, informing his work with competitive athletes across roughly twenty sports disciplines at the collegiate level.
Session formats offered include in-person counseling at the Bend, Oregon location as well as FaceTime and telehealth options for clients who prefer remote access. The practice appears to accommodate both self-pay and insurance arrangements, though specific insurance carriers accepted are not listed on the site.
Contact and appointment information is available through the practice website. No specific outcome guarantees or diagnostic claims are made on the page; services are described as tailored counseling support for the populations and concerns listed above.