Our Staff
Our team at Hummingbird Heart Counseling brings together experienced, compassionate professionals dedicated to your well-being. Each staff member is committed to ongoing professional development and creating a supportive environment for every client.
Cherie Skillings
LPC Supervisor and Owner and Pip
With over 20 years of experience working with adults and children who’ve experienced early childhood trauma, Cherie leads a team of Licensed and Associate Counselors. The team’s approach is attachment-focused, acknowledging that trauma in early years can have a lifelong impact on health and well-being. Training and expertise include play therapy, parent-child interaction therapy, family therapy, couples counseling, and individual counseling. Techniques such as EMDR, motivational interviewing, and other therapeutic modalities promote healing and client-driven progress.
Pip is a therapy dog extraordinaire that joins Cherie in her practice. Pip was born 12-20-2019 and lost his previous owner to cancer. Cherie felt very lucky to adopt Pip. Pip takes his job seriously greeting any clients he comes in contact with by putting a paw out to say hi!
Naomi Trautmann
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
Naomi offers in-person and online counseling for individuals, and families, specializing in coping skills, trauma, PTSD, and stress. Her background includes a Master’s degree from Oregon State University Cascades, and training in EMDR. She bases her approach on systems theory, using interventions like mindfulness, art therapy, narrative therapy, and play therapy.
Naomi is passionate about working with children, adolescents, and adults, and is known for her warmth, multicultural competence, and relationship-building skills.
541-933-5179
Megan Ostby
Professional Counselor Associate
Megan Ostby, Professional Counselor Associate: Megan’s approach emphasizes the whole person, focusing on physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being. She is trained in play therapy and utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and EMDR to help clients regulate emotions and challenge negative thinking. Megan’s experience includes helping those with anxiety, depression, trauma, offering therapy for both children and adults. She is available in-person and online, with flexible scheduling. Her background spans child development, mental health, and social services.
541-728-3239
Erica Burton
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate and Bentley
Erica offers meaningful perspectives to individuals, couples, and families, earning recognition for her dedication and friendly approach. Erica believes that each person has in them the strengths and ability to achieve their full potential. She says, “My approach to therapy is to work toward the goals and concerns of the individual and explore the relationship and systems around the client that may impact and support healing. I collaborate with my client’s life experiences and unique individuality to create achievable goals and meet their therapeutic needs”. She works with individuals, couples, and families using solution-focused methods, cognitive behavioral tools, and emotionally focused theories. Erica has several years’ experience working with behaviorally challenged kids and understands the impact of trauma on children into adulthood. A Christian counseling focus is available if requested.
Bentley joins Erica as a partner in her practice. Bentley is a tricolor Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. He was born April of 2025, to a highly reputable breeder, “StoryTime Cavaliers”, here in Bend. Bentley is my 3rd Cavalier and I chose this breed as a therapy dog because of their people loving personalities. Bentley will not be fully certified until he is at least a year old, but he loves coming to the office with me and greeting my clients. He hasn’t met a client tiny or tall that he doesn’t love with kisses and a wagging tail.
458-202-9708
Anna Field
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate
Anna specializes in early childhood mental health, working with Maternal Mental Health from conception through toddlerhood with Infant Mental Health experience. She also sees children ages 2 to 6 with play therapy and somatosensory experiences along with Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. She partners with parents to strengthen bonds and help children build self-regulation skills. Anna has training in advanced therapeutic techniques, such as those developed by Dr Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model and Dr. T. Barry Brazelton’s Touchpoints.
541-728-3566
Katie Gillette
Graduate Student Intern
Katie is pursuing a master’s degree in clinical Mental Health Counseling with an emphasis on Play Therapy at Capella University.
Katie brings extensive experience from her background in early childhood education and 18 years as a nanny. She says, “My long history of working closely with children and families provides me with a unique and valuable perspective in the counseling room”.
Outside of her professional and academic commitments, she enjoys running, attending barre classes, and spending time outdoors with her three dogs, taking full advantage of the natural beauty in Central Oregon.
541-604-8648