Résumé

Eric Richers.

I carry two credentials most people keep separate: I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC, CADC III) and a software engineer. Ground-level clinical work on one side, full-stack development, custom agentic systems, and iOS design on the other, and a career spent closing the distance between them. I speak English, Spanish, and German. Also on LinkedIn ↗.

  • 2026–

    Founder

    Ulric · Eugene, OR

    I founded Ulric to put both halves of my career to work in one place: software, design, and custom intelligence, built end to end. Custom platforms, CMS and CRM builds, branding, and agentic consulting. It is the second Richers software company to call Oregon home, and I run every build with an agentic toolchain.
  • 2026–

    Founder & lead developer

    ORCounselors.com · Eugene, OR

    • I built and run Oregon's statewide mental health directory: 16,800 licensed providers indexed, 1,200+ active profiles, top-3 Google rankings for core searches, a trained search assistant, and a native iOS app on the App Store.
    • I own the full platform architecture, from database design and SQL to deployment, working daily with a custom agentic toolchain.
    • I talk with providers every day and iterate features and intake flows from those conversations, guided by market research into gaps in local behavioral health access.
    • I grow an active community of providers and patients through social channels, targeted ad campaigns, and automated marketing workflows.
  • 2025–

    Technical consultant & iOS developer

    CUTI LLC · Eugene, OR

    • I partner with private practices and local businesses to bridge clinical focus and practical business operations.
    • I designed, built, and shipped iOS apps including Toss It, Mutterly, and iLovable, carrying each from concept to App Store release.
    • I implement custom intelligence systems, practice management tools, and automated workflows that cut daily administrative friction for providers.
    • I write plain-English growth roadmaps pairing professional web design with localized SEO, so practices scale sustainably.
  • 2023–

    Mental health therapist

    Wellpath · Lane County Adult Corrections

    • I provide mental health services inside the Lane County Adult Corrections system.
    • I conduct high-risk and MAT assessments, with diagnosis and treatment planning for people in custody.
    • I coordinate patient care with the mental health team and corrections departments.
    • I run group and individual therapy.
  • 2019–2026

    Licensed Professional Counselor

    CUTI LLC · Eugene, OR

    I built my private practice for people for whom healing has felt out of reach: individual and group therapy, telehealth statewide, walking sessions, and home visits. I specialized in trauma, addiction, and SPMI, and I built the brand, the site, and the billing systems myself. I closed the practice in July 2026 to build full-time.
  • 2021–2023

    Mental health associate

    Serenity Lane · Coburg, OR

    • I completed high-risk, suicide, and mental health assessments to determine patient need, plan, and diagnosis.
    • I carried a weekly and biweekly individual therapy caseload.
    • I trained incoming interns and mental health staff, and led education and lectures for the clinical team.
    • I managed documentation and case management in close partnership with my clinical supervisor.
  • 2016–2021

    Residential counselor

    Serenity Lane · Coburg, OR

    • I developed personalized treatment plans across the six ASAM dimensions.
    • I ran a primary group of up to ten patients, documenting and treating each member individually while meeting with their families about aftercare.
    • I wrote and delivered weekly lectures to the entire patient population.
    • I supervised interns and mentored new team members and students.
  • 2020–2022

    MA, Clinical Mental Health Counseling

    Bushnell University · Eugene, OR

    My clinical training. I hold an Oregon Licensed Professional Counselor license (C9669) and a CADC III, and I work in IFS, ACT, DBT, and CBT, applied to trauma, addiction, and crisis.
  • 2018–2020

    BA, Sociology

    University of Oregon · Eugene, OR

    The foundation of my clinical career, earned while I was already working full weeks in residential treatment.
  • 2014

    Recovery

    Years of competing gave way to years of struggling. I struggled with addiction and personal hardship, overcame it, and got into recovery in 2014. Recovery became the reason for everything that followed. I work with people in crisis because I have been the person in crisis.
  • 2010s

    GreenGO, with Ulrich

    A side project with my dad: an app to map every fruit tree in the neighborhood, fruit free for the picking. We never finished it. His dementia arrived first. It still says everything about the house I grew up in, where no dream was too big.
  • 2010–2012

    Web application developer

    Pairodime Productions · Gresham, OR

    I built client web applications front to back: e-commerce integration, systems operations analysis, and database administration.
  • 2011

    Part-time instructor, Integrated Media

    Mt. Hood Community College · Gresham, OR

    I taught graduating professional photography students the fundamentals of web design while each of them built a fully dynamic portfolio site.
  • 2005–2012

    Web administrator

    Advanced Relay Corp · Eugene, OR

    My first professional post, inside the family company. I built and maintained the site for my father's protocol software firm and produced the original template for its new website.
  • 2005–2016

    Owner and operator

    ER Designs · Remote

    Eleven years of fully custom websites and printed marketing for clients and nonprofits. I controlled every step of the process and picked up a new technology on nearly every build.
  • 2000s

    "Doubts don't sink South sophomore"

    Junior tennis

    I grew up traveling the country for junior tennis tournaments. The quote is a headline the local sports page ran about me as a South Eugene sophomore.
  • 2002

    First lines of code

    I started coding at fourteen, in a house run by two immigrant engineers: an East German father and a Mexican mother, both of whom made things for a living.
  • 1988

    Born in Eugene

    The same year Advanced Relay Corporation, my father Ulrich's protocol software company, moved from Berkeley to Eugene. He escaped communist East Germany, got his family out, and traveled the world installing early hardware and software systems before founding ARC. The lesson I took from him: no dream is too big.

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