Résumé
Eric Richers.
Engineer by upbringing, counselor by training — the timeline of how both halves ended up working the same job. Also on LinkedIn ↗.
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2026–
Founder
Ulric — Eugene, OR
Software, design, and AI systems studio. Custom platforms, CMS & CRM builds, branding, and agentic-AI consulting. The second Richers software company to call Oregon home. -
2025–2026
Founder
ORCounselors.com
Built and runs Oregon's statewide mental-health directory: 16,800 licensed providers indexed, 1,200+ active profiles, top-3 Google rankings, an AI search assistant, and a native iOS app on the App Store — end to end, solo, with an agentic toolchain. -
2023–2026
iOS developer
Studio apps
Shipped a family of clinical iOS tools: Toss It, Mutterly, iLovable, plus Somatic Tracker, IFS Mapper, and Breath Pacer. -
2019–2026
Licensed Professional Counselor · Consultant
CUTI LLC — Eugene, OR
Private therapy practice plus CUTI Consulting: brand, web, SEO, and workflow automation for private practices. Closed the practice in July 2026 to build full-time. -
2022
MA, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Bushnell University
Licensed Professional Counselor (Oregon #C9669) and CADC III. Modalities: IFS, ACT, DBT, CBT — trauma, addiction, and crisis work. -
2017–2022
Clinical ground-level work
Residential treatment · Lane County Jail · crisis
Seven-plus years in residential drug & alcohol treatment, jail settings, and crisis intervention — the decade of listening that shapes how the studio builds software. -
2011–2017
Software engineer, founder & instructor
Startups · Mt. Hood Community College
Fifteen-plus years of engineering begin: web platforms, product design, early startups, and teaching programming at MHCC. -
2002
First lines of code
Started coding at fourteen, in the house of 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 — his father Ulrich's protocol-software company — moved to Eugene from Berkeley.