Her areas of expertise include career counseling, ADD/ADHD, adjustment, depression, anxiety, mindfulness, self-esteem, motivational interviewing and trauma.  Jen has demonstrated an ability to work with younger clients who have trouble connecting and relating to adults.  Some of her abilities include being able to help both teens and parents with behavioral concerns, oppositional defiant disorder, substance use, identity and peer issues.  Jen has additional training in in marriage and family therapy and enjoys helping couples who desire to improve their communication with each other as well as couples who are seeking premarital and marital enrichment.

Jen teaches at Youngstown State University as an adjunct professor in the Counseling, School Psychology & Educational Leadership program.  She applies much of the information she teaches, particularly in her Introduction to Mental Health & Wellness course, into practice with clients.  Additionally, Jen acts as the Clinical Director at The Cole Center and runs groups and workshops at Akron Artworks as she enjoys practicing art and mental health.  In her free time, Jen enjoys spending time with her family, dogs, and going on adventures with friends and family.

As a mom herself, Lacie has a passion for children and enhancing the parent-child relationship through play and behavior management techniques. Lacie’s clinical interests include early childhood, anxiety, depression, adjustment issues, stress, grief/loss, self-esteem, and trauma.

In her free time Lacie enjoys spending time with her family and friends, being outdoors, traveling, and participating in group fitness classes.

She has worked extensively with those that have experienced complex trauma, as well as co-occurring mental health disorders and neurodiversity, including Autism Spectrum Disorder,
ADHD, and Developmental Disorders.

Mary Beth utilizes an eclectic and holistic approach to counseling with a trauma-informed lens. She incorporates a variety of modalities, such as cognitive behavioral, strengths based, and acceptance and commitment within her sessions. She feels the most important part of therapy is developing trust and creating a safe space to explore, process, and express emotions. She achieves this by ensuring her clients are heard and feel validated. She makes each client’s journey individualized based on one’s specific needs, wants, and circumstances.

Mary Beth is passionate about helping others recognize their full potential, especially those that have experienced trauma or struggle with anxiety disorders. She finds that individuals are often their biggest barrier to their own success and happiness. She helps clients find their own voice, feel that they are worthy of investing time and energy into caring for themselves, and setting healthy boundaries to do so.

In her free time, Mary Beth enjoys being in nature and finding new and adventurous places in which to explore with her family. She loves finding cool waterfalls, beaches, and anywhere else she can listen to the water, view a beautiful sunset, and relax. She also enjoys attending all of her children’s sports events and performances, as well as trying her luck at gardening, and watching True Crime and Reality TV.

Beth uses an eclectic approach to counseling. She believes that the therapeutic relationship is the most important aspect of counseling. She strives to help clients feel as though they are hanging out and chatting in a living room or coffee shop, not in a stuffy clinical setting. She incorporates aspects of CBT, DBT, Sand Tray Therapy, and client centered therapy into her work. Her therapy is trauma informed and she has training in trauma focused behavioral therapy and sand tray therapy.

Beth works with adolescents (12 and up) as well as adults. She specializes in treating depression anxiety, adjustment issues, ADHD and trauma. She has a special interest in adoption and enjoys working with all members of the adoption community.

In her free time, Beth enjoys going on adventures with her daughter, reading, doing projects around the house, and watching documentaries to learn cool stuff.

She is passionate about assisting people in getting in touch with their deepest identities and inherent worth as individuals. She utilizes a strengths-based approach to draw out the gold in every individual. Christine believes in empowering people to achieve their goals and dreams and becoming their best selves.

Christine enjoys working with people of all ages and backgrounds, especially adolescents and the LGBTQ community. She is also passionate about relationships and enjoys working with couples. She is trauma-informed and utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to help people manage their thoughts and emotions. She also believes that a holistic approach is best and incorporates art, mindfulness, meditation, music, drumming, movement, and other spiritual approaches to achieving emotional freedom. She works with clients to heal traumatic memories and experiences to help relieve symptoms of PTSD.

Christine strongly believes that freedom is possible for every individual and utilizes her intuition and listens closely to clients’ goals and desires to help them achieve that freedom.

In her free time, Christine enjoys traveling, camping in the woods, hiking, painting, participating in drum circles, gardening, going to concerts, and hanging out with her 5 children and grandchild.

Lindsay’s clients would describe them as patient, compassionate, warm, and humorous. Her counseling style is humanistic and person-centered, often with a strengths-based and social justice lens. Lindsay specializes in working with neurodivergence, OCD, gender identity, and anxiety, and works primarily with ages 10+ and the LGBTQIA+ community. Above all, providing all of their clients with a safe space to explore, heal, and grow is Lindsay’s top priority.

Meghan’s clinical experience has focused largely on helping youth and families build cohesion, reduce conflict, and enhance individual and family functioning. She has experience working with individuals and families that have experienced trauma, and individuals diagnosed with depression, anxiety, ADHD, substance use disorders, and more.
Her provision of care is trauma-informed and strengths-based with an eclectic approach to treatment. She utilizes tenets of CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, play therapy, and mindfulness to help clients identify goals and implement effective coping skills. When working with her clients, her top priority is making sure that they feel at ease by creating a sense of safety and comfort.

On her days off, Meghan enjoys gardening, snuggling with her cats, watching true crime documentaries, and reading.

Stacy enjoys working with people of all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship styles. Her clinical interests include relational discord and satisfaction, improving communication and intimacy, holistic wellness, and mindfulness. Whether it’s addressing mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression or seeking to improve or restore connection with a partner, Stacy helps people overcome the obstacles and negative cycles that are preventing them from having more fulfilling lives and relationships.

Having a safe space to discuss your fears and concerns is of the utmost importance and Stacy strives to make sure each person feels comfortable, heard, and understood. She uses a client-centered, solution-focused approach to therapy and incorporates tools from a variety of therapeutic styles (CBT, Narrative, Gottman, and others) to tailor a customized approach to each client she works with. In her spare time, Stacy enjoys finding new hobbies to try, including roller skating, rock climbing, cooking, drawing, and learning new languages.

Kathleen’s main areas of clinical experience has been working members of the LGBTQIA+ community and parents struggling with mental health issues both post partum and beyond. Kathleen has experience with a variety of Mental Health diagnoses including Depression, anxiety, trauma disorders, bipolar disorder, and dual diagnosis of substance use and Mental health disorders. She utilizes a strengths based approach incorporating skills from CBT, DBT, Seeking Safety, Motivational Interviewing, Harm Reduction, and trauma informed care.

In her free time Kathleen enjoys several hobbies including crochet, playing dungeons and dragons, reading, and gardening. Kathleen also enjoys going on little adventures with her husband and two children.

Caroline has had the privilege of working with adolescents (12-18), individual adults and couples. She has experience working as a counselor in academic settings as well as private practice.  When working with adolescents, Caroline has encouraged family members to be present in order to best help her clients. Having completed the Level 1 training in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy, she feels very comfortable working with couples and finds joy in helping them strengthen their relationship.

Caroline uses an eclectic approach to counseling, but primarily focuses on CBT, motivational interviewing, person centered, and solution focused approaches. She strives to tailor the counseling experience to fit her clients’ needs. Caroline specializes in treating adjustment issues, anxiety, relationship issues, and helping clients navigate role changes.

In her spare time, Caroline enjoys spending time with her husband and dog (Minnie), learning new recipes, traveling, and practicing pilates.

Leah attended Kent State University for some additional courses in order to build a strong foundation for continuing to work as a counselor in a new state. Leah has been working as a therapist for children, adolescents, and adults for 7 years in clinical outpatient settings.

Leah specializes in working with ADHD and teaching skills for executive functioning, as well as anxiety, depression, and parent-child relationship skills. Leah believes that counseling creates a safe and authentic environment in which individuals can identify barriers interfering with their journey to become the best version of themselves. Through processing thoughts and feelings in a non-judgmental setting, Leah believes individuals can learn skills for coping with stress and identifying how to communicate needs appropriately with others.

Leah utilizes an eclectic and person-centered approach to counseling in order to meet the individual where they are at each week, while also providing the guidance and support needed to take skills from the counseling office and utilize these in real life settings. Leah spent a few years learning and teaching yoga while living in Alabama, and she believes awareness of the mind and body are so important to continue in personal growth.

In her free time, Leah enjoys exploring state parks, yoga, rock climbing with friends and spending time with her dog, Daisy.

 Kim believes in the importance of utilizing an eclectic approach to counseling with understanding that each client is unique and should be treated as such. Kim incorporates treatment approaches such as mindfulness, CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing to establish a client-centered approach. Kim strives for a relaxed therapeutic environment utilizing compassion, non-judgment, and humor to allow clients to feel comfortable working on their goals. Kim encourages clients to be able to identify and understand their strengths to utilize these strengths to aid in overcoming their challenges. She utilizes trauma-informed therapeutic practices and believes in the importance of meeting clients where they are at to address treatment goals. Kim’s clinical interests include anxiety, adjustment issues, depression, self-esteem, stress and trauma.

 In her free time, Kim enjoys being out in nature, spending time with friends and family, traveling, reading, baking, and cuddling with her cats, Penelope, Apollo and Olive. 

Jasmine uses the following modalities in her treatment: EMDR, TF-CBT, Narrative Therapy for Trauma, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy(CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy(DBT) for depression, anxiety, ADHD, Gottman method to treat couples.

Jasmine is currently working towards obtaining her certification in EMDR. Finally she is also working towards becoming duly licensed by adding a license in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) license very soon.

Jasmine has been married for 14 years with three beautiful children. She enjoy listening, serving and helping others. She loves to laugh, sing, listen to music and strives to help you feel at comfortable. 

Amber has experience working in home and office-based outpatient settings, along with child and adolescent crisis intervention in the community. She specializes in couples counseling with additional training in sexuality, including issues in sexual functioning, communication, emotional connection, restoring trust and intimacy after recovery from problematic sexual behavior, and diverse sexual relationships (poly, kink, etc).

In addition, Amber provides individual counseling with adults and children, along with family therapy. As an LGBTQ+ ally, she is passionate about conducting research and working with sexual and gender minority populations. Amber approaches therapy from an Emotionally Focused and Systemic lens, where a safe space is created to look at mental health and relationship concerns in context rather than being seen as something that “needs fixed” within an individual.  

She has worked with clients experiencing life transitions, anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, adjustment issues, and other concerns. Sarah is an LGBTQ+ ally.  She strives to provide a safe and inviting therapeutic environment to encourage clients to make positive changes.

 

Sarah believes we are always learning. She uses an eclectic process which involves various evidence-based treatment modalities, including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Person-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is passionate about using the creative process in the form of art therapy. This process sometimes looks like making sense of past experiences to gain a deeper understanding of those events. Other times, Art therapy is a means of expressing oneself or even exploring the self.Typical materials used include colored pencils, crayons, watercolors, oil pastels, magazines, and air dry clay, but the possibilities are endless. Art therapy is truly about the art making process, not the product.

 

Sarah’s goal is for each client to feel seen and heard while being their authentic selves, in a judgement-free space. With Sarah, there will be humor, support, and warmth. She is a lover of quotes, metaphors, and pros/cons lists. She believes therapy is a space for learning and growth, whether that be gaining skills that will make positive changes in her clients’ lives, or a change in perspective to see things differently.  In her free time, Sarah enjoys traveling, exploring national parks, being creative, and spending quality time with family and friends.

She has a background of working as a counselor in private practice and in adoption through a private adoption agency. Brooke has a person-centered, humanistic focus and utilizes other approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. She strives to create a warm environment for clients to feel comfortable opening up and to encourage personal growth. Brooke has experience in treating anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and self-esteem issues, and more.

In her free time, Brooke enjoys spending time with her boyfriend and family, cuddling her two cats, reading, painting, traveling, and watching her guilty pleasure, reality TV.