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cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and eclectic modalities for that client.

Beginning therapy can feel like a big step, whether you’re looking for support right now or navigating an upcoming transition. My goal is to create a space that feels warm, welcoming, and genuinely safe for you to show up as you are. In our work together, we’ll focus on helping you better understand yourself and make changes that feel realistic and sustainable. Sessions may include both reflection and practical steps forward, depending on what feels most helpful to you. I recognize that societal systems, bias, and discrimination can have a real impact on mental health, relationships, and sense of self. As a queer-identifying therapist, I offer gender-affirming, celebratory care and work closely with individuals from marginalized communities. I often support clients navigating identity, relationships, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Together, we’ll work toward helping you feel more grounded, more confident, and better able to move through challenges with clarity. I have experience supporting both individuals and couples as they move through periods of change and uncertainty. Over time, clients often find they feel more connected to themselves, more secure in their decisions, and better able to handle what life brings. If you’re considering therapy, you don’t need to have everything figured out to reach out. Reaching out doesn’t commit you to anything. It’s simply a chance to see if this feels like a good fit.

Jim Houck is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who has been involved in the clinical mental health field since 1996. He is also a retired pastor and university professor who has trained others pursuing their counseling degree at various levels of professionalism. Jim has experience counseling people who have had near-death experiences, and he helps them integrate their spirituality with their mental health challenges. He believes that all people have the answers within themselves. Jim’s experiences with Native American, European, and Hindi cultures have given him a keen sense of intergenerational patterns among these populations.

Mariah Williams is a Licensed Marriage and (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)) with 2 years of experience in the field. She has worked with a range of age groups, from children to adults. Mariah specializes in trauma, crisis intervention, anxiety, depression, panic, and life transitions. As someone with a physical disability, Mariah has personal experience adapting to unique obstacles and finding creative ways to navigate unexpected challenges. She hopes these experiences help her better understand her clients’ challenges with empathy and support a collaborative approach in therapy.

I am at ease in treating adults with stress, trauma, anxiety and depression; and I bring a sense of calm and presence to difficult conversations, always looking for the opportunity for clients learning, growth and improvement regardless of the circumstances.

My approach to healing is personalized, collaborative, and centered on helping you feel heard and understood. I believe mental health care should address the whole person—not just a diagnosis. Through comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and thoughtful medication management, we’ll work together to develop a treatment plan that supports your goals, daily functioning, and overall well-being. Medication management follow-up visits may also include brief supportive interventions, with a referral for ongoing intensive therapy with a counselor or social worker.

You've worked hard to build a successful career and establish yourself as a respected professional. People know you as someone competent, dependable, and always finds a way forward—a person of unwavering integrity. On the outside, you appear calm and in control, but inside, you carry a quiet, invisible burden: the constant pressure to get everything right, hide your fears, and stay productive—even when you're overwhelmed. You rarely give yourself permission to rest, set boundaries, or ask for help—leaving your own needs hidden beneath the surface. The behaviors and emotional patterns that bring you to therapy are not signs that something is wrong with you. They are ways you learned to cope and protect yourself in response to your earliest experiences with caregivers. Healing doesn't come from pushing yourself to do more—it begins with understanding these adaptations with compassion and gently helping your nervous system discover what true safety and connection can feel like. My approach is collaborative and attuned. We'll bring gentle curiosity to your experiences, exploring how your protective patterns once helped you survive and shaped the way you relate to yourself and others—always at a pace that feels safe and supportive. Together, we'll integrate somatic practices, mindfulness, and experiential work to cultivate safety, connection, and self-trust—laying the groundwork for meaningful, lasting change.

I provide a safe and empathic treatment environment for clients. Treatment is tailored to the needs of the individual client and in collaboration with the client. I use a variety of treatment modalities, depending upon the needs of the client, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, EMDR trauma therapy, clinical hypnosis, sex therapy, AEDP, and Somatic Experiencing.

It is my sacred honor to help people with their deepest and most personal issues: their ancient wounds, in their lives within and without; their deepest hopes and fears, dreams and longings, and the blocks that interfere with creating their lives and finding and birthing their Selves. It saddens me deeply to see our world being offered "quick fixes," "bandaids," and "get over it" or "transcend it" philosophies for dealing with life's deepest wounds and traumas. It saddens me to see people being offered symptom "management" instead of real healing -- managing thoughts, feelings, and more -- leaving the real wound beneath the symptom, beneath the surface to continue to haunt them in their lives. It saddens me to see our world encouraging people to repeat as adults what they did as children - repress their feelings and find defenses to keep them away. For children, this is sanity- and life-saving. For adults, this is society degrading feeling and keeping us emotionally stuck, emotionally unmatured. For adults, this is society working against our healing, our growing, our transforming, our becoming all we can be. It saddens me to see us go 'round and 'round the vicious cycle of cause and effect when we leave our own individual wounds unhealed -- deeply affecting the state of our world and our country -- and then when the state of our world and country, in turn, triggers those same unhealed wounds within us. I bring to clients a message of lasting healing, healing to the root. I help people find and claim their own wounds, commit themselves to the real work of healing inside and out, work at their organic rhythm and pace to build their capacity to feel, and more. I also help people recognize the link between their individual healing and the healing of our planet. With a passion for safety and for healing to the root, I am committed to helping heal and transform our world one-by-one and on a global scale.

I am a relational and psychodynamic therapist. My aim is to better understand your life experiences and relationships and explore whether they are contributing to or challenging your day-to-day well-being. The relationship we build will be an important part of increasing understanding and creating a place where the healing process can begin. Therapeutic goals vary; however, individual insights can create opportunities for perspective shifts in how we feel about ourselves, our experiences, and our relationships. Throughout this process, many of my clients find symptom relief as they develop a greater capacity to tolerate and regulate challenging emotions. I specialize in working with adolescent and adult males. I have worked extensively with men dealing with anxiety, depression, early trauma, anger management, substance abuse, and grief and loss.

My name is Irlande Stavien, and I have been working in mental health for the past 13 years. My path into this field began with a desire to better understand people, their struggles, their resilience, and the many ways life can shape emotional well-being. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Psychiatric Rehabilitation, as well as a master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

Greetings! My name is Lenda. I am a bilingual counselor. I have been a counselor for eight years. I chose this career because I personally know someone who struggled with mental health challenges. It is gratifying to see my clients make progress and build a better life through our work together. I have experience working with individuals who struggle with depression and anxiety symptoms on a daily basis. I have also worked with people who have experienced sexual abuse and other crimes. I use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills in sessions. I continue taking trainings to better support my clients.