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Our Counselors

We are well-trained, warm, and thoughtful clinicians who thoroughly enjoy getting to know our clients. Our therapy is based on working with you in a collaborative, genuine and productive manner. As counselors, it’s important to us that you feel comfortable and connected so that we can build a positive working relationship where growth and change happen. Browse our valued team members below.

Anthony Borchardt, MSW, LCSW, PMH-C

Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Perinatal Mental Health Certified

• 11 years combined academic, professional, and clinical training
• Experience with stress and anxiety management, men’s issues for identity and masculinity, new parent transitions, addictions and gambling recovery, depression, and trauma
• Utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Mindfulness and Emotionally-Focused Therapy
• In-depth work providing trauma and crisis intervention
• Provides a supportive, empathic setting and empowers clients to become the healthiest version of themselves
• Provides supportive and collaborative work with clients through individual counseling and support for couples transitioning into the role of parenthood

Kelsey Manzi, MA, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

•Successful and passionate about working with client’s struggling with anxiety, shame, self-esteem, perfectionism, identity, relationship and sex difficulties, and trauma.
• Provides a genuine, collaborative, and safe therapy space for clients to help them discover and explore their authentic selves.
• Conducts individual and couples counseling services and incorporates mindfulness and strengths based approaches
• Dedicated to working with individuals of all backgrounds taking a multicultural approach and being culturally sensitive using a non-judgmental and non-assuming processes.
• Utilizes an integrative approach to counseling using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment Theory, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

Chris Edwards, MSW, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

• Offers a warm, welcoming therapy space for individuals and couples and seeks to balance curiosity with respecting boundaries
• Utilizes a strengths-based and trauma-informed practice that values how the skills that helped you survive are equally important as your struggles
• Trained in working with grief, loss, depression, and anxiety
• LGBTQIA+ affirming, kink-aware, and experience working with issues related to relationships (monogamous and non-monogamous/polyamorous)
• Experience working with clients struggling with alcohol and substance-use
• Trained in a developmentally sensitive and neurobiology-informed practice that considers how life experiences shape our bodies, our behaviors, and our understanding of the world

Anne Leiter, MA, LCPC

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor

• Passionate about collaboratively helping clients to develop healthy relationships with themselves and increase self-esteem
• Committed to helping clients explore and discover their authentic selves.
• Conducts individual and couples counseling
• Utilizes Psychodynamic approach, integrating Mindfulness Techniques, and Person-Centered Therapy
• Experience utilizing creative and artistic expression therapeutically

Lakeitta Harris, M.Ed., LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

• Incorporates collaboration and support to create a safe space for growth and self discovery
• Provides warmth, openness, non judgment, and affirming therapy
• Passionate about working with individuals and couples who have experienced challenging life transitions, stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma
• Utilizes mindfulness, and strength based interventions that helps with meeting clients where they are
• Conducts cognitive behavioral, acceptance and commitment, narrative, DBT, and trauma-focused therapy
• Dedicated to working with individuals from diverse backgrounds with emphasis for providing quality service to communities of color

Shannon Lieberman, MA, LPC

Licensed Clinical Counselor

• Creates a warm, comfortable, judgement-free environment to safely explore and gain insight.
• Utilizes a strengths-based approach, integrating Psychodynamic Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness techniques.
• Devoted to helping clients improve their self-esteem and relationship with themselves.
• Committed to inclusive, culturally sensitive therapy and social justice advocacy.
• Knowledgeable about non-traditional relationships such as consensual non-monogamy and kink dynamics.

Esther Kim, MA, Counselor

• Values connecting and building relationships with clients
• Dedicated to co-creating a supportive, comfortable space that honors personal needs and processes
• Provides affirming care that welcomes all aspects of a client’s identity, culture, and lived experience
• Integrates Existential, Narrative, ACT, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and mind-body-spirit concepts
• Passionate about exploring and understanding the human experience

Mackenzie Muller, MA

Counselor

• Works with both couples and individuals in life transitions, intimacy, relationships, relational trauma, emotional and identity development
• Passionate about working with individuals in strengthening their relationship to self and others.
• Works in a collaborative, warm and safe environment for clients to explore
• Utilizes CBT, ACT, mindfulness, EFT and existential/transpersonal frameworks
• Prioritizes building trust and deepening connection to clients that fosters a healing space.
• Strong ability to adapt to meet clients unique needs where they are at and what they need while still empathetically challenging them.
• Passionate about working with LGBTQIA+, sex positive, and trauma informed.

Brian Howard, M.Ed., LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

• Emphasis on meeting clients where they are at through a warm, authentic, and caring space
• Experience working with major life transitions and exploring identity development, especially with emerging adults
• Passionate about working with clients holding marginalized identities, in particular LGBTQIA+ communities
• Utilizes a collaborative, strengths-based approach with an emphasis on exploring meaning making in clients’ lives
• Approaches supporting clients from a trauma-informed lens
• Conducts individual and couples counseling sessions

Brian Hyland, M.Ed., LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor

• Passionate and honored to help individuals resume or begin their therapeutic journey
• Creates a warm, safe space where clients can explore, question, process, and deal with difficult emotions while feeling heard and seen
• Experienced with anxiety, depression, self-esteem and shame, career changes and exploration, identity, relationships, family dynamics, men’s issues, and those suffering burnout in helping professions
• Collaborates with client to co-author their story and process challenging situations and experiences
• Utilizes counseling frameworks such as person-centered, Attachment Theory, Mindfulness, Solution-Focused Therapy, and strength-based approaches

Chelsea Cooks, MA

Level Counseling Intern

• Dedicated to providing a warm and welcoming space for clients to feel understood
• Acknowledges clients’ intersected identities and lived experiences
• Passionate about working with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities
• Devoted to helping clients improve their relationships with themselves and others
• Committed to inclusive and culturally sensitive therapy and social justice advocacy

Zoë Engling, Office Manager

Office Manager

• Background in mental health administration
• Style of client care is grounded in working with a diverse client base
• Fosters trust based on unique client needs
• Client care coordinator and intake call coordinator
• Provides operational and clinician support
• Point on medical billing

100% of Client Reviews Gave Psychological & Counseling Associates

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“I have been working with Corey for more than 3 years and I am so grateful that I found her. She has helped me transform the way I think about myself and others and my quality of life is infinitely better than it was a couple of years ago. I know that she hears what I’m saying, believes that my story matters, and cares about me. She has made such a positive difference in my life and I absolutely recommend her to anyone looking for a therapist.”

Emily W.via Yelp

“Alexandra is warm, attentive, and I knew I could come into sessions and express myself fully or explore my thoughts without judgement. I can’t overstate how valuable that dynamic was. Alex asks challenging, thoughtful questions which force you to think deeper about your feelings and motivations. A great therapist – someone you’re comfortable with, listens, and challenges you, is a tremendous asset in life and I found that with Alex.”

“My experience Psychological & Counseling Associates has been absolutely incredible. My counselor is supportive, empathetic, professional & has helped me navigate through some significant life challenges. From relationship & life transitions to working through death and illness in my family… she always makes me feel like I am in a safe place to share while offering helpful tools to use in everyday life. I highly recommend any therapist on the Next Step team.”

Krystie R.via Yelp

“Ilene listened so well that she was sometimes able to sense my feelings/emotions better than I could. She could read between the lines of what I was saying and sense if I wasn’t feeling great about something. She wouldn’t let me get away with being unfair to myself and would always challenge me when I was. I feel so lucky to have found her and to have spent time working with her. I wouldn’t be as happy and healthy as I am today if it weren’t for Ilene.”

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