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Jesse Cetz, MA

Julie Liszka
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Are you navigating one of these areas in your life?

  • Relationship issues
  • Marital conflicts
  • Intercultural communication
  • Racial/ethnic identity exploration
  • Systemic racism
  • Life transitions
  • Grief and loss
  • Menā€™s issues
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Premarital support

What would it look like to work with me?

I believe in helping you on your path toward flourishing relationships. I am a first-generation Latino with white privilege who grew up in a low-socioeconomic neighborhood. I received my masterā€™s degree from George Fox University in Marriage, Couples and Family counseling. I utilize an attachment-based approach (Emotionally Focused Therapy) that emphasizes change occurring in the therapy room with an exploration of core emotions at the root. I also use mindfulness as a way to gain awareness into the present moment. I have 4.5 years of experience in higher education helping young adults navigate racial/ethnic identities and life transitions. You can expect me to show up as the unique me because I value you bringing your unique you.

Potential counseling outcomes

  • Learning how to communicate with your partner
  • Feeling connected with your partner
  • Increased understanding of your internal world
  • Identifying and expressing your emotional needs

Abby Fleeter, MS

Julie Liszka
Marriage and Family Student Intern
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Are you and your partner(s) feeling a sense of disconnection, including changes in intimacy or trouble navigating expectations or trust in your romantic relationship?
  • Have you experienced a reproductive health loss and are hoping for a space to process?
  • Are you feeling stuck in patterns of conflict with your romantic partner, friends, family, or other people in your life?
  • Are you a teen or a parent/guardian of a teen who is struggling with self-esteem or academic pressure?

I Can Help.

  • I bring compassion, authenticity, and a sense of humor into my work with clients. My hope is to offer an open and supportive space for you to explore your experiences, relationships, fears, and strengths. We will work together to create a collaborative therapeutic relationship where you can feel heard and be yourself.
  • I use narrative and emotionally focused therapy approaches to support individuals, couples, and families in sharing and learning from their stories. This includes exploring the emotional impact of the narratives you have about yourself and taking leaps to try out new ways of relating to yourself and others. I also work from a systemic perspective, which means that Iā€™m interested in understanding how you are impacted by your relationships, communities, cultural contexts, and multigenerational stories.
  • I have a background in community mental health and I believe that healing happens every day in community spaces ā€“ through community-based music, art, sports, and connection. In therapy, exploring how you shape and are shaped by your community can be incredibly empowering.
  • Whether working with individuals, families, or couples/intimate partners, I believe that small changes can lead to bigger changes as we navigate the joy, loss, and hope that show up in our lives.

What can you expect?

  • A sense of hope for re-connection and intimacy in your romantic partnerships.
  • A deeper understanding of your emotional experiences and needs, and how those needs show up in different ways in your life.
  • In couples/intimate partner therapy, an opportunity to explore and practice ways of feeling more connected with each other when tackling challenges, as partners rather than as opponents.
  • Greater belief in yourself and your own capacity for growth, healing, and connection.

Shannon Liebel, MA

Julie Liszka
Professional Counselor Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Are you struggling with anxiety or depression symptoms?
  • Have you experienced past or current trauma?
  • Are you finding it difficult to adjust to life changes or transitions?

I Can Help.

  • With 12 years of experience of teaching yoga, breath work, meditation, and mindfulness, my experience in somatic practices helps to regulate the nervous system and strengthening the mind – body connection
  • With unconditionalĀ support, I help guide clients to self empowerment and enhance their sense of self worth

What can you expect?

  • My clients express having navigated difficult life transitions and come out on the other side feeling empowered and excited for their next chapter.
  • Resolving past and current trauma has allowed clients to be more present in relationships and more authentic in how they show up in their life.
  • Clients will leave with tools and somatic practices to help regulate their nervous system and keep symptoms of anxiety and depression at bay.

Jimmy Boyda, LPC

Julie Liszka
Licensed Professional Counselor
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Heal, grow, and create the life that aligns with your values.

Does this sound familiar?

  • Experiencing conflict or stress in relationships?
  • Ready to heal from past trauma?
  • Exploring questions about gender or sexuality?
  • Looking for greater meaning and direction in life?

I Can Help.

With a background in family therapy and education, I support children, teens, adults, and couples navigating family conflict, mood disorders, relationships, trauma, and gender/sexuality concerns. I provide compassionate, evidence-based guidance, helping you understand yourself, recognize your strengths, and build a life aligned with your values.

What can you expect?

  • Greater confidence, self-awareness, and self-acceptance
  • Practical tools for healthy relationships and conflict resolution

  • Increased resilience to handle lifeā€™s challenges and stressors

Letā€™s work together to create the life you want.

Nooshi Ghasedi, MA, NCC

Julie Liszka
Professional Counselor Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Youā€™ve experienced emotional trauma and want to process it in a safe environment.
  • Youā€™re navigating depression, anxiety, and life stressors.
  • You want to grow through lifeā€™s challenges while honoring your individual and/or cultural values.

I can help.

  • I offer an authentic and relatable style to create a space where you can feel safe to be fully yourself.
  • As a bicultural second-generation immigrant and woman of color, I understand the impacts of being ā€œotheredā€ and will validate your lived experiences.
  • My approach is collaborative, person-centered, and offered through a feminist lens of reduced power dynamics. YOU are the expert on yourself, and I am here to offer support along your journey.

What can you expect?

  • Achieve a deeper understanding of yourself and your patterns to create more self-awareness and the ability to foster the changes you seek.
  • Create a lifestyle where your needs are spoken and honored through intentional relationships (including with yourself!) and solid boundaries.
  • Identify your strengths to cultivate resilience to navigate lifeā€™s challenges with confidence and self-compassion.

I believe that self-awareness and self-compassion are the foundations to finding more emotional peace. Counseling is a partnership between therapist and client where we will explore conscious and unconscious patterns to find more emotional balance. I take a person-centered, trauma-informed, and feminist approach to therapy, and I draw from a variety of frameworks like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Strengths-Based perspectives. Therapy with me involves exploring and untangling the patterns keeping you stuck, so you can create a life that feels more balanced, intentional, and meaningful.

Libby Quinn, CSWA

Julie Liszka
Clinical Social Worker Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I specialize in:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Are you anticipating or experiencing a major transition and feeling overwhelmed by change?
  • Are you wanting to explore your fears, desires and anxieties or make better sense of their origins?
  • Do you find yourself navigating questions about identity and wanting to build a stronger sense of self?

I Can Help.

  • My approach focuses on understanding the deeper stories that shape our lives, helping clients to reframe their narratives and empower their personal growth.
  • My experience in social work, public policy and disability justice lead me to encourage clients to consider the larger systems at play, and reclaim agency in a sometimes imperfect, unpredictable world.Ā 

  • Using a strengths-based approach, I work with you to identify, build and reinforce the unique strengths and resources which support your pursuit of self-determination.

What can you expect?

  • You will be able to utilize your strengths and access your personal sources of power more readily, leaving you feeling grounded and autonomous.
  • Our work will be collaborative – together, we will explore identities, challenges and aspirations which are important to you, ultimately building resilience and autonomy.

  • You will be met with respect, patience and curiosity but also be encouraged to explore and expand your comfort zone, as it relates to self-advocacy and self-determination.Ā 


As a graduate of Smith College School of Social Work (Northampton, MA), I was trained in a range of modalities, with an emphasis on psychodynamic approaches. I strongly believe in the power – and fun! – of stories, and utilize narrative therapy principles to explore the impact of the stories we tell ourselves, as well as the larger narratives told about the identities we might hold. Having lived with a chronic illness since birth, my own disability experience has shaped how I invite clients to consider the role of social norms and expectations in the development of positive self-esteem. My practice borrows from relational therapy, in which I encourage clients to reflect on the impact of past or current relationships, including the working relationship which we shape together.Ā 

Rita Melnikova, MA

Julie Liszka
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Ā Experiencing a lack of accessibility, responsiveness and engagement in your relationship?

  • Feeling out of control and driven by strong and confusing emotions

  • Experiencing a sense of disconnection within oneself and with others?

I Can Help.

  • So much of what impacts us on a daily basis has roots in relationships; our relationships with people around us but also with ourselves. I seek to understand clientsā€™ needs in the context of their individual lives, experiences and relationships.

  • I am direct and efficient in my use of my models, utilizing Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with couples and Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) with individuals.

  • I know that life can get really messy, relationships can take many forms and sometimes the history people share together can seem too complicated to be understood. I am here to hear your story, follow your lead as the expert in your own life and support you in the changes that you want to make.

What can you expect?

  • Clients will walk away with more clarity about what they want for themselves and in their relationships, gaining skills in identifying, understanding and expressing their emotions.

  • Individuals participating in couples therapy will begin to express themselves more fully to their partners, while feeling supported and understood by them.Ā  They will find new collaborative ways to handle situations which have previously led to conflict and disconnection.

  • Clients will find themselves adopting an US vs. the PROBLEM stance more often than the ME vs. YOU stance when finding themselves in conflict with their partner.

  • Individual clients will experience a newfound sense of clarity in understanding their own emotions and where they come from. They will feel an increased sense of control in their lives and feel empowered to respond to lifeā€™s stress in a way that tends toward growth, calmness and security.

Brendan Moore, CSWA

Julie Liszka
Clinical Social Worker Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Are you or your teen navigating questions around identity (such as gender, culture, race, disability)?

  • Are you struggling with repetitive relationship or career conflicts that donā€™t make sense?

  • Are you trying to adapt to and make meaning out of a painful event (breakup, divorce, illness, death, or other loss)?

I Can Help.

  • I work with clients to identify and change how unconscious patterns from the past show up painfully in the present

  • My advanced training in psychoanalysis, literature, and feminist theory have taught me to focus not just on symptoms, but on the life story of the person in front of me

  • Culture and structures of exploitation contribute strengths and vulnerabilities to every personā€™s life, and I strive to welcome these concerns into the consulting room in a spirit of humility

What can you expect?

  • You will derive greater satisfaction and meaning from life, work, and relationships

  • You will experience more clarity on issues of identity, love, and long-term goals

  • You will find improved resilience in the face of lifeā€™s challenges

Mayan McDermott, MA

Julie Liszka
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Struggling with persistent burnout, no matter how much you try to recharge?
  • Consistently overwhelmed by your responsibilities, relationships, or reactions?
  • Feeling like you donā€™t belong or thereā€™s something wrong with you?

I Can Help.

  • My role as a therapist is to facilitate a personalized, collaborative space in which you feel safe, comfortable, and understood. What’s important to you is importantĀ to me.
  • You can expect me to meet you with compassion, authenticity, humor, and openness. I rely heavily on a trauma-informed therapeutic approach that emphasizes the connection between your mind and body.
  • As a neurodivergent therapist who was diagnosed later in life, I know firsthand the grief, confusion, and internalized ableism that can sometimes come along with this discovery. Together, we can figure out how to soothe your nervous system, heal your relationship with yourself, and get in touch with your innate resources.

What can you expect?

  • Feeling more calm, curious, clear, compassionate in your relationships – with yourself and with the people that matter most to you.
  • Make sense of longstanding patterns of behavior and resolve feeling “stuck” in various places in life.
  • Learn how to express yourself authentically, to experience yourself fully, and to know yourself deeply.

Noah Belcher, LCSW

Julie Liszka
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Finding clarity, balance, and joy in your everyday life.

Does this sound familiar?

  • Feeling stuck, lost, or directionless?
  • Overwhelmed with feelings of sadness or anxiety, making it difficult to foster happiness?
  • Struggling with a life transition?

I Can Help.

  • I have experience in both clinical and community-based settings, providing a perspective on how mental health impacts life at all levels of treatment.
  • I provide a mindfulness approach informed by evidence-based practices that are grounded in reality and tailored to the individual and their needs.
  • I use humor and irreverence to help identify strengths, skills, and goals in a genuine, supportive, nonjudgmental, safe space.

What can you expect?

  • Improved ability to cope with day-to-day stressors.
  • Greater capacity for change and identifying goals.
  • A renewed passion for connections and interests.

Collin King, LPC

Julie Liszka
Licensed Professional Counselor
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Struggling with self-criticism, self-hatred, worry, shame, and overthinking?
  • Wanting to explore identity, grief, or chronic health issues?
  • Feeling lost, wanting to die, or wanting to hurt yourself?
  • Having difficulty understanding or accepting aspects of yourself or your life?

I Can Help.

  • I know what it’s like to be both a therapist AND a client. I really believe in the power of therapy because I’ve seen the benefits in my own life.
  • I aim to be open and collaborative with everyone I work with, and I really try to understand. You’ll often hear me say things like, “I’m hearing this… am I tracking with you?”
  • One of my deep beliefs is this: “Our brains are always trying to protect us.” If we start from this more accepting place, then change can happen.

What can you expect?

  • More self-acceptance and understanding.
  • A shift from “This part of me is bad” to “Maybe this part of me serves a purpose.”
  • More tools for managing anxiety, anger, shame, numbness, and other difficult emotions

Christy Maeder, LCSW

Julie Liszka
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Current clients can book a therapy session here
I work with:
I Specialize In:

Does this sound familiar?

  • Struggling with anxiety, depression, or stress?
  • Experiencing difficulty coping with negative or traumatic life events?
  • Challenges with navigating life transitions, relationships, and feeling connected?

I Can Help.

  • I utilize a collaborative, client-centered, and strength-based approach.
  • I provide a warm, authentic, and creative environment to help you gain deeper insight and self-knowledge, as well as build skills and confidence to move forward.
  • I am passionate about this work and what can be accomplished in a non-judgmental, respectful alliance.

What can you expect?

  • Respect, empathy, and support. I provide a judgment-free space where you can openly express your thoughts, emotions, and concerns.
  • Improved communication skills and boundary-setting that lead to positive change in relationships.
  • Empowerment and self-discovery. I will work to empower you to explore your own thoughts and feelings, enabling self-discovery and personal insight.