Colby Wilkins
Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern
Colby believes every client has a story to tell. Yet often the most important stories of our lives get buried, go untold, and become the source of great pain and loneliness. Colby hopes to come alongside and cultivate a non-judgmental, courageous, and collaborative space for clients to explore and name the story they are living in. Moving curiously through one's story with a compassionate witness can bring immense freedom and a renewed sense of wholeness and agency.
Colby enjoys working with adults and teens with a variety of struggles. He utilizes evidence-based treatments, specializing in anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, family/relationship issues, military-related issues, and spiritual abuse.
Colby earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Covenant College and his M.Div. and M.A. in Counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary. He brings with him a decade of pastoral and chaplain experience. His interests include spending time with his wife and kids, sipping on coffee, cheering on the Orlando City soccer club, drawing, and figuring out how to play his favorite songs on the guitar.
Sarah Born
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Sarah is trained in a relational style of counseling and uses a variety of theoretical approaches tailored to the uniqueness of each client’s personality and circumstance. Sarah is passionate about providing a comfortable and safe environment that enables individuals to feel welcomed and accepted. She enjoys working with adolescents, adults, couples and families. Sarah works with a variety of issues including physical, sexual and emotional abuse, depression, anxiety, self-harm and relationship conflict.
Sarah graduated with her Master’s degree in Counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary. She loves life and embraces the adventures of each new day.
Ashleigh McLeod
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Ashleigh is passionate about helping individuals and families discover a deeper sense of who they are. She enjoys coming alongside her clients and offering hope and healing in places where they feel stuck. Ashleigh creates a strong connection with her clients which she believes is foundational for facilitating growth and change. She enjoys working with individuals dealing with relational struggles, burnout, trauma, sexual issues, anxiety, and depression. Ashleigh is also trained in EMDR.
After serving in ministry in California for nearly ten years, Ashleigh earned her M.A. in Counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary. While the west coast feels like home, she is finding joy and adventure in exploring the Orlando area and discovering the best places to sip on a warm cup of coffee, and as a foodie, the best non-chain restaurants.
Angela Burleigh
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Angela’s heart as a counselor is to walk alongside people during difficult periods of their lives —helping them hold on to hope for true healing as they navigate the hurts, habits, and hang-ups that cause them to feel stuck. She’s had to do lots of difficult work in her own spiritual and emotional journey, and can appreciate how exhausting, confusing, and intimidating this process can be.
Angela takes a holistic approach to counseling by looking at how God designed our physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual natures to interact with each other. She has experience with a variety of areas including singleness, phase of life issues, codependency, spiritual numbness, depression, anger, anxiety, trauma, miscarriage, relationship stress, and marriage conflict. She draws from several counseling methodologies like Relational/Narrative Therapy, Existential Therapy, EMDR, Neuroscience, Mindfulness, Play Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Angela received her master’s degree in counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary in Oviedo, and is also trained to use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) and administer the PREPARE/ENRICH couples assessment tool.
When she’s not counseling, Angela loves reading a good story, sipping strong coffee, and going on adventures. Before she was married, that included traipsing the world doing cross-cultural mission work. Now, as a wife of a fun-loving elementary school teacher and mother of two rambunctious little ones, it’s morphed into trips to the zoo, science center, and a good hiking trail.
Kat Wilkins
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Kat seeks to create a safe, non-judgemental space for her clients. She believes that every person is created by God with dignity and worth, yet trauma and suffering often leaves individuals questioning their worth, beauty, and purpose.
Her style of counseling includes establishing a safe, collaborative relationship that is warm, respectful, and mutually open to feedback. She uses evidence-based treatments within a Christian framework while focusing on a holistic approach. She works with a variety of clients, specializing in trauma, Complex PTSD, spiritual abuse, anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, family/intimate relationships, and spirituality.
Kat earned her BA in English from Covenant College and her MA in Counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary. She has received training in trauma-informed practices, EMDR, Bowen Family Systems Theory, and Polyvagal Theory.
Kat recently relocated to Orlando, FL from Kansas City, MO. Previously, she lived in Indonesia, Taiwan, Toronto, Washington DC, & Austin, TX. She has over ten years of ministry and counseling experience. Her interests include travel, books, spending time with her husband & two kids (ages 7 and 4), interior decorating, and advocating on behalf of spiritual abuse survivors/victims.
Paul Wheatley
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Paul’s passion for the field of counseling has been deeply impacted by his own journey. After a season of devastating loss, he sought counseling when he realized his work life, and relationships were being impacted by the deep sadness and confusion that he was holding inside. His time in therapy helped him heal and start putting the pieces of his life back in order and sparked a deep joy and gratitude that led him to enter the field. Paul later earned a M.S. in counseling from Palm Beach Atlantic University.
Paul works with individuals and couples, as well as provides family counseling to adults, adolescents, and children. His approach is to create an open and safe environment centered on the client where their story can be shared, received, and affirmed without judgment. He considers it a privilege to help his clients walk through difficult times in their lives. Whether it is anxiety/depression, relationship/marriage issues, the loss of a loved one, unresolved trauma, sexual/pornography issues and addictions, career challenges/changes, self-esteem issues, or the unique challenges that come with being an adolescent or young adult, he would love the opportunity to spend the time working with you toward healing and change. Paul has been married for 35 years and enjoys spending time with his wife and three adult daughters.
Anna Kynast
Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern
Anna is committed to walking with clients as they engage their stories and move towards greater wholeness, providing a space for them to be seen and heard. She believes that as humans we are whole beings, created by God with dignity and complexity in mind, body, and soul. In light of this, her goal is to create a safe and welcoming environment for clients to explore their stories, learn about themselves, and experience flourishing in their move toward greater emotional, physical, and spiritual health.
Anna is interested in working with individuals, couples, and groups dealing with relational struggles, life transitions, cross-cultural adjustment, spirituality, family-of-origin issues, abuse, and trauma.
Originally from the mountains of western North Carolina, Anna holds a Bachelor’s degree in Global Studies from Appalachian State University and a Master’s Degree in Counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary. Prior to joining the staff at Redeemer, Anna worked with international student homestay programs around the country, as well as in ministry with Reformed University Fellowship at Davidson College. Outside of the counseling room, Anna loves to do freelance graphic design as a creative outlet, as well as write, travel, and discover local restaurants with her husband, Tim.
Madeline Allen
Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern
Madeline believes that the counseling room is a holy space that holds the capacity for transformation and healing. She believes the healing journey is the process of becoming more alive and living out of your inherent dignity. She considers it a great privilege to be invited into these spaces of others' lives. In light of this, she strives to create a space of safety, comfort, and collaboration where clients can experience transformation, growth, and freedom to explore.
Madeline enjoys working with individuals, couples, and groups. She has special interests in working with anxiety, depression, attachment issues, relational struggles, minority stress and trauma, spiritual burnout, struggle and abuse, family-of-origin issues, and complex trauma.
Originally from Texas, Madeline holds a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science from Oklahoma State University and a Master’s Degree in Counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary. Before moving to Florida, Madeline worked on staff with Campus Outreach for three years. Outside of the counseling room, she enjoys quality time with friends and her husband. She loves a good cup of coffee, playing with her two dogs, Ondra and Huck, and kayaking with Manatees.
Terri Fitts
Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern
Terri values building close relationships with her clients and believes that collaborative relationships are the key source for transformation. She views counseling as an intentional process of personal and spiritual development, and comes alongside clients by creating safety and space for process and lasting healing. Terri reinforces culturally responsive treatment that includes tailoring her skill set to meet client’s unique needs.
Terri offers individuals and couples counseling services to compassionately navigate emotions, thoughts, behaviors, difficult relationships, family needs and transitional phases of life. She joins her clients in exploring what is below the surface of depression, anxiety, relational issues, faith conflicts, body image, grief and trauma. She views the counseling journey from a developmental lens rooted in attachment theory, separation-individuation theory and research in neurobiology. Terri gained competency and fulfilled accreditation in the Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling program at the Townsend Institute, Concordia University Irvine.
Terri’s commitment to marriage and family is a passion which provides insight and strength to her professional life. She is married and has launched three young adults to college and beyond. To rest and restore, she enjoys walking with friends, reading, making holidays festive, fitness and morning coffee with her husband.
Meli Smith
Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern
Meli is deeply passionate about the work of counseling because she herself has experienced transformative change through the counseling process. She sees bravery in each client who steps into her office and desires to create a safe space for a person to be known. Meli believes change is possible for every client who has the desire, hope, and determination to take steps towards growth and healing. Meli has a particular passion for working with children and families. Meli lived overseas and grew up in a family where she was both a missionary kid (MK) third culture kid (TCK). In addition to children and families, Meli enjoys working with adults and couples. She considers it a privilege to walk alongside any person whether they are dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, marital issues, family conflict or a variety of other hardships.
Prior to pursuing her degree in counseling Meli was a teacher at several local elementary schools, and also worked alongside Christian ministries in the area by supporting, preparing, and debriefing children and families for their life overseas. Meli graduated from the University of Central Florida with a B.S. in Early Childhood Education and from Reformed Theological Seminary with her M.A in Counseling. Outside of the counseling room Meli enjoys adventuring around Orlando with her husband and toddler, attending UCF football games (Go Knights!) and reading a good book with a cozy blanket.
Ivan Kaufman
Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern
Ivan believes that no human is a stranger to pain. Suffering is often an unwanted companion on our journey through life that can bind us to our past, keep us from the present, and darken the future. But in order to find the light, we must first touch the darkness. It is in this space that Ivan is committed to walking with clients through their trials that they are experiencing.
Ivan works from a relational counseling modality because he believes that it is through interpersonal connection that we can experience our greatest healing. Ivan loves working with people of all backgrounds in any stage of life. He is particularly passionate about helping clients navigate issues surrounding sexuality, complex PTSD, and survivors of sexual abuse.
Ivan has degrees in Religion, Behavioral Sciences, and a MA in Clinical Counseling. Outside of the office, Ivan is always trying to learn something new and share a meal or beverage with the people he cares about most. He spends most of his free time reading, watching movies, dancing, playing table-top role-play and board games.
