Jennie Wilson
Owner
Step By Step Counseling was founded in 2009 by Jennie Wilson, MA, LPC, RPT-S, with a simple but meaningful vision: create a place where people feel supported, understood, and genuinely cared for. As the need for mental health services in our community grew, the practice expanded into its current space in 2013. That growth was never just about size. It was about creating room for collaboration, creativity, and connection. Our current space allows our counseling practice to accommodate additional therapists and offer an increased number of programs and services. Jennie envisioned that the therapists would operate not just as a multidisciplinary team but as an interdisciplinary team. She wanted this model when delivering services to clients because interdisciplinary teams build on each other’s expertise and allow for collaboration and consultation. In some situations, more than one clinician may work with a family, offering different perspectives or services while staying connected as a team. This means families can often receive multiple supports in one place, without feeling fragmented or passed around.
Our therapists each bring their own specialties, interests, and clinical styles. Some focus on children, others on teens or adults. Some love group work, others thrive in individual or family therapy. What connects us is a shared commitment to ethical care, curiosity, and ongoing growth. We believe therapy works best when clients are thoughtfully matched with clinicians who are a good fit for their needs, personality, and goals. Step By Step Counseling serves children, adolescents, and adults through individual, group, family, and couples counseling. We aim to be a trusted mental health resource for the community, offering a wide range of specialties so clients can find care that truly fits them.
We are committed to being an inclusive and affirming practice. We respect and honor diversity across age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, culture, religion, and socioeconomic background. We strive to create a space where clients feel safe seeking care and where clinicians feel valued, supported, and encouraged to bring their full selves to their work.
Above all, we want people to feel comfortable when they walk through our doors. Whether you are a client looking for support or a therapist looking for a place to grow, we hope Step By Step Counseling feels like a place where you belong. How can we serve you?
3 Pillars
Our core values shape how we show up every day. They guide how we care for clients, support our team, and make decisions as a practice. Everything we do is grounded in three key pillars. When we hire new team members, make organizational decisions, or create new programs, we return to these principles to guide us.
Client Care
Connecting future clients to a clinician that’s a good fit as well as offering services and programs that clients need. We aim to provide high-quality care and implement the best therapeutic theory and techniques.
Community Care
Community involvement is important to us. We enjoy volunteering at community events or resource fairs, providing presentations each month at local places of worship, employers, doctor offices, and schools. Furthermore, we want to implement and promote services or programs that our community asks for.
Clinician Care
We want our employees to know that we believe in them. We want our team to learn from and collaborate with each other. We also focus on the importance of employee self-care and allowing employees to focus on their long term career goals.
Values
Our therapists are unconditional with their clients and fellow employees. Our office accepts each person for who they are, and where they are. Racism and systemic inequality are not welcome in our practice. We are passionately committed to celebrating diversity (race, ethnicity, abilities, religious affiliation, gender, or sexual orientation). Therapists show unconditional positive regard to the clients in their office. This means that the therapist shows acceptance of the client by setting aside and being aware of their own personal opinions or biases.
Our therapists enjoy the work that they do. Step By Step Counseling is not a counseling practice (agency or organization) that assigns clients to therapists, in hopes that it works out…or that, the particular therapist is the only one who has an opening. Our therapists specialize in specific populations, and many times have obtained additional education and training to work with that specific population or diagnosis. Our therapists all have a niche, or clients who they enjoy working with.
Our therapists understand it takes courage to pursue your goals, to follow your dreams. We understand that it takes baby steps to become more confident in yourself. It takes small steps to heal from traumas and let go of past experiences.
We make mistakes, we have flaws, we struggle. It’s part of being human. We are here to help create solutions to those problems not excuses. Each person we serve has their own story and their own path. We want our clients to understand that we know they aren’t perfect and we are here to walk beside them as they face their fears and insecurities and become more confident in who they want to be. We are here to help you get up, and rise from your struggles. We also know that we as therapists, are also not perfect,
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