Name: Celestia Clark

Title: Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Credentials: LCSW

I understand how overwhelming it can feel to start therapy, especially if you’re wondering whether it will help, or feeling like you ‘should’ already be further along in your healing. The truth is, you don’t have to come in with everything figured out—that’s what this space is for. My role is to meet you exactly where you are and walk with you from there. Together, we’ll take things one step at a time, at a pace that feels safe and comfortable for you. My approach is to create a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental space where you can share openly, explore your experiences, and feel truly understood. From there, we’ll take each step at your pace, focusing on what matters most to you and helping you find your way forward.

Experience

Celestia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and graduate of the University of New England, where she earned her Master’s degree in Social Work. For over seven years, she has supported clients on their path to healing while navigating challenges such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and psychotic disorders. Celestia also brings experience in helping individuals work through grief, adjust to military life and transitions, and build healthier interpersonal boundaries while navigating conflict with greater ease.

Client Focus

Individuals, Teens (ages 15 and up)

Types Of Therapy

CBT, DBT, Solution-focused, Emotion-centered, Trauma-informed, Attachment-based

Areas Of Focus

Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma with specialization in Grief, Parenting Challenges, and Interpersonal Boundaries

More Than Just My Work

“The mountains are calling and I must go.” –John Muir

I love spending time in nature and try to be outdoors as often as I can. There’s something deeply grounding and calming about the freedom and openness of the natural world, and it’s a space where I find balance and renewal. I also love gardening and preserving my own food. I’m happiest when I’m outside, getting my hands dirty, and just working with the earth.

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Name: Ashley Huntington

Title: Licensed Professional Counselor

Credentials: MA, LPC

For therapy to be effective in facilitating healing and change, the therapeutic relationship has to be one of immense rapport and trust. My goal is to create an environment where clients can feel genuinely seen and understood, creating the safety needed in order to risk the discomfort and vulnerability therapy requires. I dedicate myself to the practice of curiosity and humility to honor the depth and multifacetedness of each client and their own story.

I love how therapy is unique in that it’s both a form of science and art. Using evidence-based therapy models and interventions, I aim to work with each client to weave those within the fabric of their own life. I respect and tend to the immediate need of managing certain symptoms, while specializing in a comprehensive approach in which I guide clients through the process of understanding, accepting, and integrating their own story. It is often referred to as a story-forward, rather than symptom-backward, approach which works to produce lasting transformation. It is one of the greatest honors of my life to do this work, and few things bring me as much joy as when I witness the beautiful tapestry of the life a client is able to live as a result of the work we do together.

Experience

Ashley graduated with her Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in 2020 with also having completed the necessary degree coursework for the Marriage and Family Therapy specialization. She is now a Licensed Professional Counselor, dually licensed in Alaska and Louisiana. While in graduate school in New Orleans, Ashley worked as a crisis intervention counselor at a local community center that served expecting mothers and young families. She continued this work post-graduation while simultaneously starting her career at a private practice in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There she served a clientele of children, teenagers, adults, couples, and families. Both at the community center and private practice, she also led Relationship Attachment Model (R.A.M.) psychoeducational groups geared towards teenage girls and young women.

Throughout graduate school, Ashley trained in several trauma models, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Story-Informed Trauma Therapy (SITT) (a comprehensive nine-stage model designed for adult survivors of abuse), and Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), which is a childhood trauma model developed to care for the attachment and neurological needs of children in foster care and adoptive families. In 2023, she built upon TBRI’s foundation by completing the year-long Training in Adoption Competency (TAC) program to become an adoption-competent therapist for birth families, adoptive families, and adoptees.

Client Focus

Adults and Couples, as well as Teens, Children, and Families

Types Of Therapy

While Ashley utilizes SITT and TBRI as her foundational therapeutic frameworks, she also heavily incorporates concepts and tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and The Gottman Method. Additionally, she completed the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) Certification in 2023, which can be administered to assist the nervous system in restoring itself to fluidity by listening to filtered music that targets the vagus nerve.

Areas Of Focus

More Than Just My Work

“You either walk into your story and own your truth, or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness.” -Brene Brown

A New Orleans native, I moved to Homer in 2023 with my husband and our labradoodle, and we welcomed our baby boy soon thereafter. We are still learning how to be Alaskan and ever aware of the learning curve (especially when it comes to snow and ice!), but there is so much to love about living here. To name a few, I love how the view from our house looks different every day - and even hour - due to the convergence of light, clouds, and sky color at that point in time. I love how each season carries a unique scent to the air. I love how caring of a community Homer is. Not to mention, living here has also made me appreciate a good shopping trip in the lower 48!

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Name: Kyla Dammann

Title: Social Work Practicum Student

Credentials: MSc

Hi, I’m Kyla. I know what it feels like to be stuck in my head and wondering if anyone truly understands me. I’m here because I deeply believe in the ability of therapeutic relationships to help us navigate this wild and precious life. My approach is with genuine warmth and directness (no sugarcoating, but zero judgment). I believe in weaving community resources and relationships into the process, honoring you as a whole, interconnected being. I promise to meet you where you are with empathy that’s real, communication that’s clear, and a therapeutic space that invites authenticity.

From an intersectional lens, I blend strengths-based and systems-focused therapy. I love to work with teens and young adults. I am passionate about creating, facilitating, and participating in community-oriented spaces where people from diverse backgrounds feel safe being vulnerable, processing and addressing challenges, and building life skills. I am a practicum student completing a Masters of Social Work through the University of Alaska Anchorage. I have worked in teen mental health for most of my adult life and am excited to be continuing that journey with Maitri Holistic Therapy and Wellness. When I’m not here, I can be found exploring the Alaskan wilderness, playing with my dog, or making music.

Experience

Kyla is a practicum student working on a Master’s degree in Social Work through the University of Alaska Anchorage. She has a Master’s of Science in Violence, Conflict and Development from the London School of Oriental and African Studies, where she studied the spectrum of violence and how it impacts people locally and globally. Starting as a peer supporter, she has supported teen mental health since she was one. She has worked as a challenge course facilitator, outdoor trip leader, after school program coordinator, and as an in-school adult supporter. She is passionate about creating, facilitating, and participating in community-oriented spaces where youth from diverse backgrounds feel safe being vulnerable, processing and addressing challenges, and building life skills. She is also passionate about the therapeutic capacity of outdoor adventure. She is most excited when these things happen at the same time!

Client Focus

Teens and young adults

Types of therapy

Strengths-based, Motivational Interviewing, CBT, DBT, Solution-Focused, Experiential Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Psychoeducation, Gender-Affirming, Expressive Arts, Mindfulness, Group Therapy

Areas Of Focus

Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, Behavioral Issues, Coping Skills, LGBTQIA2S+, Mood Disorders, Oppositional Defiance, Peer Relationships, Professional Burnout, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self Esteem, Self Harm, Stress, Suicidal Ideation.

More Than Just My Work

“To be soft is to be powerful” -Rupi Kaur

Riding my bike really, really far; listening to and making music; being in the wilderness.

When I was a kid, I spent my summers working in a factory packing blueberries.

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