Meet Our Team

Our Story

We are a couple and a couple of counselors who decided to branch out into private practice after the pandemic left us feeling like the work at our agencies wasn't reaching the people we were called to help. This is a journey for us just as much as it is for our clients, and we cannot wait to help you achieve your goals.

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At Calibrations Counseling you will find warmth and comfort you can sink into in order to do the deeper work that therapy calls for. We hope you find some solace in knowing that we are human too, and just like you, we have the life experience that makes us question ourselves sometimes.

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Calibrations Counseling & Consultation was founded by Emily and Andrew Linder, both licensed professional clinical counselor supervisors (LPCC-S) in Ohio. The practice is based in Barberton, Ohio and serves clients statewide via telehealth, with limited in-person availability. Our work centers on neurodivergent-affirming and LGBTQIA+-affirming care, and our team brings both clinical expertise and lived experience to every session.

What We Believe

Therapy works best when you feel genuinely safe. Not performatively welcomed, not tolerated, but actually seen and understood. That requires warmth, yes, but it also requires honesty, clinical depth, and a therapist who isn't afraid to sit in the uncomfortable places with you.

We also believe that a lot of the people who struggle most in traditional therapy aren't struggling because therapy doesn't work. They're struggling because the therapy they've encountered wasn't built with their brain in mind.

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That's a big part of why we specialize in neurodivergence.

Who We Work With

Our practice centers on adults navigating:

• ADHD — including late-identified adults who spent years wondering why everything felt so much harder than it seemed to for everyone else

• Autism — including assessment for adults who are seeking clarity about their neurotype

• Anxiety — especially the high-functioning, high-achieving kind that looks like success from the outside and feels like white-knuckling it from the inside

• Life transitions — career changes, relationship shifts, identity evolution, the messy in-between seasons

• Chronic illness — the emotional weight of living in a body that requires ongoing management and adaptation

• Trauma — with a nervous-system-informed, paced approach that doesn't ask you to go faster than your system can handle

We are proudly LGBTQIA+ affirming. Every client who walks through our virtual door deserves care that honors all of who they are.

We Are Human Too

One of the things we say to clients a lot is that we bring our whole selves to this work, not just our degrees. We are neurodivergent ourselves. We have navigated the same cultural pressure to perform normalcy, the same moments of questioning ourselves, the same learning curve of figuring out what it means to live well in brains that work differently.

That lived experience doesn't replace clinical training. But it does mean we're not working from theory alone. When you describe the particular exhaustion of masking through a workday, or the shame spiral that follows a task you still didn't finish, we know what you're talking about from the inside.

This is a journey for us just as much as it is for our clients. We are still growing, still learning, still calibrating. And we think that's exactly as it should be.

Why "Calibrations"

The name is intentional. Calibration isn't about achieving some fixed perfect state. It's about ongoing adjustment, finding what's accurate, what's working, what needs to shift. That's what therapy is. That's what building a sustainable life looks like. Not one dramatic transformation, but a thousand small recalibrations over time.

That's the work we want to do with you.

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