Meet The Team
Celeste Ballard, LPC MHSP TN, LCPC IL, LPC WI, CMT, LPC GA
Celeste is the founder of Within Holistic Counseling and supervises all clinicians on the team. She has over 30 years of experience helping clients who are seeking to unseat long held patterns, and those who wish to face the root of the issues that may be preventing meaningful change and peace in their lives. She offers individual and couples counseling, as well as therapy and supervision for counselors in training.
Ebony has an empathetic approach to helping children, adolescents, and adults cope with life challenges and uncover their full potential. She enjoys working with clients seeking to heal from trauma and loss, navigate life transitions, and challenge unhelpful patterns on their journey to self-discovery.
Allison believes in helping clients make lasting changes using their inner strengths through a collaborative approach. She is certified in Child-Parent Psychology and specializes in working with ages 0-18.
Delaney Spillman, MA, LSC, NCC
Delaney uses a holistic approach to empower clients to rediscover purpose and joy in their life while navigating spiritual questions, grief, trauma, strained relationships, or life transitions. She specializes in integrating faith-based and creative interventions such as sand tray to help clients experience grace while uncovering patterns, challenging unhelpful thoughts and beliefs, and deepening awareness of the connection between mind, body, and spirit.
As a board certified music therapist and musician, Hannah enjoys using music and art to help clients manage stress and anxiety, process trauma and life transitions, cultivate healthy relationships, and connect with their spiritual self. She works primarily with adolescents, young adults, and couples seeking premarital counseling.
Booie enjoys working with individuals of all ages to address anxiety, depression, grief, and behavioral issues. She frequently incorporates movement through yoga, mindfulness, and an overall sense of calm and tranquility into her sessions to create a healthy, safe, and open space for clients to accomplish their goals.
Elle utilizes an integrative approach, tailoring a blend of somatic, cognitive, and client-centered interventions specific to the individual and their unique needs. Elle is passionate about incorporating nature and music into therapy as it fits with each client. Specializing in grief, trauma, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship conflicts, and eating disorders, Elle helps individuals deepen awareness and build a healthy mind-body connection through mindfulness-based practices. Elle works with clients ages 13+ and also offers couples counseling.
Dr. Scott Parkhurst, DHSc, MSC, MBA, NCC
Scott specializes in addressing anxiety, depression, communication, PTSD, marriage and pre-marriage counseling, and stress management for all age groups and cultures, including adolescents and military personnel. His approach is warm and empathetic, and strives to create a space where all are welcome to explore barriers to their desired quality of life.
Nina has over ten years of experience coaching athletes from a holistic perspective, focusing on mind, body, and spirit rather than results. She applies that same philosophy to her therapeutic approach with every client. Nina specializes in working with athletes and individuals with ADHD, but she truly enjoys working with any individual who is looking to engage in meaningful personal development and self-discovery.
Elizabeth believes in the absolute value of the individual, and seeks to help clients live more fulfilling, authentic lives via self-exploration. Her approach is both psychoanalytic and cognitive in nature, with an added emphasis on body-mindfulness and art/creative writing therapy. She can help with issues of depression, anxiety, midlife concerns, spiritual emptiness, psychosomatic illness, and career counseling.
McKenna McCracken, MA, LPC-MHSP, NCC
McKenna focuses on empowering clients to find confidence and the power they hold within themselves. She utilizes mindfulness, trauma informed care, and person-centered therapy to form warm, healing relationships with her clients. McKenna specializes in helping clients with relationship issues, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Jamie believes in creating a safe and compassionate space for her clients to explore their experiences and implements modalities such as acceptance and commitment therapy, meditation, mindfulness, somatic work, EMDR, and other trauma-informed approaches. She aims to empower clients to realize their internal resources for healing and growth and come into alignment with their true self.
​Emma is skilled at facilitating space for clients to find hope in challenging times and restore strained relationships in order to enact personal growth and emotional peace. She uses a blend of theoretical approaches to create a treatment plan that is best suited for each client's specific goals and needs as they navigate grief, loss and life transitions.
Tracie has extensive experience in working with client to address grief and loss issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, spiritual issues, and relationship stressors. She uses an integrative approach to therapy using mindfulness, yoga, family work, and other trauma-informed interventions.
Andi specializes in using art, dreamwork, and mindfulness to help clients recognize personal strengths, increase in self-awareness, and tap into the healing powers of creativity and the unconscious. She focuses on issues such as communication, blocked creativity, and identity, and also specializes in working with first-responders and law enforcement.