Mental Health Services

About Navigate Counseling

Navigate Counseling and Consultation Services provides mental health care for individuals, relationships, and families across the greater Akron, Ohio area and beyond. We work with clients as they navigate the experiences, relationships, identities, and life circumstances that shape mental health and well-being.

Identity-affirming care is central to our work at Navigate. For us, affirming care is not a tagline or branding choice. It is a clinical and ethical commitment that shapes how we understand and provide care. It requires clinical awareness, ethical responsibility, and responsiveness to the client’s full context.

Our approach is affirming, not assuming. We don’t reduce clients to identity categories or presume identity is the reason someone is seeking care. We create space for identity to matter as much or as little as the client wants it to. This means our clinicians remain curious and prepared to recognize when identity and systems matter clinically and respond with competence, humility, and care.

Our work also extends to the professionals and community members who support others in meaningful ways. Navigate provides continuing education, consultation, supervision, and professional development for helping professionals and others seeking to strengthen the care and support they offer in their communities.

Navigate is proud to be a member of the Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce, the Tallmadge Chamber of Commerce, and Plexus, Ohio’s LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce.