Counseling Interns

You don’t need me to tell you that life can be hard. There are ups, downs, challenges, and trials - and I’d love to walk with you as we work to discover that life is also incredibly beautiful. No matter where you’re at, I would love the chance to meet you. I’m Quinn, and I’m a second year graduate student currently focusing on completing a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. After graduating from Baylor University with a BBA in Management, I realized that growing and being with people is what I truly love. I love sports, nature, and reading–but most of all I love living life with my wife and daughter. In the counseling room, I look forward to working with anyone - and have extensive experience with adolescent, high school, and collegiate students. I love utilizing a customized approach to help clients reach their goals, and I view being an empathetic listening ear as an honor. Life may be hard- but that’s why we need other people!

Deonna Neal is pursuing her M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Liberty University. With a unique background as an ordained Episcopal priest for over 20 years, former military officer, USAFA graduate, and college ethics professor, Deonna brings a depth of experience and maturity to her work with clients navigating life transitions, relationship challenges, grief and loss, faith crises, and existential concerns.

She is particularly passionate about supporting military service members and their families, clergy and their spouses, and individuals wrestling with questions of meaning, purpose, and identity. Drawing from her theological and professional background, Deonna offers a
compassionate, thoughtful presence to those seeking clarity and healing in difficult seasons of life.

Outside the counseling room, Deonna has hobbies that range from helping adults learn to swim, flying gliders and single engine airplanes, and training for triathlons.

Amber Johnston holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Christian Counseling from Liberty University and is currently pursuing her Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling through Liberty’s CACREP-accredited program, with an expected graduation date of May 2026.

She has completed Level One Theraplay training, an attachment-based and experiential approach designed to help children strengthen connection, trust, and emotional regulation through play. Also, she is trained in level one of Gottman’s Method Couples Therapy.

Amber takes an eclectic approach to counseling, drawing from Person-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Dialectical Behavior (DBT), Narrative, Gestalt, and Somatic techniques. She integrates these evidence-based methods with a faith-informed perspective to help clients experience lasting transformation in mind, body, and spirit.

Amber has a special heart for those who feel unseen, overwhelmed, or burdened by life’s challenges. Her passion is to walk alongside individuals, couples, children, and families as they grow in self-awareness, strengthen relationships, and discover healing through God’s redemptive grace.

Amber Johnston was born and raised in Oklahoma and moved to Colorado several years ago, where she instantly felt at home surrounded by the mountains and wide-open skies. She is married and a proud mother of five sons. In her free time, she enjoys hiking 14ers, kayaking, lifting weights, and baking.

Amber believes deeply in the power of authentic connection and God’s redemptive grace. Having personally experienced God’s healing through seasons of brokenness and renewal, she considers it a sacred privilege to journey with others toward freedom, peace, and restored identity in Christ.

Sydney Spencer is a Clinical Mental Health graduate student with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in mathematics from Colorado Mesa University.

Sydney stives to provide a safe environment in which to walk alongside individuals, couples and families while they experience the healing and growth that only comes through Jesus Christ. Life can leave us feeling hopeless, brokenhearted, hurt, and overwhelmed. It takes a lot of courage to be willing to reach out and she considers it a great privilege to be trusted with her clients’ stories while helping them learn how to thrive in the richness of God’s plan for their lives and relationships.

In addition to her graduate studies, Sydney is also training in the experiential therapeutic approach of Expressive Arts Therapy, as well as the Gottman Method Couples Therapy.

As a Colorado native, Sydney was raised on the Western Slope, spending time out on her parent’s land with her menagerie of animals. Upon moving to the Denver area, she met her husband and has been married for the last six years. She enjoys hiking, playing games, doing jigsaw puzzles, and training her dogs in agility. Her favorite part of every day is watching the sunset and basking in the beauty of God’s
watercolor skies.

Mikayla Lee is currently a graduate student at Colorado Christian University’s Clinical Mental Health program. She also holds a Masters in Medieval Philosophy from Fordham University and a Bachelor’s in History from Colorado Christian University.

Mikayla has received her own counseling and has seen God use her counseling experience to breakdown the negative thoughts and anxiety that used to control her life. These experiences combined with her love of humanity has cultivated a passion in Mikayla to help carry the burdens of others (Galatians 6:2). She loves working with young women as they walk through life transitions. She also has a desire to help those who have suffered trauma, anxiety, and relationship conflict. Mikayla also has spent 5 years working in a Korean church and is passionate to work multiculturally with people.

Prior to beginning her education as a counselor, Mikayla mentored numerous young women through 4-H and church. She served as a youth director and on the worship team for her church. She and her husband recently got married and moved to Colorado Springs. They love spending time adventuring, paddle boarding, playing music, or spending time with friends.