High-Quality Professional Counseling
We provide professional counseling for individuals, couples, teens, young adults, and families facing emotional, relational, spiritual, and life challenges.
Explore our servicesAbout Pinnacle Counseling Institute
A place for healing, growth, and renewed hope.
Pinnacle Counseling Institute is a nonprofit counseling center in Winter Park, Florida, providing high-quality professional mental health counseling for individuals, couples, teens, young adults, and families. We are committed to helping make meaningful mental health care accessible to people who might otherwise be unable to afford it.
Our work is grounded in faith and compassion, but care is always shaped around the individual. Faith-integrated counseling is available when desired and is never required. We welcome people from all backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences.
Founded on faith. Care shaped around you.
Faith-integrated counseling is available when desired and is never required.
Who we are
A counseling center built to care for both clients and counselors.
For more than a decade, Pinnacle Counseling Institute has helped individuals and families find healing, support, and hope through professional mental health counseling.
We understand that every person arrives with a different story. Our counselors take time to listen, understand what matters to you, and develop a personalized approach that supports meaningful and lasting growth.
As a nonprofit counseling institute, our mission extends beyond the counseling room. We also equip, mentor, and develop counselors so they can provide excellent care to more people throughout the greater Orlando community.
Our mission in action
Creating greater access to care while strengthening those who provide it.
Pinnacle serves the greater Orlando community through three connected areas of focus.
Counselor Development
We invest in counselors through supervision, continued education, training, mentoring, and clinical development so they can serve clients with skill and integrity.
Learn about the InstituteMaking Care More Accessible
We understand that counseling can be expensive, and we do not want financial circumstances to be the reason someone cannot receive the mental health care they need. Through reduced-fee services, available financial support, community partnerships, and the generosity of donors, Pinnacle works to help make high-quality counseling accessible to more individuals and families. Contact our team to understand which options may be available to you.
Learn about Financial AssistanceHow we provide care
Healing can grow through relationships marked by safety, trust, and respect.
We want you to feel cared for, understood, and supported as you work toward the goals that matter to you.
A strong relationship with your counselor creates space to explore difficult experiences honestly, recognize patterns, develop new skills, and move toward meaningful change.
Relationships
Care begins with connection.
We seek to create an environment where clients feel safe enough to be honest, ask questions, and explore their story without judgment.
Team-supported insight
Your counselor does not work in isolation.
When appropriate, counselors can draw from the experience and perspective of Pinnacle's professional team while protecting client confidentiality.
Quality care
Continued growth strengthens the care you receive.
Our counselors participate in ongoing training, supervision, and clinical development to deepen their skills and expand their ability to serve others.
Our community impact
Access to care can change the direction of a life.
Through counseling, reduced-fee services, scholarships, and counselor development, Pinnacle is helping more people receive meaningful support.
Impact figures provided by Pinnacle Counseling Institute.
Beyond the counseling room
Strengthening the people and organizations that care for Central Florida.
Quality mental health care includes helping communities better understand, recognize, and respond to emotional and relational needs.
Pinnacle works with churches, schools, medical professionals, and community organizations to expand awareness, strengthen referral relationships, and help people connect with appropriate support.
- Pastoral consultations and referral support
- Mental health seminars and community education
- Marriage conferences and relationship workshops
- Partnership opportunities for churches and organizations
- Support for community leaders and helping professionals
Meet our counselors
The relationship with your counselor matters.
Our counselors bring different specialties, experiences, approaches, and personalities to their work. Explore the team to find someone who may be a strong fit for your needs and goals.
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MA, LMHC
Jess Hites May
Licensed Mental Health Counselor | Counselor in Orlando
Works with adult women facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and church hurt. Trained in EMDR, somatic therapy, EFT and DBT, with a holistic view of body, mind and spirit. In person in Winter Park, FL and telehealth statewide.
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MA, LMHC
Jeannette Bevan
Licensed Mental Health Counselor | Counselor in Orlando
Works with women, including overstimulated mothers and those navigating postpartum changes, sexual trauma, disordered eating and church hurt. Warm, gentle and trauma-informed. In person in Winter Park, FL and telehealth statewide.
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LMHC
Micah K. Massaquoi Jr.
Licensed Mental Health Counselor | Counselor in Orlando
Works with young adults and adults facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction and recovery, and questions of racial and cultural identity. Calm, authentic and CBT-informed. In person in Winter Park, FL and telehealth statewide.
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LMHC
Kirby Whitehead
Licensed Mental Health Counselor | Counselor in Orlando
Works with teens and adults navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, grief, chronic illness and addiction and recovery. Relational, curious and honest, drawing on EMDR, ACT and narrative approaches. In person in Winter Park, FL and telehealth statewide.
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MA, LMHC
Jan Amerman
Qualified Supervisor (Florida) | Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (Kentucky)
Works primarily with women navigating grief and loss, codependency, anxiety, depression, spiritual struggles and major life transitions. Person-centered and attachment-informed, with room for questions of faith. Telehealth in Florida and Kentucky.
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CDP
Ashley Kinchen
Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern
Works with women, men, couples and parents navigating trauma, high-conflict divorce, parenting, grief, dementia and caregiving, with particular care for foster, adoptive and special-needs families. In person in Winter Park, FL and telehealth statewide.
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MA, LMHC
Lindsay Buono
Licensed Mental Health Counselor | Counselor in Orlando
Works with women of all ages facing disordered eating, body-image concerns, OCD, anxiety and depression, and with mothers and daughters seeking healthier connection. Relational and story-centered. In person in Winter Park, FL and telehealth statewide.
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MA
David DiVirgilio
Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern
Works with men, teens and young adults facing anxiety, panic, grief, stress and burnout, and relationship struggles. Person-centered, attachment-based and emotionally focused. In person in Winter Park, FL and telehealth statewide.
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