Our Team
At Mosaic Counseling Services, we endeavor to provide a safe, comfortable, and supportive environment. Our team is selected to provide a breadth and depth of experience to meet your needs.
Julie K Gray, LCSW
Julie is the founder and owner of Mosaic Counseling Services LLC. Julie is passionate about providing a safe space for individuals to explore their history and work toward a healthier, happier future. Using a mindfulness-based approach, she integrates a variety of modalities to empower her clients in their growth, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy. She has significant experience in working with Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma in adults and adolescents.
Julie has worked extensively within the LGBTQ+ community and believes everyone has a right to determine their own life path. She has experience working with persons of all gender identities as well as alternative relationship orientations including consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, kink and traditional relationships.
Julie also understands the unique experiences of neurodivergent individuals and provides thoughtful, personalized support to promote their well-being and growth.
Julie loves spending time with her dogs, and enjoys a variety of TV and movies to unwind at the end of the day.
Erin Shatzer, LCSW
Erin is a clinical social worker with experience supporting adults across the lifespan, as well as youth and their families. She takes an eclectic, integrative approach, drawing from her training in Multisystemic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Structural Family Therapy. Erin is also trained in the Gottman Method for relationship work.
Grounded in a trauma-aware and culturally responsive framework, Erin is committed to creating a safe, supportive environment where clients can deepen their self-understanding and pursue meaningful growth. She believes strongly in the inherent strengths of every individual and family, and is passionate about helping them recognize and build on those strengths to facilitate lasting change.
Erin is passionate about supporting the LGBTQ+ community and helping them feel a sense of belonging. She believes that everyone is the expert of their own minds, bodies, and lives and has the right to make decisions that are right for them.
Erin is also effective in working with neurodivergent individuals, offering support tailored to their unique needs.
Erin is seeing clients in person and via telehealth.
When not at work, Erin enjoys spending time with her husband, reading, playing games, and watching sci-fi.
Ari brings a trauma-informed and eclectic approach to her work, drawing from systems theory, transpersonal theory, and attachment theory to support each individual’s unique healing journey.
Her toolkit includes a person-centered approach, utilizing psychoeducation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) strategies for distress tolerance. She is also certified in Motivational Interviewing and integrates this technique to empower individuals in building motivation for self-directed change.
Ari has experience working with a diverse range of clients, including LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, those in the kink and polyamorous communities, veterans, and other survivors of trauma. She offers support for concerns such as anger management, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, grief, PTSD, and bipolar disorder. Her therapeutic style is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in the belief that healing begins with feeling truly seen and heard.
She is available for both in-person and telehealth sessions. In her free time, Ari likes spending time with her partners and dogs. She also enjoys participating in the fiber arts, painting, reading, and camping.
Ariel Ewers, LMSW
Adar Higgs, LMHC
Adar (she/they) is a licensed mental health counselor with an extensive background in somatic, yoga, and other forms of mindfulness, and a growing interest in expressive arts and narrative therapy. Adar brings their lived experience as a disabled, chronically ill, neuroqueer cancer survivor into the counseling room, informed by queer and feminist theory as well as disability justice.
Suffering, pain, and loss are all part of our lives. That, we cannot change. We may not be able to stop it in its tracks, but we can harness the profound power these experiences to shape who we are, how we show up, and our understanding of what we’re here to do in this life.
Adar’s experience includes working with PTSD, trauma recovery, attachment wounding, and domestic violence; substance use and recovery; grief and loss; chronic illness and chronic pain; neurodivergence, and disability, including experience with LBGTQIA+ individuals. She is familiar with navigating the complexities of the healthcare system as a person of marginalized identities, and particularly excited about working with queer, trans, disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent clients. Their background in public health includes training in motivational interviewing and other evidence-based strategies for supporting the process of change—including bringing a deep appreciation for systems thinking, and role of community organizing & societal level change, outside of the counseling room.
Adar is available for both in-person and telehealth sessions. Outside of the counseling room you’d be just as likely to find them printmaking, hosting a radio show, or teaching a yoga class, as you might at a protest or on the dance floor.