Vanessa is an enthusiastic Registered Clinical Social Work Intern with a focus on counseling and assisting clients to achieve their goals. While working at the Refuge...
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Vanessa is an enthusiastic Registered Clinical Social Work Intern with a focus on counseling and assisting clients to achieve their goals. While working at the Refuge...
Read MoreI work with clients of all ages in processing complex trauma and exploring one’s identity. Whether you’re struggling with life transitions, navigating your gender or sexuality,...
Read MoreEly is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Prior to completing her Master’s degree at the University of Florida, Ely dedicated thousands of volunteer hours at the...
Read MoreOne of the greatest joys I have in life is the privilege of walking beside clients on their journey to healing and wellness. I work hard...
Read MoreShalisa (she/her) is a Registered Mental Health Counseling Intern. Her philosophy on therapy is that you must be willing to do the work of the past...
Read MoreMy name is Eryan Johnson (they/he), and I am deeply passionate about guiding individuals and couples toward healing and growth. With a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology...
Read MoreMelissa Rider (she/her) earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Florida in 2019 and her Master of Social Work from Louisiana State University...
Read MoreMy name is Kerry Alyson Parks (ki/kin). My pronouns represent an animist framework and acknowledge our interconnectedness with all living beings including but not limited to...
Read MoreMany of us find ourselves stuck in old patterns, creating unnecessary pain for ourselves and others. While these patterns can be labeled as illnesses or disorders,...
Read MoreGina Romblad received Bachelor’s degrees in Social Work and Classical Voice with a minor in technical theatre at Western Connecticut State University in 2009. She then...
Read MoreMy name is Emily Westerholm (she/her/hers). I am a nature/plant lover, a mother, co-parent, and a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern. I am an advocate of...
Read MoreGraduate Interns & Life Coaches
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Administrative staff
The friendly faces that keep GCCC running.
Marcia
Marcia is our wonderful Office Manager. Give her a call today to ask questions about insurance, billing, and more!
Sebastian
Sebastian is one of our two friendly front office members, give him a call to ask questions or book today! EN/ES
Gainesville Community Counseling Center
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to