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Find healing, clarity, and hope through accessible, professional, faith-based counseling and coaching—for everyone.

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Barefoot Counseling & Coaching exists to walk alongside individuals and families who are navigating anxiety, relationship challenges, life transitions, and deeper areas of hurt—offering a path toward healing, growth, and lasting change. 

Rooted in the same mission as Barefoot Republic, we create a safe, welcoming space for people from every background to be seen, known, and supported. Through professional counseling and intentional coaching, we help people move forward with clarity, confidence, and hope.

 

And just like camp, we never want cost to be a barrier. Scholarships are available so that anyone who desires care has the opportunity to receive it.

Meet our Counselors 

At Barefoot Counseling & Coaching, our team is passionate about helping individuals, families, leaders, and organizations experience healing, growth, and hope through compassionate counseling and coaching.

Julie Mangus, Director of Barefoot Republic Counseling Services

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Cali Bolinger, Master's in
Marriage and Family Therapy

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Meet our Coaches 

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Julie Mangus

Hollie Jo Hepler

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Larea McCree Kwakye

Counseling or Coaching?

While both coaching and therapy offer support and personal growth, they serve different purposes depending on where you are in your journey.

What is coaching?

Coaching helps you bridge the gap from where you are now to where you want to be in the future. A coach comes alongside you to guide, challenge, and support you as you take intentional steps toward your goals—while you remain the one doing the work to create change.

Coaching is:

  • Forward-focused

  • Direct and goal-oriented

  • Action-driven

  • Growth and potential maximizing

  • Collaborative and empowering

How do you know if you're reading for coaching?

  • Feel emotionally stable and grounded

  • Have already done some personal work or healing

  • Are ready to take action and move forward

  • Want support with clarity, direction, and accountability

  • Are motivated to grow, build, or achieve specific goals

What is therapy (couseling)?

Therapy provides a safe, structured space to process, heal, and understand your emotional experiences.​ A licensed therapist helps you explore patterns, address past or present pain, and work toward emotional, relational, and mental health stability.

Therapy is:

  • Past and present-focused

  • Insight and healing-oriented

  • Emotionally supportive and processing-based

  • Focused on mental health and well-being

  • Led by a licensed professional

How do you know if therapy is the best fit?

Therapy is likely the right step if you are:

  • Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or emotionally distressed

  • Navigating trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, or relationship pain

  • Struggling with patterns you don’t fully understand

  • Needing support with coping, regulation, or healing

  • Looking for deeper emotional or psychological work

Not Sure Where You Fit?

That’s okay.

Many people benefit from both therapy and coaching at different stages of their journey. If you’re unsure, we’re here to help guide you toward the support that best fits your needs.

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