Meet The Executive Team

Connect Counseling Center is led by a collaborative executive team of women who keep the practice running, grounded, and moving forward.

This team includes the Owner, Executive Director, Administrative Director, and Billing Director. Together, they are the people behind the systems, the decisions, and the follow-through that keep Connect steady, ethical, and functional. When things are going well, they’re quietly making sure everything stays aligned. When things get hard, they’re the ones stepping in, problem-solving, and doing the repair work.

They believe leadership should be visible, approachable, and accountable. Mistakes are owned. Questions are welcomed. Transparency is the expectation, not the exception. This team works closely together because no single person should carry a practice alone and because shared leadership leads to better outcomes for everyone.

These women are the ones keeping Connect afloat and moving smoothly. If you have a concern, need support, or something isn’t working the way it should, this is the team that will help you navigate it. They care deeply about the therapists who show up every day and the clients who trust us with their care.

Strong leadership doesn’t mean perfection. It means consistency, clarity, and showing up. That’s what this team does.

Angelique Howington Works

Angelique Howington Works

Angelique Howington Works is the owner of Connect Counseling Center and Works Counseling Center, where she leads with equal parts heart, backbone, and humor. She didn’t build this practice to be perfect. She built it to be honest, sustainable, and deeply human.

Angelique is a licensed professional counselor with a strong clinical foundation in anxiety, OCD, and eating disorders, but she’ll be the first to tell you that no one person should be the expert in everything. That belief is why she’s intentionally built a leadership team she trusts, respects, and actually listens to. Around here, collaboration isn’t a buzzword. It’s the treatment plan.

Her leadership philosophy is rooted in five core values: growth, trust, versatility, humility, and accountability. That means learning in real time, owning mistakes without spiraling, staying flexible when things change, and fixing what isn’t working instead of defending it.

Angelique believes therapy spaces should feel safe without being stagnant. The goal isn’t perfection. The goal is progress. When the practice messes up, the response isn’t avoidance or blame. It’s repair. Very on-brand for a therapy practice.

She is known for being direct, warm, and a little irreverent. Angelique doesn’t believe in toxic professionalism, performative wellness, or pretending burnout is a badge of honor. She does believe in boundaries, clear expectations, and leadership that shows up even when conversations are uncomfortable.

At her core, Angelique is a systems thinker with a therapist’s heart. She cares deeply about creating spaces where clinicians can grow real careers, clients can feel genuinely supported, and no one has to overfunction to prove their worth.

If you’re looking for a perfectly polished practice, this probably isn’t it.

If you’re looking for a practice that reflects, repairs, and keeps doing the work, you’re in the right place.

Jennifer Castner

Jennifer Castner is the Executive Director of Connect Counseling Center and a practicing therapist with a deep commitment to ethical, relational, and effective care. She leads with a belief that trust is the foundation of all meaningful healing—between clients and clinicians, and within teams. Jennifer is dedicated to fostering growth, both in the individuals served by Connect and in the clinicians who provide that care, encouraging curiosity, continued learning, and professional excellence. She approaches leadership and therapy with humility, recognizing the importance of listening, collaboration, and honoring each person’s lived experience. Known for her versatility, Jennifer skillfully balances clinical work, organizational leadership, and systems-level thinking in an ever-evolving mental health landscape. She holds herself and her team to a high standard of accountability, valuing integrity, transparency, and follow-through. Above all, Jenn is passionate about creating a counseling center where both clients and clinicians feel supported, challenged, and genuinely cared for.
Jenn

Briana Graviss

Briana-Graviss
Briana graduated from Kennesaw State University in 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and worked her way from Intake Coordinator to Administrative Director at Works​ Counseling Center. Along the way, she built a deep understanding of the practice from the ground up, gaining hands-on experience with every moving part of the client and clinician journey.

She later stepped into an already well-established Connect team, where her role required less building systems and more building trust. By taking the time to listen, learn the culture, and show up consistently, Briana earned the confidence of the team and became a steady, trusted leader behind the scenes. Her approach blends structure with respect for what already works.

Today, Briana oversees the back-end operations that keep both Works and Connect running smoothly, with a sharp eye for metrics, policies, and workflows. She’s known for bringing calm to chaos, clarity to complexity, and creating systems that support both therapists and clients.

Outside of work, Briana enjoys spending time with family, rewatching comfort shows like The Vampire Diaries and ​Grey’s Anatomy, unwinding with coloring​ (and most recently diamond painting), and never turning down an ice cream run.

Sarah Martens

Behind every thriving private practice is intentional, compassionate leadership. As Billing Director and a member of the operations team at Connect, Sarah has spent nearly seven years helping build systems that support clinicians, protect clients, and sustain high-quality mental health care. She brings a steady, thoughtful approach to her work, creating clarity and structure behind the scenes so providers can focus fully on what matters most—supporting clients in their healing and growth.

​​Through supporting loved ones with mental health challenges, Sarah has developed a deep appreciation for the courage it takes to seek help and the importance of feeling understood throughout the process. This lived perspective gently informs her work, strengthening her commitment to ethical practices and to creating a welcoming, supportive experience for every individual who reaches out for care.

Sarah
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