High standards. Warm chaos. Clinically sharp. Aesthetically elevated. Never winging it.
Our Team.
At Positive Intentions, LLC, our team does therapy differently.
We are warm, prepared, clinically sharp, and deeply human. Our clinicians bring warmth, clinical skill, and high standards to every session — because therapy should never feel rushed, generic, or like just another appointment on your calendar.
Our standard is simple: we provide the kind of care we would trust for someone we love. That means thoughtful client matching, ongoing training, intentional treatment planning, and a team that consults, collaborates, and actually gives a damn.
We do not believe in cookie-cutter therapy. We believe in care that feels safe, steady, elevated, and clinically grounded — care that supports real healing, meaningful growth, and long-term change.
This is therapy, reimagined.
Cindy Pilcher
MS, LPC (PA, NJ, & VT), NCC
PA Lic: PC 017368 | NJ Lic: 37PC01151600 | VT Lic: 068.0136043TELE
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Licensed Professional Counselor
Cindy Pilcher, MS, LPC, NCC, is the Founder and Practice Owner of Positive Intentions, LLC, and specializes exclusively in working with men in their late twenties and older, with a particular focus on men struggling within their relationships and marriages. Her work includes supporting men navigating infidelity, affairs, involvement with escorts or other paid sexual encounters, sexual or emotional relationships outside of the marriage, secrecy and betrayal, separation, divorce, and uncertainty about whether to stay in or leave a relationship.
Cindy works with men who may be trying to understand how they arrived at decisions that conflict with their values, sort through competing relationships or attachments, face the consequences of betrayal, or question what they genuinely want from their marriage, family, and future. Her approach is direct, compassionate, and nonjudgmental—therapy isn't about excusing behavior or assigning shame, but about understanding the patterns, needs, avoidance, attachment dynamics, and choices underneath.
Trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cindy integrates parts work with Polyvagal-informed, somatic, and evidence-based approaches to help clients understand the why behind their behaviors and emotional responses. Her work often focuses on helping men develop greater self-awareness, take ownership of their decisions, communicate more effectively, strengthen or redefine their relationships, and determine what moving forward actually looks like.
Her work also addresses the broader transitions that frequently intersect with relationship struggles, including becoming a parent, changing roles within a marriage, career pressure, increased responsibilities, identity, aging, and questions of purpose.
Cindy does not see clients outside of this specialty.
Cindy offers in-person and telehealth counseling with limited availability.
Expertise:
Men’s issues • Divorce • Affairs • Infidelity • Relationship dynamics and Communication • Boundaries • Life transitions • Self-esteem
MA, LPC (PA & NJ), NCC
Carina Lehman
PA Lic: PC017921 | NJ Lic: 37PC01121400
Clinical Manager & Supervisor
Licensed Professional Counselor
Some therapists have everything perfectly organized, always know exactly what to say, and seem like they have never forgotten why they walked into a room.
Carina won't pretend to be one of them.
Affectionately known around Positive Intentions as the “Hot Mess Express,” Carina Lehman, MA, LPC, NCC, brings humor, creativity, authenticity, and a whole lot of real life into the therapy room. She doesn't expect clients to arrive with their thoughts organized, emotions regulated, or lives remotely figured out before sitting down.
And in the spirit of full transparency, there is a non-zero chance Carina may be running a few minutes behind. Consider it part of the Hot Mess Express experience. She'll get there—and once she does, she's fully there with you.
Carina works with adolescents, adults, and families navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, neurodivergence, emotional overwhelm, complicated family relationships, and those frustrating patterns where you already know you keep doing the thing... yet somehow, here we are, doing the thing again.
She practices from a trauma-informed and attachment-based lens, with a strong interest in understanding what is happening underneath the symptom instead of repeatedly putting Band-Aids over it. Why does one interaction send you from zero to sixty? Why do you shut down when someone gets too close? Why can one comment from a family member ruin the next three business days? Carina helps clients begin connecting those dots.
And talking is not the only way she gets there.
Carina incorporates art-based and creative therapeutic interventions into her work, especially when emotions or experiences are hard to explain in words alone. Drawing, visual expression, creative activities, and other experiential approaches can give clients another way to explore what is happening internally—without needing to sit there trying to come up with the perfect therapy answer.
This can be especially helpful for adolescents, neurodivergent clients, trauma survivors, and anyone whose response to “tell me how you feel” is basically, I have absolutely no idea.
Her clinical experience includes working with children of divorce, adult children of parents with alcohol-use concerns, survivors of sexual assault, neurodivergent clients, and individuals dealing with long-standing emotional, behavioral, and relationship patterns. She incorporates CBT, DBT-informed strategies, emotional-regulation skills, insight-oriented work, and creative interventions based on what actually makes sense for the person in front of her.
Carina's style is supportive, validating, conversational, and decidedly not confrontational. She is much more likely to help clients talk through something until they begin hearing their own patterns differently, rather than dramatically calling someone out from across the room.
She also understands that clients do not always fit neatly into diagnostic boxes, traditional family structures, or tidy little treatment categories. Carina works especially well with people whose histories, emotions, relationships, brains, or current circumstances come with a few extra layers.
At Positive Intentions, LLC, Carina somehow also keeps everything together as Clinical Manager and Supervisor, where she supports clinicians, provides clinical supervision, helps navigate complicated clinical situations, and works closely with leadership to maintain the quality of care across the practice.
Her niche is still evolving—and frankly, that feels pretty on-brand.
What consistently seems to fit Carina are clients who need therapy to feel less clinical, more creative, more human, and a little less intimidating.
Complicated history? Big emotions? Neurodivergent brain? Family drama? Can't explain what you're feeling but could probably draw it?
Welcome aboard the Hot Mess Express.
She offers both in-person and telehealth services, with limited availability.
Specialties:
Trauma & Attachment • Anxiety & Depression • Neurodivergence • Emotional Regulation • Art-Based & Creative Interventions • Adolescents • Adults • Family Dynamics • Children of Divorce • Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents • Sexual Assault Survivors • Relationship Stress • Life Transitions • Coping Skills • Complex Emotional & Behavioral Patterns
Margaret "Maggie" Daniels
Office & Billing Manager
There is a lot happening behind the scenes of a mental health practice—and Margaret “Maggie” Daniels is the person helping make sure those pieces actually work together.
Maggie brings more than 20 years of administrative experience to Positive Intentions, LLC, with a background that includes work as a paralegal for a prestigious downtown law firm, collections, billing, client communication, account management, and the kind of detailed administrative work where accuracy matters. She can navigate complex information, track details, and communicate clearly when something needs attention.
That experience translates especially well to behavioral health, where insurance, copays, balances, scheduling, documentation, and billing questions can quickly become confusing. Maggie works to make the administrative side of receiving care as straightforward as possible while also helping Positive Intentions maintain the systems and accountability necessary to keep a busy practice running.
Her background in the legal field also means Maggie is no stranger to confidentiality, deadlines, sensitive information, detailed records, and situations that require professionalism without losing the human element. She brings that same mindset to her role at Positive Intentions: handle the details, communicate clearly, follow through, and treat people with respect.
As Office Manager, Maggie helps oversee the practice's day-to-day administrative operations and serves as an important connection between our clients, clinicians, billing processes, and leadership team. On the billing side, she assists with insurance-related matters, client accounts, copays, outstanding balances, and the inevitable questions that come with trying to understand what an insurance company did—or did not—do.
And while Maggie takes the details seriously, she does not believe the administrative side of therapy has to feel cold or corporate. Whether she is untangling an insurance issue, tracking down an answer, or keeping the office moving in the right direction, Maggie brings experience, persistence, and a practical approach to getting things handled.
At Positive Intentions, LLC, Maggie helps ensure our clinicians can focus on providing great care while our clients have someone experienced overseeing the details outside the therapy room.
Nora Jones
Front Office Coordinator
Nora Jones is often the first friendly face and voice clients encounter at Positive Intentions, LLC. As our receptionist and front office support team member, she helps create a welcoming, supportive environment while assisting clients with scheduling, calls, and day-to-day office needs. Her warm personality, professionalism, and calm presence make her an important part of the PILLC experience.
Nora is currently entering her senior year at The Pennsylvania State University, where she is pursuing a degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders with plans to pursue a career in Speech Pathology. Throughout her time at Penn State, she has demonstrated exceptional leadership, academic achievement, and campus involvement. She has served as a Resident Assistant (RA) for the past two years and is actively involved in THON and the Limitless FTK Club, organizations dedicated to supporting children and families impacted by childhood cancer. Nora is also a member of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NSSLHA), the Tri-Alpha Honor Society, and the SLO Club, and has served as both a Penn State Tour Guide and a Hazleton Lion Ambassador. In addition, she was part of the 2024 PSUAC Women’s Volleyball Championship team and was the recipient of the prestigious Eric A. and Josephine S. Walker Award, recognizing outstanding character, scholarship, leadership, and citizenship. She has also volunteered with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in Washington, D.C.
When she isn’t greeting clients at the office or balancing her busy college schedule, Nora enjoys spending time with her dog, family, and friends.
Brinley Altemus
Social Media & Marketing Operations
Brinley Altemus serves as the Social Media and Marketing Operations Coordinator for Positive Intentions, LLC, where she helps bring the practice’s vision, culture, and community presence to life through creative branding, content creation, photography, and digital engagement. From managing social media campaigns and visual branding to supporting marketing operations behind the scenes, Brinley plays an important role in helping PILLC maintain a modern, welcoming, and authentic presence both online and within the community.
Brinley is currently entering her senior year at The Pennsylvania State University, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations, where she has maintained an impressive academic record and earned multiple Dean’s List recognitions as well as the Scholar’s Lion Award for academic excellence. Her background combines creativity, communication, and leadership, drawing on a wide range of campus and professional experiences. She currently serves as a Creative Intern for Penn State Women’s Basketball, capturing and showcasing the team’s story through photography, content creation, and media production. She has also worked as a Student Photographer for Penn State athletics and previously served as a Peer Academic Coach, helping students develop strategies for academic success.
In addition to her role at Positive Intentions, LLC, Brinley has experience as a Social Media Manager, where she developed and coordinated branding and digital content strategies. She is actively involved in organizations, including PRSSA (Public Relations Student Society of America), Blue & White Society, Delta Phi Epsilon, and Penn State THON’s Limitless organization. Her passion for storytelling, visual media, and meaningful connection continues to shape her work both professionally and creatively.
When she is not working on marketing projects or behind the camera, Brinley enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, photography, and being with her dog Ruby, who is well-loved around the office and often recognized as part of the PILLC family.
Ruby Rue
Unofficial Emotional Support Specialist
Ruby serves as Positive Intentions, LLC’s unofficial emotional support specialist, professional greeter, and office morale booster. Although small in size, Ruby has a very important role within the PILLC family — offering comfort, smiles, and occasional tail wags to both clients and staff throughout the day. Known for her sweet personality and calm demeanor, Ruby is often a comforting presence around the office and enjoys quietly accompanying the team whenever possible.
Ruby especially loves greeting familiar faces, finding the coziest spots in the office, and making herself part of important meetings she was never technically invited to. While she takes her role very seriously, she is also highly skilled in accepting compliments, supervising snack breaks, and reminding everyone to pause and enjoy the little moments.
When she is not “working” at the office, Ruby enjoys spending time with her family, going on adventures, relaxing in cozy blankets, and being spoiled by everyone she meets. She remains one of the most beloved members of the Positive Intentions, LLC team.
Katie Marchand
M.S., LAPC, NCC
Supervised by Carina Lehman, MA, LPC
PA Lic: APC002288
Lead Clinician
Licensed Associate Professional Counselor
Sometimes knowing why you react the way you do isn't enough to change the reaction.
You can understand your triggers. You can know the coping skills. You can recognize the pattern while it is happening—and still feel like your body has already taken over.
Katie Marchand, MS, LAPC, NCC, helps clients bridge that gap.
Using a Polyvagal-informed approach, Katie helps clients understand what is happening beneath anxiety, overwhelm, shutdown, irritability, emotional reactivity, and the feeling of being constantly “on.” Instead of approaching these reactions as something that simply needs to be controlled, she helps clients recognize what their nervous system is responding to and build practical ways to create more regulation, flexibility, and choice.
Because insight is helpful. But insight without knowing what to do next can still leave you stuck.
Katie works especially well with clients who feel overwhelmed by their emotions, struggle to regulate once activated, or know what they should do but have difficulty accessing those skills when they actually need them. Her style balances understanding with action—helping clients slow things down, notice patterns earlier, and build strategies that work outside of the therapy room.
She also works with couples who are tired of having the same argument with different details. Katie helps partners identify the cycle beneath the conflict, understand what each person is reacting to, communicate more clearly, and learn how to disagree without repeatedly damaging the relationship. The goal is not a conflict-free relationship. It is learning how to navigate conflict without losing each other in the process.
Katie’s experience spans residential treatment, crisis intervention, behavioral health programs, correctional settings, and school systems. That background has made her comfortable working with situations that are complicated, emotionally intense, or simply messy. She brings structure to the room without making therapy feel rigid or overly clinical.
Katie earned her Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania – Lock Haven and first joined Positive Intentions, LLC as a graduate counseling intern. Following graduation, she remained with the practice and has continued to grow within PILLC, now serving as Lead Clinician in addition to providing counseling.
At Positive Intentions, Katie’s work is about more than collecting coping skills. She helps clients understand themselves well enough to recognize what is happening, regulate more effectively, interrupt patterns sooner, and respond to life with greater intention instead of constantly reacting.
Katie provides in-person counseling in East Stroudsburg and telehealth counseling throughout Pennsylvania.
Areas of Focus:
Polyvagal-Informed Therapy • Nervous System Regulation • Anxiety & Overwhelm • Emotional Regulation • Stress • Adolescents • Couples Counseling • Relationship Patterns • Communication & Conflict • Life Transitions • Coping Skills • Behavioral Concerns • Healthy Routines & Accountability
Yami Patel
M.S., LAPC Pending
Supervised by Carina Lehman, MA, LPC
Mental Health Counselor
It can be surprisingly hard to figure out what you want when you have spent years considering what everyone else expects from you.
Family. Relationships. School. Career. Culture. The version of yourself you thought you would be by now.
Yami Patel, MS, NCC, works with clients trying to sort through all that noise and figure out what actually feels like their own.
She works with adolescents, young adults, college students, and adults navigating anxiety, stress, self-esteem, emotional regulation, identity, life transitions, career decisions, relationship concerns, and the uncomfortable space between knowing something needs to change and knowing what you want instead.
Yami especially enjoys working with young adults, who are discovering that adulthood comes with far fewer instructions than advertised. Choosing a career, becoming more independent, navigating relationships, setting boundaries with family, making decisions without everyone else's approval, and figuring out who you are outside other people's expectations can create much more anxiety than anyone warns you about.
Therapy with Yami gives clients room to untangle those pieces without being told there is one “right” way to do it.
Her approach is curious, practical, and individualized. She helps clients examine the patterns, expectations, emotions, and relationships shaping their choices while building the confidence to make decisions that feel more intentional—not simply familiar, expected, or easiest for everyone else.
Yami earned her Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling – Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and holds her Licensed Associate Counselor credential. Her clinical experience includes individual counseling, intake assessments, treatment planning, career counseling, and helping clients navigate emotional, relational, and life-direction concerns.
Before becoming a counselor, Yami worked as a Registered Behavior Technician supporting children with autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities. That experience still shapes how she works: behavior usually communicates something, people respond differently to the same environment, and therapy works better when the approach adapts to the client instead of expecting the client to adapt to therapy.
Yami is also fluent in Gujarati and Hindi and understands that mental health does not exist in a vacuum.
Family values can matter deeply while also creating pressure. Cultural expectations can provide connection while sometimes complicating individual choices. You can love the people in your life and still need boundaries. You can respect where you come from while questioning what you want to carry forward.
Those things can exist at the same time.
For clients who feel they need to over-explain their family, culture, values, or experiences before getting to the reason they came to therapy, Yami creates room for the whole picture without reducing anyone to a cultural stereotype.
At Positive Intentions, LLC, Yami helps clients sort through what they have been told they should want, understand what's driving their decisions, and build confidence in choosing what works for the life they are building.
There is space to process the past.
But there is also going to be a conversation about what you want to do next.
Yami offers in-person counseling in East Stroudsburg, including evenings and weekends.
Areas of Focus:
Anxiety & Overwhelm • Identity & Self-Exploration • Self-Esteem & Confidence • Family & Cultural Expectations • Life Transitions • Career Counseling & Direction • Adolescents • Young Adults & College Students • Emotional Regulation • Relationship Concerns • Boundaries & People-Pleasing • Autism & Developmental Support • Culturally Responsive Counseling • Gujarati & Hindi-Speaking Clients
Ollie Lumby
M.S., LAPC pending, NCC
Supervised by Carina Lehman, MA, LPC
Mental Health Counselor
Therapy is hard enough without spending half the session trying to explain why something matters to you—or wondering whether the person across from you is actually going to understand.
Ollie Lumby, MS, works with clients who are figuring things out: who they are, how they feel, where they fit, what they want from their relationships, and how to manage everything happening internally while life keeps moving around them.
His work has a particular focus on LGBTQIA+ adolescents, young adults, and adults, including clients exploring gender identity, sexuality, relationships, self-expression, belonging, family dynamics, and what it means to live more authentically. For clients who have spent a lot of time editing themselves, anticipating other people's reactions, or wondering whether they will have to educate their therapist before therapy can even begin, Ollie offers something different: affirming care where identity can be part of the conversation without becoming the entire conversation.
Because sometimes you want to talk about gender or sexuality.
And sometimes you are queer and just want to talk about your anxiety.
Ollie gets that distinction.
He also works with children, adolescents, and adults experiencing anxiety, grief and loss, trauma, emotional overwhelm, relationship stress, self-esteem concerns, and major life transitions. His style is approachable, thoughtful, and flexible, especially for clients who don't immediately connect with traditional therapy or struggle to put what they are experiencing into words.
That is where Ollie’s background in art and creative expression becomes another option—not an arts-and-crafts version of therapy.
When talking feels limiting, Ollie can incorporate creative and experiential approaches to help clients externalize emotions, explore identity, process grief, understand relationships, and make sense of experiences that are difficult to explain. This can be especially valuable for children and adolescents, but adults often lack the perfect words, too.
Ollie earned his Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a Child & Adolescent Track from Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania. His clinical experience includes outpatient counseling, school-based mental health, crisis support, individual and group counseling, and trauma-informed work with individuals and couples.
He understands that people rarely arrive in therapy with a single, clearly defined problem. Anxiety can overlap with identity. Grief can affect relationships. Trauma can change how safe someone feels around other people. Adolescence can be complicated enough before adding questions about belonging, sexuality, gender, family expectations, friendships, school, and figuring out who you are becoming.
Ollie makes room for all of it.
At Positive Intentions, LLC, his goal is not to fit clients into a predetermined version of what therapy is supposed to look like. He helps clients understand themselves more fully, express what has been difficult to articulate, build healthier ways of responding to emotions and relationships, and feel more comfortable existing as themselves—not a more acceptable version of themselves.
Therapy with Ollie can involve conversation, reflection, creativity, humor, difficult questions, and occasionally approaching something from an angle you did not expect. Because the goal is not to become better at doing therapy.
It is to create something useful enough to take back into your actual life.
Ollie primarily provides telehealth counseling, including evening and weekend availability. He also offers limited in-person appointments one weekend per month at Positive Intentions, LLC in East Stroudsburg.
Areas of Focus:
LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy • Gender & Sexuality Exploration • Adolescents & Young Adults • Identity & Self-Expression • Anxiety & Overwhelm • Trauma-Informed Care • Grief & Loss • Emotional Regulation • Self-Esteem • Family & Relationship Dynamics • Life Transitions • School & Social Stress • Creative & Experiential Interventions
Eric Bonawitz
M.A., LAPC pending, NCC
Supervised by Carina Lehman, MA, LPC
Mental Health Counselor
You can only tell yourself “I’ll deal with it later” for so long before later starts causing problems.
Maybe stress is bleeding into your relationships, work, school, or home life. Maybe you keep making decisions you regret afterward. Maybe alcohol or substance use has started taking up more space than you intended. Or maybe life just feels off, and whatever you have been doing to manage it is not working anymore.
Eric Bonawitz, MA, works with clients who are ready to take an honest look at what is happening—and do something with what they discover.
His approach is straightforward, practical, and down-to-earth. Therapy with Eric is not about saying the “right” thing, impressing your counselor, or spending week after week talking about a problem without figuring out where to go next. He helps clients understand the patterns beneath what they are experiencing while also identifying realistic changes that can actually translate into everyday life.
Eric works with adults, young adults, college students, adolescents, and children navigating anxiety, depression, stress, emotional regulation, relationship difficulties, behavioral concerns, substance use, life transitions, self-esteem, and decision-making. He adjusts his approach to the person in front of him rather than expecting every client—or every age group—to respond to therapy the same way.
For some clients, that means learning to manage emotions before they take over. For others, it means looking at choices, relationships, routines, or behaviors that keep creating the same problems. Sometimes it starts with figuring out what is actually wrong when all you know is that something doesn't feel right.
Eric also brings significant experience working with substance use concerns. Rather than reducing someone to what they use—or lecturing them about what they “should” be doing—he helps clients examine the bigger picture. What is the substance doing for you? What tends to happen before you use it? What happens afterward? What relationships, emotions, stressors, environments, or habits are helping keep the cycle going?
That work can include reducing use, changing patterns, examining consequences, strengthening healthier coping, or simply being more honest about the role substances play in your life.
Eric earned his Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. His clinical background includes outpatient mental health and substance use treatment, intensive outpatient care, individual and group counseling, assessments, treatment planning, and behavioral health coordination. He has worked with adults, young adults, college students, adolescents, and children across a variety of settings.
That range of experience gives Eric a broad clinical perspective without making therapy feel clinical for its own sake. He is interested in what is actually happening in your life, how you got there, what keeps repeating, and what would need to be different for things to start feeling different.
At Positive Intentions, LLC, Eric helps clients move beyond simply identifying the problem. His work focuses on building insight, improving decision-making, strengthening emotional regulation, challenging patterns that no longer work, and creating changes that are realistic enough to survive outside the therapy room.
You do not need to arrive with everything figured out.
But Eric will probably ask you to get curious about the things that clearly aren't working anymore.
Areas of Focus:
Adults • Young Adults & College Students • Adolescents & Children • Substance Use Concerns • Anxiety & Overwhelm • Depression • Stress • Emotional Regulation • Decision-Making • Relationship Stress • Life Transitions • Behavioral Concerns • Coping Skills • Self-Esteem • Personal Growth
