Youth Counseling Service To Open In Avon Lake

AVON LAKE, OH — My Happy Place Therapy and Wellness Center will have a ribbon cutting ceremony in Avon Lake on Nov. 20.

My Happy Place offers counseling to young adults, adolescents and children. The facility will accept most insurance plans. The business is located at 156 Lear Road, next to Good Neighbor Thrift Shop.

“I created My Happy Place to help spread the word that being happy is something everyone
deserves and therapy is such an important piece to that,” said owner Lindsay Stein, a licensed professional clinical counselor.

Stein has been a therapist for 10 years. She started in community mental health and then moved to private practice. She said My Happy Place will give people a safe place to have a cup of coffee, talk and be themselves.

With the COVID-19 pandemic raging throughout Ohio, Stein said she knows young people are struggling with stress and anxiety. She said her counseling will help them maintain a sense of calm as the crisis continues.

Avon Lake's Economic Development Director, Ted Esborn, said the city is happy to have the counseling service within municipal borders.

“Young people face so many challenges as they work their way through adolescence and teenage
years, and counseling can have enormous benefit for them,”Esborn said. He added that My Happy Place's location gives it prominence in the community, with many passerby able to see the service's lotus flower sign.

“Avon Lake was the ideal location for me to open my practice,” said Stein. “With the office being on Lear Road, just a quick walk to the lake, I knew that all my clients would feel an overwhelming sense of peace and calmness here.”