What are you

looking for?

Individual

Counseling

Are you having a difficult time handling some challenges in your life? Could you use a non-judgmental ear just to listen? Do you think you would benefit the most from individualized attention? Are you hesitant to talk to others about your problems? Have you been feeling hopeless, lost or struggling with a problem in your life that feels insurmountable?

If you answered “yes to any of these questions, then individual therapy could be the solution you need to help you get your life on track. Individual therapy allows you to be the sole focus of a single counselor who helps you develop and achieve your goals.

This is for you if…

  • You keep worrying about the same problem over and over

  • You don’t know who to trust with your secrets

  • You wish there was somebody who could tell you why you feel this way

  • You’re interested in counseling, but you don’t want to give up total control

  • Other areas of your life are being negatively impacted by your struggle

  • You are always helping others and need someone to listen to you for a change

  • You’re interested in counseling, but not sure how it could fit into your life

Individual sessions are helpful

for so many people because…

it is truly customized. It offers you more control over the pacing of your counseling, individual feedback and can often be arranged to fit your schedule. You owe it to yourself to look into individual counseling. Being your best self, is a gift to you and everyone around you.

Here are some areas of life that we can cover:

  • Anger Management  - Anger management allows adults an opportunity to safely and positively process through their emotions and identify trigger points that may result in rage and anger.

  • Stress Management - Stress management teaches adults how to effectively manage stress in a positive and healthy way. Through this service, adults will successfully identify their stressors and symptoms and work through them to find the most effective coping options.

If you are looking for help improving your everyday life or for a more tailored therapeutic experience, you would be a great fit for individual counseling services. Please reach out to us today for a FREE consultation for individual counseling.

Couples

Counseling

We provide different levels of

couples support:

  • Individual Couples Session - Are you thinking about going to couples counseling, but your partner is unwilling to attend with you?  No need to wait until your partner has a change of heart. You are an important part of the relationship that you are in. Any change you make or any insights you may realize —be it new behaviors, feelings, or attitudes—will directly impact the other person, POTENTIALLY prompting him or her to adjust to a new dynamic. When one person in a relationship “system” changes, the entire can shift.  In fact, individual work is sometimes even recommended before couples counseling begins, so that each person begins to understand their own subjective emotional feelings and reactions. They learn what new behaviors they can employ to help facilitate solutions rather than perpetuating blame, defensiveness, and criticism.

  • Partner Couples Session - Couples counseling with your partner is extremely collaborative. “Picking sides” does not exist in the counseling session. Couples counseling with your partner requires a commitment to your work as a team, an ability to be open when looking at what you bring into the relationship (both positive and negative) without defensiveness, and a commitment to reasonably alter your own behaviors. If you and your partner are willing to begin this process and you are experiencing communication breakdowns, diminished sexual desire and activity level, replaying old arguments and resurrecting old hurts, resentment and contempt have replaced patience and love, one or both of you are having an affair, or something else, couples counseling with your partner is for you.

  • Pre-Marital Couples Session - While you’re planning your wedding, are you also preparing for your marriage? Pre-marital counseling is beneficial for engaged couples interested in tackling issues before they occur. During pre-marital counseling, couples are able to delve into issues such as communication, finances, sexual intimacy, spirituality, parenthood and more. During these sessions, both partners are given a platform to share their views and expectations. In addition, the counseling helps the partners develop effective strategies for discussing and resolving conflict. This is a perfect opportunity for partners to gain a better understanding on each other’s background, mindsets, and boundaries. Couples with premarital education reported higher levels of marital satisfaction and experienced a 30 percent decline in the likelihood of divorce over five years.

If you are looking for a more tailored therapeutic experience to improve your marriage and/or relationship, please reach out to us today for a FREE consultation for couples counseling.

You don’t have to remain stuck in those rough areas of your relationship. Having hard conversations that lead to resolutions and clarity is the key and whether you are married or engaged, couples counseling may be a great fit for you.

This is for you if you have one or more of the following areas to conquer:

  • Communication Issues - Of all the issues you may have in a relationship, the breakdown of communication is one of the most serious. Many couples end up having avoidable relationship problems even when their hearts are in the right place. These communication issues in relationships are easy to fall into and can destroy your connection with your partner if you are not careful.

  • Relationship Maintenance - People engage in relationship maintenance behaviors to keep their relationships stable. Relational maintenance can help to identify behaviors that help partners keep their relationships in a desired state.

  • Partner Infidelity - Infidelity is the breaking of a promise to remain faithful to a sexual partner, whether that promise was made as part of marriage vows or privately uttered agreements between lovers. Relationships require ongoing work, but for a couple facing the fallout from an affair, the challenge can feel insurmountable and overwhelming. There is hope!

  • Trust Problems - Trust issues refer to having had some sort of transgression in the relationship about something very central where one person feels they cannot believe their partner. An example might be a sexual affair with another person or a strong emotional entanglement with another person.

Family

Counseling

Families are complex systems. Each family member can have a strong impact on each of the other members, and on the family unit as a whole. Purposed Healing, LLC offers specialized counseling and consultation programs geared specifically toward helping families address and work through the struggles they may face. We help rebuild the confidence and strength necessary to resolve the unique and complex issues, transitions, and crises that families face.

Our therapeutic environment and approach is one in which family members can feel open and comfortable sharing their experiences and feelings with each other. Our approach is to help build strong and meaningful family relationships to help cope with events and issues that affect each family member and the family as a whole.

Goals of Family Counseling

This kind of counseling focuses on encouraging positive change, resolving conflict, better understanding one another and improving overall interactions within the family. This kind of counseling helps families to:

  • Deal with conflict more productively

  • Navigate, process and learn to cope with familial crisis

  • Cope with and overcome significant loss or significant change

  • Improve familial communications and interactions

  • Process and cope with other challenges to the familial unit

If you are looking for a more tailored therapeutic experience to improve your family dynamics, please reach out to us today for a FREE consultation for family counseling.

MEET YOUR

COUNSELORS

  • My name is LaKetia Baker and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, teacher, speaker, and ordained minister with over 15 years of experience working with people who are ready to embark on their healing journey. I possess a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California, a Master of Divinity and a Masters of Arts in Christian Education from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. I am also a proud United States Army Veteran.

    I am the owner and host of PH Balance, a relationship podcast which can be found on Apple podcasts, Spotify and other major podcast platform, a contributing author for the book “She Found Love in a Hopeless Place: An Anthology of Spiritual Journeys”, and I enjoy working out and spending time with family and friends.

    Driven by a passion to empower others, I seek to provide services for individuals, couples and families creating opportunities for clients to engage in critical discussions that cultivates healing, change and the development or enhancement of healthy and sustainable relationships.

  • Dr. Trevaughn Davis-Neal earned her Bachelor of Social Work degree from Governors State University and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Illinois @ Chicago’s Jane Addams College of Social Work, where she also received certification in Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice with Children and Adolescents. In 2015, Trevaughn graduated from Indiana’s Department of Child Services and Indiana University's Child Welfare Innovations Management program and was recognized as a leader in child welfare in the state of Indiana. A graduate of Indiana University and Purdue University’s Nonprofit Executive Leadership program, Trevaughn received her doctorate degree from Tulane University’s School of Social Work.

    With over 12 years of experience as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and professor, Trevaughn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), licensed in both Indiana and Illinois. In addition to being CEO of Nzinga Mind and Heart, a mental and behavioral health practice, she is also an adjunct professor and Subject Matter Expert on trauma for National Louis University. Honored as one of the most influential women in Northwest Indiana by Mom to Mom magazine, Trevaughn was featured in their March 2017 issue. In July 2017, Trevaughn was recognized as “A Professional to Watch” by NW Indiana Times’ IN Business magazine. Additionally, she was the recipient of the 2017 “Rising Star” Alumnae Award from the University of Illinois @ Chicago’s Jane Addams College of Social Work for her tireless dedication and commitment to helping others heal.

    Trevaughn is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., ACES Social Work Sorority Inc. and volunteers as an advisory board member for several non-profit organizations. Trevaughn enjoys traveling, reading and listening to music in her free time.

    “I have a passion for working with individuals who need nonjudgmental support and encouragement to work through past trauma and current barriers to achieve their goals; women and children, and first responders, such as doctors, nurses, social workers and teachers in particular. Equally important to me is dispelling the negative connotation associated with mental health care within communities of color and amongst youth. We all need someone to talk to at some point in our lives. It is my desire to be a change agent and do my part to make this world a better place.”

We also provide EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) which is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to focus briefly on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. EMDR therapy is an extensively researched,  psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms.