Anxiety
Worry that never quite switches off, treated with practical CBT so your days feel steadier.
Online Therapy and Counseling in Indiana
From large cities to smaller agricultural communities across Indiana, a psychologist and a counselor are both available by secure video, and we see couples and families, adults and seniors, and children and adolescents alike.
Currently accepting new clients
Request an Indiana appointmentOur work in Indiana brings us into contact with households in major metro areas, manufacturing towns, and quiet rural counties alike. In a single week we might work with a child or an adolescent in Indianapolis, a couple in Fort Wayne, an older adult in Evansville navigating retirement or grief, and a university student or faculty member in Bloomington or Greencastle who wants a clinician with no connection to the local community. Both clinicians see clients located in Indiana: psychological services with Dr. Lusk, and counseling with Ms. Braun-Dunagan.
Virtual visits hold a weekly hour together when a school or campus calendar turns over, when a plant changes its shift patterns, or when a job takes a family from Evansville to South Bend or West Lafayette. Continuity depends on your being physically in Indiana, or another participating jurisdiction, when the session opens. If you tell us before you travel or relocate for work or family obligations, we can plan ahead so that nobody is left guessing on the morning of an appointment.
Online Therapy Services in Indiana
The areas below are the ones Indiana clients ask about most often, and each is approached through a treatment plan written for the particular person.
Child & Adolescent Therapy
A younger client is met where they actually are, developmentally speaking, with a parent involved in consent and in the goals. Conversation, play, or drawing carry the hour, depending on the age of the person in front of us.
Anxiety, Stress & Social Phobia
By the time most people telephone, the avoidance has done more damage than the worry itself. Graded practice addresses both, beginning with situations small enough to finish and building from there.
Self-Esteem & Body Image
Harsh self-appraisal and distress about appearance are examined as patterns with a history, rather than argued with as though they were simply mistakes. The pace stays tolerable, because work of this kind cannot be hurried.
Eating Disorders Treatment
Difficulty with eating, weight, and control is met carefully and without any promise attached to the outcome. Where there are medical needs, the work is coordinated with the client's own physicians rather than conducted around them.
Couples & Relationship Health
Two partners attend together by video. The hour goes to the argument that keeps repeating itself, and specifically to what each of them is asking the other for and cannot seem to say plainly.
Psychological & Academic Evaluations
Evaluations answer questions about diagnosis, about learning, and about fitness where somebody has asked for more than an impression. How much of a given assessment suits a remote format is determined with Dr. Lusk.
Concerns We Help With
Whether you meet us by secure video or in person at our Flagstaff office, these are the concerns we most often help with.
Depression
Low mood that drains interest and energy, met with patient, structured care that rebuilds one step at a time.
Trauma
Careful, paced work for difficult experiences, with you in control of what you share and when.
ADHD assessment and coaching
Clear testing when you need answers, and practical coaching for the schedules and habits that follow.
Young adults
Support through the first years on your own: school, work, independence, and the relationships that come with them.
Burnout and stress
For professionals running on empty: therapy for the exhaustion, and coaching for the work habits underneath it.
How we work with clients in Indiana
Our practice is unhurried by design. The initial meetings serve to map your history, understand your household, and clarify your objectives. Indiana clients often balance their lives against a demanding school calendar or a rotating shift rota, whether they are campus faculty, industrial professionals, or busy parents. We would rather adjust an hour than lose continuity when your schedule turns over. While our central framework is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), cultural awareness actively shapes our listening from the beginning rather than arriving later as an afterthought. Because we focus on developing durable coping skills, we do not offer a quick fix. We review your personalized plan openly as we go, ensuring our weekly meetings remain relevant and effective for your specific circumstances.
Your Indiana care team
Indiana clients may work with either Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., for psychological services, or Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A., LPC, for counseling.
Psychological Services
Della S. Lusk, Ph.D.
Clinical Director · Bilingual Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) granted by the PSYPACT® Commission, which authorizes her to provide telepsychology to clients located in Indiana.
Dr. Lusk is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Psychologist and has been in practice for over twenty-five years. Her undergraduate work was done at Smith College and her doctoral training at the California School of Professional Psychology–San Diego, which holds APA accreditation. Indiana clients see her for individual, couples, family, and group therapy, in English or in Spanish. She conducts psychological evaluations as well, and where an instrument has to be administered in person, that happens at our Flagstaff office.
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Counseling Services
Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A.
Licensed Professional Counselor
Ms. Braun-Dunagan provides counseling to clients located in Indiana through the Counseling Compact™, and has availability for Medicare and TriCare West clients.
Through the Counseling Compact™, Alethea Braun-Dunagan holds the privilege to practice counseling with clients located in Indiana. She serves children, adolescents, and adults, integrating Cognitive Behavioral techniques into a holistic framework. Her clinical focus includes women's issues, postpartum mood disorders, and relapse prevention, alongside particular expertise in helping youth resolve trauma. She is also the practice's intake specialist.
Request an appointmentFull biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Dr. Lusk’s licensure and credentials and Ms. Braun-Dunagan’s licensure and areas of focus in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
How telehealth licensing works in Indiana
Dr. Della S. Lusk provides psychological services to Indiana clients under the authority of PSYPACT®, while Alethea Braun-Dunagan exercises her privilege to practice counseling in the state through the Counseling Compact™. Please note that psychological testing is exclusively the domain of psychology and is not provided under counseling.
For either clinician, the state you are physically in when the hour starts governs your care. A trip or a move needs to be raised before your next appointment. If care cannot continue, records go forward only on written authorization.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Supporting Indiana students and faculty
Our Indiana clients study and teach at Indiana University Bloomington, Purdue University, the University of Notre Dame, Butler University, DePauw University, Wabash College, Earlham College, Hanover College, and the other public and private institutions listed below. On a small residential campus, where everyone's business travels quickly, outside care is often what makes the difference.
All Indiana campuses we have worked with
Public Universities
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Purdue University
- Purdue University Fort Wayne
- Purdue University Northwest
- Ball State University
- Indiana State University
- University of Southern Indiana
Private Colleges & Universities
- University of Notre Dame
- Butler University
- DePauw University
- Wabash College
- Earlham College
- Hanover College
- Franklin College
- Valparaiso University
- University of Evansville
- University of Indianapolis
- Marian University
- Taylor University
- Goshen College
- Manchester University
- Huntington University
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Trine University
- Indiana Wesleyan University
Indiana communities we serve online
Indiana clients join from Indianapolis, Bloomington, West Lafayette, South Bend, Fort Wayne, Evansville, and Greencastle, along with a good many smaller communities. Where somebody happens to live has no bearing on whether we can work together each week.
Common questions about online therapy in Indiana
Who do you see in Indiana?
Every age this practice treats: children, teenagers, adults, and people in later life, plus couples and families. What people bring includes anxiety, low mood, difficulty with eating and body image, strain in a relationship, and questions about attention or learning. Either clinician may see them, and psychological evaluation belongs to Dr. Lusk. If this is not the right practice for the problem, we would rather establish that at the outset than three months in.
Do you work with Indiana college students?
Regularly. Students at the large universities and at the small private colleges alike keep a weekly hour by video, and a fair number do so because they would rather their care were not visible to anyone on campus. If a break takes you out of state, let us know, since the authorization depends on where you are.
Will a teenager actually talk over video?
Many do, and more readily than their parents expect. For anyone under eighteen a parent or guardian joins the intake, and we settle in advance what will go back to the family and what does not. Some adolescents find their own room easier than an office; for others it is the opposite, and we check on that again once the work is under way.
What if I travel or move?
Authorization is decided by your location at the time of the appointment, so tell us before you go rather than afterward. For a short trip we check whether the destination is covered and either keep the hour or move it. For a move, the same conversation happens earlier, and it ends either in continuing as before or in a referral we can help you make.
Which clinician will I work with?
Evaluation and testing are Dr. Lusk's. Counseling may be either clinician, and the choice turns on fit. Ms. Braun-Dunagan takes the intake calls, so the question is usually answered then.
How to get started in Indiana
To get started, request a first appointment in our secure online scheduler. You can choose the clinician whose background fits your needs, or let our office place you, and we will confirm by email.
Prefer to talk first? Call or email the office.
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