Our staff
Michelle Downey
Michelle Downey is a master's level therapist licensed in the State of Indiana, with experience working in community-based, private practice, and intensive outpatient counseling settings.
Michelle Downey is also a trained deaconess within the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. Michelle specializes in providing services to adults and adolescents (14+) in the areas of:
- Depression, Bipolar, and other mood disorders
- Anxiety, panic, and phobias
- Marriage, Pre-Marriage, and Family Counseling
- Grief and Loss
- Caregiver Burnout and Fatigue
- Performance Anxiety (Sports and Work Related)
- PTSD and Childhood Trauma
- Parenting Education and Support
- Preventative Care and Wellness for Church Workers
Nicholas Fuller
Nicholas is a called and ordained pastor in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. As he strives to integrate spiritual values into counseling, Nicholas finds it helpful to make a distinction between messages of scripture that challenge our behavior and messages that invite us to take comfort and guidance in God’s mercy, love, and salvation found only through Jesus Christ. Nicholas specializes in providing services to adults and adolescents (14+) in the areas of:
- Depression, ADHD, and Mood Disorders
- Anxiety, panic and phobias
- Grief and Loss
- Mindfulness and stress management
- Preventative care and wellness
- Autism and Neurodivergent
- Marriage and Pre-Marriage Counseling
- Parenting Education and Support
Melissa Banther
Melissa is a master's level Marriage and Family therapist licensed in the states of Indiana and Minnesota with experience working in community-based and faith-based settings. Melissa works almost exclusively with couples because she believes focused, specialized care leads to deeper and more lasting growth and change. Melissa helps couples build or re-build a firm foundation and move from hopelessness and disconnection with renewed hope towards restored trust, deeper friendship, covenantal love, strengthened faith, and transformed unity in Christ. Melissa specializes in providing services to adults and adolescents (16+) in the areas of:
- Dating and Pre-Marriage counseling
- Marriage and Re-Marriage counseling
- New Parents and Family counseling
- Blended Family Marriage and Parenting counseling
- Parenting Education and Support
- Divorce, Infidelity, and relational traumas
- Pregnancy (Planned and Unplanned), Pregnancy Loss, Infertility, and Adoption counseling
- Depression and other mood disorders
- Anxiety, panic, and phobias
- Preventative Care and Wellness