For adults navigating the handoff after detox, IOP, court evaluation, or relapse risk, and for patients seeking psychiatric care for depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, or mood disorders without addiction in the picture. PMHNP-C, FNP-BC, and CARN-AP credentialed. In person in Merrillville and via telehealth across Indiana.
The practice's primary work
By Angela Vanderberg, PMHNP-C, FNP-BC, CARN-AP
Adults navigating addiction, trauma, and co-occurring conditions are often routed between specialty clinics, therapy groups, and general psychiatric offices that do not coordinate with each other. The patients in the middle get lost. They need psychiatric medication continuity from a prescriber who understands addiction without judgment, and in Northwest Indiana that combination is rare. Lake County communities have been hit hard by the ongoing opioid crisis. The practice was built around the gap.
That gap is the practice. Bridge care is the work the field calls "complicated" and quietly routes elsewhere. CARN-AP credentialing exists because someone has to do it well.
The practice also welcomes patients seeking psychiatric medication for depression, anxiety, ADHD, mood disorders, or PTSD on their own. Bridge care is the focus. It is not the limit.
"Addiction rarely arrives alone. Treating the substance use without the trauma underneath, or the depression alongside it, or the ADHD that has been screaming for years, rarely produces an outcome that holds." The premise of this practice
After the program ends
Detox, IOP, residential, court evaluation. Your psychiatric medication needs continuity, not a referral loop.
Co-occurring symptoms
Anxiety, trauma, depression, ADHD, sleep, mood. The full picture, treated together.
A careful, private read
For patients who have been judged, dismissed, or under-medicated. Trauma-informed by design.
Section 03The Practice
Angela founded Personal Wellness Psychiatric Services to close a specific gap in Northwest Indiana: adults navigating addiction, trauma, and co-occurring conditions were being routed between Suboxone clinics, therapy groups, and general psychiatric offices that did not coordinate with each other. The patients in the middle were getting lost.
Dual board-certified (PMHNP-C and FNP-BC) plus CARN-AP credentialed in addiction medicine, she brings a clinical addiction-medicine lens to psychiatric prescribing. The practice is built around bridge care: integrated psychiatric medication management for the in-between, delivered without judgment.
PMHNP-C
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Certified.
FNP-BC
Family Nurse Practitioner, Board Certified.
CARN-AP
Certified Addictions Registered Nurse, Advanced Practice.
Section 04Services
Five services, integrated under one provider. Bridge care is the lane. Psychiatric medication, addiction medicine, and telehealth are the work that fills it.
Comprehensive initial assessments. History, symptoms, life context, and goals. The foundation for everything else.
Ongoing psychiatric prescribing and monitoring. Adjusted to your response, your life, your goals. Longer integrated visits are available when psychotherapy is part of the care.
CARN-AP credentialed. MAT including buprenorphine. Integrated psychiatric care for adults navigating addiction, trauma, and co-occurring conditions in Northwest Indiana.
Secure video appointments across Indiana. Same provider, same continuity. No commute.
Private membership care, cash-pay.
Section 05Conditions
Mental health and addiction often arrive together. They also arrive on their own. The conditions below are treated each in their own right, and as a unified picture when they travel together.
Alcohol, opioids, stimulants, benzodiazepines. Evidence-based with integrated psychiatric support.
Accurate diagnosis, individualized medication, coordination with therapy providers.
Generalized, panic, social, and OCD-spectrum. Treated without stigma.
Bipolar spectrum and cyclothymia. Careful diagnosis and long-term management.
Trauma-informed psychiatric care grounded in safety and stabilization.
Comprehensive evaluation and management for the attention and executive function patterns missed for years.
Section 06Coverage & Fees
Major commercial insurance accepted, plus self-pay, HSA, and FSA. Acceptance is verified at intake; confirm your specific benefits with your carrier before the first appointment. Medicare and Medicaid are not accepted at this time.
Plans
Anthem · Carelon · United Healthcare · Optum · UMR · Self-Pay · HSA/FSA
Self-Pay Rates
Initial intake: $200. Follow-up visits: $150. Longer integrated visits with psychotherapy are billed at the same hourly rate. A sliding scale is available case by case for patients with limited resources who want to stay in the practice.
Section 07Scheduling
Monday through Thursday, 10am to 5pm. Closed Fridays for now. In-person in Merrillville. Telehealth across Indiana. You can book yourself online in a couple of minutes, any time of day, and your intake forms follow automatically. There is no need to call to schedule.
A calm place to start
Care at 7891 Broadway, Suite F, built around privacy and a pace that lets you talk.
Suite F
A quiet practice on Broadway, accessible from Highland, Griffith, Crown Point, Valparaiso, and the surrounding communities. The practice entrance faces south. Look for the Personal Wellness sign and the Suite F door.
See the driving map and door photo
Personal Wellness Psychiatric Services
7891 Broadway, Suite F
Merrillville, IN 46410
Section 09Harm reduction
For patients and families who need harm-reduction resources alongside clinical care, this is the local nonprofit to know.
Referring providers and partner organizations: see the referrer hub for handoff details.
Section 10Plain answers
Nine things people ask before they book.
Bridge care is psychiatric medication management designed to hold steady through transitions: after detox, after IOP, after court evaluation, after a relapse, or whenever your psychiatric medication needs to stay aligned with active addiction treatment. One provider, one chart, both sides of the picture.
Yes. Angela is CARN-AP credentialed and prescribes buprenorphine and other medication-assisted treatment options for opioid use disorder. She also manages medications for alcohol use disorder and the psychiatric conditions that often travel alongside it.
Most patients with addiction also have a co-occurring psychiatric condition, and splitting the care between two providers often creates contradictions. At Personal Wellness, both sides are handled by one nurse practitioner. Decisions about psychiatric medications and addiction medications are made together.
Yes. Telehealth visits are available across Indiana. Some visits require in-person, especially for controlled-substance prescribing, but most follow-up visits work well by video.
The referrer hub walks through the handoff process for therapists, primary care, recovery programs, and families.
Book online in a couple of minutes, any time of day, and your intake forms follow automatically. There is no need to call to schedule. The office is open Monday through Thursday, 10am to 5pm Central, and closed Fridays for now.
Major commercial insurance is accepted, plus self-pay, HSA and FSA. Medicare and Medicaid are not accepted at this time. Acceptance is verified at intake, so confirm your specific benefits with your carrier before your first appointment.
The office is at 7891 Broadway, Suite F, Merrillville, Indiana 46410. The practice entrance faces south and has the Personal Wellness sign beside the door. Another unit at the back of the building uses the same suite letter, so enter from the south side.
Substance use disorder (opioid, alcohol, stimulant), depression, anxiety, PTSD and trauma-related conditions, bipolar and other mood disorders, adult ADHD, and co-occurring presentations of any of the above. See the specialties page for the full picture.
Volume OneEnd of issue
New patients welcome. Telehealth across Indiana. The first conversation is the easiest one to have.
