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 on Lincoln Highway 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
Six services, integrated under one provider. Bridge care is the lane. Psychiatric medication, addiction medicine, telehealth, and court evaluations 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.
Clinical objectivity, thorough documentation, reporting that meets legal and judicial requirements.
A small private panel. Cash-pay. Enrollment begins with a phone call or text, not a web form. Read how it works.
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.
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 Friday, 10am to 5pm. Alternating Saturdays available on request. In-person on Lincoln Highway. Telehealth across Indiana. Established-patient follow-ups often within the same week, depending on availability.
Photographed at golden hour
A small, quiet practice on Lincoln Highway, accessible from Highland, Griffith, Crown Point, Valparaiso, and the surrounding communities. The waiting room is intentionally undecorated. The work happens in the room, not the lobby.
Personal Wellness Psychiatric Services
2646 West Lincoln Hwy, Suite A
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
Six things people ask before they call.
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, court evaluators, and families. Same-week intake is available for most referred patients.
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
Same-week appointments often available. New patients welcome. Telehealth across Indiana. The first conversation is the easiest one to have.