About Lavana
Lavana Kindle, LPC, helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and career concerns. She writes simply and listens closely to understand what's most pressing. Sessions focus on practical steps and steady support for everyday struggles.
She spent many years in education and administration before shifting into counseling work. That background shaped her clear, organized approach in session. She has run a personal Christian practice since June 2020 and also worked at Newhaven Counseling and Health Services until February 2024.
Background and approach
Her experience includes trauma counseling with adults and young people, as well as work with couples and spiritual counseling. She has also taught at Southern Arkansas University and supported authors through writing and publishing projects. This mix of roles informs the way she structures sessions and sets goals.
Lavana brings eight years of counseling experience and emphasizes straightforward tools clients can use between sessions. She often focuses on communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, and building self-love. Sessions aim to make small changes that add up over time.
Outside of work she lives in Arkansas with her retired forester husband. She enjoys travel, cooking, sewing, and playing the flute and harmonicas on her church praise team. Her personal interests often inform gentle, practical examples during session.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online sessions
Many of her sessions use evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common method emphasizes grounding and skill-building to reduce anxiety and manage stress; it teaches small exercises to interrupt worry cycles and regain calm. Another approach focuses on processing trauma in manageable steps by pacing discussions and building coping skills to handle difficult memories and feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist reviews a person’s concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggests techniques to try. Clients and the therapist adjust methods as progress is made so the plan stays aligned with what helps most.
Online therapy offers several flexible formats: video calls for a full face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or mobility is limited, and live chat or text messaging for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel, and to follow up on practice tasks after appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Self-love
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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