Life Transitions Therapists in Fort Wayne, IN

Major life changes—even positive ones—can bring uncertainty, stress, and questions about identity or direction. Whether you're navigating career changes, relationships, parenthood, graduate school, or another transition, therapy can help you move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

Major life changes—whether chosen or unexpected—can bring uncertainty, stress, and identity shifts. I help clients navigate transitions with greater clarity and resilience, supporting both the emotional experience and practical adjustments. Together, we work to help you feel grounded and confident in what comes next.

I specialize in helping adolescents and adults navigate life transitions with greater confidence, resilience, and clarity. Major changes such as career shifts, relationship changes, marriage, divorce, parenthood, infertility, relocation, retirement, health concerns, and other significant life events can bring uncertainty, stress, and emotional challenges. Using evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and mindfulness-based strategies, I help clients adapt to change, manage anxiety and self-doubt, strengthen coping skills, and reconnect with their values and goals. My goal is to help clients successfully navigate life's transitions while building a meaningful and fulfilling future.

Whether we actively seek a life transition or one happens to us outside our control, we will process the areas of loss and the difficulty these moments often bring to our lives. We will also look for space in these transitions that offer opportunities to re-evaluate the direction of our lives in order to build a life more aligned with our ultimate wants and hopes.

Life is full of transitions. Whether we are graduating from college, becoming a parent for the first time, getting married, entering midlife, we can count on transitions and that our identity will shift as our life does. Therapy can provide tremendous support as we move through a transition.

Fort Wayne is Indiana's second-largest city and a hub for defense manufacturing, healthcare, and distribution logistics — an occupational mix that shapes a therapy culture in which shift work stress, workplace injury adjustment, and career identity are common themes. The city has a significant Burmese refugee community — one of the largest in the United States — creating important demand for therapists with cultural competence around refugee trauma, resettlement stress, and the challenges of navigating American systems. Parkview Health and Lutheran Health Network provide major institutional mental health resources alongside a private practice community. Fort Wayne's conservative faith community means spiritually integrated approaches are a prominent feature of the local therapy offering.

Gender ID

	83%	Female
	17%	Male

Session Type

	53%	In Person and Online
	47%	Online Only

Top Treatment Approaches

80%	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
43%	Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
33%	Psychodynamic Therapy
30%	Motivational Interviewing (MI)
27%	Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian)
27%	Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
27%	Family Systems Therapy

Ages Served

97%	Adult
73%	Young Adult
50%	Senior
37%	Teen
13%	Children

Client Focus

67%	Women
37%	LGBTQ+
30%	Men
30%	Hispanic / Latino
30%	Black / African American

Life Transitions therapists in Fort Wayne, Indiana IN

Kourtney Bennett

Amber McKinney-Morgan

Dr. Rae Mazzei

Starlain Saldana

Christine Sparacino