Meet Your Therapist
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Meet Our Therapists | Relational Wellness Therapy in Merrillville, IN
Our Team of Therapists Provides Telehealth Support Across Indiana & Illinois
Briana Roberts, PhD, LMFT
Founder & Owner
Do you feel disconnected from your partner and want to rebuild closeness?
Do you feel uncertain about your identity or place in the world?
Do you feel weighed down by family conflict or life transitions?
General Information
Briana is a therapist who believes healing can be real, insightful, and even a little funny. She understands how heavy relationships, identity struggles, and past experiences can feel, and meets clients with empathy, curiosity, and a grounded presence. Her approach is direct, collaborative, and warm: she’ll challenge you when it matters, celebrate your wins, and help you uncover insights about yourself and your relationships.
Briana works alongside clients as a partner in discovery and growth, creating a space where you feel truly seen, heard, and understood. She believes that you are the expert of your own life, and her role is to guide, reflect, and provide tools to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
Briana holds a PhD in Couple and Family Therapy from Adler University and a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University Northwest. She has experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through relationship challenges, identity exploration, and trauma recovery.
Areas of Expertise
Interracial & Multicultural Couples
Helping couples navigate cultural differences, strengthen communication, and deepen connection.Couples & Families
Supporting relationships through moments of disconnection and change, fostering trust, understanding, and authentic connection.Identity Development
Guiding individuals through self-exploration, cultural challenges, and major life transitions with compassion and insight.EMDR Therapy
Providing trauma-informed care through advanced training in EMDR, helping clients process distressing experiences, reduce emotional triggers, and restore balance.Supervision
Offering AAMFT-approved supervision for interns and provisionally licensed therapists, focusing on clinical growth, case conceptualization, and professional development.
Why Work with Briana
Working with Briana means having a therapist who is genuinely present, compassionate, and approachable. She creates a safe, nonjudgmental space where you can explore difficult emotions, relationship challenges, and personal growth with honesty and insight. Her style blends directness with humor and warmth, helping clients face hard truths while still feeling supported and understood.
Briana partners with clients to uncover patterns, build clarity, and strengthen connection, with themselves and the people they care about most. Whether you are navigating relationship changes, identity transitions, or past trauma, she walks alongside you, offering guidance, tools, and perspective. Clients often describe her presence as grounding and validating, helping them reconnect with their inner strength and confidence.
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Elizabeth Hackney, MS, LMFTA
Do you feel overwhelmed by the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, postpartum, or new parenthood?
Are you struggling to feel like yourself again after birth, loss, or a difficult transition?
Do you carry stress, guilt, or self-blame that feels hard to name or let go of?
General Information
Elizabeth is an associate licensed marriage and family therapist who brings warmth, empathy, and a grounded presence to her work. She understands firsthand that the transition into parenthood can stir up a mix of emotions, identity shifts, and memories from the past. Her goal is to create a space where clients feel safe to explore all parts of themselves with compassion and curiosity.
Elizabeth takes a trauma-informed and IFS (Internal Family Systems) approach to maternal mental health, helping individuals reconnect with their sense of calm, confidence, and wholeness. She believes that every person has the capacity to heal when given a supportive and nonjudgmental space.
Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Counseling from Indiana Wesleyan University. Over the past few years, she has developed her clinical skills working with individuals and families to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD, and trauma. She is also skilled in supporting clients navigating mental health challenges, trauma recovery, and substance use–related family dynamics.
Elizabeth believes that clients are the experts of their own stories. She sees therapy as a collaborative process, working together to clarify goals, identify strengths, and create meaningful change. She looks forward to learning each client’s story and walking alongside them as they move toward healing and growth.
Areas of Focus
Maternal Mental Health & Perinatal Trauma
Pregnancy, postpartum, and birth can bring both beauty and pain. Elizabeth supports clients in processing birth trauma, loss, and major transitions with gentleness and care—helping them rebuild self-trust and emotional safety.IFS-Informed Trauma Recovery
Through the lens of Internal Family Systems, Elizabeth helps clients explore their inner world with curiosity and compassion, allowing them to tend to the parts that carry pain, fear, or guilt—and begin to heal from the inside out.Relationship & Family Support
Elizabeth understands how becoming a parent can shift relationships and family dynamics. She helps clients navigate these changes with clarity, empathy, and intention.
Why Work with Elizabeth
Working with Elizabeth means having a therapist who truly sees you, someone who listens without judgment and helps you feel understood, not analyzed. Her calm, nurturing presence creates a sense of safety that allows real healing to unfold.
Elizabeth combines her trauma-informed and IFS-based approach with genuine empathy and curiosity. She helps clients make sense of their emotions, reconnect with their inner strength, and find peace in moments that once felt overwhelming. Whether you’re healing from birth trauma, coping with loss, or navigating the complex emotions of new parenthood, she walks beside you every step of the way.
Clients describe sessions with Elizabeth as grounding, validating, and deeply supportive. She offers a space where you can slow down, breathe, and come home to yourself, one gentle step at a time.
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Keegan Salisbury, MS, CFLE-P
Does it feel like you’re always trying to hold everything together, and do you feel that you’re struggling to explain it or “fix” it?
Do you feel like you have a lot more to learn about yourself or that there are parts of you that you hope to explore?
Does it feel like you are struggling with close, personal relationships with others?
General Information
Keegan is a therapist who believes that all people are capable of and orient toward constructive change in therapy. Although it can be a difficult, frustrating, and sometimes tedious experience, Keegan feels that therapy is also a process that is helpful in learning more about yourself, exploring your most genuine self, and supporting you in finding wellness. Through an intentional, authentic approach, Keegan hopes to inspire clients to begin introspective reflection that guides them to empowerment and change.
Keegan’s focus as a therapist is to collaborate with clients to create a space of security in which they can be their most honest, expressive selves and be truly understood as individuals with unique experiences. He believes that an environment of belongingness and inclusion for true expression are paramount to finding insight and connection. He also believes that therapy is best experienced when a client’s desire for growth and change is reflected both in and out of session; therapy requires input from both the client and the therapist to move toward desired outcomes, some of which occur when a session is not taking place.
Keegan holds a Master of Science in Couple and Family Therapy from Purdue University Northwest and a Bachelor of Science in Family Studies from Central Michigan University. He is certified as a Family Life Educator (CFLE-P) through the National Council on Family Relations. He has also received training in Levels One and Two of Gottman Method Couple Therapy and basic training for EMDR Therapy.
Areas of Focus
Self-Exploration
People are complex; they are constantly growing and changing in ways that are unique to each person, some of which might seem “wrong” or “off.” Keegan focuses on guiding clients toward greater self-insight and encouraging them to find self-acceptance in a way that makes sense for each individual.
Close Relationships
Sometimes we struggle to maintain relationships with our loved ones or those close to us, and other times, we struggle to even form those relationships. Keegan focuses on supporting clients in reflection on their experiences with others, reconfiguring existing patterns, and even incorporating new skills in a way that inspires interpersonal growth.
Gender and Sexuality
Although some have “figured out who they are” in their romantic and sexual identities, others might have a difficult time understanding who they are, what things mean, and how others impact the experience. Keegan focuses on collaborative exploration of the person and identity of the client, and on facilitating an inclusive, supportive space in which to explore.
EMDR Therapy
There can be significantly distressing events or complicated, sometimes ongoing, experiences that prevent us from being able to interact with the world as we’d like to. Keegan focuses on processing distressing or triggering experiences and meeting the client’s desired goal.
Why Work with Keegan?
As your therapist, Keegan prioritizes the interpersonal experience of being in therapy throughout treatment. He values the quality of the therapy experience, while also challenging clients and encouraging them to work toward growth that fits their experience. Therapy can feel very stressful and frustrating, so having a therapist who regularly acknowledges those aspects of treatment and encourages direct, open expression is what Keegan finds to be the greatest influence in having a constructive therapy experience.
Keegan works with clients to learn more about themselves and their relationships with partners, family, and other aspects of their world, as well as their relationship with the concerns bringing them in for therapy. By learning about these, Keegan aims to inspire and guide clients toward achieving the goals sought out by coming to therapy. Clients have previously noted that working with Keegan has been validating, honest, and direct.
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Meet our Intern Therapists
Ailina Casas, BS, I/T
MFT Intern
Stephanie Peng, BS, I/T
MFT Intern