About Us
Welcome! However you found your way to this page, I am happy you are here! Power to Change Behavioral Health currently offers mental health therapy to individuals, families, and couples. Therapy services are in person or virtual. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist and am trained in using a systems approach to therapy. I truly believe that each of us are impacted by our environment, atmosphere, and people around us. ALL of our stories are different and unique and there is no "one size fits all" when it comes to therapy.
Below is a list of my specialties:
- Children (3-12), teens, and young adults
- Adolescents in foster care or have been adopted
- Family conflict
- Blended families
- Attachment disorders
- Trauma
- Disruptive and defiant behaviors
- Life transitions
- Addiction
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Mood disorders
- Couples/Marriage
Therapeutic Interventions trained in and utilize:
- CBT
- TF-CBT
- TBRI
- Collaborative
- Narrative
- EMDR (certified)
- Play Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Gottman (certified level 1 & 2)
- EFT (Emotionally-focused therapy)
- Spiritual/Biblical
Owner - Therapist: Vanessa McCaskey, MA, LMFT
About Me: I'm so happy to introduce myself to you! I grew up on the westside of Indianapolis with 1 younger sister and primarily in a single-parent, then later, blended family home. After graduating high school I attended Franklin College in Franklin, IN. My original goal was to become a Spanish teacher. I obtained a BA in Spanish with a minor in Religious Studies. However, when I conducted my internship with the Marion Co Juvenile Probation Center (in the Spanish speaking department), I saw first hand that many of the youth who were on probation got to where they were as a product of their environment or lack of knowledge in regards to a healthy way of life. This work led me to seek becoming a therapist. I applied to Christian Theological Seminary where I got accepted into their marriage and family therapy program. I began my master's degree program following graduation from Franklin College in 2012. In August 2015, I graduated from Christian Theological Seminary with a MA in Marriage and Family therapy. My experience includes, but is not limited to: working with families, individuals, and couples in a private practice setting, working as a mental health therapist connected to a Suboxone Clinic for 4-5 years (where I became well-versed with addiction), school-based therapist, trauma based therapist at Eskenazi Health working with victims of violence, and for the past 6 years contracted as a home-based therapist with the Department of Child Services where I have had in-depth experience working with bio-parents/family, foster or adoptive parents/family, and youth in foster care ranging from 3years old to 18years old. Outside of therapy, I enjoy spending time with my husband and 2 kids. My hobbies and fun days include making cupcakes/cakes, teaching dance and being a dance mom for my daughter, baseball & basketball for my son, being on the PTO board at my kid's school, watching documentaries, singing/music, being a part of my amazing church, working out, family trips, date nights with my husband, lunches with friends, and embracing all of life's moments as they come.
