- Stress and anxiety
- Guilt and shame
- Faith-informed care
About Lavana
Lavana Kindle is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with eight years of counseling experience based in Arkansas. She lists stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and career concerns among her core areas. She also focuses on communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, and self-love. Lavana practices from a Christian perspective and has worked in both private practice and agency settings.
Before focusing on counseling full time she spent many years in teaching and administration, including 13 years at Southern Arkansas University. She transitioned into therapy part-time in 2020 and later worked at Newhaven Counseling and Health Services in Camden. She has maintained a private Christian practice since June 2020.
Lavana brings a background that includes writing and publishing; she is an author and has assisted others with getting books published. That writing experience shapes how she helps people organize their thoughts and reflect on what matters to them. Practical conversation and reflective exercises are common in her work.
Her practice reflects faith-informed perspectives alongside clinical work. Sessions often include talking through painful memories and difficult decisions, and looking at how guilt or shame are affecting daily life. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside spiritual considerations when clients request that approach.
Outside of counseling she lives in Camden with her husband. She has a large extended family and participates in her church music team. Hobbies include travel, cooking, sewing, and playing flute and harmonicas on the praise team.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Many of Lavana's methods draw on straightforward, evidence-based techniques that help people process painful memories and manage strong emotions. One common approach focuses on talking through the facts of difficult events and identifying how those memories shape current reactions; this helps with trauma-related symptoms and ongoing anxiety. Another approach uses structured reflection and writing exercises to clarify values and steps forward, which can be helpful for guilt, shame, life purpose, and decision-making.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to test methods and adjust them based on needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying practical tools first and changing course if something does not fit.
The biography does not list which online session formats are offered, so confirm the available formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also makes it possible to continue consistent sessions when life or travel would otherwise interrupt progress.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
8+ years
Listed in
Arkansas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she help with?
Lavana works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and career concerns. She also addresses communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, and self-love.
How would she approach feelings of shame or guilt?
She uses practical conversation and reflective exercises to examine how guilt or shame affect thoughts and behavior. Faith perspectives can be included when clients want that element.
What is her professional background?
She spent many years in teaching and administration, including 13 years at Southern Arkansas University, and has worked in counseling roles since 2020.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in Arkansas.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Confirm current session options before booking.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.