About us.

Haven Mental Health’s mission is to provide affordable, person-centered mental health care utilizing the most effective, evidence-based practices.

Meet Our Team

About the Practice

Haven Mental Health is an outpatient mental health counseling agency located in downtown Ypsilanti, just minutes down the road from EMU and a 10 minute drive from the University of Michigan.

Haven Mental Health’s mission is to provide affordable, person-centered mental health care utilizing the most effective, evidence-based practices. Some examples of modalities used include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Psychoeducation, Art Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, and Dialectical-Behavior Therapy.

In the future, Haven Mental Health plans on incorporating Animal-Assisted Therapy as well as Group Therapy. We are an LGBTQIA+ affirming agency and are committed to supporting individuals as they navigate their journey to their truest selves.

Our Amazing Team

At Haven Mental Health, our entire team is dedicated to providing the best evidence-based services.

Meet the team behind the mission.

Lexi Miller, LMSW

Owner & Therapist

Lexi is a licensed social worker in the state of Michigan and has been working in the field for over 7 years. She has a background in grief and loss and takes a gentle, trauma-informed approach to supporting others as they process pain and grief. Lexi likes to use modalities like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems, Mindfulness & Meditation, and Attachment-based education and interventions while also utilizing her own lived experiences as an AuDHD individual to empower others to learn more about themselves and the way their brains work. She sees clients 18 years of age and older.

Amanda Archer, LLMSW

Therapist

Amanda is a limited license social worker in the state of Michigan and has a background in supporting young adults and college students. Amanda is a highly motivated and collaborative therapist and specializes in anxiety and stress management, and disordered eating/unhealthy relationships with food. Amanda likes to use a mixture of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for those who need assistance with emotional regulation, a need for control, and distress tolerance. She sees clients 18 years of age and older and can accept BCBS, Priority Health, and Aetna insurance, as well as cash pay clients.

Caitlyn VanArman, LLMSW

Therapist

Caitlyn is a limited license social worker in the state of Michigan and she has a background in child welfare and development. Caitlyn has experience providing support in both individual and group settings related to difficulties with anxiety and stress, depression, adjusting to changes, ADHD, and substance use. She utilizes play therapy, family therapy, and CBT techniques and takes a client-centered approach to treatment. She is neurodiversity and LGBTQIA+ affirming and sees clients 12 years of age and older. Caitlyn can accept BCBS, Priority Health, and Aetna insurance as well as cash pay clients.

Melissa Fett, LLMSW

Therapist

Melissa is a limited license social worker in the state of Michigan and has an extensive background working with adults experiencing homelessness, as a recovery coach for those struggling with substance use, and providing overall support to those with severe and persistent mental health struggles. Melissa likes to use CBT, motivational interviewing, a strengths-based perspective, as well as her own lived experiences to support others. She is passionate about helping the LGBTQIA+ population as well as veterans and sees clients 18 years of age and older. She can accept BCBS, Priority Health, and Aetna insurance as well as cash pay clients.

Types of Therapy Offered

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a type of talking therapy. It’s based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). But it’s specially adapted for people who feel emotions very intensely. The aim of DBT is to help you: Understand and accept your difficult feelings.

Psychoanalysis Therapy

Psychoanalytic therapy is a form of in-depth talk therapy that aims to bring unconscious or deeply buried thoughts and feelings to the conscious mind so that repressed experiences and emotions, often from childhood, can be brought to the surface and examined. Working together, the therapist and client look at how these early hidden and stifled memories have affected the client’s thinking, behavior, and relationships in adulthood.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-based therapy is an approach to therapy that specifically targets those thoughts, feelings, communications, behaviors, and interpersonal exchanges that patients have learned either to suppress and avoid or to amplify and overemphasize because of early attachment experiences.

Art Therapy

Art therapy is a tool therapists use to help patients interpret, express, and resolve their emotions and thoughts. Patients work with an art therapist to explore their emotions, understand conflicts or feelings that are causing them distress, and use art to help them find resolutions to those issues.

Mindfulness & Meditation Therapy

Mindfulness-based therapies, which include meditation and mindfulness practices, can help people focus on the present moment and experience stressors in a nonjudgmental way. The goal is to break away from negative thought patterns, increase compassion, and decrease judgment.