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I work with adults, couples, and families who face challenges related to the stress of modern living as well as traumatic experiences, including complex trauma histories. My clients often come to me with symptoms of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress. I have experience in helping clients with family conflicts, trauma and abuse, parenting, and coping with grief and loss.

I am working toward my Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Registered Play Therapist (RPT) credentials. I am currently Provisionally Licensed (PLPC) and receiving clinical supervision from Susan Andree, LPC (Hawthorne Counseling, LLC). I especially enjoy being with individuals as they process the impact of various life experiences on their present ways of being. They learn how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors have been helpful (or unhelpful) in their lives. They learn what to change and how to change. They discover boundaries and self-worth. They become empowered and more self-accepting. Evening/weekend availability.

Working with individuals, couples, families, adolescents, young adults, adults and the elderly. Who are struggling with addictions, depression, anxiety, PTSD, trauma, marital conflicts, employment challenges, familial concerns, or re-entering society. Helping individuals and families to achieve meaning and purpose in their lives by providing a holistic counseling approach of instruction, guidance, and insight for personal development and emotional growth. In order to live a fully functional, healthy life contributing to their needs and to the needs of those who depend on them for support. "A meaningful life is never too late."

I want to help clients get relief and know that they are not alone. Whether that relief is from anxiety, depression, self-esteem, or from relationship issues, we can work together. You might be surprised at how your strengths start to show! I can give you invaluable information and skills that can positively impact your daily life. I care deeply for my clients and restore hope. Together, we overcome your unique struggles to reveal a new life outlook. With your specific concerns, I can show you relief and ways to not have them continuously interfere in your life.

Most people are doing the best they can in life with the skills they have available. When life becomes overwhelming, unbearable, or unfulfilling, counseling can help you find & experience the joy & love you desire - even in the face of adversity. Counseling can be helpful when you are ready to make changes in your life and when you desire someone to journey with you to realize your best self. In our work together, we will collaborate to set goals that you want to achieve. For some, this may be a change in how you are thinking and feeling. For others, you might be ready to work to find deeper healing through processing your trauma.

Lately you’ve been feeling down. Maybe you're having trouble sleeping, eating, or isolating and every day feels like a fight. Perhaps you’ve been feeling nervous, maybe even for no clear reason, and it’s making it hard to focus or function well. Some people even feel like their mind has been playing tricks on them - like having extraordinary experiences where you’re seeing or hearing things others don’t seem to see or hear. Or perhaps those scary moments from your past seem to be getting bigger and bigger, making it really hard to keep running away from. And sometimes, life just feels hard. But it doesn't have to stay that way.

Sometimes life can be just a little too much. Too much stress from work, social media, pandemic changes, too many people, or expectations you can't seem to live up to. I offer a safe space free of judgment and discrimination, yet full of conscious cultural competence to help you find your way to feeling comfortable in what can seem like an uncomfortable world.

Are you having trouble finding joy and meaning in life, healing from the past, or finding your way? I believe the path can get cloudy for everyone at some point, and that therapy is a great tool for finding clarity and healing. Let me walk with you on your journey towards peacefulness and positive change.

I am licensed in MO and KS allowing me to offer telehealth sessions throughout both states and in-person sessions for individuals in the KC metro. Available for immediate day and evening appointments. For over 15 years, I have worked primarily with adults to help create long-term change, healing and transformation, instead of temporary band-aids. This is done by building a relationship that provides safety and acceptance, and ultimately promotes change, as well as using the tools and techniques that best fit the circumstance.

My top value is "Authenticity" and I'm committed to clients having lives that they love! I'm a Certified Life, Career and Retirement Coach with extensive coaching experience who enjoys being a thinking partner. I guide my clients through highly individualized coaching by phone/e-mail or Zoom (that clients provide) in the Kansas City area and throughout the United States. I clarify what you most deeply desire. Then we develop actions to reach your dreams and goals. My clients are motivated to become happier and more effective in their personal and professional lives. They range from professionals and leaders to retiring people.

Relationships are incredibly rewarding but often challenge us in more ways than expected. Strong relationships are the foundation for a thriving life but for a variety of reasons, life gets in the way of thriving. Maybe you are looking for your relationship to thrive again or maybe you feel your problem is much bigger. No matter the issue, I believe therapy can help. My goal is for couples to look at themselves, their partner and their relationship in a new light. This creates the potential to have passionate and connected relationships while also growing as individuals.

Did you feel neglected and unloved when you were a child? Did you feel lonely and ostracized if you tried to tell your parents or other adults about your feelings or if you tried to ask them questions about life? In your adult life, do you have difficulty relating to others? Do you feel depressed and alienated from others? Do you have difficulty knowing your own feelings or how you feel in your own body? Are you afraid to trust yourself, to be yourself? I've worked for 20 years with adults abused, traumatized, and/or neglected in childhood. .

People get stuck. We can work together to help you find your way. We will first start with stabilizing presenting concerns then team together to resolve underlying issues. Through our collaboration we will build resilience and capacity to respond to life. Let's figure this out.

Coming to counseling is often not an easy decision to make, and I commend you for taking the first step and researching your options. In order for the process to be as beneficial as possible, it is important that you find someone that you can trust and open up to. Counseling often involves discussing tough topics and areas in your life that you are struggling with, so an empathetic and understanding counselor is important.

Diakonos is a private mental health counseling center in Independence, MO since 1981. We believe in a healthy approach to healing life's problems through integrating sound principles for the mind, body & spirit. We offer compassionate care for those struggling with painful emotions, distorted thinking, and troubling behavior, as well as those desiring personal growth and more satisfying relationships. We are comfortable and experienced at integrating clients' religious & spiritual beliefs with the therapy and healing process. Treatment is personalized to meet the individual needs of each participant. Therapists are available to lead conferences and speak on topics of interest to your church, business, or organization.

My ideal client is one who does not know why they need a therapeutic relationship (resistant) or how their problems got them to the place of discomfort (denial); a person that is no longer comfortable in their own skin and cannot live in that condition anymore. MRT Adult/ Juvenile Facilitator, MRT Domestic Violence Facilitator, EMDR trained, Gottman (Level 1), SMART/SMART Friends and Family Facilitator,Battling Shadows Facilitator.Certified Family Trauma Professional, Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Specialist, SOTP (Sex Offender Treatment Provider).