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6900 W 80th Street
Overland Park, Kansas 66204
(913) 562-6977
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Elders (65+)
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I enjoy helping couples and individuals gain new insights, greater self-understanding, adaptive tools, and more effective patterns, resulting in clarity, guidance, and encouragement. Take heart; change is possible! More than twenty-five years of pastoral service and counseling undergirds my professional training as a counselor. My approach has a cross-disciplinary flavor, incorporating experience in social work (BSW), ministry (MDiv, DMin, CSD) and counseling (MAC, LPC, EMDR). From these varied disciplines, consistencies have emerged in what fosters healing, wholeness, and harmonious relationships. Theoretically, I am grounded in Attachment Theory, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Christian theology. Training from Seattle's Gottman Institute further informs my work with couples. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) may be used to address past trauma, or to help individuals forge new responses to old triggers. Married for thirty years, I have three grown children and two grandchildren. From a faith-journey perspective, I can understand people who have no faith, a strong faith, or a wavering faith, and hose who prefer differing modes of worship, from high church to non-denominational; from building-based to home-based gatherings.

My Specialties
Marital and Premarital
Relationship Issues
Men's Issues
Alzheimer's
Coping Skills
Divorce
Grief
Life Coaching
Peer Relationships
Sexual Addiction
Trauma and PTSD
Trauma
PTSD
Anger Management
Depression
Family Conflict
Infidelity
Parenting
Self Esteem
Spirituality