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EVERY HUMAN DESERVES TO FEEL

SECURE.

A Warm Welcome

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BOARD-CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING

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Downtown

104 West 9th Street, Suite 400A

Kansas City, MO 64105

Looking onto Kansas City's 1880's historic neighborhood, our downtown office is right in the heart of the city, one block from the amazing KC Central Library, surrounded by coffee, tex-mex, deli, and bakery!

Parking is designated and free.

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Leawood

11111 Nall Avenue, Suite 112

Leawood, KS 66211

Just south of Highway 435 at the corner of College and Nall, a one minute drive from Town Center Plaza and Children's Mercy South Hospital.

Beginning in mid-2024, our licensed clinicians will be available for counseling in any state in the Counseling Compact (any dark blue state on this map). We currently provide coaching nationwide, as well as educational and training opportunities for the public, students and practitioners. Serving clients from everywhere in Kansas and Missouri - adults, children, teens, couples, and families from all walks of life with a wide range of presenting issues.

 

All humans receive excellence in clinical care by combining neuroscience, human relationship attachment research, and compassion. Our treatment philosophy has been validated with over 90 years of research showing its effectiveness for many problems across the lifespan and cross-cultural populations. Our emotional attachments to other people carry us through pain. We will do the hard work with you, so you are not alone. Let us help you feel secure. 

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WHO IS ATTENDING?

Every human deserves to feel secure.

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INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING

Meet one-on-one with your counselor and focus on your individual goals and needs. Often this work involves addressing feelings of depression, anxiety or other stressors, grief and loss, divorce support, isolation therapy, and recovery from trauma across the lifespan. There are several interventions our clinicians offer - see our attachment-based Therapy Resources section to read about the different types of work that is available (talk therapy, EMDR, AEDP, EFIT).

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COUPLES/ROMANTIC PARTNERS

COUNSELING (EFCT)

Couples of all types - dating, cohabitating, married - find that their attachment bonds are nurtured when we work towards understanding negative patterns, building self-awareness and observation skills day to day, then learning new ways to ask for needs to be met and for connection. In therapy, conflict dances are reframed as fear dances, whether it's regular everyday communication issues or triage for infidelity, substance use, painful interactions, or life and death moments. We find language for fears, empathize, begin to reconnect, then work through traumas you have together or from the past. Read more about the EFT modality to know what you're signing up for!

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COUNSELING

Your teen might need a trusted adult to talk to. Your child might need a place to play therapeutically through trauma, mental health, or developmental needs. As a parent, you may need help with strategies and insight into your own emotional responses to your child. Your whole family may need help navigating conflict, parenting consultation, divorce and coparenting, raising a child with special needs or an especially hard history, we help families connect organically (see EFFT). This work can be challenging for parents, and our clinicians have eight children between them of their own - we'll walk alongside you and have a deep respect for your relationship with your child. Your child's secure connection to you is what is best for their emotional health.

CONNECT WITH US

Secure Counseling Clinic is committed to exceeding your needs. Don’t hesitate to reach out today. The direct line to Vanessa Knight is 816-608-8444. The direct line to Ben Taussig is 913-735-5128. Our fax number is 866-755-4670. 

11111 Nall Avenue, Suite 112
Leawood, KS 66211

104 West 9th Street or 820 Baltimore Avenue (same lobby)

Suite 400A

Kansas City, MO 64105

Hang on a minute... you let people use your offices??

Therapy offices are warm, comfortable spaces full of creature comforts. A therapist's full time caseload is generally around 20 hours a week, give some or take some. The rest of those hours are spent doing consultation, learning, reading for interventions, planning and prepping for sessions, among other therapist-y things. Therapy rooms often sit empty, and that's why we can share them with you! All of our health records are electronic, and the staff at Secure want to make the practice and spaces a collective of safety, connection and resourcing for the entire community. You can reserve space to:

  • work on personal needs quietly

    • clients can reserve them before/after sessions (or randomly) for reading/journaling/art, for example (we recommend using a different room than the one you have therapy in to create some emotional space and separation)

    • moms and dads can use the rooms for quiet work away from family noise

    • ADHDers can use the spaces to contain themselves and focus without distractions

  • have a meeting about your household with a spouse,

  • hold a board meeting for a business or organization,

  • teach a class,

  • lead a group,

  • hold a book club,

  • even set up an art activity so you can stay in a flow state with your creativity.

There's no catch... we just need to pay the rent, and we want to make these rooms available to anyone who will appreciate them when we aren't using them. To read more about the rules of engagement, expectations of tidiness, and more go here

OUR SPACES

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Creativity is not optional. It’s essential. Though most of us do need to remind ourselves how (and where) to find it. Help people manifest their own Unicorn Space in an already too-busy life, and unleash special gifts and undiscovered talents into the world.

104 West 9th Street

OR 820 Baltimore

Suite 400A (Fourth Floor, Elevator)

Kansas City, MO 64105

 

*Building has two entrances and PRIVATE CODE ACCESS at ALL times.

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11111 Nall Avenue

Suite 112 (First Floor)

Leawood, KS 66211

*Building has three entrances and PRIVATE CODE ACCESS  during after-hour sessions.

©2021 by Secure Counseling Clinic. 

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