About Kendra
Kendra Covington is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience. She focuses on relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, and anxiety. She meets people where they are and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. In sessions she listens, reflects, and helps people name patterns that cause pain. She and the client shape goals together and try small, doable steps between meetings.
Background and approach
Kendra often helps with parenting stress, blended family challenges, and caregiver strain. She also works with people facing addiction, grief, anger, or low self-esteem. Her practice includes support for LGBT issues, veteran and armed forces concerns, and mood disorders.
Her approach pays attention to attachment and how early relationships affect current behavior. She draws on cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and on acceptance-based tools to manage painful feelings. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental tone and clear suggestions they can use outside sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Kendra tailors the pace and methods to each person's circumstances and goals.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people try new ways of relating. That work can help with intimacy, family problems, and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That might mean mixing acceptance skills, cognitive techniques to shift thinking, and exercises that target attachment patterns over several sessions.
Online formats make this process more flexible. Video calls let therapists observe nonverbal cues during deeper work, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging can help maintain momentum between meetings. These options let people fit therapy around work, parenting, or travel while continuing consistent care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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