About Kendra
Dr. Kendra Stuke is a licensed social worker with 26 years of experience in Kansas. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people who are facing depression, trauma, and life transitions.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for worried parents and adults alike. She has spent much of her career helping children, youth, teens, and young adults cope with trauma, abuse, ADHD, and anxiety. She also works with adults who are navigating grief, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on listening first and building on each person's strengths. In sessions she uses clear, collaborative methods drawn from attachment work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, narrative approaches, and client-centered care. She helps people notice patterns, test small changes, and practice new ways of relating.
Sessions often include simple skills to reduce stress and steady anxious thinking. Her style is steady and practical. She values direct talk and warmth, and she helps people set small, realistic goals.
She supports parents who worry about behavior, families managing transitions, and adults working through loss or overwhelm. Dr. Stuke tailors work to each person’s needs and pace.
She encourages questions and focuses on what helps in day-to-day life. People leave sessions with concrete steps they can try between meetings.
Approaches for anxiety and life transitions online
Attachment-based work focuses on relationships and how early patterns shape reactions today. It helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or repeated conflict notice those patterns and try new responses.Cognitive behavioral work looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood going. It breaks concerns into small steps, teaches practical skills, and tests changes in everyday life.
Mindfulness approaches teach simple practices to calm the body and bring attention back to the present moment. These techniques can reduce reactivity and help with stress management.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when people connect. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy schedule and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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