About Louis
Louis Koch is a licensed social worker with 40 years of professional experience. He practices in Kansas and helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and address relationship and LGBT-related concerns. He creates a calm, nonjudgmental space so people can speak honestly about what they are living through.
He focuses on making sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations often begin with what feels most urgent to the person. He listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Louis uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. He draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the individual. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and build more effective ways of responding.
He aims to make therapy a collaborative process. Clients set goals and decide the pace, while he offers tools and observations to support progress. The work can include coping skills, communication practice, and planning for tricky situations.
Sessions may address a wide range of issues beyond anxiety and addiction, such as grief, trauma, sleep or eating concerns, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career changes, and compassion fatigue. Louis brings long experience and a steady presence to help people move through difficult moments and find clearer footing.
How Louis’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy starts by focusing on what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client’s lead, listens deeply, and helps people name their priorities and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to shift them. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for handling intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress when life feels overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Louis will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they decide whether to focus on coping skills, changing thinking patterns, building emotion regulation, or a mix of strategies that evolve over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when a written record of thoughts helps with reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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