About Kendra
Dr. Kendra Stuke is a Kansas-licensed clinician with 26 years of experience. She holds an LSCSW and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges.
She also supports those facing trauma, relationship strain, and difficulties with self-esteem and life transitions. Her style is practical and person-centered. Sessions focus on what feels most useful right now.
She listens to each person's story and helps people find steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach values the client's strengths and goals. Dr. Stuke has worked with children, youth, teens, and young adults on issues such as trauma, abuse, ADHD, and anxiety.
She has also supported adults navigating major life changes and relationship concerns. Her background includes long-term clinical work in community and therapeutic settings throughout Kansas. In sessions she blends approaches to match the person in front of her.
Techniques include exploring past patterns that influence current struggles, practical skills to manage thoughts and behaviors, and mindful practices to ease intense feelings. She uses narrative ideas to help clients make sense of difficult events. People who do best with her tend to want a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist who offers clear steps and gentle challenge.
She aims to help people feel more stable, more confident, and better able to handle everyday stressors. For those dealing with phobias or specific fears, she can work on strategies to reduce avoidance and build coping skills over time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviors. Online sessions using this approach help people notice patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Delivered online, CBT often uses brief exercises, thought records, and behavioral tasks that can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety and build confidence.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text sessions make it easier to check in between longer meetings and to get shorter, focused support. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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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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