About Louis
Louis Koch is a licensed social worker with 40 years of clinical experience. He is licensed as an LSCSW in Kansas and as an LCSW in Missouri. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, and LGBT-related concerns.
He aims to make the first step toward help feel doable for worried parents and adults alike. Louis keeps sessions direct and down-to-earth. He works to create an open space where people can speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
He listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Many people seek him out for help with grief, trauma, sleep and eating concerns, or changes at work or home. Over four decades Louis has helped people cope with a wide range of issues.
He addresses anger, low self-esteem, and challenges tied to parenting and intimacy. He also supports those dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and first responder stress. His background includes work with trauma, dissociation, and recovery from domestic violence.
Louis adapts his style to each person's needs. He draws on client-centered methods and skills-based strategies to reduce symptoms and build coping routines. He also uses emotion-focused and existential approaches when people want to address meaning, values, or relationship patterns.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect someone to scheduling and the right session format.
Approaches that shape online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and find their own solutions to stress, relationship or identity concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. It teaches specific skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and change patterns that feed worries or addictive behavior.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It can be useful for anger, intense mood shifts, and trouble with emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Louis will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and comfort level. The plan can change over time as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging lets people exchange notes between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or caregiving duties.
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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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