Dr. Kendra Stuke
Therapist focused on family and parenting
- Credentials
- LSCSW
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kendra
Dr. Kendra Stuke is a Kansas-licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, depression, and related life challenges.
She often works with children, youth, teens, young adults, and adults across different life stages. Dr. Stuke aims to help people find manageable steps forward and build on their existing strengths.
Her approach is practical and grounded. She uses methods that help people name problems, try small changes, and notice what helps.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to emphasize listening, clear goals, and skills that can be used at home. Parents get concrete ideas they can try between visits. Dr.
Stuke has long experience supporting those affected by trauma, abuse, and ADHD. She also addresses issues such as grief, intimacy concerns, family conflict, and caregiver stress. She brings patient attention to adoption and foster care topics, blended family dynamics, and attachment matters.
She draws from evidence-based methods including attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral tools, and client-centered listening. Mindfulness and narrative techniques also show up in her work to help regulate strong emotions and reframe difficult stories. The emphasis remains on what the person or family needs now.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted remotely by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Her practice follows a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How different approaches are used in online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and safe connections. It helps with attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and family conflict by exploring patterns in how people relate and respond to one another. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress so people can try new behaviors and notice results. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and respect for the client’s perspective. The therapist follows the person’s pace, reflects their experience, and supports them in finding their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Stuke collaborates with each person or family to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches and adjust plans as progress is seen and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, reach people across Kansas, and try short check-ins or longer sessions as needed. Licensed professionals can use these tools to support skill practice, coaching for parenting challenges, and ongoing emotional processing.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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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