Kris Rice, LSCSW - Therapist in Kansas

About Kris

Kris Rice is a licensed social worker in Kansas with 23 years of clinical experience. She centers care on respect, sensitivity, and compassion while tailoring conversations and plans to each person’s situation. Parents and family members often find this straightforward, supportive style easy to follow when stress or conflict feel overwhelming.

Her practice focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and motivation. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, anger, career shifts, and coping with life changes.

Background and approach

Kris works with common family problems including blended family issues, divorce and separation, and communication breakdowns. Kris uses several practical approaches to guide sessions. She draws on attachment-based work to map patterns in relationships and emotionally-focused therapy to help people reconnect and express feelings.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness techniques help with grounding and stress management. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress, mood disorders, codependency, and issues around abandonment and control. Kris also supports women’s issues, young adult challenges, and aging or geriatric concerns when they affect family dynamics.

She aims to be clear and direct about steps people can take. Kris believes the first step takes courage and that therapy should feel practical. She partners with people to set realistic goals and to build skills that fit daily life.

The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Therapeutic approaches and what online sessions look like

Attachment-based work looks at how past relationship patterns affect present family life. It helps people notice repeating reactions and try new ways of relating that can ease tension. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior that fuel anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kris will review options with each person and recommend what seems most useful based on goals and preferences. That process is collaborative so plans can be adjusted if something isn’t working.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to continue work during life changes. Sessions still focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and step-by-step goals that translate to everyday routines.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does Kris focus on?

She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting, anger, career changes, and family conflicts. Additional areas include trauma and abuse, codependency, and post-traumatic stress.

What is Kris's therapy style like?

Her style is respectful, sensitive, and compassionate while staying practical. Sessions are tailored to each person and emphasize clear steps and skill building.

How much clinical experience does the therapist have?

The profile notes 23 years of professional work experience in clinical settings. That experience informs how she approaches family and interpersonal problems.

What are Kris's professional credentials and location?

She holds the Kansas Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker credential, listed as KS LSCSW LSCSW 3841, and practices in Kansas.

Which languages are available for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people outside the US work with Kris?

International clients are not currently accepted for sessions.

What session formats are offered?

Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Multiple formats allow flexibility for different needs and schedules.

How does payment and getting started work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 23 years
Licensed: Kansas
Languages: English

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