We are glad you are here!
Welcome to Embark Counseling Services, LLC, a compassionate place for children, teens, families and couples. At Embark Counseling, our counselors provide a warm and supportive outpatient therapy environment that cultivates safety and trust for each client to find the strength within to manage emotions, behaviors, or other challenging life situations. Embark is your safe place for your journey to wellness.
Our goal is to provide high quality, compassionate counseling services to empower and guide families to lasting change from a client-centered, integrative, holistic approach, where hope and healing are the central focus, to foster emotional and behavioral growth and nurture satisfying family interpersonal dynamics.
Empowering Children and Families for Hope and Healing
Our Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists are trauma competent, and approach outpatient therapy and counseling from an integrative, holistic approach, paying careful attention to each individual’s emotional, physical, mental, spiritual and psychological safety; recognizing that each person experiences situations uniquely different, and building resiliency requires empathy, support and understanding.
Our Play Therapists have specialized training and certification, and may utilize these methods with children, teens, families and couples in their therapy. To learn more on how Play Therapy may help your child or teenager, click here.
Our Marriage and Family Therapists approach couples and family therapy with empathy and techniques that are substantially researched (Gottman Method) as a highly effective for relieving distress among couples, reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression, resolving conflict, restoring lines of communication and re-establishing a secure emotional bond.
Our Counseling Interns provide counseling at an affordable cost, while maintaining the integrity of your experience, and quality of your therapy.
Together, we help families improve overall functioning and growth toward healing, hope, peace and enjoying life together. We look forward to meeting you, and helping you along your journey!
Meet our Counselors
Teresa Paterson, LPC, LCPC, RPT-S
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; Parent Coach; Clinical Supervisor; Registered Play Therapy Supervisor; Educational and Business ConsultantLearn More
Stephanie Fox, LCSW
Trauma Competent Clinical Social Worker; Attachment Therapist; Mindfulness Trained; Brain Story TrainedLearn More
Anna Rizzi, MS, LCPC, LPC
Trauma Competent Couples and Family Counselor; Certified MBTI PractitionerLearn More
Ashley Cross, MA, PLPC
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; DBT Trained; Gottman TrainedLearn More
Jimmarie Stinson, PLPC, LPC, CPT
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; Certified Play Therapist; Couples CounselorLearn More
Ashley Lawrence, Counseling Intern
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; Art TherapistLearn More
Christy Lanterman, Counseling Intern
Counseling Intern, Couples and Family Counseling Trauma TrainedLearn More
Jill Fields, Counseling Intern
Counseling Intern, Christian Counselor Intern, Trauma TrainedLearn More
Our Services
Embark Counseling Services now has three locations, and likely in your area! Now, you have greater access to quality trauma informed mental and behavioral health services, including Telemental Health. We are located in:
Kansas City North, MO
specializing in Play Therapy, Teen Counseling, Couples and Relationship Counseling, and Parent Coaching.
Lenexa, KS
specializing in Play Therapy, Teen Counseling, Couples and Relationship Counseling, Women’s Issues, and Parent Coaching
St. Louis, MO
specializing in Teen Counseling and Women’s Issues