We are glad you are here!
Now offering telehealth sessions, in addition to in person sessions, in all of our offices. We are here. We care. You matter!
Welcome to Embark Counseling Services, LLC, a compassionate place for you, your children, your teen, families and couples. At Embark Counseling, our caring 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. Stop by their bios to learn more about their approach and strengths.
Together, we help individuals and 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
Kasey Ashcraft, MA, LPC
Trauma Competent Family Systems Counselor, Gottman Trained Couples CounselorLearn More
Lauren Wood, LSCSW, LCSW
Trauma Competent Family Systems Therapist, Teen Counseling, Family Counseling, Couples CounselingLearn More
Ashley Cross, MA, PLPC
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; DBT Trained; Gottman TrainedLearn More
Anna Rizzi, MS, LCPC, LPC
Trauma Competent Couples and Family Counselor; Certified MBTI PractitionerLearn More
Ashley Lawrence, MA, LPC
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; Art TherapistLearn More
Jimmarie Stinson, PLPC, LPC, CPT
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; Certified Play Therapist; Couples CounselorLearn More
Stephanie Fox, LCSW
Trauma Competent Clinical Social Worker; Attachment Therapist; Mindfulness Trained; Brain Story TrainedLearn More
Jill Fields, Counseling Intern
Counseling Intern, Christian Counselor Intern, Trauma TrainedLearn More
Teresa Paterson Bartch, LPC, LCPC, RPT-S
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; Parent Coach; Clinical Supervisor; Registered Play Therapy Supervisor; Educational and Business ConsultantLearn More
Our Services
Embark Counseling Services now has multiple 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, Women’s Issues and Parent Coaching. EMDR therapy also available.
Lenexa, KS
specializing in Play Therapy, Teen Counseling, Couples and Relationship Counseling, Women’s Issues, and Parent Coaching. EMDR therapy also available.
St. Louis, MO
specializing in Teen Counseling and Women’s Issues
St. Joseph, MO – COMING SOON!
specializing in teens, individuals with anxiety and depression and family systems approach with a holistic, integrative lens.
Lee’s Summit, MO – COMING SOON!
specializing in Play Therapy, Teen Counseling, Couples and Relationship Counseling, Women’s Issues and Parent Coaching