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Empowering Children and Families for Hope and Healing

  • Welcome
  • Get to know us
    • Ashley Cross, MA, PLPC
    • Stephanie Fox, LCSW
    • Anna Rizzi, MS, LCPC, LPC
    • Ashley Lawrence, MA, LPC
    • Jimmarie Stinson, PLPC, LPC, CPT
    • Lauren Wood, LSCSW, LCSW
    • Teresa Paterson, LPC, LCPC, RPT-S
      • Molly Rose, Therapy Dog
    • Sydney Heustis, BA, Practice Manager
  • Services
    • Individual Counseling for Adults
      • Counseling for Anxiety
      • Counseling for Depression
      • Addicitons Counseling
      • Counseling For Women
    • Child Counseling
      • Introducing Counseling to Your Child
      • Play Therapy
      • Depression and Anxiety
      • Interactive Metronome Therapy
      • Autism Spectrum Disorders
      • Child-Parent Interaction Counseling
      • Art Therapy
    • Teen Counseling
    • EMDR
    • Couples and Family Counseling
      • Couples and Relationship Counseling
      • Family and Sibling Counseling
      • Parent Coaching
    • Telemental Health
    • Clinical Licensure Supervision
    • Private Practice Business Consultation
  • Getting Started
    • Connect With Us
    • FAQs
    • Rates and Insurance
  • Connect with us
    • Employment
    • Feedback Form
  • Our Locations
    • Johnson County Main Office
    • Northland Office
    • St. Louis Office
  • Parenting On Purpose Blog

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!

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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 Consultant
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Stephanie Fox, LCSW
Trauma Competent Clinical Social Worker; Attachment Therapist; Mindfulness Trained; Brain Story Trained
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Lauren Wood, LSCSW, LCSW
Trauma Competent Family Systems Therapist, Teen Counseling, Family Counseling, Couples Counseling
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Ashley Cross, MA, PLPC
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; DBT Trained; Gottman Trained
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Ashley Lawrence, MA, LPC
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; Art Therapist
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Anna Rizzi, MS, LCPC, LPC
Trauma Competent Couples and Family Counselor; Certified MBTI Practitioner
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Jimmarie Stinson, PLPC, LPC, CPT
Trauma Competent Child, Adolescent and Family Counselor; Certified Play Therapist; Couples Counselor
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Jill Fields, Counseling Intern
Counseling Intern, Christian Counselor Intern, Trauma Trained
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Sydney Heustis, BA, Practice Manager
Practice Manager
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Molly Rose, Therapy Dog
Therapy Dog
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Our Services

Child Counseling

Teen Counseling

Individual Counseling for Adults

Couples and Family Counseling

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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, 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

Contact Us

12351 W. 96th Terrace, #105, Lenexa, KS 66215

(913) 257-3161

7211 NW 83rd Street, #130, Kansas City, MO 64152

(913) 257-3161

745 Craig Road, #102F, Creve Coeur, MO 63141

(314)624-1771

info@embark-counseling.com

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  • Welcome
  • Get to know us
    ▼
    • Ashley Cross, MA, PLPC
    • Stephanie Fox, LCSW
    • Anna Rizzi, MS, LCPC, LPC
    • Ashley Lawrence, MA, LPC
    • Jimmarie Stinson, PLPC, LPC, CPT
    • Lauren Wood, LSCSW, LCSW
    • Teresa Paterson, LPC, LCPC, RPT-S
      ▼
      • Molly Rose, Therapy Dog
    • Sydney Heustis, BA, Practice Manager
  • Services
    ▼
    • Individual Counseling for Adults
      ▼
      • Counseling for Anxiety
      • Counseling for Depression
      • Addicitons Counseling
      • Counseling For Women
    • Child Counseling
      ▼
      • Introducing Counseling to Your Child
      • Play Therapy
      • Depression and Anxiety
      • Interactive Metronome Therapy
      • Autism Spectrum Disorders
      • Child-Parent Interaction Counseling
      • Art Therapy
    • Teen Counseling
    • EMDR
    • Couples and Family Counseling
      ▼
      • Couples and Relationship Counseling
      • Family and Sibling Counseling
      • Parent Coaching
    • Telemental Health
    • Clinical Licensure Supervision
    • Private Practice Business Consultation
  • Getting Started
    ▼
    • Connect With Us
    • FAQs
    • Rates and Insurance
  • Connect with us
    ▼
    • Employment
    • Feedback Form
  • Our Locations
    ▼
    • Johnson County Main Office
    • Northland Office
    • St. Louis Office
  • Parenting On Purpose Blog