Dr. Kendra Stuke , LSCSW

Dr. Kendra Stuke is a licensed social worker in Kansas with 26 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. She also addresses trauma, ADHD, intimacy concerns, and issues common to LGBT clients.

Dr. Stuke has spent much of her career helping children, youth, teens, and young adults navigate trauma, abuse, and attention differences. She also supports adults who are trying to make life changes, rebuild confidence, or manage grief and relationship strain. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, blended family concerns, and caregiver stress.

Her approach centers on listening and helping each person tell their story. She uses attachment-informed ideas to look at relationship patterns. Cognitive behavioral techniques help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Mindfulness and narrative work are woven in to help with emotion regulation and meaning making.

Sessions are practical and focused on small steps clients can try between meetings. She pays attention to how past experiences affect current relationships and coping. Parents are offered strategies that fit their daily routines and children are supported with age-appropriate methods.

Dr. Stuke offers phone, video, chat, and text-based sessions. Work with her begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's needs. The subscription for sessions can be canceled at any time.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current connections; online sessions use conversation and reflective questions to notice those patterns and try different ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors; over video or phone this often involves setting small practice tasks and checking progress in the next session. Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and goals, offering a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the client's pace and priorities.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Dr. Stuke will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. Together they set goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what works and what doesn't.

Online sessions can make regular work on changes easier to stick with. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins or shorter, more frequent contact. These options aim to increase flexibility so therapy fits around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities rather than the other way around.