Mary Bradley has a Master's in Social Work from the University of Kansas (2005), and is clinically licensed in both Kansas and Missouri. She has had the opportunity to work with individual and families as a medical social worker in hospice and home health care. More recently, she had the privilege of providing social work services to refugees from war-torn countries and human trafficking victims. Mary has provided caregiver education, stress reduction and mental health education for seniors at the Landon Center on Aging (KUMC) and throughout the community. She also has worked with HIV-positive women and survivors of domestic violence. Mary’s therapy practice specialties include healing trauma, addiction therapy, grief and loss, and depression and anxiety. She works with adults (including seniors and caregivers), children and couples in therapy to realize and respect one's core self, and to resolve issues that impede one's life satisfaction and functioning.

Sara Nelson-Johns is a licensed clinical social worker in Missouri, and focuses on work with adult and adolescent individuals, as well as families and couples. She is effective in dealing with difficult or longstanding depression and many forms of anxiety. She has been a therapist in outpatient and residential settings, and is highly comfortable with LGBTQ issues. Sara specializes in working with clients facing trauma recovery (child abuse, sexual abuse and domestic violence), as well as clients with complex medical histories.

Sara focuses on increasing coping skills, by focusing on the client’s own strengths. She works with clients to find appropriate ways to maximize their therapy results outside of the session and make concrete changes. Sara uses a holistic approach to find ways to increase support and help a client stabilize their lives and their emotions through use of exercises, therapy techniques, homework, and support systems.

Sara has worked with people facing chronic disease issues for years and is familiar with the challenges a person may face while advocating for themselves in large medical systems. Comfortable and knowledgeable with issues and HIV+ person may face, Sara can refer clients to additional resources and supports in the community.

Sara received her education from University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, graduating in 2005 and is licensed in both Missouri and Kansas. Sara provides clinical supervision to masters level therapy students and speaks to groups about mental health and high risk sexual behaviors.

Insurance Accepted
This list is subject to change. You are advised to contact your health insurance to verify current participation in your plan.
Missouri Medicaid (clients under 21 years old)
Sara will work as an out-of-network provider for your insurance plan

Fees:
Initial Evaluation: 75-120 minutes, $150
Psychotherapy Appointment: 45-50 minutes, $90

Paul is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City's Counseling and Guidance Program as well as the Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Institute's Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. He has worked in addictions (his first job was in a substance abuse treatment setting), and in a treatment program for clients with chronic and persistent mental illness. He currently works in a mental health setting and supervises graduate students in their counseling internship. He is also a candidate in the Psychoanalytic Institute's psychoanalyst training program.

It is axiomatic that many people's problems stem from issues that lie beneath the surface of their ordinary conscious awareness—which is why so many people have difficulty making changes in their lives-they're working with surface material and not getting at the root of their problem.

Paul believes that the goal of therapy should be to help clients achieve understanding, freedom, and happiness. It is important to work with people, not their "disorders".

Insurance: Paul will be happy to work with your insurance company.

Fees:
Therapy: 55 minute session, $80.00
A sliding scale is available for some clients.

Tovah is a National Licensed Accredited Massage Therapist, in Kansas City, Mo and a member of the Associate Bodywork Massage Professionals. She has been in practice for 5 years, graduating top of her class in 2006 from Anthem College (formerly High Tech Institute) obtaining an Associates Degree in Applied Science. She was a lead therapist at Massage Heights for a year, where she worked in the spa industry before working with Northcare Hospice as a therapist. Tovah, states, "Both experiences has made me a well rounded professional and massage therapist who listens to client expectations. I customize rejuvenating massage to meet client needs. As a result of my customer service and skill, a high percentage of my business is from repeat clients a referrals.

Tovah offers a variety of massage modalities including:

• Therapeutic Bodywork
• Swedish Massage
• Trigger Point Therapy
• Sports Massage
• Chair Massage
• Deep Tissue Massage
• Reflexology
• Prenatal Massage

Since the age of 17, Carrah has explored the different religions of the world and how they deeply inform personal faith.  Throughout her travels and experience in different religious environments she has accumulated a wealth of knowledge both academic and personal.  As a spiritual counselor devoted to helping others, she aides others in creating a spiritual life that is fulfilling and uniquely crafted to meet their personal needs, what she calls, “Spiritual Makeovers.”  Over the last ten years, her awareness has also turned to helping those inflicted with spiritual wounds.  Essential to her method is helping people re-imagine their God image.  This challenges people to incorporate a God of love and a relationship with the Divine that is free of guilt and shame.  With her academic knowledge and intuitive counseling she provides a deeper understanding of how to heal wounds without abandoning faith.  She holds a Masterʼs Degree, with distinction, in Ecumenics from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and a Bachelorʼs in Religious Studies from University of Arizona.  She studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York and completed graduate courses in Middle Eastern History, the History of Islam and History of Christianity at UMKC and Conflict Resolution Studies in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  She is currently studying to become a Certified Spiritual Counselor through the American Association of Health Care Workers.

Services Include:

• Crafting a Personal Spiritual Practice
• Deepening your already existing faith
• Healing from Spiritual Wounds
• Re-imagining the God image
• Learning how to Meditate
• Forgiving & Finding Closure
• Inquiring about other faiths & God
• Negotiating blended faiths