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Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, RPT

Kelly Bristol is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Play Therapist in St. Charles, Missouri. She works with children, preteens, teens and adults dealing with anxiety, ADHD, depression, grief, OCD, stress and family concerns. A central part of her work is helping clients understand overwhelming emotions and learn to meet them with compassion instead of self-criticism. She adapts her methods to each person, using play therapy and art therapy with younger clients alongside CBT and mindfulness-based approaches. Her style rests on a positive therapeutic relationship built on respect and empathy, and she believes therapy is for everyone. Sessions are available in person in St. Charles and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CADC, CIP

Rebecca Mowen is a licensed clinical social worker, certified alcohol and drug counselor and certified intervention professional in Clayton, Missouri, with 26 years in practice and licenses in Missouri and Illinois. She works with teens, adults, older adults, couples and families on addiction and substance use, life transitions, anxiety, depression, grief, relationships and bipolar disorder. Her approach is holistic and systemic, looking at the larger systems at home, at work and in the community that shape each relationship. She encourages clients to care for themselves first so they can build healthier connections, using CBT, family systems, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, positive psychology and coaching. She offers sessions in person in Clayton and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LMSW

Rashida Dinehart is a licensed master social worker and grief educator in Kirkwood, Missouri, early in her career with one year in practice. She sees grief as broader than death, covering every kind of loss, including the ones people feel they are not allowed to mourn. She helps clients with grief, anxiety, depression, relationships, self-esteem, family concerns and postpartum and perinatal struggles. Rather than trying to fix anyone, she sits alongside clients as they sort through complicated feelings and make meaning of their story, using CBT, family systems, mindfulness, coaching and a strength-based approach. She welcomes humor, including the dark kind, in sessions. She offers sessions in person in Kirkwood and online.

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Stephanie Takamatsu is a licensed psychologist in Chesterfield, Missouri. She focuses on adults during pregnancy, labor and the postpartum period, including birth trauma and postpartum anxiety and depression, as well as parenting and general life stress. She also provides child-parent therapy for children up to age five, using Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and play therapy, and conducts autism and developmental evaluations for children ages two to five. Her work is evidence-based and trauma-focused, and she describes her approach as holistic and collaborative, with an emphasis on a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore their feelings while working toward their goals. She sees clients in person in Chesterfield and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, NCC, CEDS

Katie Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor and certified eating disorder specialist in St. Louis, with 19 years in practice and licenses in Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin. She treats eating disorders, complex trauma and PTSD, attachment issues, mood disorders, self-injury, addiction and family conflict, and has a particular interest in eating disorders in blended families. She works with preteens, teens, adults, couples and families. Her style is direct and honest, paired with compassion, and her methods include EMDR, CBT, DBT, IFS, emotionally focused therapy, the Gottman Method and expressive arts. She aims to help clients loosen old protective patterns and move toward a more balanced life. Sessions are in person in St. Louis and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC

Maria Kometer is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Clayton, in the St. Louis area, with seven years in practice. She works with adults and couples where anxiety, relationships and burnout overlap. Her focus includes OCD treatment, couples therapy for recurring conflict, premarital counseling, and support for healthcare and other helping professionals facing exhaustion and moral injury. She also helps with depression, grief, bipolar disorder, postpartum concerns and infertility. Her approach balances insight with practical change, drawing on the Gottman Method, ACT, mindfulness-based, psychodynamic and trauma-focused work. She sees clients in person in Clayton and offers a free consultation.

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, NCC, CCMHC, BC-TMH

Peter Bogart is a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor in Kirkwood, in the St. Louis area, with 18 years in practice. He works with children, teens, adults, couples and families on anxiety, depression, ADHD, self-esteem and family conflict. He also sees clients dealing with bipolar disorder, substance use alongside mental health concerns, autism and learning differences, and adoption or infertility. His approach is goal-oriented and collaborative, drawing on CBT, ACT, exposure and response prevention, family systems, solution-focused and psychodynamic methods to build skills, emotional insight and regulation. He emphasizes steady small gains. He offers sessions in person in Kirkwood and online, with a free consultation.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Amy Johnson Chong is a licensed clinical social worker in Winter Park, Florida, with 26 years in practice. She works with teens, adults, families and groups facing ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, life transitions, self-esteem and LGBTQ+ concerns. Over her career she has listened to the stories of both children and adults, and she holds a firm belief in people's natural capacity to move toward hope. Her approach combines attachment-based, emotionally focused and trauma-focused work with IFS, CBT, mindfulness, play therapy and positive psychology, adapted to each client's own story. She offers sessions in person in Winter Park and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Susan Dixon is a licensed clinical social worker in Kissimmee, Florida, who works with children from about age three to fifteen. She helps kids who are struggling to adjust to something new or who are dealing with loss, anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, selective mutism, bullying or behavior problems. She is certified in early childhood interventions, and since play is the natural language of many children, play therapy is central to her work, along with art therapy, expressive arts, CBT, DBT and family systems. Parents are an important part of the process, and she focuses on helping parent and child understand each other better. She sees clients in person in Kissimmee and online.