M.Ed., in Counseling & Personnel Services from the University of Missouri-Columbia; M.B.A. in Management & Leadership from Rockhurst University; Board Certified as a Spiritual Care Practitioner with the Center for Spiritual Care and Pastoral Formation; certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Souljourners Program; Certified Grief Recovery Specialist with the Grief Recovery Institute; Certificate in Mediation from the Center for Conflict Resolution; Board Certified Life Coach; member, Spiritual Directors International; Certified Clinical Member of the National Institute of Business & Industrial Chaplains.

Fees: $50-$80/session. A sliding scale is available, with discounts for veterans, students, those widowed, and single parents. WorkLife Soulutions offers a free, complimentary 15-minute phone interview prior to sessions if desired. Fees can be paid by cash or check.

Location for sessions: We provide support over the phone, online, and in the South Kansas City, MO/Leawood, KS area, with the opportunity for sessions to be arranged at a local coffee shop.

WorkLife Soulutions does not work with insurance companies and so does not accept insurance. The reasoning is this: since those who are seeking spiritual support for their soul, those desiring to go from “OK” to “Better”, or those who are grieving the death of a loved one (or another significant loss) are not sick, they therefore do not need to be diagnosed or given a label.

Issues addressed may include spiritual questioning; discernment for callings, vocations, and ministry; sub-clinical anxiety, depression, and acute/post-traumatic stress; career issues; death of a loved one; life transitions; marital and pre- and post-marital relationships; a need to grow from grief and to reinvest in your life as it is now; or an overall desire to get your life back “on track” and to live a richer, more fulfilled life, more consistent with your core values.

The goal of WorkLife Soulutions is to provide these professional forms of soul support and life coaching in a sensitive, compassionate, and confidential* manner that is also cost effective with reasonable rates. *confidentiality may not be held in matters involving threats or harm to yourself or others

Helping styles utilized include therapeutic alliance, empathetic and reflective listening, with strategies from the Mindfulness-Based Behavioral Therapies (ACT & M-CBT), Conitive Behavioral Coaching, the Grief Recovery Method, Positive Psychology, cinematherapy, dreamwork, and with guidance on journaling and planning a pilgrimage. All support provided is offered in a culturally sensitive position and manner.

A note on counseling referrals – clinically-trained guidance is offered with suggestions on what forms of therapy one might investigate and pursue. WorkLife Soulutions does not, however, diagnose or label. When mental, emotional, or behavioral conditions are mutually determined to possibly be of a more serious nature – as in developmental, medical, neuroanatomical, or biochemical disturbances which are included in the DSM-5 manual of mental health disorders, better treated through a physician or a licensed mental health professional – a list of providers will be made available for appropriate follow up.