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There are no therapists currently located in Wichita, KS. The following therapists are located in KS.

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Patricia Lord

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Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Stress, Anxiety, Family, Parenting, Depression, Relationship, Trauma and abuse, Older, Grief, Eating, Self esteem, Non-religious, Teens

Beverly Vanover

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Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Anger, Depression, Addictions, Family, Trauma and abuse, Older, Grief, Intimacy-related, Eating, Sleeping, Parenting, Self esteem, Career, Bipolar, Non-religious, Liberal counselor

Lori Haas

  • 2 years of Experience
  • United States
  • Wichita, Kansas
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Areas of focus: Anxiety, Family Conflict, Marital / Premarital, Relationship Issues, Transgender

Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Attachment-based, Emotionally Focused, Family / Marital, Relational, Sand Play

State License: Kansas

Candace Holloman

  • 2 years of Experience
  • United States
  • Shawnee, Kansas
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Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Humanistic, Mindfulness-based (MBCT)

State License: Kansas

Victoria Haag

  • 24 years of Experience
  • United States
  • Wichita, Kansas
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Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Eclectic, Family Systems, Integrative, Motivational Interviewing, Relational, Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)

State License: Kansas

Sitka Stueve

  • 20+ years of Experience
  • United States
  • Overland Park, Kansas
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Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Family / Marital, Gottman Method, Mindfulness-based (MBCT), Motivational Interviewing, Narrative, Solution Focused Brief (SFBT), Person-Centered Therapy

State Licenses: Kansas and Missouri

Tony Bedora

  • 1 year of Experience
  • United States
  • Lenexa, Kansas
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Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Attachment-based, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Eclectic, Emotionally Focused, Existential, Gestalt, Psychodynamic, Relational, Person-Centered Therapy

State License: Kansas

Paul W Anderson

  • 30+ years of Experience
  • United States
  • Overland Park, Kansas
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Areas of focus: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Codependency, Divorce, Family Conflict, Goal Setting, Life Coaching, Marital / Premarital

Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Coaching, Culturally Sensitive, Family Systems, Motivational Interviewing, Relational, Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)

State License: Kansas

Jenny Helms

  • 4 years of Experience
  • United States
  • Wichita, Kansas
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Areas of focus: Anxiety, Coping Skills, Eating Disorders, Goal Setting, Grief, Marital / Premarital, Narcissistic Personality, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Trauma / PTSD

Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Emotionally Focused, Family / Marital, Family Systems, Interpersonal, Motivational Interviewing, Relational, Somatic

State License: Kansas

Ellie Hiland

  • 2 years of Experience
  • United States
  • Wichita, Kansas
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Areas of focus: Adoption, Anger Management, Behavior Issues, Child or Adolescent, Divorce, Family Conflict, Marital / Premarital, Parenting, Relationship Issues, Transgender

Languages: English

Treatment Approaches: Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Interpersonal, Relational

State License: Kansas

II. The Best Therapists in Wichita, KS

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Trust is one of the most crucial aspects of a therapy relationship. Online Therapy evaluated therapists using eight key factors, including specializations, credentials, cost, availability, and other pertinent features to ensure they offer quality care at a fair price. These 15 therapists are some of the best therapists in Wichita and come highly recommended.

Luke E. Carter: M.A., Psy.D., LP | Best for anger management

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316-337-5556
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Dr. Luke Carter is a licensed psychologist who focuses on anger management. He believes anger can be resolved relatively quickly if a client is motivated to change.

What patients say: “We have done couples sessions and family sessions with Dr. Carter. Our sessions with him have been productive and have helped us successfully get through some challenging issues. We are all much healthier thanks to his help.”

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Anger Management
Grief
Depression
NA Not Provided No Yes

Victoria J. Haag: M.S., RN, LCMFT | Best for relationship issues

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785-851-4343
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Victoria Haag is a registered nurse and licensed clinical marriage and family therapist concentrating on relationship and personal issues. She’s a 25-year veteran who helps clients struggling with romantic, familial, and work relationships.

What patients say: “Victoria Haag’s knowledge and experience combined with her genuine warmth and wisdom make her the ideal clinician. I would recommend her to any of my friends and family.”

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Grief
Relationship Issues
Life Transitions
APS Healthcare
Aetna
Anthem
Beacon
BlueCross and BlueShield
Cigna
Coventry
First Health
GEHA
Great-West Life
Humana
MHN
Magellan
Many others
MultiPlan
Optum
PHCS
Regence
TriWest
UnitedHealthcare
Cost per Session: $180 Yes Yes

Christina Salomon: M.A., M.S., LCMFT | Best for LGBTQ clients

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316-512-1660
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Christina Salomon is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist who works with the LGBTQ community. She supports clients with safety, compassion, and humor and helps them when they’re unsure how to take the next step in their life or relationship. Christina offers evening and weekend appointments, with same-week scheduling often possible. She works with several insurance carriers and Medicaid and communicates in English and Spanish.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Relationship Issues
Anxiety
Trauma and PTSD
BlueCross and BlueShield
Cenpatico
Medicaid
Optum
Sunflower Health Plan
UnitedHealthcare
Cost per Session: Intake (60 min): $210
60 min: $160
45 min: $135
No Yes

Sonya E. Padilla: Ph.D., TLP | Best for trauma

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316-304-3800
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Dr. Sonya Padilla is a temporary licensed psychologist who works with adults dealing with any type of trauma or medical condition that’s negatively impacting their life. She uses an integrative approach to individually tailor treatment in a nurturing, safe environment. Dr. Padilla encourages her clients to enhance their knowledge, skill, and confidence in their abilities to cope and grow. She offers a sliding fee scale.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Trauma and PTSD
Anxiety
Depression
NA Cost per Session: $200 Yes Yes

Christina L. Granados: LSCSW, ACHT | Best for PTSD

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316-202-8549
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Christina Granados is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (LSCSW), EMDRIA approved, EMDR Certified Therapist, an EMDR Consultant in Training, and Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist. She focuses on treating PTSD, especially in clients who’ve been victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and childhood abuse or neglect. In addition to trauma and PTSD, she also works with adults who are experiencing grief and loss, mood and anxiety disorders, blended family and relationship issues, and everyday life stressors and adjustments.

What patients say: “Seeing Christina has been my best decision ever!! She comes at you from such a non-judgmental place and fosters a calm environment where you can feel comfortable addressing your trauma.”

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Trauma and PTSD
Sexual Abuse
Women’s Issues
BlueCross and BlueShield
Out-of-Network
$150-$200 per session
No Yes

Kathleen A. Myers: M.S.W., LSCSW | Best for conflicted relationships

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316-773-9525
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Kathleen Myers is a licensed specialist clinical social worker who’s been practicing since 1990 and focuses on helping clients in conflicted relationships. She helps bring hope to clients overwhelmed by troubled relationships, sadness, or anxiety, especially those struggling to recover after an affair or divorce. Kathleen also helps adult children of alcoholics and provides premarital counseling. She accepts Medicare and plans from several insurance carriers.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Relationship Issues
Anxiety
Mood Disorders
BlueCross and BlueShield
Cigna
Medicare
New Directions
TRICARE
UnitedHealthcare
WPPA
Cost per Session: $120.00 No Yes

Andrea L. Kasper-Doggett: LSCSW | Best for traumatic stress

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316-361-0662
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Andrea Kasper-Doggett is a licensed specialist clinical social worker who focuses on helping individuals deal with traumatic stress. She’s spent hundreds of hours receiving extensive and ongoing training dedicated to trauma-informed care and practices. Andrea has over 10 years of experience working with children aged five and older, adults, and families. She accepts several insurance plans, Medicaid, and Medicare, and offers a sliding fee scale.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Trauma and PTSD
Borderline Personality
Family Conflict
AMERIGROUP
Aetna
Beacon
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
BlueCross and BlueShield
Cenpatico
Cigna
Coventry
Health Net
Humana
MHNet Behavioral Health
Medicaid
Medicare
MultiPlan
TRICARE
UnitedHealthcare
Cost per Session: $200 Yes Yes

Katelyn Aguiar: LMLP | Best for adjustment issues

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316-202-8036
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Katelyn Aguiar is a licensed master’s-level psychologist whose passion is helping people, especially adolescents aged 12 and older and adults coping with adjustment issues. She utilizes a person-centered, strength-based approach to help empower her clients to use their innate strengths. Katelyn also provides therapeutic services to clients dealing with anxiety, depression, infidelity, family conflict, and betrayal trauma. She accepts Medicaid and works with several insurance carriers.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Anxiety
Infidelity
Spirituality
AMERIGROUP
Aetna
BlueCross and BlueShield
Coventry
Medicaid
Meritain Health
Optum
ProvidrsCare
Sunflower Health Plan
Cost per Session: $130 – $175
Group: $60
No Yes

Maureen Morrison: Psy.D. | Best for self-esteem

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316-768-7411
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Dr. Maureen Morrison has served the Wichita community as a clinical psychologist for the past 34 years. She collaborates with adults of all ages and her gift of combining the art and science of psychotherapy results in people diving deeper beyond their symptoms to create lives filled with more balance, meaning and freedom from burnout, perfectionism, low self-esteem and impostor syndrome. She also has specialized training in teaching Highly Sensitive Persons the value of their inherent neurobiological wiring.

What patients say: “Dr. Morrison’s ability to truly listen and understand all that is being said, and in my case, all that I couldn’t vocalize, enabled me to trust in the process of therapy. She is a gifted therapist who helped me see all the strength and determination I possessed to proceed with a life that was beneficial to me and not just all the people in my life.”

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Life Transitions
Self Esteem
Mood Disorders
BlueCross and BlueShield Cost per Session: $210 No Yes

E. LaMonica Williams: M.S.W., LSCSW | Best for grief and loss

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316-300-7515
Website

LaMonica Williams is a licensed specialist clinical social worker with 10 years of experience who helps clients maneuver through their grief and loss and empowers them to live a whole life. She’s passionate about helping clients begin a healthy grieving process around their loss, even when their grief is complicated by serial losses. LaMonica also helps clients deal with infidelity and divorce.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Divorce
Grief
Infidelity

BlueCross and BlueShield
Cost per Session: $170 No Yes

Melissa Schwartz: M.S., B.S.N., LMFT, LMAC, RN | Best for family conflicts

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316-712-4848
Website

Melissa Schwartz is a registered nurse, licensed marriage and family therapist, and licensed master addiction counselor who specializes in family conflicts. She has significant experience working with adolescents, families, and couples with conflicts, including chronic medical issues, infidelity, and other high-conflict issues in domestic relations. Melissa is a state-approved mediator for domestic conflicts and accepts Medicaid and several insurance plans.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Marital and Premarital
Trauma and PTSD
Child or Adolescent
Aetna
Ambetter
BlueCross and BlueShield
Cenpatico
Medicaid
Meritain Health
Optum
ProviDrs Care
Sunflower Health Plan
Cost per Session: $175 No Yes

Evangeline Claire Newsom-White: LMSW | Best for chronic pain

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316-631-2454
Website

Evangeline Newsom-White is a licensed master social worker who focuses on helping clients dealing with chronic pain, which includes a chronic pain support group offered free of charge two Fridays per month. She offers therapeutic services for individuals aged six and older, couples, families, groups, and veterans. Evangeline has been practicing for nine years, accepts Medicaid and several insurance plans, and offers a sliding fee scale.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Marital and Premarital
Child or Adolescent
Anxiety
AMERIGROUP
Aetna
Beacon
Behavioral Health Systems
BlueCross and BlueShield
CHIP | Children’s Program
CareSource
Cenpatico
Coventry
HealthPartners
MHN
MHNet Behavioral Health
Medicaid
Optum
Sunflower Health Plan
UnitedHealthcare
Out of Network
Cost per Session: $180 Yes Yes

Daniel Steinberg: Ph.D. | Best for flexible scheduling

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316-285-0571
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Dr. Daniel Steinberg is a licensed clinical psychologist who offers evening and weekend appointments that work for his clients’ schedules. He makes therapy accessible with 24/7 online scheduling, with sessions available by phone or video. Dr. Steinberg provides anxiety, PTSD, trauma, anger, and depression therapy for individuals, couples, and veterans.

What patients say: “Dr. Steinberg brings a calm presence and sense of wisdom to the therapy room.”

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Trauma and PTSD
Anxiety
Relationship Issues
Superbill Cost per Session: $200 Yes Yes

Stephanie Leopold: LMFT, LMAC-T | Best for sex and intimacy issues

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316-807-2689
Website

Stephanie Leopold is a licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed master addiction counselor on temporary license, with a focus on sex and intimacy issues and mood disorders. She focuses on individuals and couples who are dissatisfied with some aspect of their intimate relationships and has experience working with compulsive sexual behaviors, addictions, and unhealthy sexual boundaries. Stephanie has been practicing for four years.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
Depression
Sex Therapy
BlueCross and BlueShield
Optum
Providrs Care
Sunflower Health Plan
Cost per Session: $100 No Yes

Paul E. White: Ph.D. | Best for learning disabilities

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316-681-4434
Website

Dr. Paul White focuses on helping clients ranging from age five to senior adults with learning disabilities, including ADHD, dyslexia, and developmental delays. For more than 25 years, one of Dr. White’s primary fields of expertise has been evaluating clients for possible learning disabilities. He identifies strengths and clarifies issues contributing to struggles in school, while easing parents’ anxieties over their children’s learning disabilities.

Specializations Insurance Cost Sliding scale Remote services
ADHD
Learning Disabilities
Child or Adolescent
BlueCross and BlueShield Not Provided No Yes

III. What You Should Know About Wichita Therapy

How are Wichita therapists licensed?

Therapist licensing is facilitated by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. To become an LPC, applicants must earn a master’s or doctoral degree in counseling, complete a supervised practicum or internship, and pass the National Counselor Exam. Clinical supervision must include one hour of supervision for every 15 hours of direct client contact. To become an LCPC, applicants must complete 4,000 hours of supervised professional experience and pass the National Clinical Mental Health Counselor Examination.

How much does therapy cost in Wichita?

Wichita therapists usually charge per session, and individual counseling sessions cost an average of $100-$210. Intake interviews, which occur when therapists meet with new clients for the first time, may run longer and cost more. Nearly all the therapists listed accept private insurance from various providers, which can help you pay for your sessions. A limited number of these therapists advertise sliding fee scales, but you should still ask about possible discounts.

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Caitlin Kingston is a licensed clinical social worker at Yale New Haven Hospital and has worked in the field since 2013. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Penn State University and her Master of Social Work, clinical/medical social work in 2020 from Fordham University. Her licenses and certifications include LCSW, LMSW, and CASAC.

Kingston has always had a passion for helping others and knew early on that she wanted to support others in her profession. During her undergraduate studies at Penn State, she met a social worker who inspired her to pursue a career as a therapist. She’s also trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Kingston completed internships working in an after-school program with underprivileged youth and their families and with inmates in the high-security sector of Rikers Island jail.

Kingston’s career has included work at a drug treatment center, where she became the supervisor of intake and assessment for individuals with alcohol and substance use disorders. Today, she’s a social worker in the Psychiatric Observation Unit of the emergency department. Kingston is also trained in perinatal mental health with a focus on helping new mothers adjust to motherhood, especially in these very difficult times of isolation.

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Caitlin Kingston is a licensed clinical social worker at Yale New Haven Hospital and has worked in the field since 2013. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Penn State University and her Master of Social Work, clinical/medical social work in 2020 from Fordham University. Her licenses and certifications include LCSW, LMSW, and CASAC.

Kingston has always had a passion for helping others and knew early on that she wanted to support others in her profession. During her undergraduate studies at Penn State, she met a social worker who inspired her to pursue a career as a therapist. She’s also trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Kingston completed internships working in an after-school program with underprivileged youth and their families and with inmates in the high-security sector of Rikers Island jail.

Kingston’s career has included work at a drug treatment center, where she became the supervisor of intake and assessment for individuals with alcohol and substance use disorders. Today, she’s a social worker in the Psychiatric Observation Unit of the emergency department. Kingston is also trained in perinatal mental health with a focus on helping new mothers adjust to motherhood, especially in these very difficult times of isolation.

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