Dr. Kendra Stuke

Dr. Kendra Stuke is a licensed social worker in Kansas with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She also works with concerns like self-esteem, depression, parenting stresses, and ADHD. Dr. Stuke aims to create a calm, straightforward space where practical steps are the focus.

She has long worked with children, youth, teens, and young adults around trauma, abuse, attention differences, and anxiety. She also supports adults navigating different life phases and changes. Her background includes work with grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and caregiver strain.

Her clinical approach draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside attachment-informed and client-centered methods. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices to help people break unhelpful patterns and build coping skills. Sessions typically include talking, skill practice, and planning small changes that fit daily life.

Dr. Stuke emphasizes the client as the expert on their own story. She works collaboratively to identify goals and practical steps toward them. Parents and caregivers can expect clear guidance on supporting children and young people through difficult experiences.

Her practice includes attention to a broad range of concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, codependency, communication problems, anger, compassion fatigue, and coping after disasters. Language of service is English and she is licensed in Kansas as an LSCSW.

Approaches used in online therapy and how they help

Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding and processing traumatic experiences so they cause less disruption in daily life; it often involves building coping skills and revisiting memories in a paced way. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns; it helps people notice and change ways of relating that cause pain. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's perspective, using empathic listening so clients feel heard and can find their own solutions.

Finding the best approach is part of the work. Dr. Stuke aims to learn about a person's goals, history, and preferences and then collaborates to choose or combine methods that fit. The plan can change as progress is made and new needs arise.

Confirm which session formats are offered before booking, as options are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove the need to be on camera. Licensed professionals can use these formats to support steady progress, practice skills between sessions, and keep therapy consistent with everyday schedules.