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Connection changes everything. Understand yourself. Build secure relationships. Live fully

At KC Character Development, we believe meaningful change happens in relationships.

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Humans are wired for connection, yet many of us enter adulthood without having learned how to create the emotionally secure relationships we need to thrive. Our experiences shape how we approach intimacy, communicate our needs, respond to conflict, and navigate vulnerability.

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In therapy, I strive to provide a safe and consistent relationship where clients can explore their experiences, process past hurts, and develop a deeper understanding of themselves. Together, we examine how attachment patterns influence relationships and identify the behaviors that may unintentionally create distance or make it difficult to have emotional needs met.

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Through this work, clients can begin developing earned secure attachment: building new experiences of trust, emotional safety, vulnerability, and connection. And this work doesn't stop with romantic relationships. We explore how to cultivate security in friendships, family relationships, partnerships, and chosen communities.

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My hope is that clients leave therapy with more than an understanding of their struggles. I want them to have the knowledge, confidence, and practical tools to build relationships in which they feel safe, valued, and understood. Because the goal isn't simply to reduce symptoms. It's to help people create the connections and foundations that allow them to live life to the fullest.

"Words can free us to name something and then see it, together... that gives us the power to change how we have been living..."   ~Dan Siegel, MD

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  • Out of Network

    • Individuals: $165 per 50-min session

    • Couples Life Coaching: $200 per 50-min session

  • Insurance (50-minute, Individual Therapy only)

    • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City 

    • Aetna

    • Centrus Health | Health EZ | Momentum Health

    • Luminare Health

    • Centivo

    • Healthcare Highways

At KC Character Development, services are structured into two distinct categories to ensure you receive the exact type of support you need while remaining compliant with healthcare regulations:

Individual Therapy

  • Clinical & Medical Framework

  • Diagnoses Mental Health Conditions

  • Explores Deep-Rooted Psychological History

  • Insurance Eligible

Couples Coaching

  • Goal & Action Led

  • Non-Clinical

  • Focuses on Tools

  • Out-of-Pocket Only

Individual Therapy (Clinical Services) Scope: Focused on treating mental health conditions, processing trauma, and providing clinical support for ADHD, Depression, Anxiety and related interpersonal challenges. Insurance Coverage: Insurance can only be applied to individual therapy sessions.

 

Couples Coaching (Non-Clinical Services) Scope: A collaborative, forward-focused partnership designed to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and set relationship goals. It does not treat, diagnose, or provide clinical intervention for mental health conditions. Out-of-Pocket Only: Because coaching is a non-clinical service, insurance cannot be used, and superbills cannot be generated. All couples coaching sessions are billed as flat-rate, out-of-network fees.

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​​​KC Character Develoment is an LGBTQ therapy center providing the queer community with couples therapy, individual therapy, life coaching, marriage preparation, polyamorous therapy, friend therapy and so much more. We offer our services throughout Kansas. Colby is also Clinically Licensed in Colorado and provides teletherapy across Kansas, Colorado, and Illinois. Our services are easily accessible from the following locations:

 

In Kansas: Kansas City, Overland Park, Olathe, Roeland Park, Johnson County, Wichita, Lawrence.

 

In Colorado: Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Aurora, Fort Collins, Lakewood, Thornton, Arvada, and Westminster.

 

In Illinois: Chicago, Winnetka, Hinsdale, Glencoe, Riverwoods, South Barrington, Long Grove, Kildeer, Lake Forest, North Barrington, and Barrington Hills

 

Additionally, our services are easily accessed in Missouri, including: St. Louis, Lee’s Summit, Independence, Springfield, and Columbia.

 

Gay Couples might find themselves looking for things to do in Kansas City or for wedding planning might realize that one of the foundations in building a stronger relationship is by starting with couples therapy and marriage prep courses. Let our LGBT therapists help.

 

Before you book your wedding venue for your gay wedding, consider meeting with Colby for premarital counseling. Weddings can be stressful and overwhelming; it’s easy to lose sight of what matters most: the love you have for each other.

 

If you and your partner are constantly fighting and bickering, it may be time for you to try out couple’s coaching. Colby is trained to help you navigate relational conflict in ways in which you are both seen and heard.

 

If there has been an affair or infidelity, couple’s coaching is a great place to heal and find your way back to the person you love.

 

Maybe you and your partner are exploring polyamory for the first time and need help creating a structure and identifying boundaries to ensure that your relationship to each other is strengthened rather than weakened. Many polyamorous couples find support in relational therapy and can better communicate their feelings, wants, and needs.

 

If you’re looking for a queer affirming therapist, you will find that in Colby. KC Character Development prioritizes the needs of our community by providing online therapy. Some of our specialties include attachment therapy, emotion-focused therapy, narrative therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and working with adult children of emotionally immature parents.

 

Maybe you’re coming into your identity as a gay person or lesbian and you need a safe place to process and explore your sexuality.

Colby specializes in working with depression, Anxiety, and ADHD, as well as suicidal ideation.

You might have already looked on the LGBT therapy guild Kansas city, betterhelp, psychology today, Alma, Headway and therapy den for LGBT online therapy, LGBT therapy near me, LGBT therapist Kansas City or LGBT Therapist Denver and still have struggled to find the right therapist for you. Schedule a consult with us and see how we show up in the therapy room.

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