Seeking individual, couples or family counseling in Kansas City?
Hello, and welcome to Threshold Therapy Services.
Why threshold?
Thresholds are doorways (both literal and spiritual) that mark passages between what lies behind us and before us. We all experience them - transitions in our lives that spark a complexity of emotions, that feel dark, unknown, mysterious, scary, and sometimes exciting or hopeful. Perhaps yours is brought on by a loss, a move, a divorce, a baby, a serious medical diagnosis, an injury, a transition to a new school or town or job.
Most of us try hard to avoid the darkness, the unknown, because we want to avoid pain and we want to maintain control. But in my experience, it is precisely through challenge, through struggle, through journeying into and through the darkness that we awaken and grow.
Threshold spaces invite us to be attentive, to listen within, to trust…threshold spaces are places of wild possibility.
Meet Kaitlyn
I’ve known for a long time that I wanted to work closely with people, and that I am drawn to matters of the heart – to the deep questions we ask, how we find meaning, the way we move through pain, and how we heal and become more free. I cherish so much my own experiences of healing and expansion through relationships, therapy, spirituality, the expressive arts and body movement. I have followed the rich and transformative path to becoming a therapist in order to more wisely companion others on their journeys to wholeness.
I completed my MA in Couples and Family Therapy from Seattle University in 2019, which highlighted an interfaith, spiritually-integrated approach to therapy. I welcome clients from diverse backgrounds and am able to discuss spirituality and meaning-making at their request. I am also trained as a yoga instructor, prenatal yoga instructor, and doula.
I treasure a good quote and poems that speak to just what you were experiencing but couldn’t put into words. Mountains and forests restore my soul and I enjoy traveling, eating, and exploring new cultures. One reason I love being a therapist is because it equates to a lifetime of learning.
When I am not in the therapy room, I am usually with my family - playing, making art, tickling and going on adventures with my two little ones, and spending as much time outside as we can.
I am a Provisional Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (PLMFT) in Kansas City, MO, which means that I practice under the supervision of a fully licensed therapist. At present, my supervisor is Holly Anderson, LMFT 2017025033 (MO). I hold professional memberships in the American Association of Marriage & Family Therapists and the Missouri-Kansas Marriage and Family Therapy Network.
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Just when you seem to yourself
nothing but a flimsy web
of questions, you are given
the questions of others to hold
in the emptiness of your hands,
songbird eggs that can still hatch
if you keep them warm,
butterflies opening and closing themselves
in your cupped palms, trusting you not to injure
their scintillant fur, their dust.
You are given the questions of others
as if they were answers
to all you ask. Yes, perhaps
this gift is your answer.
“A Gift” by Denise Levertov