Merritt Leonhardt Benz
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LSCSW, CDWF, MCLC (she, her)
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $150
- Couple Sessions $150
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
- Pay by Cash, Check, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Paypal, Visa
Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Kansas / 4708 Merritt Leonhardt BenzLicense state differs from primary location state.
- In Practice for 20 Years
- Degree/Diploma from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Master in Social Work- MSW / 2004
- Degree/Diploma from Miami University, Oxford Ohio MA- Psychology / 1999
- Attended Yale University School of Medicine Child Study Center, Graduated 2006
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Depression
- Family Conflict
Expertise
- Life Coaching, Depression in Teens & Young Adults
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Autism
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Cancer
- Career Counseling
- Child
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Couples Counseling, Infidelity, Post COVID Burnout
- Developmental Disorders
- Divorce
- Eating Disorders
- Education and Learning Disabilities
- Emotional Disturbance
- Grief
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Mood Disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Racial Identity
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sex-Positive, Kink Allied
- Sexual Abuse
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Veterans
- Women's Issues
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Culturally Sensitive
- Emotionally Focused
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
- Multicultural
- Relational
- Strength-Based
- Structural Family Therapy
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Resilence & Recovery: The Daring Way
"The Daring Way": Show Up, Be Seen, Live Brave. The Daring Way has a primary focus on developing shame resilience skills and a courage practice of wholehearted living that quiets your inner critic, embraces your imperfections, shows compassion towards yourself and others, and cultivates meaningful connection with others. a Certified Daring Way™ facilitator based on the research of Brené Brown, PhD. All Daring Way facilitators have completed a training certification process led by Brené Brown, PhD & TDW Faculty. TDW developing shame resilience skills & daily practices to transform the way we love, parent and lead. https://caddisconsulting.org
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Caddis Consulting Co.
Kansas City, MO 64111
Divorce & Narcissistic Abuse : Rising Strong
As a Certified Brené Brown Daring Way facilitator I am offering a new group using Brené Brown's new book, RISING STRONG. This group is a chance to put what you have read into practice. Rising Strong, is based on the simple physics of vulnerability: If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. This is a curriculum about what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of struggle gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can be our greatest call to courage and the clearest path to a wholehearted life.
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Caddis Consulting Co.
Prairie Village, KS 66208
Rise Up! Gay, Lesbian BTQI Teen Support Group
This group is specifically designed for teens to build skills of resiliency, gain insight into thoughts, behaviors and feelings and increased confidence. Through building a sense of community, teens can move from "I thought it was just me" to "I am not alone and I matter". Rising Strong is based on the research of Brené Brown and the group utilizes storytelling, creative exercises and group discussion developmentally appropriate for teens. If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. This is a curriculum about what it takes to get back up and to write a daring new ending.
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Caddis Consulting Co.
Kansas City, MO 64111
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Caddis Consulting Co. LLC
Prairie Village, KS 66208
(816) 396-8013Nearby Areas
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