Therapy approaches

CBT therapists of color in Kansas City

Therapists of color in the Color Collective KC directory who list “CBT” as an approach. 88 clinicians serving the Greater Kansas City metro.

85 of the 88 clinicians listed are accepting new clients. 67 are licensed in Missouri and 63 in Kansas. 84 offer virtual sessions, and 60 see clients in person. 49 clinicians list a sliding scale. Insurance most often listed: Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare and Aetna. 27 work with children and 59 with teens.

51 with a published office area are on the map, 37 see clients by video or haven’t listed an office. Pins show an office’s ZIP area, not an exact address.

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Kansas
  • In person and virtual
  • All ages
  • Sliding scale
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Holistic
  • Attachment
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • School Counseling
  • Couples
  • Families
  • Groups
Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Christian Counseling
Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Gestalt
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Christian Counseling
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13–60
  • Sliding scale
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Attachment
  • Mindfulness
  • Adoption Competent
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Attachment
  • Inner Child Work
  • Parts Work
Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Mindfulness
  • Holistic
  • Couples Counseling
  • ACT
  • Gender Therapy
  • Christian Counseling
  • Religious trauma
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13+
  • Sliding scale
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Holistic
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Christian Counseling
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Sliding scale
  • Solution-focused
  • CBT
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Christian Counseling

April Dixon

LCPC, LPC

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 8+
  • Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna + 3 more · Sliding scale
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Liberation Focused
  • Solution-focused
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • ACT
Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Couples Counseling
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Christian Counseling
  • Child-parent psychotherapy

Brittany Dwyer

LCSW, LSCSW, PMH-C

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13+
  • Sliding scale
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Perinatal Mental Health
Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Gestalt
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Holistic
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Gender Therapy
  • Music therapy
  • Art therapy
  • Psychoanalysis
Accepting new clients
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Holistic
  • Couples Counseling
  • Motivational Interviewing
Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

Jasmin Foster

LCSW, LSCSW

Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • ACT
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Mindfulness

Sade Garr

LPC, PLPC

Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Gestalt
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Christian Counseling
  • Child-parent psychotherapy
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13+
  • Speaks Haitian Creole
  • Sliding scale
  • CBT
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivational Interviewing

Phelica Glass

LSCSW, LCSW, GCCA-C, FAAGC, CSOTP

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13+
  • Amerigroup, Cenpatico, Aetna + 8 more · Self-pay
  • CBT
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Holistic
  • Attachment
  • Mindfulness
  • Movement (yoga/dance)
  • Child-parent psychotherapy
Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Narrative therapy
  • Holistic
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Gender Therapy
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Imago Therapy
  • Object Relations
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Sliding scale
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Holistic
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • ACT
  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy
  • Prolonged Exposure
  • Cognitive Processing Therapy
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Self-pay
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Adoption Competent
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Christian Counseling

Brandy Harris

Clinical Intern

Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Narrative therapy
  • Holistic
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
Accepting new clients
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Narrative therapy
  • Couples Counseling
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Christian Counseling
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Speaks Spanish
  • Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield · Self-pay
  • Liberation Focused
  • Attachment
  • Mindfulness
  • CBT

Taryn Hodison

LPC, LCPC

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri, Kansas and Colorado
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13–60
  • Optum, Cigna · Sliding scale
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Liberation Focused
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield · Self-pay
  • Men’s Issues
  • CBT
  • Liberation Focused
  • Solution-focused
  • Holistic
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Batterer’s Intervention Program
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 13+
  • Self-pay
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Couples Counseling
  • Family Systems (IFS)
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Kansas
  • Based in Wichita
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18–45
  • Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medicaid (Kansas) + 1 more · Sliding scale
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Sandtray Therapy
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Kansas
  • Office area: Wichita, KS 67206
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 18+
  • Speaks Vietnamese
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medicaid (Kansas), ComPsych + 1 more · Sliding scale
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • ACT
Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Holistic
  • Neurofeedback
  • Attachment
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
Accepting new clients
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Solution-focused
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • CBT
Accepting new clients
  • ART
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Narrative therapy
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Christian Counseling
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Kansas
  • Office area: Topeka, KS 66614
  • In person and virtual · In person in Topeka, KS
  • Ages 3+
  • Aetna, Medicaid (Kansas), Sunflower Health Plan + 1 more · Self-pay
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Art therapy
  • Christian Counseling
  • Child-parent psychotherapy
  • Nurturing Parenting

Brittany McCrary

LCSW, LSCSW

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Self-pay
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Narrative therapy
  • Holistic
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • ACT
  • Christian Counseling

Sharee Mims

LSCSW, LCSW

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Sliding scale
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Attachment
  • Motivational Interviewing

Tamicka Monson

LCPC, CCTP

Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Narrative therapy
  • Person-centered
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Positive Psychotherapy

Natalie Msechu

LCSW, LSCSW

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 18+
  • Sliding scale
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Couples Counseling
Accepting new clients
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
Accepting new clients
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Holistic
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • ERP
  • CBT-E & CBT-R
Not accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18–60
  • Self-pay
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • ACT
  • Christian Counseling

Oscar Orozco

LCSW, LMSW

Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Grief
  • LGBTQIA+ Issues
Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Multicultural
  • Positive Psychology
  • Strengths-Based
Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Brainspotting
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Mindfulness
  • Somatic Experiencing
  • Art therapy
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 13+
  • Self-pay
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Couples Counseling
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 8–45
  • Self-pay
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Filial Therapy
  • Child-parent psychotherapy

Debra Richardson

LCSW, LSCSW

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Sliding scale
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Christian Counseling
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13+
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield, New Directions, Cigna · Self-pay
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Mindfulness
  • Somatic Experiencing
Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Motivational Interviewing
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13–45
  • Sliding scale
  • CBT
  • Liberation Focused
  • Solution-focused
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing

Tori Seals

LPC, CCTP, CTMH, CCATP

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare + 1 more · Sliding scale
  • CBT
  • Gottman
  • Narrative therapy
  • Holistic
  • Couples Counseling
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Christian Counseling
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13–60
  • UnitedHealthcare, UMR, Aetna · Self-pay
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Perinatal Mental Health Trained
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Kansas
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 6+
  • Sliding scale
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Solution-focused
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • ACT

Tanise Smith

LPC, LCPC

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Office area: Shawnee, KS 66216
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 13+
  • Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cenpatico + 10 more · Self-pay
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • ACT
  • Christian Counseling
  • Child-parent psychotherapy
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 18–30
  • Sunflower Health Plan, Medicaid (Kansas) · Self-pay
  • CBT
  • Holistic
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • ACT
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Sliding scale
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Attachment
  • Motivational Interviewing
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13+
  • Speaks Spanish
  • Medicaid (Kansas) · Sliding scale
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

Candice Townsend

Counseling Intern

Accepting new clients
  • Practicing in Missouri and Kansas
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 13–60
  • Self-pay
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Narrative therapy
  • Mindfulness
  • ACT
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 8–60
  • Sliding scale
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Holistic
  • Attachment
  • Mindfulness
  • Somatic Experiencing
  • Adoption Competent
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Couples therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • ACT

Monica Turner

LSCSW, LCSW

Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Play Therapy
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Mindfulness
  • ACT
  • Art therapy
  • Christian Counseling
  • Child-parent psychotherapy
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Solution-focused
  • Gestalt

Tara D. Wallace

LSCSW, LCSW, LICSW, CTF-CBT, RYT, CSLC

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri, Kansas, Vermont and Minnesota
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 8+
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield, Sunflower Health Plan, Optum + 4 more · Self-pay
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Holistic
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Movement (yoga/dance)
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Music therapy
  • Art therapy
  • Child-parent psychotherapy
  • Couples
  • Families
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • UnitedHealthcare, Optum · Self-pay
  • DBT
  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Mindfulness
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • ACT
Accepting new clients
  • DBT
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Holistic
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Adoption Competent
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • ACT
  • Child-parent psychotherapy
Accepting new clients
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Couples Counseling
  • Mindfulness
  • Somatic Experiencing

Jasmine Williams

LCSW, LSCSW

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • In person and virtual
  • Ages 13–60
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Medicaid (Missouri) + 6 more · Self-pay
  • EMDR
  • CBT
Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri and Kansas
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 13+
  • Self-pay
  • CBT
  • Solution-focused
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivational Interviewing
Not accepting new clients
  • Psychoanalysis
  • ACT
  • Somatic Experiencing
  • Movement (yoga/dance)
  • Mindfulness
  • Holistic
  • Solution-focused
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • Person-centered
Accepting new clients
  • Play Therapy
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Person-centered
  • Reality Therapy

Cynthia Wright

LMFT, CCTP

Accepting new clients
  • Licensed in Missouri
  • Virtual sessions only
  • Ages 18+
  • Sliding scale
  • EMDR
  • Brainspotting
  • Solution-focused
  • Gottman
  • Family Systems Trauma (FST)
  • Narrative therapy
  • Attachment
  • Couples Counseling
  • Family Systems (IFS)
  • Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

Common questions

How many CBT therapists of color are listed in Kansas City?

Color Collective KC lists 88 clinicians for this search across the Greater Kansas City metro, and 85 are accepting new clients. The directory is free to use.

Do any offer virtual therapy?

Yes. 84 of 88 offer virtual sessions. Your therapist needs a license in the state where you live, so check that they are licensed in Missouri or Kansas.

Do they take insurance or offer lower fees?

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