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Ana is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Perinatal Mental Health Certified (PMH-C) clinician at 816 Counseling Services, serving clients throughout Missouri and Kansas via telehealth. She works with children, teens, adults, and families navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, life transitions, relationship struggles, and emotional overwhelm. Ana’s approach is warm, supportive, and relationship-centered, helping clients feel safe, understood, and empowered to create meaningful change while building healthier connections and practical coping skills.

Are you tried of doom scrolling? Do your days feel impossibly long? Is it hard to get out of bed? If so, it might be time to consider therapy. Sometimes, having someone walk alongside you with care and intention can help you reconnect with yourself.

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I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Play Therapist. I work with ages 8+ in addictions, depression, anxiety, trauma, self-harm, and suicidal ideations. We all experience unwanted circumstances, emotions, and addictions that are difficult to handle alone. What has been harmed in relationship with others must be healed with relationship. That's where I come in.

For those who cannot use insurance, my self-pay rate is flexible as I provide a sliding fee scale. Please contact me for more information.

Taking New Clients June 8th!

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and owner of Horizon Within Counseling. I work with children, teens, adult, couples and families, helping navigate anxiety, stress, trauma, life transitions, and relationship challenges. I offer a warm, collaborative and solution-focused approach , using evidence-based practices including EMDR to help clients feel empowered, build resilience, and move forward with greater purpose and balance.

I share over 20 years of experience after receiving my Master of Social Work degree from East Carolina University. I especially bring compassion and creativity to sessions to assist in navigating the challenges and changes life brings. This might be personal, relational or health decisions, adjustments through grief and loss, changes in family dynamics, marriage and relationship adjustments, past trauma impacting your every day life, a new mental health diagnosis, depression and/or anxiety, adolescent needs, ADHD, or a chronic illness. I meet the individual healing needs of clients through evidence-based practices of EMDR, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), solution focused therapy (SFBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and narrative therapy. My background includes social work in areas of geriatrics, hospice, home health, dialysis, school social work and four years in independent practice. I was an Army spouse to a combat veteran and affirm the gifts, difficulties and ‘moral injuries’ that challenge military members and first responders. My clients have described as insightful, compassionate and welcoming. My passion is to enrich the lives of those who are willing to grow through challenges and meaningful change. I encourage clients to explore their unique personal story, believing that growth is through self-compassion, curiosity and self-inquiry about beliefs, emotions, boundaries, and behaviors within a safe therapeutic environment. My favorite self-care activities include time with my spouse Mark, time with my adult children, laughing out loud, spending time with my dog Duncan, writing, cooking, camping anywhere in the WigWam, hiking, and traveling to new destinations.