About Louis
Louis Koch is a licensed social worker with 40 years of professional experience. He holds KS LSCSW and MO LCSW credentials and practices from Kansas. He creates a straightforward, calm setting where people can talk about what matters to them.
He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. He also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges around sleep and eating. Additional areas include career strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and aging-related questions.
How Louis works
His style is open and nonjudgmental. Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and practical steps to get there. He listens first, then works with the person to set clear goals and try different tools in real life.
Over four decades he has used several therapeutic approaches to match different needs. He draws on client-centered methods to build trust, cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and emotionally-focused work to address relationship patterns. He adapts methods to the person rather than following a fixed script.
People who value steady experience and a plainspoken approach may find his way helpful. He encourages small, achievable steps and tracks progress together. Starting therapy can feel hard, and he aims to make the process manageable and respectful.
Louis lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Louis works with
The areas below are the ones Louis selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Registers | LSCSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on creating a respectful listening space where a person sets the pace and goals; it helps when someone needs acceptance and clear, empathetic feedback. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change patterns and reduce symptoms. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and improving how a person copes during crisis and in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through your goals, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust what you do based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match technique to need rather than use a single method for everyone.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect: video calls for a face-to-face session, phone sessions when video isn’t needed, and live chat or text-based messaging for brief check-ins or flexible support. These options make it possible to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules, use less bandwidth when needed, or skip being on camera. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver the same kinds of therapeutic work that happen in person while keeping scheduling and access more flexible.
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