Attachment Center of Kansas

Helping Families Build Stronger Connections

What insurance plans do you accept?

BCBS

Cenpatico (Healthwave 21)

Kansas Health Solutions (Title 19 medicaid)

Health Partners of Kansas

Medicaid QMP

Preferred Plus of Kansas

Preferred Health Systems

Three Rivers Provider Network

Triwest Certified Provider

If your insurance company is not listed, you can check to see if your plan pays out of network benefits or if they will set up a special contract for services.

It is also important to contact your insurance company on any limits concerning out-patient behavioral health benefits, deductibles and co-pays to ensure you fully understand your financial obligations during treatment as you will be responsible for any services not covered or paid for by your insurance.

What ages do you work with?

I accept clients of all ages struggling with depression, anxiety, relationship problems, grief and loss, low self esteem and other common emotional and relationship struggles.  Attachment based therapy is limited to children ages birth to 10 years old and their parent/s.  Trauma treatment is provided to children ages 4 through 17.

What kind of services do you provide?

Besides attachment and trauma based therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the primary treatment provided to address other problem areas such as depression, anxiety, self-esteem, stress, relationship problems, etc.  Treatment focuses on not only resolving emotional and behavioral problems but helping the client develop skills to prevent or decrease future emotional and behavioral difficulties.

When can I get the first appointment?

A brief consultation is required to determine if treatment at the center is appropriate before an intake is scheduled.  An intake appointment is available within 1 to 10 business days depending on urgency, what times/days I have available and if your insurance requires prior authorization.  

The Center is open by appointment only Monday through Thursday.  Usually hours after 3 pm are filled and when one does become available, it is offered first to current clients of the Center. 

What can I expect at the first session?

An intake packet can be mailed out, e-mailed, faxed or downloaded from this website and should be completed and brought to the first session.  The intake session will involve reviewing the completed intake packet and gathering other information to determine what needs to be addressed in treatment, the treatment schedule and a preliminary diagnosis.  Sessions are usually 45-50 minutes in length.

How long does treatment take?

The answer is based on many factors such as severity of the problems, commitment of the client/family to address the problems and make changes, frequency of sessions, how long the problem has been present, etc. 

Treatment is provided for as long as it is needed provided the client is compliant with and committed to the process.  Evaluation of progress is assessed and discussed throughout the treatment process and if needed changes are made. 

What are your privacy practices?

Child Maltreatment Facts

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, almost a quarter of a million children are abused and/or neglected each year.  Children from birth to age 3 are at the highest risk of maltreatment followed by children between the ages of 4 and 7.  Half of these children were abused or neglected again within a 5-year period.  40% are abused by their mother, 18% by their father and 17% by both parents.  The Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect reports that three times as many children are maltreated as are reported to Child Protective Service agencies.Child

Center for Adoption Research

“Insecure attachments become psychiatric disorders when emotions and behaviors displayed in attachment relationships are so disturbed as to indicate, or substantially increase the risk for, persistent distress or disability. An attachment disorder, thus, represents behavior at the most extreme ends of attachment relationships, reflecting serious distortions in the child's use of the caregiver as a secure base.”

 

Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.  Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.