Christian Online Counseling in Missouri | Genesis Counseling

You don't have to live near us.

Anywhere in the state works. Cape Girardeau to the Iowa border.

Christian online counseling in Missouri.

Sessions
run 45 to 50 minutes at $125, private pay.
A woman at her own kitchen table, in session with her counselor by video

In most of Missouri there isn't a Christian counselor down the road.

Plenty of people looking for online Christian counseling in Missouri aren't looking for convenience. They're looking because the nearest counselor who shares their faith is an hour and a half away, and an hour and a half each way is not a thing you can do weekly for a year.

We see people from Cape Girardeau to the Iowa border, and from Kansas City across to St. Louis. Small towns where the only counselor also goes to your church. Farms where the drive alone would cost you the afternoon.

And for plenty of others it's simply the only hour that exists. A baby asleep in the next room, a parent who can't be left, a job that moves you around. For them, the only way counseling happens at all is virtual Christian counseling in Missouri.

Distance stopped being a reason.

Why people meet by video

Yours is probably on this list.

A woman pausing in a doorway, an older relative resting in the next room

A link in your email. That's the whole setup.

A private link arrives

It comes by email before your appointment. You click it at the time and you're in, on a phone, a tablet or a laptop. The connection is encrypted end to end.

You find a door that shuts

This is the part worth planning. Privacy at your end is the one thing we can't set up for you, and a parked car counts if the house doesn't have a spare room.

Then it's just the session

Forty-five to fifty minutes with the same licensed counselor you'd have sat with here, doing the same work, at the same $125. Christian telehealth counseling in Missouri is the same work, without the drive.

The room was never the part that helped.

People ask whether online biblical counseling in Missouri is the real thing or a substitute for it. Fair question. What actually does the work is a licensed counselor who knows what they're doing, paying complete attention to you for an hour, and taking your faith seriously while they do it. None of that lives in the carpet.

Attention travels better than you'd expect.

People pray together over video. They say the thing they've never said out loud, from their own kitchen, and it costs them just as much to say it. With faith-based online counseling in Missouri the work is the same and the drive is gone, and for a lot of people the drive was the reason it never started.

A woman sitting quietly in a spare room at home

Questions people ask before they call.

If yours isn't on the list, it's the kind of thing Naomi answers on the phone in about a minute.

Call 816.272.0653

What do I actually need?

A phone, tablet or computer with a camera, an internet connection that holds, and a door you can shut. You'll get a private link by email and click it at your appointment time. There's nothing to download and no account to make.

Is it as good as being in the room?

For most of what we do, yes, and the research has been saying so for years. Some work is better in person, and if yours turns out to be, your counselor will tell you rather than letting it drift. We hold online Christian therapy in Missouri to the same standard, not as a fallback for a full schedule.

Who can I see by video?

Any of our licensed counselors can meet with you by video, anywhere in the state. One of them sees clients by video only, so for her a video session is the normal way in, not a substitute. If you're calling from Kansas, two of our counselors hold a Kansas license and can meet you there too. Tell Naomi where you're calling from and what's going on, and she'll tell you who has openings and match you with the right one.

What if I'm traveling out of state that week?

Then we'd need to reschedule. Licensure ties our counselors to Missouri, so you have to be in Missouri for the session, on video or not. It catches people out, so it's worth planning around. Two of our counselors are also licensed in Kansas. If you're across the state line, ask Naomi and she'll tell you whether one of them has room.

Other services

Individual counselingGrief and lossMarriage and couplesTrauma therapyTeen counselingDBT therapyAnxietyCounseling for menDepressionCounseling for women

Tell us where you are.

That's most of what we need to know to find you someone. Naomi picks up and she'll tell you who has openings and what the first session involves.

Naomi Thompson
Naomi ThompsonPractice Manager, 816.272.0653
Session fee$125, private pay
Session length45 to 50 minutes
InsuranceNot billed. Detailed receipt on request.
WhereAnywhere in the state, by secure video