Louis Koch, LSCSW, LCSW
Kansas · 40 years in practice
Louis Koch is a licensed social worker with 40 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LSCSW, Kansas
- LSCSW 0278 · expires December 2027
- LCSW, Missouri
- 002911 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1386855831 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 40
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Louis
Louis Koch is a licensed social worker with 40 years of clinical experience. He holds an LSCSW in Kansas and an LCSW in Missouri and focuses on practical help for everyday problems. He creates a calm space where people can speak honestly about what they’re going through.
Louis aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful. He helps people dealing with stress and anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
He also supports concerns around relationships, intimacy, grief, self-esteem, and career stress. Louis works with issues related to ADHD, compassion fatigue, and the LGBT community. Additional areas of focus include aging and geriatric issues, attachment difficulties, codependency, and first responder stress.
In sessions he uses clear, straightforward methods to address thinking patterns and emotional reactions. He draws on client-centered work to follow the person’s lead and uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts. Emotion-focused moments help process feelings, and dialectical skills offer practical tools for distress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR - is also listed among his approaches. Louis favors an accepting, nonjudgmental tone and a pace set by the client. He aims to teach skills that carry into daily life and to address immediate problems as well as deeper patterns.
Many people find this mix helpful when facing life changes or persistent stress. He offers sessions from Kansas and communicates in English. The profile notes a long career in clinical work and an emphasis on helping clients take the first steps toward change.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Louis lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Approaches Louis names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, asking questions and reflecting feelings to help clarify goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and builds small practical changes. Online CBT often uses short exercises, homework tasks, and clear steps to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick techniques that fit the client’s daily life and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people meet face to face when that feels important; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for shorter updates, check-ins between sessions, or when writing helps the client organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can Louis address?
He works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, self-esteem, and career concerns among other topics.
What is his general therapy style?
Sessions are conversational and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on practical skills and emotional processing. He combines client-centered listening with structured techniques when useful.
How much clinical experience does he have?
He has 40 years of professional work experience in clinical settings.
What credentials and region are listed?
He holds LSCSW and LCSW credentials and is based in Kansas with licensure noted in Missouri as well.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
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