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Rebekah Mercer, MA, PLPC
Supervised by Darrell Provinse, MA, LPC, License # 2004003789 Independent Contractor Rebekah joined our team in early April 2020 and learned the business side of counseling while earning her Masters in Professional Counseling at Lindenwood University. She graduated from Lindenwood in 2019 with a Bachelors degree in Psychology and completed her Masters Degree in Professional Counseling in 2022. She has gained experience working with individuals and couples. Her hope is to provide a safe place for clients to heal, explore themselves, process their history, and gain better insight into their thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Her primary psychotherapy modalities are Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Rebekah works extensively with the following subjects: Anxiety Depression…
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Anger: A Multifactorial Approach
by Darrell Provinse, MA, LPC, NCC, Director and CEO Anger. What is it? Anger is a God-given emotion that gives us energy to protect someone else or ourselves, or to take action against an injustice. Anger itself is not wrong. What we do with anger or in anger can be very wrong. Anger can very often signal that something is wrong with us with our relationship, in our psychological life, emotional life, or thought life, etc. Anger is a secondary emotion. Underneath anger, there is usually a variety of other feelings and accompanying thoughts. Among the precursors to anger are the following: fear, frustration, pain, disappointment, shame, guilt, embarrassment, grief,…
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Kathryn Prior, MA, LPC
Please note: Kat is currently full and not accepting new clients at this time. Independent Contractor Kat earned her masters degree in counseling at Missouri Baptist University and is a licensed professional counselor (LPC ) in the state of Missouri. Prior to Agape she worked at a residential eating disorder treatment center for many years. She has training in multiple therapy modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Schema therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Somatic Experiencing (SE). She also works within the framework that our past matters because it affects who we are today and the lens through which we see the…
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Anger Management Counseling
Anger presents itself in many different ways, and is often indicative of deeper underlying issues. We consider Anger to be a “secondary emotion.” Underneath the anger often lies sadness, shame, fear, or guilt. It can affect our relationships and daily functioning in significant ways. Use the questions below as a self-reflective guide. Do you… find it difficult to control how you act when you’re angry? feel like your anger is like a volcano that erupts unexpectedly? fear that your anger causes you to hurt people you love? experience other people being afraid of your anger? Agape counselors who work with this subject:
Marriage Family & Individual Counseling | St Louis MO
