About Kendra
Kendra Covington is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in Iowa with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing relationship struggles, family tension, trauma, and intimacy concerns. Her approach is grounded in respect, sensitivity, and practical support for everyday challenges.
She works with people who are managing stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and the effects of grief or loss. Kendra also addresses issues like ADHD-related challenges, addiction, anger, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions are framed around real-life goals and small, workable steps forward. Kendra adapts her style to each person. She draws on several approaches, including acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior work.
Those methods are used to help people notice patterns, practice new skills, and make choices that match their values. Her background includes many years helping people sort through family of origin concerns, blended family stress, caregiver strain, and problems tied to commitment or infidelity. She offers a practical focus on relationships - how people connect, set boundaries, and repair hurts.
Kendra aims to create a steady, supportive space for change. She helps people set clear priorities, try new behaviors between sessions, and track progress. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while committing to meaningful actions, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections. This approach helps people understand trust, closeness, and repair after hurts, and it can be useful for intimacy concerns and family conflicts.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kendra will collaborate with each person to understand their needs and goals, then suggest strategies from these approaches that fit the client’s situation and preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can serve as shorter check-ins or follow-ups. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue progress between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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