polk counseling services, llc.

a couple of individuals • faithfully humanistic • lovingly argumentative • resilient AF

meet Leah and Zach.

Polk Counseling Services, LLC was founded in 2018 with a mission to elevate the quality of psychotherapy services in their local community. The Polks commitment to lifelong learning, experiential therapy, and supporting fellow clinicians is unmatched. Both clinicians have backgrounds in a variety of inpatient and outpatient mental health settings, extensive international psychotherapy training, organizational leadership, and prefer nontraditional approaches to solving common dilemmas. Embedded in their framework are the following values:

  • Clients are the experts of their experience, feelings, and needs, and deserve respect. We reject fusion models of relating in which one must lose themselves to another person, process, or perspective.

  • Truly holistic therapy necessitates deconstructing internal, relational, and societal structures that cause human suffering.

  • We are responsible for the future we want to see. This means supporting frameworks, practices and communities that are aligned with our profession’s code of ethics.

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Leah is fully licensed in Missouri, and specialized in Sexual Health and Education at Washington University in St. Louis. She commonly treats clients with existential anxiety, concerns with identity and sexuality, relationship dilemmas, and past traumas and early attachment issues.

Leah may be a good fit if you

  • struggle with procrastination, expressing emotions, or feeling understood

  • avoid conflict, intimacy, or sex in close relationships

  • have been in counseling before, but want to go deeper and feel more productive

    read more about Leah…

Leah Polk, LCSW

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Zach is fully licensed in Missouri and Mississippi, and is certified in Gestalt Therapy by Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles. Some of his specialties include helping clients with guilt and shame resilience, deconstructing family of origin issues, boundary setting, and couples counseling.

Zach may be a good fit if you

  • need help building confidence and self-esteem - motivation is hard to find.

  • struggle to identify emotions and expressing needs

  • are stuck in your relationship, career, or phase of life.

read more about Zach…

Zach Polk, LMFT

Services

  • One hour individual counseling session in-person or online, $150

  • One hour couples counseling session, in-person or online, $175

  • Meet for a quick chat to see if we are a good fit, (free)

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