About KNM Counseling
KNM Counseling & Consultation LLC was established by owner Kendle Meese MSW LISW in Columbus Ohio on March 08, 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Having spent most of her young career in local group counseling practices, Kendle outgrew the traditional structure of those settings and decided to move into an independent private practice role. At the time, the pandemic offered a unique opportunity to re-evaluate traditional therapy practices and integrate technological advancements into practice. To date, KNM Counseling remains a hybrid telehealth practice.
As with many professionals, Kendle often seeks ongoing growth and opportunity, and therefore KNM Counseling will continue to evaluate expansion of services, personnel, treatment models, etc. to best benefit served clientele.
Our mission statement
KNM Counseling & Consultation’s primary mission is to create a safe space for emotional healing. We recognize that the current social climate can make it difficult to find comfortable and safe spaces to allow for the vulnerability needed to truly heal. Therapy requires one to challenge themselves, confront tough experiences, and be open-minded to alternate perspectives, which necessitates the emotional safety and trust within the therapeutic relationship. It is our goal to provide that.
Through utilizing a humanistic, client-centered orientation, our intention is to create strong therapeutic alliances that support self-reflection, motivation, and progress towards collaborative goals. Recognizing that emotional impacts present symptomatically in a variety of forms, our therapists intentionally encourage exploration of the mind-body-connection to examine how emotions present as both thoughts and body sensations. This lens helps to evaluate trauma’s physical storage within the body providing clients the opportunities to understand these connections and therefore improve processing and regulation. Overall, we strive to empower clients to become active agents of change in their own healing, and reconstruct habits and cycles that are impacting every sphere of their lives.
Let’s heal together…
Our Values
- We believe that every individual has inherent value.
- As we maneuver through life we often pick up different messages about ourselves, and expectations of how we are to live life. We carry installed beliefs from society, learned behaviors from generational trauma, and heightened responses from challenging personal experience, each of which bears influence on our perception of confidence, belongingness, and value. At KNM Counseling, we challenge these internalized messages, believing there is no part of any human identity that detracts from inherent value.
- We believe in using treatment models backed by science.
- Often people come to therapy with an outdated assumption of talk based models that are limitedly effective. While therapy is often conducted through articulation of experiences, thoughts, feelings, etc., its more recent advancements are rooted in methods and models that are backed by evidentiary science. We believe in continuing to learn new models and methods rooted in evidence based practices and directly engage with proven treatment modalities.
- We believe in your truth.
- Perhaps our most important value is respecting, understanding, and believing your truth. As therapists we are taught to approach counseling and our clients without judgment. In order for the service to be most effective, the client must vulnerably share their stressors, experiences, feelings and vulnerabilities, and through the therapist’s validation, trust and understanding the therapeutic alliance is formed. On occasion therapist’s may challenge a client’s perception, installed beliefs, and/or perspective for therapeutic benefit, but will not dismiss the client’s memory of events and/or experienced feelings.