Secure video brings a psychologist within reach of Kansas households that are most of a day's travel from the nearest one.
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Request a Kansas appointmentKansas is a wide state, and the width is often the reason somebody looks for care that does not involve a round trip. Among our clients here are a student in Lawrence, a family in Wichita, a faculty member in Manhattan, and an older adult in Salina for whom the nearest specialist would otherwise mean an afternoon on the highway and an evening getting home again. All of them are seen by secure video.
The same arrangement suits people whose work or study moves them between Kansas City, Topeka, and Overland Park inside a single month. Continuity holds as long as you are in Kansas, or in another participating jurisdiction, at the appointed hour, which is why we ask to hear about a change of location before it happens rather than once the connection is already open.
Kansas clients most often ask about the six areas below. Each is approached with a treatment plan shaped to the person rather than a fixed sequence of appointments.
Low mood usually arrives as a narrowing rather than a crisis: fewer plans, less talk, a smaller week. Treatment rebuilds the structure of a day and then looks hard at the thinking that made the narrowing seem sensible.
Persistent worry and the avoidance that grows up beside it are treated with graded practice, including rehearsal of the conversations you have been putting off. The pace is set with you and not for you.
Planning, timing, and follow-through are clinical matters for a great many adults who were never assessed as children. Sessions build systems that work in a real household, and provide diagnostic clarity where that is what has been missing.
Bereavement, anticipatory grief, and the long work of caring for a parent who is dying all bring people to us. The hour holds the sorrow and also the logistics, which otherwise consume everything.
Ongoing pain or illness reaches into mood, work, and family life, and that reach is what psychological care addresses. We do not treat the medical condition; we treat the life being lived around it.
An evaluation answers a defined question, whether it comes from a school, from a referring professional, or from you. Which parts are suited to remote administration is a matter for consultation with Dr. Lusk.
Care is comprehensive, confidential, and paced for a life that already navigates weather, the harvest, shift work, or a demanding campus calendar. For Kansas professionals, university students, and local families, the first appointments focus on gathering history and setting clear objectives. What emerges is a collaborative plan we discuss with you openly. We primarily utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help individuals build resilient coping strategies over a course of months. A weekly hour that can be steadily maintained is worth far more than an intensive burst nobody can keep up with. We do not offer a quick fix, preferring to protect a sustainable pace that respects your existing commitments. Cultural awareness sits firmly inside our assessment, ensuring the support you receive is tailored to your environment.
All psychological care for Kansas clients comes from our Clinical Director, Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., who works across the whole lifespan and sees couples and families as readily as individuals.
Clinical Director · Bilingual Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) granted by the PSYPACT® Commission, which authorizes her to provide telepsychology to clients located in Kansas.
More than twenty-five years of clinical practice stand behind Dr. Lusk's work with Kansas clients. She is bilingual, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, an alumna of Smith College, and a graduate of the APA-accredited doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology–San Diego. She offers individual work, couples and family sessions, group therapy, and psychological evaluations, in English or Spanish.
Request an appointmentFull biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Dr. Lusk’s licensure and credentials in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
Kansas is one of the participating states under PSYPACT®. The credential involved is the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™), which Dr. Lusk holds and which the PSYPACT® Commission issues; it is what allows a psychologist licensed in Arizona to work with someone sitting in Kansas. You are not required to register or apply for anything, and the Commission's roster is the current record of which states take part.
Every hour is governed by the place you are sitting, not by the state named on a driver's license. If work, school, or family takes you out of Kansas on a session date, let the office know so that we can establish whether the appointment may go ahead. A permanent move is the same conversation held sooner, and it ends either with the work continuing or with a referral to somebody where you are landing.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty come to us from the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Washburn University, Baker University, Bethel College, and the other public and private institutions listed below. Where a college is small enough that everyone knows the counseling staff socially, a clinician at some distance from it is often what people want.
Appointments come in from Wichita, Lawrence, Manhattan, Overland Park, Topeka, Kansas City, and Salina, and from a good many smaller places where the drive was always the obstacle. The list describes our current clients, not a service boundary.
People of every age, from childhood to the later years, and couples and families as well. The concerns run from anxiety and depression to grief, attention difficulties, chronic illness, and the strain of a transition that has stopped being manageable alone. Where we are not the right practice for something, we say so early rather than let you find out slowly.
Distance is one of the main reasons Kansas clients look to telehealth in the first place. What is required at your end is a private room and a connection that will carry video for an hour. Where the connection is unreliable, we can discuss at intake what would be workable, including what to do in the weeks it fails.
Yes, at the public universities and at the smaller private colleges. Students and faculty alike use a weekly video hour to keep their care at a remove from the institution they study or work in. If a break takes you to another state, tell us, so that the authorization can be checked before the date rather than after it.
Dr. Lusk conducts psychological evaluations, including educational assessment and related work. The choice of instruments follows from the question being asked, and what can properly be administered by video is decided in consultation, once it is clear what the evaluation is for. Our office can outline the stages before you commit to anything.
One telephone call to (844) 774-7997 does it, or a note to info@psychotherapy.com if that is easier. Our office will ask what you are hoping to address, send the fee agreement, answer any out-of-network questions, and then look for a recurring time that fits the rest of your week. Scheduling is handled there rather than by the clinicians.
We accept all major credit and debit cards, and we gladly accept HSA, FSA, and HRA cards so you can use pre-tax dollars toward your care. Our practice generally operates out-of-network. This allows us to protect your privacy, keep care highly personalized, and avoid insurance-mandated session limits.
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Please check with your insurance company regarding your out-of-network benefits. As a courtesy, we will submit claims on your behalf upon request, and any reimbursement will be sent directly to the insured. Call (844) 774-7997 or email info@psychotherapy.com if you have questions.
Our services are by appointment only, during normal business hours. Evening, weekend, and early morning appointments are sometimes available for established clients.
Ring (844) 774-7997 or write to info@psychotherapy.com and we will arrange a confidential conversation about whether this practice can help. If it can, we will confirm that you will be in Kansas at session time and find an hour with Dr. Lusk.
We do not offer crisis, walk-in, or inpatient services of any type, and this page is not a substitute for emergency care.
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This page provides general information about telehealth psychotherapy and psychological services. It is not medical or psychological advice, does not create a clinician–client relationship, and does not diagnose or treat any condition. Whether a particular service is appropriate for you is determined with a clinician during a confidential consultation. Telehealth authorization depends on your physical location at the time of each appointment; participating jurisdictions are published at psypact.gov and, for counseling, at CompactConnect. Arizona Behavioral Health Associates, P.C., 710 N Beaver Street, BLDG 4, Flagstaff, AZ 86001-3139 · (844) 774-7997
