Hi, I’m Kirsten Oelklaus

LSCSW, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist

Serving the Greater Kansas City area

ABOUT ME

I’m a licensed therapist with over 26 years of experience providing compassionate and personalized guidance on your journey to health. When hope feels out of reach, I hold hope until you can feel it again. I meet you exactly where you are and help you move toward healing with support, clarity, and care.

  • Trauma-informed, evidence-based support
  • Integrative approach tailored to your needs
  • Creative, experiential options when talking is hard
  • Experience across all levels of care

Who I Treat

At our practice, we focus on helping a variety of individuals struggling with eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and emotional eating. Whether you’re an adult seeking support, a teen navigating challenges, an athlete managing pressures, a male looking for understanding, or a parent in need of guidance, I am here for you. My goal is to help you regain and restore your life and happiness.

Who I Treat

At our practice, we focus on helping a variety of individuals struggling with eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and emotional eating. Whether you’re an adult seeking support, a teen navigating challenges, an athlete managing pressures, a male looking for understanding, or a parent in need of guidance, I am here for you. My goal is to help you regain and restore your life and happiness.

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Who I Treat

At our practice, we focus on helping a variety of individuals struggling with eating disorders. Whether you’re an adult seeking support, a teen navigating challenges, an athlete managing pressures, a male looking for understanding, or a parent in need of guidance, we’re here for you.

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Kirsten Oelklaus

LSCSW, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist

Serving the Greater Kansas City area

I specialize in treatment for teens and adults with eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and emotional eating. My goal is to help you regain and restore your life to health and happiness.

Learn more about how I can help you:

  •  I’m a teen with an eating disorder
  •  My child has an eating disorder
  •  I’m an adult with an eating disorder
  •  I’m a male with an eating disorder
  •  I’m an athlete with an eating disorder

Learn more about how I can help you:

  •  I’m a teen with an eating disorder
  •  My child has an eating disorder
  •  I’m an adult with an eating disorder
  •  I’m a male with an eating disorder
  •  I’m an athlete with an eating disorder

About Me:

My work in the field of eating disorders began 26 years ago, when I was an intern at the Menninger Clinic. I found myself co-leading a creative arts group for individuals in the Eating Disorder / Trauma Recovery Program. As I looked around the group, I was so inspired by the gifted, creative, amazing individuals who were held completely hostage by this life-threatening illness.

Under different circumstances, these individuals were just like my friends, siblings, colleagues and mentors, and a desire was born in me to help individuals with eating disorders recover.

Through my years in the field, I have worked in all levels of care. This has allowed me to experience the issues and dynamics present at each stage of the recovery process.

I know that it’s often hard to have hope during the recovery process. I will hold hope for you until you are able to experience it for yourself again.

Learn more about my philosophy and approach

“You don't have to know the answers, you don't have to be perfect, you just have to show up and be open to the possibility of finding the authentic... you” -Brene Brown

“Courage is contagious. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver.” -Brene Brown

“Courage is contagious. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver.” -Brene Brown

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Our location

Bellatore Recovery
16979 W 94th Street.
Lenexa, KS 66219

Contact

Phone: 913.908.6786
Email: kirsten.oelklaus@gmail.com
Fax: 913.273.5993