PROFESSIONAL
COUNSELING
Sometimes life throws challenges at us that are too great to walk through alone regardless of where you are in your faith journey. It’s okay to ask for help whether you are seeking to overcoming addiction, navigating personal struggles, healing relationship issues, or dealing with mental health disorders. If you are struggling with something today, Christian Counseling is a great way to find emotional, mental, and spiritual freedom.
Individual Counseling
Melissa provides individual counseling to all ages. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and scripture she helps each person from a holistic lens. Melissa believes taking care of your soul along with working on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, is essential in your healing journey.
Marriage and Pre-Marital Counseling
Kris and Melissa will provide a safe and judgment-free space for you to work on the issues your relationship is struggling with. While counseling is not a magic wand that cures everything, it will almost always bring hope, healing, and growth when couples are willing to put in the work. One of the unique benefits of coming here is having joint sessions with both Kris and Melissa. You’ll get both of their expertise from the lens of a male and female, who are married and have worked through their own marriage struggles. They use a combination of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, The Gottman Method, and scripture to guide sessions and help you work on your relationship. Prepare and Enrich is used as a pre-marital counseling tool. Couples counseling is provided only on Sunday mornings.
Please fill out the Counseling Request Form if you are interested in receiving counseling. It can be provided in person or via telehealth (for Missouri residents only)
Types of Counseling Offered
MEET OUR COUNSELORS
Licensed Professional Counselor
Melissa Small
Melissa is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She earned her BS in Counseling and Bible (2006) as well as her MA in Professional Counseling (2008) at Johnson University. She works with all ages using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as her primary modality and the Bible as a guide. She has special training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT). She has experience working with depression, anxiety, trauma/PTSD, life changes, grief, relationship difficulties, spiritual growth, adjusting to chronic pain, parenting, personality disorders, special needs parenting, ADHD, and more.
Kris Small
Kris provides couples counseling alongside his wife, Melissa. He earned his BA, MA, and M.Div. from Cincinnati Christian University. He has an MS from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Along with providing Marriage Counseling, he works as a Behavioral Health Consultant for the MU Health System and is an online assistant professor at Liberty University. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as his primary modality. He has extensive experience with depression, anxiety, trauma/PTSD, life changes, grief, relationship difficulties, spiritual growth, parenting, addictions, OCD, and personality disorders.
Licensed Professional Counselor
Relationships thrive when there is understanding. Let us provide the insights to get there.
4 SESSIONS
With a solid research foundation and wide applicability of the assessment, Prepare/Enrich has found its home in the offices of professionals and lay leaders. Prepare/Enrich adapts and reacts to the changing reality of relationships through continued research and development of assessment versions and resources. The reliability of the assessment and feedback guided by our Facilitators help couples strengthen and enrich their relationships. Committed couples gain a deeper understanding of dynamics, personality, stress and strength and growth areas.