Kate Acton Counseling, LPC, NCC

04/14/2026

👏🏼🎉 This is great news for our KC, MO clients! We did have families successfully take advantage of this program last year so it is exciting to see another round of funds available. It is a great step for supporting families and expanding access to vital maternal care options! We highly recommend applying. 🤩

From kcmo.gov ⤵️
Scholarships for Families:
People who were recently pregnant or who are expecting to give birth by August 2026 are encouraged to apply for scholarships of up to $6,000 to cover doula services at no cost.

How to Apply
Families must live within the Kansas City, Missouri, city limits and should first identify a certified doula of their choice before applying. Priority is given to families with household incomes at or below the Kansas City median income.

Applications may be submitted in three ways:

🔗 Online at www.ccfkansascity.org/doulakc
By emailing a completed PDF application to grants@ccfkansascity.org
By mail or drop-off at:
Community Capital Fund
3200 Wayne Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64109
Award notifications will be sent within two weeks of the application date.

04/07/2026

Please, a little privacy while I cope with this information….. 🙏🏼😆

💙 Accepting new and returning clients now! 💙

Call, text, or email today:
913-725-0770
contact@kateactoncounseling.com
www.kateactoncounseling.com

✨ You deserve healing. You deserve support. You don’t have to face the painful things alone. ✨

04/01/2026

The document is 66 pages.

I’m a little under halfway through.

Hope to be able to come back with some thoughts later after finishing.

Who else is following along with this?? 👋🏼🌈

✨ You deserve healing. You deserve support. You don’t have to face the painful things alone. ✨

03/04/2026

Free groceries available today until 3 PM at Uzazi Village 🥬🍎🥚

Each week on Wednesdays and Fridays, we open our doors to provide fresh produce, canned goods, baked items, and more for our community, thanks to

📍 4232 Troost Ave.
🛍️ Please bring your own bags if you can. Limited boxes available.
⏰ 12-3pm, First come, first served

Come grab what you need and be part of a community that cares. 💜

09/29/2025

Whether it’s a physical characteristic, a mannerism, a struggle, a strength, or anything else… you probably remind me of someone…

(… it is sometimes even myself that I recognize in you. 🥰)

I don’t know if this is a common trait of therapists or if it’s just me.

✨ But I have found, the more I sit in the incredibly sacred and unique space of vulnerability with people, the more threads of uniqueness *and* commonality I find. 🌈

It’s wild to sit in this space as a therapist, witnessing the tender shame of aloneness so many people feel when I sometimes wish I could just beam into peoples brains and hearts just HOW NOT alone they really are! 💫

💖 So this is my therapist love note to you today:

You are less alone than you think.
There are unseen threads all over you, connecting us all together in a million unseen ways. 🙏🏼

🏔️ I am thankful for the view. 🏔️

💙 Accepting new and returning clients now! 💙

Call, text, or email today:
913-725-0770
contact@kateactoncounseling.com
www.kateactoncounseling.com

✨ You deserve healing. You deserve support. You don’t have to face the painful things alone. ✨

09/23/2025

09/04/2025

I am THRILLED to begin providing this offering!

✨ “Mentally Prepared Postpartum” 💫

A two hour ✌🏼, interactive session where you, your support team, and myself will discuss postpartum mental health and begin developing an individualized plan to support YOUR postpartum mental health thriving! 🥹🙏🏼

One Part: Education
One Part: Actionable, individualized support planning

This is available to:
•ANYONE, ANYWHERE (you do *not* need to be a current client, and you do *not* need to be in the state of Kansas)

💙 You CAN prepare for the mental and emotional health aspects of pregnancy and postpartum. In fact,
💙 PREPARING for it gives you the very best chance at THRIVING in postpartum.

I dream of breaking down that broken record of, “No one told me it would be like this.”

✨ I am ready to help you Mentally Thrive Postpartum. ✨

913-725-0770
contact@kateactoncounseling.com
Send a prewritten email via www.kateactoncounseling.com

***** This offering is not designed to replace therapy or any other other professional mental health services. Participation in this service does not constitute a therapeutic relationship with Kate Acton Counseling nor indicate an ongoing therapeutic relationship. ******

✨ You deserve healing. You deserve support. You don’t have to face the painful things alone. ✨

09/03/2025

🔹 There is truly nothing in this world we want more than to do right by our kids.

✨ Especially if there are cycles of abuse, mistreatment, or general societal beliefs you are trying to change within your own family.

💖 It’s a heavy weight to be a cycle-breaker.

🔹 Something I sometimes notice, however, is a underlying strain of perfectionism that can develop in trying to carry out that role…

I sometimes worry if this heavy weight of cycle-breaking also leaves our parenting generation with a great deal of anxiety to get it right….

🔹To get it perfect. 🔹

If you are feeling crushed by shame spirals, driven by fear and perfectionism in your parenting journey, know there is support for you.

Suffering is NOT a requirement to parent.

💛 Call, text, or email to set up a consult call today. 💛

913-725-0770
contact@kateactoncounseling.com
www.kateactoncounseling.com

✨ You deserve healing. You deserve support. You don’t have to face the painful things alone. ✨