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Audrey Lahodny

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Audrey Lahodny, LCMFT

Kansas

Licensed marriage and family therapist - relationships and parenting

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About

  • Addictions
  • Attachment work
  • Emotion-focused tools

About Audrey

Audrey Lahodny is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT) practicing in Kansas with 10 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing relationship strains, parenting stress, substance and sexual concerns, trauma and abusive behavior in relationships, and related life changes. Her work covers issues like intimacy, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.

Audrey offers straightforward, practical support. She listens to the problem adults bring about home life and relationships. She lays out concrete steps clients can try between sessions. Conversations are focused and goal-oriented, not long on jargon.

Her background includes extended supervision and hands-on work with sexual concerns, substance and behavioral problems, and interpersonal abuse. That experience informs how she assesses risk, safety, and boundaries in relationships. She brings techniques from attachment work and structured, skills-based therapies to those areas.

Audrey uses a mix of approaches depending on what a person needs. You might use attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns, emotion-focused methods to name and regulate feelings, or cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thinking. She also draws on tools from the Gottman Method and motivational interviewing when they fit the problem.

Sessions are practical and aimed at changes people can notice in everyday life. She helps people sort parenting strain, communication problems, blended family questions, caregiving stress, and the effects of abandonment or separation. Audrey works with the individual adult who brings those concerns and helps them find clearer ways forward.

How sessions work

Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions

Audrey draws on attachment-based work to map how early and current relationships shape reactions and closeness. This approach helps when patterns of withdrawal, fear of abandonment, or repeated conflict show up in adult relationships.

She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help name and work through strong feelings that drive distance or escalation. EFT helps people notice what emotions sit under anger, withdrawal, or hurt and practice new ways of responding.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit the problem and the person's style. Adjustments are made as progress and feedback show what helps most.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make therapy easier to fit into a day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also allows people to continue work on relationship, parenting, and coping issues from wherever they live while coordinating times that fit everyday life.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

AddictionsRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesAnger management

Also works with

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameHIV / AIDSHospice and end-of-life counselingInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMulticultural concernsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexual dysfunctionSexualityTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Gottman MethodMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family SystemsSystemic Therapy

Experience

10+ years

Listed in

Kansas

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of family or parenting issues does she help with?

She helps with parenting strain, blended family concerns, communication problems, caregiver stress, and issues that arise after divorce or separation.

How would she approach a relationship problem at home?

She uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused techniques to identify patterns and to help name and shift interactions that cause distance or conflict.

What experience does she bring to sexual or substance concerns?

She has 10 years of professional work and reports extensive supervision and practical experience working with sexual concerns and substance or behavioral issues.

What credential does she hold and where does she practice?

She is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, LCMFT, licensed in Kansas and practices there.

Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.

What session formats are offered?

Confirm current session options before booking since the original biography does not list specific formats.

How are session costs handled?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

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Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.

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