Areas of Focus:
  • Individual and Family Therapy
  • Bonding/Attachment Assessments
  • Parenting Assessments
  • Facilitator, PAUSE Parenting Program
  • Adoption Homestudies
  • Adoption Preparation
  • Post -Adoption Family Treatment
  • EMDR Therapy
  • Adoption Preparation


Recent Trainings & Continuing Education:
  • EMDR Level One Training: Boulder, Colorado.  Molly Gierash.
  • Overcoming Anxiety: From Short-Term Fix to Long-Term Recovery.)
  • Developing Foster Adoptive Parent Support Groups (2004)
  • Adolescent Sex Offending (2004)
  • Project Teen Foster and Adoptive Care of St. Louis (2004)
  • The Interrelation of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse (2004)
  • Common Childhood Mental Health Diagnoses (2004)
  • Medications Used to Treat Common Childhood Diagnoses (2004)
  • Brain Development and the Effects of Trauma (2004)
  • Cultural Competency Within Bureaucracies (2004)
  • Understanding Attachment Strain Disorders (2004)
  • Effective Treatment of Attachment Strain Disorders (2004)

Additional Information:
  • Mr. Leavell spends his free time gardening, swimming, and spending time with his family.
Education and Licensure:

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology,
University of Missouri-Kansas City


MSW, University of Kansas

Licensure: Missouri
Telephone:
(816) 531-7737
extension 312

Mark Leavell, LCSW
Dietchman, Leavell and Associates, LLC
Psychological and Counseling Services
3210 Gillham Road     Kansas City, Missouri 64109     Telephone: (816) 531-7737     Facsimile (816) 531-7738
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