Kendra Covington
Relationship-focused therapist helping strengthen connection
LMFT Iowa
- Experience
- 15 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Kendra
Kendra Covington is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses practical relationship-focused methods to help people change how they connect. She emphasizes respectful, compassionate care and works to tailor each plan to the person sitting in front of her.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and geared toward usable steps people can try between sessions. With 15 years of experience, she has guided people through relationship strain, family conflict, and intimacy concerns.
She also helps with trauma and abuse, parenting stress, mood disorders, anxiety, and addiction-related struggles. Kendra pays attention to how attachment patterns and family history shape current life and relationships.
In sessions she listens closely and adapts therapy to what a person needs most. She uses tools from the Gottman Method alongside behavioral and acceptance-based techniques to focus on communication, emotional understanding, and practical change.
Conversations aim to build clearer routines and healthier responses to stress. She also supports people navigating grief, anger, low self-esteem, and complicated family dynamics like blended families or issues rooted in one’s family of origin.
For caregivers and those facing compassion fatigue, she helps identify manageable self-care steps and realistic boundaries. Kendra offers therapy in English from her Iowa licensure and provides multiple online session formats.
To begin, she asks people to share a bit about themselves so she can match the work to their goals and daily life.
Approaches that guide online relationship work
Gottman-informed work focuses on improving day-to-day communication and reducing conflict. It uses practical exercises to strengthen trust, listen more effectively, and change interaction patterns that lead to distance or arguments. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for managing anxiety, low mood, and getting unstuck in difficult situations. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current bonds and reactions. It helps people recognize patterns of closeness and fear so they can try new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals, try tools, and adjust methods so the work fits your life and values. You and the therapist decide together what to focus on and which exercises might help most.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and fit support into busy days. Those options help people maintain momentum and practice new skills in real time.
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Experience
15+ years
Licensed in
Iowa
Languages
English