Couples Therapy
Gottman-informed work to help you and your partner increase closeness, address conflict productively, and build a life together that actually feels like one.
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Lee's Summit · Missouri
Therapy that meets you exactly where you are.
Hi, I'm Justin Puch, LPC. I offer warm, research-backed counseling for couples, children, teens, families, and adults navigating life's harder seasons — plus specialized court services when the moment calls for expert support.
In-network with Aetna, Cigna, United, BCBS & more
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Telehealth available in Missouri
Accepting new clients
In-person & telehealth available
Meet Your Therapist
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Hi, I'm Justin — and I love what I do.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor and founder of Summit Ridge, I get to walk alongside people as they work toward healing, growth, and wholeness. That's not a phrase I throw around lightly.
My heart is especially drawn to kids, teens, families, and couples — but I've had the privilege of working with clients of all ages and from all walks of life. I'm trained in the Gottman Method for couples, plus CBT and ACT for individuals navigating anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and life transitions.
Credentials & Specialties
- LPC — Missouri
- Gottman Method Trained
- CBT · ACT
- Family Court Evaluations
- Child & Adolescent Certified
How I Can Help
Services for every season of life.
Whether you're building something new together, supporting a struggling child, finding your own footing, or navigating a legal process — there's a path forward, and I'd be honored to walk it with you.
Child & Adolescent Therapy
Specialized support for ADHD, anxiety, depression, oppositional behavior, and the school or family challenges kids and teens face today.
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Evidence-based care for anxiety, depression, life transitions, trauma, and the quiet weight of "I just don't feel like myself anymore."
Learn more →Court Services & Expert Testimony
High-level psychosocial and diagnostic assessments for court-involved families. Expert witness testimony grounded in rigor and clinical integrity.
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ADHD assessments, drug and alcohol evaluations, 504/IEP documentation, and partial psychological evaluations to support your next step.
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I also built Own Your Panel — a tool for solo therapists to fight insurance underpayments, generate appeal letters, and benchmark their rates.
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The Approach
Research-backed. Warm in practice. Honest about the work.
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Gottman Method
Forty-plus years of research on what makes relationships work — and what predicts the opposite. I use it to help couples move from stuck to connected.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The gold standard for anxiety and depression. Practical tools for recognizing the thought-patterns that keep you stuck and trying new ones that don't.
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
For when the goal isn't to get rid of hard emotions — it's to stop letting them run the show. Values-led, action-oriented, quietly powerful.
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Faith-Integrated (if you want it)
My approach comes from a place of genuine spirituality — never preachy. If faith matters to you, we can honor that. If not, we absolutely don't have to.
From Clients
Real work. Real change.
Justin has a rare gift for making the hard conversations feel manageable. My husband and I came in skeptical and left with tools we still use years later.
Sarah M.
Couples therapy client
My teenager actually looks forward to therapy now. That's not a sentence I ever expected to write. Thank you for meeting her where she is.
Parent of a teen client
Adolescent therapy
Calm, prepared, and unshakable on the stand. Justin's assessment work made a genuine difference for our client's family.
Family Law Attorney
Court services
Testimonials reflect representative client experiences. Identifying details changed for confidentiality.