Merritt Posten Benz

It's already happening.....the change you want.They are created from your decisions. Whether those decisions are intentional or passive, we create and re-create our lives every day. Stop waiting for luck to find you and start building the life you want NOW. You had a question, a need, a curiosity and you landed here on this page, at this precise moment for a reason. I believe I am meant to be a part of your story and join you in your work for the change you want in your life. Therapy for Teens, Individuals and Couples Professional Growth, Goal Setting & Entrepreneurship Support Daring Way™ Groups, "Book Clubs" and LGBTQ+ Diversity & Inclusion Trainings I am a Certified The Daring Way ™ Facilitator. The Daring Way ™ is based on the research of Brené Brown, PhD and all certified Daring Way™ programs are led by facilitators who have completed TDW training and certification process, led by Brené Brown, PhD and TDW Faculty. The primary focus is on exploring topics such as vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness & developing shame resilience skills and developing daily practices that transform the way we live, love, parent, and lead. Executive Coaching & Business Development I motivate successful professional women to stop giving their best work away and claim their power by being their own boss and launching the company of their dreams. Retreats & Conflict Resolution Non-Profit Board Development Grow. Learn & Build Community Groups, Workshops & Trainings Daring Way™ Groups, Programs & Intensives LGBTQ+ Diversity & Inclusion Trainings It's all yours for the taking. How would you feel if you were doing exactly what you want right now? Whatever the obstacles are, they are problems to be solved, not reasons to settle and wait for them to disappear. Being "stuck" is a choice. Before private practice, Merritt was the Program Director and helped open Gilda’s Club Kansas City where she provided individual and group counseling to people living with cancer and their family members and friends. Before moving to Kansas City, she participated in a post-graduate fellowship at the Child Study Center at Yale University School of Medicine where she provided both individual and family counseling in a community based setting. In New York she was the worked with various high risk teen population groups as Program Director for the Juvenile Justice Initiative, a new clinical evidenced-based treatment program (called Multi-Systemic Therapy) that provides intensive in home family therapy for adjudicated teens and their families, as an alternative to incarceration. Although her work brings her great satisfaction and joy, Merritt’s ideal day is being knee deep in a spring fed trout stream casting flies, hoping for a fish to rise, and celebrating with a cold beer on the river afterwards.