Welcome to
Marriage & Family Life Clinic
Individual, Couple and Family Counseling
Change is possible!
Mission
Health is not simply absence of disease. Health involves good relationships with families and individuals. Marriage & Family Life Clinic is committed to your health through strengthening marriage and family relationships. My primary focus in therapy is working with the family. Families go through many crisis points including marriage, divorce, deaths, births, adoptions, children with behavioral problems and diagnoses. I focus on working on problem solving skills and collaborative parenting skills.
Through a learning and growing process, I hope to help people enhance their relationships by providing counseling services to individuals and families. These services focus on bringing healing to individuals and families with a variety of life events, stressors and issues.
Janet D. Byars, MS, LCMFT, trained at Friends University, and by Dr. John Gottman, of the Relationship Clinic in Seattle, Washington, leading marital researcher and therapist internationally. Jan also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Friends University training other therapist as they enter the field as new clinicians. Licensed in Kansas and Missouri, Clinical Member of American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy, American Association of Christian Counselors, and Traumatic Stress Specialists.
Counseling areas include, but are not limited to
- Marital dissatisfaction
- Parenting issues
- Addictions
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Abuse
- Grief and loss
- Co-dependency
- Self esteem
- Pre-marital counseling
- Divorce Recovery
Resources
- Love and Logic Parenting Classes
- Managing Your Out-of-Control Teenager Parenting Classes
- Prepare/Enrich Premarital and Marital Counseling
Cost
Marriage and Family Therapy is offered to the patients of Marriage & Family Life Clinic and the community at an affordable rate. Most insurance plans allow for counseling services as part of your coverage. We will submit a claim to your insurance as a service to you. You may pay any portion of your session fee not covered by insurance with cash, check, or credit card at each session or on receipt monthly statement.
Appointments
Appointments are usually scheduled for 50 minutes, commonly known as a "clinical hour." For daytime or evening appointments, call 913-890-7281. Please call at least 24 hours in advance to reschedule.
Marriage & Family Life Clinic
Janet D. Byars, MS, LCMFT
4901 West 136th Street
Leawood, KS 66224
Phone: 913-890-7281
Fax: 913-890-7282
Email: janbyars@jbyars.com
