About Nate Allen

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Hi, I’m Nate. I run Nate Allen Therapy. I am based in Kansas City and licensed in Kansas and Missouri. I first entered the recovery process in 2010, as a busy touring musician, in an attempt to stop being a workaholic. I was far more broken than I could have imagined. This led to several years of tear-filled inner work and life transformation. Eventually, grad school called. I attended Friends University, getting my Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy. My therapeutic formation included a special emphasis on the many ways all things are connected. After nearly four years at Resolve Counseling in Prairie Village, I opened Nate Allen Therapy to provide in-person therapy in Kansas City and tele-therapy throughout Kansas and Missouri. To arrive at this moment, I have had over 5,000 hours of supervised training, decades of lived experience, and benefited from a community of many talented healers. My life has changed in ways I could only have imagined, and I'd love to help you on your journey. I think I have the best job in the world.

My specialty is working with individuals (18+) struggling with emotional, creative, somatic, & relational blocks, enmeshment, spiritual harm & displacement, addiction (compulsive work, gambling, porn, etc.), abuse, trauma, chronic tension, & men's issues.

I often help adults who have seen their bodies, lives, or relationships break down from overwork, poor boundaries, trauma, and out-of-control behaviors.

My foundational therapeutic modalities include Narrative, Experiential, Internal Family Systems, Psychodrama, Somatic Healing, Art Therapy, and Play Therapy.

I have advanced training in Trauma Recovery, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Enmeshment, Psychodrama, Spiritual Harm and Displacement, Somatic Healing, Coaching, Creative Unblocking, and much more.

Resolve Counseling and Wellness. I spent four years working in Prairie Village. While at Resolve, I completed my grad school internship and achieved my clinical licensure as an employee, gaining over 3000 hours of experience and seeing a wide variety of clientele at a highly successful group practice.

During graduate school, I also interned at D.A.V.E.'s Place Community Impact Center, which provides discounted therapy in South Kansas City.

Tessa Tax LLC is a tax business my wife and I owned that specialized in empowering artists to better understand their finances.

Launching, Landing, and Moving Forward is my first book and a guide to helping people navigate transition seasons. Launching developed from some teaching opportunities and a five-year recovery process from spiritual abuse.

Good Saint Nathanael is a song-writing project that often uses therapeutic language. The Good Saint Nathanael albums Hide No Truth, and I Write The Songs I Need are both therapeutic growth and recovery tools written in Kansas City.

Destroy Nate Allen is my interactive, sing-a-long punk band with my wife. For many years, we have led audiences in theatre games and play therapy, unlocking their euphoric joy and connectivity.

Take Out The Trash in 2012, I found myself moderating a conflict along racial lines in Portland, Oregon. I wrote an album based around my new awareness of privilege and reflecting on the passive racism I had benefited from in my very white circles.

Role(s): husband, father, son, brother, therapist, musician, author, and small business owner

Origin: I am the product of an Oregon timber-working father and a Canadian hippie mother.

Enneagram: 4

Meyers Briggs: ENFJ

Disc Test: I and S

Theme Song: Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” sung by Johnny Cash.

Travel: India, Nepal, Thailand, Honduras, and 48 States.

History of Growth: recovering workaholic, people-pleaser, stress addict, and abuse survivor; currently stepping beyond somatic trauma responses.

Favorite Self-Care Modalities: playing baseball, writing, creating, gardening, and ms. pac-man.

Additionally, I am influenced by Body Work, Indigenous Healing, Somatic Recovery, Creative Discovery, Theater, Performance Art, Pastoral Care, Spirituality, Systems Training, Business, Jung, Freud, Play, Sports, Sport Psychology, Rock n' Roll, World Travel, and Loads of Creative Work.

Education

Master of Science in Family Therapy
Friends University, Wichita, Kansas - Overland Park Campus

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Concordia University, Portland, Oregon

Associate of Applied Science
Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon

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