NEW LEAF COUNSELING
Faith-Based Counselors - Providing Hope
Casey Kapple, MA, LCPC
Casey Kapple is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families navigating seasons of crisis, transition, and growth. His approach to counseling is shaped by a unique combination of clinical mental health training and more than 25 years of experience in pastoral ministry, where he served as a youth and family pastor across multiple denominations and parachurch ministries.
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Casey’s passion for helping teens, marriages, and families in crisis grew out of his own story. When he was younger, his father—who was both a pastor and a Christian counselor—experienced a moral failure that caused Casey’s family to lose nearly everything. What began as one of the most painful seasons of his life eventually became a calling. That experience planted a deep desire in Casey to walk alongside people when life feels like it is falling apart and help them rediscover a path forward.
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A second pivotal moment in Casey’s journey came years later through his work with adolescents and young adults wrestling with identity, faith, and belonging—particularly those identifying as LGBTQ+. That journey became deeply personal when his own son came out during college. Casey realized that although he had always treated people with dignity and respect, he had often responded with sympathy rather than empathy. That realization sent him on a deeper journey of listening, learning, and wrestling honestly with faith, family, and what it means to love people well.
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Those experiences ultimately led Casey to pursue a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, becoming a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Kansas and Missouri. Today he integrates his clinical training with decades of pastoral care to help individuals and families navigate both mental health challenges and spiritual questions.
Casey has particular interest and experience in working with:
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Adolescents and family dynamics
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Marriage and relationship challenges
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Anxiety, discouragement, and life transitions
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Faith deconstruction and reconstruction
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Spiritual direction
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LGBTQ+ and faith conversations
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Pastors, ministry leaders, and individuals connected to faith communities
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Casey believes counseling should be a space where people feel free to wrestle with life’s hardest questions without fear of judgment. His goal is not to tell people what they should believe, but to walk with them as a guide while they discover or rediscover a path forward.
He often uses the word CASA to describe the kind of space he hopes to create in counseling—a place where people feel Committed to, Accepted, Safe, and Attuned with themselves, others, the world, and God.
A quote Casey loves to live by is from the early church father Irenaeus:
“The glory of God is humanity fully alive.”
Two additional sayings often capture the heart of the therapeutic journey for Casey and the people he works with. The first comes from Richard Rohr, who writes:
“What doesn't get transformed, gets transferred.”
The second comes from the children’s story “Going on a Bear Hunt,” which beautifully captures the courage required for personal growth:
“We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. We can’t go around it. We have to go through it.”
Personality typology often identifies Casey as an Enneagram 7 (the Enthusiast) with an 8 (Challenger) wing, which reflects both his curiosity about people’s stories and his willingness to walk with them through difficult terrain. He brings energy, honesty, and a deep respect for each person’s journey into the counseling room.
Casey is an empty nester with his wife of nearly 30 years and the father of four adult children—one son and three daughters. Outside the counseling office, he enjoys almost any adventure as long as it involves people. You can often find him hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, snowboarding, kayaking, playing frisbee sports or pickleball, or sharing good conversation over coffee, food, theology, and books with friends. He also loves roots rock music, storytelling, and the occasional spontaneous adventure.
Casey believes healing and growth often begin when people realize they don’t have to navigate life’s hardest seasons alone.