Compliance with Compassion
Accountability, education, advocacy, and trauma-informed support for safer choices, healthier relationships, and lasting change.
Be Goode. Do Good. Live Well.
Who we are
Transforming individuals, families, and communities through accountability, compassion, and evidence-informed practice, rooted in dignity and shared humanity.
The Goode Method, LLC is a community-centered organization helping individuals and families create safer, healthier, and more stable lives.
We do not excuse harmful behavior, but lasting change requires more than punishment. It requires honest self-examination, practical skills, consistent support, and access to meaningful resources.
Through Trust the Process and The Balance Project, we address both personal behavior and the real-life barriers that can interfere with progress. We meet people where they are while holding them accountable for where they are going.
Accountability
Clear expectations and responsible choices
Compassion
Dignity, respect, and meaningful support
Change
Practical tools for sustainable growth
Services and products
Every service maintains clear expectations while treating each person with dignity and respect.
01 / Intervention
A structured 30-week Batterer Intervention and Domestic Violence Intervention Program with separate, gender-responsive groups.
02 / Support
The Balance Project provides education, advocacy, resource navigation, referrals, and practical behavioral support to help children, adolescents, adults, and families address barriers and build greater everyday stability.
03 / Skills
Structured evaluations and courses that help adults and teens understand anger and practice healthier responses.
Within The Balance Project
The Balance Project provides individualized, trauma-informed behavioral support for children, adolescents, adults, and families. Services focus on strengthening emotional regulation, communication, daily functioning, positive decision-making, accountability, and practical life skills.
Our approach recognizes that behavior may communicate an unmet need, lived experience, skill gap, or response to a person’s environment. Support is strengths-based, collaborative, and tailored to the participant’s age, needs, environment, and identified goals.
Behavioral Support Services offered through The Balance Project are educational, supportive, and skill-based. They are not psychotherapy, psychological testing, Applied Behavior Analysis therapy, Registered Behavior Technician services, clinical diagnosis, or a substitute for care provided by a licensed mental health professional, licensed behavior analyst, or medical provider.
04 / Coaching
A structured, action-oriented process for moving forward with clarity, accountability, and intention.
05 / Education
Structured learning for individuals, organizations, and community partners using guided discussion and practical exercises.
06 / Curriculum
Educational curricula, participant workbooks, facilitator materials, policy manuals, assessments, and supplemental resources.
Portfolio / Programs & Resources
Clear costs
Costs are explained before services begin. Contact us with any additional pricing questions.
Structured assessment and interview options for courts, attorneys, agencies, and individuals, with written documentation when required.
Comprehensive Domestic Violence or Anger Management Evaluation
Full assessment, interview, and written report
Expedited Domestic Violence or Anger Management Evaluation
Priority scheduling and report within 48 to 72 hours
Brief Domestic Violence or Anger Management Screening
Assessment and interview, no written report
These are structured, service-specific evaluations and screenings. They are not psychological evaluations, psychological testing, mental-health diagnoses, custody evaluations, or forensic psychological assessments.
Our structured Batterer Intervention and Domestic Violence Intervention Program, delivered in separate gender-responsive groups. Weekly sessions run about an hour and a half and cover accountability, coercive control, empathy, emotional regulation, and respectful, nonviolent alternatives.
Domestic Violence Intervention Program
30 weeks
Fees are per session and paid weekly. Intake, orientation, and program assignments are included in enrollment. Missouri DOC BIP credentialing is in progress. Completion reflects participation only and does not guarantee any legal outcome.
Skills-focused courses for recognizing triggers, understanding emotional responses, improving communication, resolving conflict, developing self-control, and choosing healthier responses. Anger management is separate from batterer intervention.
Programs are available for adults and teens and are supported by age-appropriate participant documents and workbook materials in English and Spanish.
8-week program
$50 per session
16-week program
$46.90 per session
Please contact us before enrollment regarding language access, interpretation needs, or other accommodations. Program length is matched to the referral or supervision requirement.
Individual, caregiver, family, community-based, and small-group skill-building services through The Balance Project.
Complimentary Fit Call
15 minutes
Initial Behavioral Support Consultation
60 minutes
Individual Behavioral Skills Session
50 minutes
Parent/Caregiver Support Session
50 minutes
Family Skill-Building Session
60 minutes
In-Home or Community-Based Support
60 minutes
Small-Group Behavioral Skills Session
60 minutes
Regular value: $400
Package savings: $40
Regular value: $595
Package savings: $100
Regular value: $300
Package savings: $50
Behavioral Support Services are private-pay services and are not billed as psychotherapy, ABA therapy, or insurance-covered RBT services. Payment arrangements may be available for eligible packages.
Behavioral support, group facilitation, staff training, and program-development services are available for schools, nonprofit organizations, residential programs, and community agencies.
Behavioral Support Services offered through The Balance Project are educational, supportive, and skill-based. They are not psychotherapy, psychological testing, Applied Behavior Analysis therapy, Registered Behavior Technician services, clinical diagnosis, or a substitute for care provided by a licensed mental health professional, licensed behavior analyst, or medical provider.
A structured, action-oriented process designed to help you move forward with clarity, accountability, and intention. Each package focuses on one to three specific goals or areas of growth selected by the client.
Focus Forward Package
Four 60-minute private sessions focused on one primary goal, with a personalized action plan, practical strategies, accountability, and a final progress plan. Meet weekly or biweekly and use within eight weeks. Pay in full or make two payments of $230.
Momentum & Growth Package
Six 60-minute private sessions for up to three related goals, with a personalized coaching plan, practical tools, ongoing progress monitoring, strategy adjustments, and a continuation plan. Meet weekly or biweekly and use within twelve weeks. Pay in full or make three payments of $220.
Individual Clarity Session
One 60-minute session to think through an immediate concern, identify possible next steps, or determine whether a coaching package is the right fit.
Possible focus areas include personal growth, confidence, life transitions, healthy boundaries, organization, career or educational planning, accountability, and practical next steps. Life coaching is not psychotherapy, mental health treatment, legal advice, or crisis intervention.
Individual support for organizations and professionals with questions about programming, curriculum, facilitation, and community-centered services.
30-minute consultation
Focused professional guidance
60-minute consultation
Extended planning and discussion
Available by appointment, in person or online. Professional consultation is offered separately from life coaching.
A practical roadmap of resources, reflection activities, and success-planning tools for youth, families, justice-involved individuals, and helping professionals.
Juvenile & Community Resource & Success Handbook
For juvenile and community reentry support
Bulk copies for schools, courts, agencies, and community organizations are available on request.
Tell us about the referral, the requirement to be met, and the timeline. We will explain the appropriate program, the documentation needed, the schedule, and the exact cost before anything begins.
Payment is required before services unless otherwise arranged. Digital payment platforms and cash are accepted. Missed appointments may be subject to rescheduling fees. No shows and no calls forfeit advance payment. Services and program completion do not guarantee any court, probation, parole, custody, relationship, or other legal outcome.
Meet the founder
DBA, M.Ed., M.A. in Psychology
Dr. Goode is the Founder, Program Director, and Lead Facilitator of The Goode Method, LLC. She is an experienced educator and intervention facilitator committed to helping individuals develop accountability, strengthen emotional awareness, improve decision-making, and build healthier, nonviolent relationships.
Through The Balance Project and the 30-week Trust the Process Batterer Intervention and Domestic Violence Intervention Program, she combines structured education, trauma-informed engagement, practical skill development, and connections to community resources.
Her work is grounded in Compliance with Compassion: people must be held responsible for their choices while being treated with dignity and given meaningful opportunities to change.
Referrals and Enrollment
Missouri Department of Corrections BIP credentialing is in progress. Pending status is not represented as approval.
Request an individual copy, ask about bulk copies, or learn how the handbook supports schools, courts, agencies, families, and community organizations.
Request court, community, attorney, agency, employer, family-service, or self-referral instructions.
Ask about screening, enrollment, class availability, service formats, documentation, and current program fees.
Connect with mental health, substance-use, advocacy, crisis, emergency, housing, transportation, education, and employment resources.
Learn about documentation, intake procedures, attendance reporting, progress updates, completion, and unsuccessful-discharge reporting.
Build referral pathways and accountability-focused or trauma-informed programs with The Goode Method.
Request staff training, workshops, presentations, curriculum development, group facilitation, or program consultation.
Explore customized resource guides, handbooks, workbooks, and collaboration for local organizations.
Team
Founder, Program Director, Lead Facilitator
Educator and intervention facilitator leading The Goode Method with accountability, dignity, and practical support for sustainable change.
Interested in professional collaboration or community partnership?
Frequently asked questions
Learn about programs, referrals, attendance, confidentiality, reporting, and current credentialing status.
Contact us for information specific to your referral, program, or organization.
The Goode Method, LLC is a community-centered organization providing accountability-based intervention, education, advocacy, coaching, resource navigation, and program-development services. Our work is guided by Compliance with Compassion: holding people responsible for their choices while treating them with dignity and providing meaningful opportunities for change.
Behavioral Support Services provide structured, nonclinical assistance with emotional regulation, communication, routines, organization, positive decision-making, social skills, accountability, and practical daily-living goals. Services may include individual skill-building, caregiver education, family support, structured activities, goal development, progress tracking, and coordination with authorized members of a participant’s support system. These services are not psychotherapy, psychological testing, ABA therapy, RBT services, or clinical diagnosis.
Trust the Process is our structured 30-week Batterer Intervention and Domestic Violence Intervention Program. It addresses abusive behavior, coercive control, power and control, unhealthy beliefs, emotional regulation, empathy, respectful communication, relationship patterns, and nonviolent decision-making.
No. Anger management focuses primarily on recognizing and managing anger. Batterer intervention addresses domestic abuse, coercive control, entitlement, accountability, relationship beliefs, and the impact of abusive choices. Anger may be discussed, but anger alone is not treated as the cause of domestic violence.
Yes. The Goode Method offers anger management programming for adults and teens. Supporting documents and workbook materials are available in English and Spanish. Please contact us before enrollment regarding language access, interpretation needs, or other accommodations.
Yes. Trust the Process uses separate, gender-responsive programming for men and women. This allows the curriculum and facilitated discussions to address participants’ experiences, needs, patterns, and accountability without relying on stereotypes or compromising safety.
Trust the Process consists of 30 weekly sessions. Each session is approximately an hour and a half. Participants must also complete intake, orientation, program assignments, and all other applicable court, supervision, or program requirements.
A practical next step
Request program information, begin enrollment, make a referral, or ask about an evaluation with The Goode Method.
Contact
Service area
Kansas City, Missouri, and surrounding communities. Referrals are welcome from courts, probation and parole, attorneys, agencies, families, and individuals.