Louise Kenny , LCSW

Louise Kenny is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience helping people navigate grief, addiction, relationship challenges, trauma, and LGBTQ-related concerns. She approaches each person as an unfolding story and partners with clients for a period of their lives to help them discover or create a path toward greater meaning and fulfillment. Grounded in humanistic and existential perspectives, her work emphasizes careful listening, presence, and collaboration while integrating practical strategies when they support a client's goals.

Over the course of her career she has supported people through many forms of loss - including pet loss - and has assisted those coping with shame, guilt, fear, compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, and end-of-life concerns. When appropriate, she draws on ideas from the adult children of dysfunctional families (ACOA) framework to illuminate recurring patterns and dynamics. At the same time she recognizes that not every situation requires deep psychological excavation; often the most meaningful early steps are to be heard and to feel that one matters.

In therapy she listens for what a person seeks, clarifies where they are, and collaborates in choosing a desired path forward. Her practice balances empathic understanding with concrete approaches to address issues such as addiction, anger, self-esteem, codependency, and relationship struggles, with the aim of helping difficult experiences become sources of learning and growth.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance in which the therapist follows the client's lead, offering empathy and support to help people clarify values and make choices. This approach is often helpful for those facing life transitions, self-esteem concerns, or grief. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and skill building; it can be useful for managing anxiety, anger, addictions, and mood-related challenges. Existential Therapy invites exploration of meaning, responsibility, and personal values, supporting people who are struggling with life purpose, isolation, or major life changes.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process may blend empathy-driven listening with targeted strategies so that therapy feels both validating and useful.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers flexibility in how care is delivered - through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit support into busy schedules, to access help from different locations within the therapist's service area, and to maintain continuity of care when circumstances change.