Louise Kenny, LCSW

Louise Kenny is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people navigate difficult life passages. She approaches therapy as a collaborative journey, listening for each person’s story and working together to choose a path toward greater meaning and well-being. Her practice is informed largely by humanistic and existential perspectives, and she draws on a variety of tools to meet the needs of the individual.

Louise has extensive experience supporting people through grief and loss - including pet loss - as well as addiction, LGBTQ issues, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, anger, and challenges with self-esteem. Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric concerns, cancer and hospice and end-of-life counseling, caregiver stress, codependency, divorce and separation, substance-related issues, family of origin concerns, and the complex emotions of guilt, shame, and forgiveness. She also works with clients facing isolation, questions of life purpose, and building self-love.

Louise describes counseling as witnessing an unfolding story and emphasizes the simple human needs to be heard and to matter. She often integrates approaches from Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, Existential, Jungian, and Solution-Focused traditions, and references work developed by adult children of dysfunctional families (ACOA) when relevant. As an LCSW - a licensed clinical social worker trained to provide psychotherapy - she aims to offer practical support and compassionate collaboration for people seeking change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Louise uses client-centered therapy to create a supportive space where the client's perspective guides the work - this approach focuses on empathy, active listening, and helping people feel heard while they explore their priorities and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and to develop practical strategies for managing symptoms like anxiety, mood challenges, and difficulties with coping. She also draws on existential therapy to help clients examine questions of meaning, responsibility, and purpose when facing life transitions or loss.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Louise partners with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and may blend elements from different approaches to find what works best for the individual.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to access care from home or on the go. These formats allow licensed professionals and therapists to provide ongoing support that fits varied lifestyles and practical constraints, helping people maintain continuity of care during life changes.