Louise Kenny, LCSW

Louise Kenny is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people navigate hard seasons in life. She frames therapy as a brief joining on someone’s path - listening, noticing where a person is stuck, and helping them choose a way forward. Her work often centers on relationship concerns and issues that affect how people connect with themselves and others.

She has supported people coping with grief and loss, including pet loss, and those working through addiction and substance concerns. She also helps people dealing with shame, guilt, trauma, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes attention to LGBTQ concerns and life transitions that change how people feel and relate.

Her approach draws from humanistic and existential ideas, with strong use of client-centered conversation and practical problem solving. Louise uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools when helpful, and she also brings perspectives from Jungian and solution-focused work. She names ACOA ideas when family of origin issues are relevant.

In sessions she listens for the story someone is living and looks for small, usable next steps. Some people want a focused plan for specific problems while others want a deeper look at meaning and values. Louise matches the pace and focus to what each person needs in the moment.

Clients are invited to talk about what matters to them and decide together what progress looks like. The goal is honest conversation that helps people feel seen, make practical changes, and move toward clearer purpose and self-respect.

How her approaches shape online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters to the person in front of her. It helps when someone needs to be heard, to clarify feelings, and to find a direction that feels authentic. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and offers small experiments and tools to change patterns that cause distress; it is useful for anger, low self-esteem, and anxiety around relationships. Existential Therapy looks at meaning, choice, and life transitions, which can help people dealing with grief, major life changes, or questions about purpose.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Louise will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they decide whether to use listening, practical CBT tools, existential reflection, or a mix. Her aim is to match methods to what the person needs at that time rather than apply one fixed model.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are used, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten check-in time when needed, and allow people to connect without extra travel time. It also lets sessions focus on the kind of work a person prefers whether that is short problem-solving conversations or deeper meaning-focused sessions.