Louise Kenny, LCSW

Louise Kenny is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who approaches counseling as a collaborative journey rather than a one-size-fits-all solution. She views each person as an unfolding story and seeks to listen deeply, understand where someone is in their life, and partner in choosing a path toward greater meaning and fulfillment.

Over her career she has supported people through grief and loss - including pet loss - addiction, LGBTQ related concerns, and the difficult emotions that often accompany trauma such as shame, guilt, and fear. Her work also addresses relationship struggles, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, anger, and self-esteem challenges, with additional focus on aging and geriatric issues, cancer and hospice care, caregiver stress, codependency, divorce and separation, substance use, family of origin issues, and themes like forgiveness, guilt, isolation, life purpose, and self-love.

Her practice is grounded in humanistic and existential ideas while integrating a range of therapeutic methods to meet the needs of each person. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Jungian approaches, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. She also incorporates insights related to adult children of dysfunctional families (ACOA) when relevant.

Louise emphasizes the fundamental human needs to be heard and to matter, and she aims to make difficult experiences into opportunities for learning and growth. She provides services in English and practices in Connecticut.