About Kendra
Kendra Scanlon is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in California. She became an LCSW in 2019 and has six years of experience helping people during hard seasons. She focuses on practical steps that move people from surviving toward thriving.
Kendra has worked with people facing stress, anxiety, low mood, and mood shifts. She also supports those coping with life changes, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, anger, and issues around body image and self-love.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on building motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. Sessions with Kendra are straightforward and goal-oriented. She listens to what matters most and helps set small, doable steps.
Conversations aim to be warm, direct, and focused on what can change now. Her approach blends real-world strategies with attention to emotions and patterns that keep people stuck. She helps clients learn new ways to manage strong feelings and to respond differently to old triggers.
Progress is measured in everyday milestones like better sleep, fewer intense reactions, or clearer decisions. Kendra expects work between sessions. That might mean trying new habits, practicing coping skills, or reflecting on patterns.
The process is collaborative: clients and Kendra decide priorities together and track what helps over time.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach teaches emotion regulation and coping skills so people can manage anxiety, mood swings, and strong reactions more effectively. These skills are useful for reducing the intensity of panic or anger and for improving day-to-day functioning.Another approach targets self-esteem and body image by identifying negative self-talk and testing different, kinder ways of thinking and behaving. This work supports people who want to build self-love, recover from eating concerns, and make choices that reflect their values.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust what is used based on what helps. Together they pick methods that fit the person’s needs, preferences, and everyday life.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, and family responsibilities while maintaining regular contact with a therapist.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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