About Kenna
Kenna Sullivan is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and major life changes. She also helps people manage compassion fatigue and the day-to-day weight of caregiving or chronic health challenges.
Kenna centers sessions on each person’s strengths and real-life needs. She treats the person as the expert on their story and offers steady guidance as they try new ways to cope.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at helping people find clearer footing during hard times. Her background includes decades of clinical practice in Massachusetts working with a wide range of concerns. That experience has shaped a calm, steady approach that prioritizes what matters most to the client in the moment.
Sessions often focus on skills to reduce anxiety, strategies for handling grief, and ways to manage stress that interfere with daily life. Kenna also supports people dealing with relationship fallout like divorce and separation, troubles with communication, and the emotional aftermath of abandonment. She addresses guilt, shame, impulsivity, and struggles with mood or obsessive behaviors with practical steps and attentive listening.
She works with people facing career and life transitions, midlife questions, money and financial stress, and the search for purpose. The goal is to help clients build sustainable tools that fit into their routine and move toward a more manageable day-to-day life.
Evidence-based techniques and online care that fit your life
Kenna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches clear strategies for managing anxiety and stress, such as grounding exercises, breathing methods, and stepwise behavior changes. These tools help reduce day-to-day overwhelm and improve functioning.Another approach emphasizes processing trauma and painful experiences in manageable steps. This involves pacing conversations, naming difficult emotions, and building coping tools so distress becomes easier to tolerate. It can be useful for people coping with abuse, loss, or prolonged stress like compassion fatigue.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kenna will work with each person to identify goals, try options, and adjust methods as progress is made. The plan evolves based on what helps most and what fits the client’s schedule and preferences.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging can work for short check-ins or on-the-go support. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy week and to keep continuity during life changes.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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