About Lee
Lee Ann McKenna is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of practice based in New York. She brings long experience helping people manage stress and anxiety, and she addresses related concerns like depression, relationship struggles, and issues connected to LGBT identity. Her work also includes support around pregnancy and childbirth and other major life changes.
She approaches each person as an individual. She listens first to understand values, needs, and history.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what each person can handle. Her style is flexible and practical. She creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what feels hard.
Together she and the client identify goals and steps to reduce distress and improve day-to-day coping. Over the years she has supported people facing loss, fertility questions, and shifts in family or work life. Her background as an LCSW-R informs a broad view of mental health and practical problem solving that fits many situations.
Starting therapy is often a nervous step, and she aims to make it straightforward. She helps clients find manageable tools and clearer next steps so progress feels possible. Her goal is steady, doable change rather than quick fixes.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many people find relief from anxiety and stress through practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors. Cognitive-behavioral approaches help identify unhelpful thought patterns and test them with real-life experiments to reduce worry and avoidant habits. Behavioral strategies also teach step-by-step exposure to feared situations so anxiety lessens over time.Helping people cope with life transitions, pregnancy-related concerns, or relationship stress often involves skills training and problem solving. Skills-based work teaches concrete tools for managing symptoms, organizing daily routines, and communicating needs more clearly. This kind of work is useful when the goal is improved day-to-day functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then suggest methods to try. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted as progress is observed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, skill practice, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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