About Nina
Nina Kennedy is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and trauma. She offers calm, steady support and practical steps so clients can feel more in control. Her manner is direct but warm, aimed at people who want clear tools and real changes.
Nina uses straightforward conversations to identify what’s causing distress and to build small, doable habits. She focuses on improving communication, coping with intense emotions, and repairing trust when relationships feel strained.
Background and approach
Sessions balance emotional processing with skill-building so progress can be noticed between visits. Her work is informed by more than 21 years of experience as a clinician. Nina holds LIMFT and LMFT credentials and practices in Georgia with prior licensure in Ohio and Kentucky.
That background gives her experience with a wide range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, trauma, and LGBT-related issues. Nina pays close attention to attachment patterns and to how past losses or abandonment shape current behavior. She also addresses complex concerns such as codependency, dissociation, and relationship communication problems.
When helpful, she introduces strategies to manage overwhelming feelings and to increase emotional safety in interactions. Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is reviewed regularly. Nina encourages people to try short experiments between sessions and to bring practical issues from daily life into therapy.
The work aims to reduce distress and strengthen the skills needed for steadier relationships and clearer self-understanding.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Many evidence-based techniques focus on changing unhelpful patterns and teaching new skills. One common method involves identifying automatic thoughts and testing them with simple behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and helplessness. This approach helps when worry or stress keeps people stuck in avoidance or rumination.Another helpful focus is attachment-centered work that looks at how past relationships shape current reactions. This involves noticing triggers, practicing new ways of asking for support, and improving communication to feel more connected and less reactive. Those steps often reduce conflict and make relationships easier to navigate.
Choosing which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match goals, strengths, and preferences. That may mean trying different strategies for a few sessions and adjusting based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and role-play, phone can be a lighter check-in with less bandwidth, and messaging or chat works for quick skills practice or short, frequent support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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