About Linda
Linda Kenny is a Massachusetts licensed clinical social worker with 34 years of professional experience. She starts from the belief that each person knows their own story and brings strengths to work through hard times. Linda offers steady, compassionate support as people take the first steps toward change.
She focuses on common concerns like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Relationship strain and communication problems are also a regular focus.
How Linda works
Linda addresses rooted issues such as attachment and abandonment, and helps people facing aging, illness, caregiving stress, or cancer-related challenges. Sessions look at patterns that keep problems repeating. Linda helps people notice behaviors like avoidance, dependency, or control struggles and develop clearer choices.
She also helps with practical situations such as separation, blended family challenges, and commitment questions. Her work combines listening with straightforward strategies people can try between sessions. Over time the goal is to reduce distress, improve daily coping, and increase confidence in making changes.
Linda values collaboration and moves at a pace that fits each person. Linda works in English and provides services via multiple online formats. Her Massachusetts license and long experience guide how she tailors support to individual needs.
Taking a first step can feel hard; she aims to make that step manageable and hopeful.
What Linda works with
The areas below are the ones Linda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 34 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques work online
Linda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on identifying unhelpful behavior patterns and building new ways of coping. One approach helps people notice attachment and abandonment patterns so they can try different responses in relationships and reduce repeated hurt. Another approach focuses on managing stress and anxiety through clear, teachable strategies that can be practiced between sessions to improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. From there they try methods that fit the person's needs and adjust as progress is made, keeping the plan flexible and collaborative.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this kind of work. Video calls make it possible to use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow check-ins, brief reflections, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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