McKenney, Janet

I'm a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who provides individual therapy to adults. Let me tell you about the way I work and the kind of experience you may have in therapy with me. This quote by Jon Kabat Zinn, an early champion of mindfulness in the U.S., points to our inherent strengths regardless of circumstances. I believe we all have the capacity to live with a sense of peace and calm within ourselves and with others.

I also believe its hard to make changes alone. We are fundamentally social creatures: positive change can happen in then context of a caring, emotionally supportive relationship. I work with adults challenged by life's transitions, significant loss, difficult emotions, feelings of confusion and interpersonal relationship problems. My hope is that you experience me as someone genuinely curious about you and your experiences, who will listen and empathize but also challenge you in appropriate and helpful ways.

This may mean exploring how an emotion feels in the body, developing new concepts for experience, or clarifying intentions and goals, for example.